Michael Baxter Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Ipswich, United Kingdom

• This involved testing across multiple products and brands throughout the products lifecycle as well as designing my own test cases and peer reviewing other test cases, reporting through TFS on the status of stories, as well as communicating with developers, business contacts and the project and release management teams.• Also working on automation, running tests through virtual machines and locally, for the regression tests and EVTs, which requires investigation and often editing tests that are no longer current. I was also responsible for creating a suite of automation tests for the communication choice project.• Have performed as a lead tester across several small changes and project, being responsible for tracking testing, reporting on progress and flagging any issues or blockers.• Attending daily stand-ups, project kick off’s, retrospectives, pulse calls, warranty calls and timebox show-and-tells • Primarily working with the DSDM Agile methodology as well as Waterfall methodology.• During this role, I have also successfully completed the IQTQB Foundation level.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

• Extensive Business Testing/User Acceptance Testing across a number of projects• Created a number of tools which are widely used by the team• Numerous and extensive document review and marking up through Livelink and MANTL, including amendments to a renewal document suite and extensive amendments to policy wordings.• Audit preparation including housekeeping of the underwriting folder structure and archiving• During this role, I also completed IF1 of the CII Foundation in Insurance course.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

• Seconded to Business Improvement Team for Systems testing, involving daily dial in’s (phone meetings with management team) along with comprehensive testing of a large scale new process.• Seconded to Underwriting team for Pricing Analysis, involving 1500 quotations created and compared and produced a presentation of result to external stakeholders.• Responsible for sales and service on a range of travel insurance products, involving new business, mid-term adjustments, renewal and medical assessments.• Recorded, analysed and reported our quotes, sales, conversion and GWP for over a year (for which I was awarded our department’s employee of the month).• Created a number of useful excel tools and documents to improve efficiency in my department for which I have received a £20 “Managers Thank You” and received an award for Best Support.• A key member of a documentation re-write project, requiring high level and detailed discussions with a number of stakeholders from various departments.