Lee Murray Email & Phone Number

Worthing, Gb

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Associate Manager for the UK arm of QE. I have 5 direct reports based in UK and America. My role at Applied Systems started as a Tester and moved through ranks to Associate Manager. My role has been to work through issues within the team and roll out new processes and procedures. I have implemented most of the governance used within Applied Systems UK to date. Worked with customers on their UAT to ensure a smoother process, as well as improving QE team overall.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS✅ Creating a UK test strategy✅ Re-organising the release test strategy✅ Creating the UK testing metrics✅ Implemented a monthly testing retro to discuss issues and improve projects✅ Leveraged resources from the USA to assist in testing✅ Testing of the new green field solution✅ Implemented BDD based testing scripts into the automation testing effort✅ Held the first brown bag training session for the UK teams✅ Provided a lightweight reporting solution to assist in Go/No Go discussion✅ Created an introduction pack for new starters✅ Global implementation of testing standards for the company covering areas such as. Mission and Purpose, People, Software Quality Principles, and Measure of Success✅ Worked with automation team to build an automation test solution for the product. Covering 96% of the release testing effort✅ Prioritising testing of high risk, or high-volume areas. Reducing the release effort from 28 days to 3 days✅ Identifying and communicating possible improvements for the product, QA, and system✅ Creation of well-defined regression and release testing process✅ Understanding, using and mentoring on testing tools and processes✅ Roadmap for the automation team✅ Reviewing Automation tools used✅ Upskilling manual QE's to SDET's✅ Introduced the Applied Test Library✅ Created a dashboard to monitor how many scripts have been automated, number of defects raised, number of defects in production and trends

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Brighton, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Part of JHC's Client Reporting team responsible for complete customization of client reporting packs. These were sent to various brokerages and wealth management corporations and their customers. I test that client packs meet the set specification and company values whilst ensuring testing is completed in a highly professional and cost-effective manner. Participating in the initial discussions and planning of projects and assignments. Offering design ideas to make products more testable, quicker and simpler to modify and maintain. Create, design and present testing documentation. Training Developers, Testers and Managers on testing methods and approaches, through a variety of mediums.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS✅ Completed the introduction of a new “core” pack. Presented to clients to reduce configuration and make them quicker to test✅ Implemented a testing forum to encourage all to talk about testing. Allowing people to talk about problems and work to solve them together✅ Completed testing of two major core modularisation projects. This broke up the two key systems into smaller more manageable parts✅ Introduction of training sessions for all through formal sessions, one to ones & sandwich seminars (Lunch Time Training)✅ Assisted the team in the transition from waterfall to agile methods

Madrid Area, Spain

I was employed as a test consultant for the implementation of Barclaycard WE’s new debt collections system (Debt Manager), financial life cycle system (Pan Credit) and a new Data Warehouse. This was a short contract as after employing me Barclaycard were unable to find me a more permanent role within their teams.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS✅ Review of testing documentation, Test Design and Test Scripts✅ Participated in a design & process meeting. Creation and maintenance of testing metrics

Hove, Brighton

Initially employed as a Call Collector to collect on outstanding debt on behalf of the bank. I was asked to join the testing team due to my experience with Debt Manager and Lloyds systems. This testing involved the integration ofHalifax and Bank of Scotland's 9 collections systems into Lloyds 1 after Lloyds purchased HBOS in 2009.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS✅ Responsible for Live Trials testing✅ Creation of Live Trials Scenarios✅ Test Design✅ Creation of all Live Trials Test Scripts✅ Test Management✅ Attending daily meetings on behalf of manager with the integration executive board✅ Test Execution✅ Creation and maintenance of testing metrics and documentation✅ Testing data creation and maintenance

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