Liam Wallis Email & Phone Number

Roles and skills:Embedded in a close-nit agile team working on network inventory software. Maintaining and enhancing existing automation, while automating new use cases using Java and Selenium Webdriver.Managing the regression and release testing of multiple applications across multiple platforms, including Gradle, Maven, Docker and Kubernetes.Validating complex order flows with many collaborating applications, including third parties.Participating in pair programming on development to improve my Java skills and provide an alternative perspective for my pair.Involvement in ensuring successful Kubernetes cluster upgrades, from the planning stages to ensuring all the separate teams have performed post deployment checks.Contributing to various special interest groups around progressing the platform and database tooling for the department.Facilitating iteration retrospectives for other teams and being an active participant in my own.Evaluating tools to perform various testing tasks to put forward a business case.Collaborating between multiple teams each working on the same project to integration test delivered components.Providing handovers and on going assistance to users of delivered applications.

London, United Kingdom

Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

Roles and Skills:- Perform testing using on premise and cloud technologies to ensure the quality of the Xen Desktop product.- Creating enterprise size test environments for testing requiring in excess of 150k user connections per hour.- Comparing large amounts of data from multiple runs, looking in detail resource usage of different components.- Examining MS SQL database usage to look for inefficiencies in the queries being performed.- Creating and adapting automation, mainly using PowerShell scripting.- Working with external customers to ensure the testing we are performing meets their expectations and providing reports based on their queries.

Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

Roles and Skills:- Maintain the test environment and infrastructure for the local team, including looking after multiple Hyper-V pools managed with SCVMM, vSphere and Xen Server environments, as well as managing the shared storage from Windows based storage and NetApp storage servers.- Test team feature lead liaising with the development team and key stakeholders to understand the impact of new features being added.- Perform analysis based on the information gathered from stakeholders to ensure the test plans are fully up to date. - Contribute during sprint demos with automation demos based on previous deliverables and updates on manual execution. Plan sprints for the execution of deliverables in Jira.

Henley-On-Thames

Roles and skills:-Managing test projects, including the resource planning in MS Project.-Providing cover for Head of Test and Support.-Administration on TestRail and Jira.-Providing support and coaching to junior members of the test team and also in the support department as well.-Driving the project of creating complete coverage for manual test cases.-Working on a range of products, including Linux digital signage players and content management servers, monitoring devices and Windows based queriers for driving content.-Have been called upon by the CTO to assist on escalated on-site visits and pre-sales visits.

Key Achievements:-Creating and driving the use of internal SLAs-Interviewing and training new members of the team.-Improving relations between the Support, Test, Engineering and Returns departments by documenting procedures.

Key Achievements:-Duty manager cover, looking after a team of up to 20 in home engineers.-Being hand picked to trial a City & Guilds course to allow for future network integration within the systems, included WiFi fault finding and router customisation.-Becoming a Specialist Engineer in the shortest time of any engineer in the program, which included advanced fault finding and interference identification.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

As a sales consultant working in an Express Repair Centre I spent a large amount of time diagnosing handset faults and assisting in the repair process.A large part of the ethos in Carphone Warehouse was ensuring that the customer was getting the product that fitted their needs, this is something that is highlighted by the gold name badge I attained by scoring 100% on a mystery shop.