Les Kirby Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Canary Wharf, London

Managing the full E2E process of testing changes to the production sales, charging and billing systems of SalesForce, OCS, Cerillion and StreamServe. This covered new products, call and roaming charges (commercial and regulatory changes) and changes to the invoices for both B2B and B2C customers.

Chatham

Responsible for the test approach, within the ITC test strategy and ensuring appropriate testing is implemented on a portfolio of projects.Administration of Testing Tools including JIRA and SCTM.

London, United Kingdom

Configuration of Test Tool - SilkCentral

Management of Team of Test LeadsTest Lead/Manager role on several projects concurrentlyCreation of Test Strategy and Plan for multiple projectsAccountable for all phases of testing across multiple projectsResponsible for system testing on some projectsVerification of testing carried out by 3rd party suppliersResponsible for Test resource allocation across.

Involved in the testing of Lloyd's ExchangeTest Management, Planning and DesignManaging acceptance testing of quarterly releases for Eclipse (underwriting application)System testing of fixes to all production applicationsPlanning, estimating and team leading for all phases of testing of in-house developed Java based underwriting applicationCreation of.

Testing of Oracle e-business suite (Projects, Financials, Procurement, HRMS, EAM and interfaces), Construction Project Estimating Tool (RIB), Project Performance Reporting (Oracle Portal, Balanced Scorecard & Discoverer)Quality assurance of system testing resultsDesigned and coded SQL procedures in TOAD/SQL to check data in data martDesign and scripted.

Designed, coded and executed test scripts for a web based health insurance sales systemDesigned, coded and executed test scripts for a PL/SQL based procedures for loading company's data provided by a commercial vendorExecuted test scripts and managed defects for a web based complaints recording systemScripts were written and executed in Test Director. SQL.

Fullfilled several roles at BUPA.Initially, Senior Analyst Programmer on BASS support.Project Manager for Y2K (briefly)Test Analyst on various applications.

Managed the team responsible for investigation and correction of problems on the HUON system, an insurance package written in COBOL that utilised CICS and DB2.

Development and support of the Polisy (aka Paxus) package written in Cobol/CICS using an Adabas database. Also worked on enhancing accounting system using SAS online.

Analyst programmer on Investment accounting applications

Developing and supporting Investment accounting systems written in Assembler using macro level CICS and VSAM files that were linked into an in-house written DBMS. Developed a mainframe to PC download system and involved in early pilot projects using DB2, COBOL and command level CICS.

Developing Life insurance systems written in COBOL using a Total database.

Involved in the development team responsible for converting their systems from ICL to IBM mainframe and the support of invoicing and General Ledger systems written in COBOL.Businesses and Employers/ClientsInsurance - General, Commercial and Re-insurance (Aspen Re., Kiln, Prudential, Iron Trades [now part of QBE], Victory Insurance)Oracle e-business.

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