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Swindon, United Kingdom

Test and Quality Assurance specialist currently managing the Anti-Money Laundering Engineering team – delivering change in line with Financial Crime and AML regulations.Test Manager delivering programmes and projects within Nationwide.Provides test consultancy and guidance to test engineers across Nationwide including multiple suppliers ensuring they adhere to the Engineering Guardrails and test frameworks and controls.Line Manager to 20 developers, test and infrastructure engineers – supporting their development and career aspirations. Member of the small team that re-wrote the Test Community Framework in 2021 to bring it in-line with current practices and changes to the ways of working within Nationwide. Delivered training to roll out the changes across the team.

Programme Test Manager at Oxford University Press (OUP). The "Title by Title" Programme is changing the way online titles are sold, moving away from the sale of collections to the sale of individual titles. The role involves the management of all testing (System, Integration, UAT and Production). The solution includes new Quotations and Order Management Tools, updates to 3rd Party supplied Access Management Systems and Site Platforms, and changes to the SAP Financial systems. This role also involves planning, writing and executing system and integration tests on behalf of the business as well as liaising with 3rd party suppliers.Senior Test Manager at Harrow Borough Council where an on-going programme of business transformation and IT outsourcing is taking place. Responsible for the testing on all projects and managing the team of test managers and test analysts. The programme portfolio included Novell to Windows migration, new Citrix farm deployments, Telephony upgrades and enhancements and infrastructure changes to support flexible working.UAT Test Manager for Capita Financial Services delivering 3 projects in 12 months. Regulatory projects that required Fund Management Companies to produce a Key Investor Information Document (KIID) for all UCITS. and a UK Regulated Statements project which completely redesigned Investor, Nominee and IFA statements and changed the underlying architecture between IT and Capita Communications as well as introducing new business processes.Acceptance Test Manager for the NHS BSA Programme which is delivering change and transformation to NHS Dental Services. Responsible for the acceptance and sign-off of all deliverables to the NHS BSA client and Capita Operations team. Managed the UAT testing of 5 parallel work-streams delivering change and transformation for the client.

Swindon, United Kingdom

As QA Delivery Manager led and developed a team of 25 QA professionals with an annual budget in excess of £3M delivering over 30 large projects in 2010 at Zurich Financial Services. Successfully managed the introduction of a third party test partner to Zurich in 2010 ensuring the pilot completed successfully. Test partner utilised to reduce contractor costs, increase flexibility in resourcing and ensure continued improvement in processes, test methods and delivery.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Recruited, trained and led a global system test team (up to 15 direct reports in the UK and a further 25 test engineers in India and the USA) utilising the engineers skills and experience to deliver the feature set demanded by customers.Programme Test Managed the System and UAT testing for multiple projects (parallel) to enable products to be released to customers. Expertise in Fault Management and Performance Management capabilities of Optical transmission products (SDH, SONET, DWDM).Implemented automation framework and test suite to automate regression tests saving valuable time and resources for regression testing of new software delivered to test.Built and managed a state of the art SDH & DWDM transmission test laboratory of over 150 network elements and 50 servers ($10M), enabling test engineers and developers from Alcatel-Lucent facilities around to the world access to the test lab. Managed the annual capital budget of around $1M for the lab.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Performance Tester for BT’s Work Management System. This involved the design and development of Unix shell scripts to collect performance data about CPU utilisation, memory usage, query response time, system loading and ensuring all live customer sites automatically returned performance data. The collected data was analysed and key results and trends reported to Senior BT Managers along with recommendations for improving performance.

Bsc, Computer Science

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