Martin Bishop Email & Phone Number

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 managers.Defining the requirements for the various test environments and then maintaining these throughout the project lifecycle via strict release management processes.Defining and managing all of the Performance testing.Working closely with various third party suppliers that were delivering the various project components, this includes off site Factory acceptance testing (FAT).To plan and manage the Product Acceptance Testing (PAT / User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and the live customer trials for each program.Plan and manage the project implementation into production for each program.

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 project stayed on plan and was implemented on time.Defining and implementing a structured test strategy to the IS Integration PaSS testing methodology.Managing and planning the day-to-day activities of the Integration, OAT/ORT, Automated Performance and the User Acceptance test teams.Defining, maintaining and reporting on detailed Entry and Exit criteria.Managing the initial creation of test environments.Making sure the project has full business backing and providing a clear path of engagement for the business.Reporting to the Littlewoods board and the programme managers.

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 planning the day-to-day activities of the System test team, and the User Acceptance Test team.Commission and manage a specialist external consultancy to come perform Volume, Stress and Performance Testing against the new Siebel Production infrastructure.Defining and managing infrastructure component Failover testing.Creating and managing a UAT test team using business resources.Evaluating and implementing automated test tools.Recruiting a replacement permanent Test Managers and transitioning over my project knowledge and skills.

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 testing for multi-platform projects.Acting as a coordinator between many different areas both technical and business.Reporting to project management on testing progress and issues.Providing out of hours support for some major projectsSuccessfully working and communicating in a multi-cultured environment.

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 provide industry best working practices recommendations. Then implement these recommendations.Managing the planning and execution of testing for multi-platform projects.Evaluating and implementing automated test tools.Reporting to the board and the programme managers, on test progress.Define a test strategy for the testing of the Euro conversion project.Manage and report on all testing issues.Successfully performing the role of Implementation Manager on a number of large and key migrations.Recruiting a replacement permanent Test Managers and transitioning over my project knowledge and skills.

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 test plans and specifications, which will ensure all aspects of Year 2000 are tested and proved to the agreed standard.Provide technical advice and assistance in the creation of the batch and on line test environments and use File-Aid/Data Ager to age base line files.Liaise with Compuware on the set-up of QA-Hiperstation and manage its installation.Record and run CICS test scripts using the Compuware QA-Hiperstation test tool.Identify the interfaces between the mainframe and the AS400, document these and then produce and execute the test plans to the agreed standards.

Mainframe Support

Mainframe Support