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Newbury

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Independent Quality Assurance Company

Managing a large team of 30-40 testers on and off shore, and recruiting both contract and permanent staff. Manage and plan the day-to-day activities of all testing streams across both the IS and TS domains.Defining, maintaining and reporting on the detailed Entry and Exit criteria.Recruiting and managing the Release Manager, Data Manager and Environment.

Working for a specialist testing consultant on a client site and managing the various customer / client issues that arose.Taking control of an existing project, accessing the reasons for its failure, reporting my recommendations to the board and then agreeing a new plan, which is more realistic and achievable. These actions proved to be successful; the.

Sell and implement testing into the culture of the Siebel project and The Law Society.Defining and implementing structured test strategies to a Prince2 standard using a risk based approach.Manage testing of the Siebel 7.7 application, configured by an external consultancy.Reviewing the testing and quality controls of the third party supplier.Managing and.

Test planning and execution of a variety of application enhancements.Defining and implementing project test strategies.Managing the creation of test scripts and plans.Managing and maintaining the creation of test environments.Liasing with third party suppliers and then working together to system test all enhancements.Managing the planning and execution of.

Sell and implement testing into the culture of the company.Setting up new company wide test teams, recruiting both contractor and permanent staff.Defining and implementing company wide structured test strategies.Managing the creation of test environments.Manage external companies specialising in testing, who were commissioned to evaluate RLA testing and.

Analysis existing testing tools and methods and produce a report detailing any recommendations.Design, write and implement the agreed amendments to the test methods and working practices. Then communicate the updated methods and standards to the existing team members.Analysis existing applications, both batch and on-line and design and write comprehensive.

Mainframe Support

Mainframe Support