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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

- Lead developer on replacement for React client portal using Blazor- Created the project from scratch, integration with identity server, and other microservices services- Utilised Radzen UI controls to build a modern UI fit for a growing tech company- Controls based approach to maximise code re-use and increase development speed as the project progressed- 10 months from conception to release with a minimal team of 2 developers

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

- Complete redesign of testing strategy and methodology- Microservice API test strategy implemented. Moving from deployed environment testing to local machine testing, utilizing stubs for dependencies.- Moved from long running overnight test pack to all automation tests being run in PR pipelines before any code is merged.- Worked with the product and test teams to implement true BDD process. The product team managing the feature file library in the code base which is automated by the QA team- Significantly reduced ticket cycle time- Helped drastically reduce number of production bugs- Implemented continuous deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps, and other best practices to reduce microservice release time

Bristol, United Kingdom

Working predominantly with a large UK Healthcare Provider my role included:Improving best practices around the Selenium based UI Automation projectVastly improved stability and reliability of the UI Automation suitePorted the UI Automation project from .NET Framework to .NET CoreAssisted in improving best practices with API testing, Load testing, and Volume testingTesting and automating large new features for the client

Bristol

Line manager to team of ‘Graduate QA Automation Engineers’Recruitment of graduates, including posting job adverts, filtering CVs, contacting candidates and interviewing candidatesExpansion of automated testing from 1 to 3 product linesRunning Automation backlog/sprints from Jira, ensuring productivity throughout the teamReporting of progress to senior management teamMigration from Ranorex based framework to Selenium based framework, including migrating all 2000 existing UI tests.Migration from TFS source control to GIT source controlAssisting in partial migration from Hyper-V infrastructure to AWS infrastructure

Technical lead for a team located in Bangalore, IndiaCreation and maintenance of Ranorex based UI automation frameworkCreation and maintenance of Jenkins CI instance to run and report the results of the testsCreation and maintenance of Hyper-V VM infrastructure

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bristol

Create from scratch an automation project using the following technologies:- PHP- Selenium- Behat (BDD language, based on cucumber)Training manual test team (with no automation experience) in the creation of automation scripts using BDDIntegrate automated testing into development CI build and deployment process

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for:Retesting and confirming all bugs raised on the Customer Intelligence product and advising the Product Manager and development teams when a critical bug has been raised.First point of contact should the support teams need advice or help with an issue in the product.Having knowledge of every bug in the system to quickly advice testers/support if an issue is a known issue or a new bug.Sometimes fixing the issues the the C# code base on less involved bugs.Getting the product translated into 16 languages. This involves sending the files to a translation service in good time and merging the translations back into the project.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for writing, managing and conducting tests on the Customer Intelligence product which is part of Campaign Commander. Also took part in investigations into UI automation technologies such as TestComplete and Telerik Test Studio, before writing a large proportion of the user interface automated regression tests in TestComplete using Jscript.

Diploma Of Higher Education, Applied Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Ultimate Frisbee

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