Nigel Tabb Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Holborn

July 2021 – PresentSSE PLC – Forbury Place, Reading, BerksSenior Test managerRole: Provide leadership to testing teams and management of the testing delivery processes. Deliver against solid QA strategies and governance for multiple workstreams and programmesThese successful deliveries were time & budget driven with a strategic need to exit from the on-prem platform into the Azure cloudKey achievements• Led testing for migrated presentation layer apps to Azure Virtual desktop, Azure reverse proxy and other placements• Created and delivered testing strategy for the programme and for persistence into BAU service• Guided testing teams through the process into hypercare and live deployment• Provide testing as a service for legacy Business energy Customer platform migration to customised Dynamics F&O• Responsible for vendor management services to drive out quality of delivery into SSEDeliveries• Cloud Managed Applications migration - from MS SCCM to MS Intune managed Win 11 app deployments• Modern Application Presentation migration - from Citrix on prem to Azure Virtual desktop• Core Platform Replacement migration - from legacy shared mainframe platform to Dynamics F&O

Sept 2019 – Apr 2021Foresters Financial, Bromley, KentSenior Test managerRole: Design & deliver enterprise test & governance framework with leadership to the testing team alongside management of the testing processes. This was a time critical programme delivery for the maturity of Child Trust Fund accounts and was implemented on-time and successfully with the target 70% retention being achievedKey achievements• Provided an internal testing as a service for delivery of Salesforce platform for core savings & investment products starting with CTF retention & product migration• Created and delivered testing processes for the programme and for continuity into BAU service• Guided testing team through the process into hypercare and live deployment• Provided vendor management service to push delivery quality into ForestersDeliveries• Salesforce ERP for replacement to core in-house savings & investment platform• Automated regression suite (Selenium & C#) run from varying use case data sets• Test maturity model for the organisation which was adopted and is the model used today

Bath, United Kingdom

May 2019 – Aug 2019Rotork PLC, Bath, SomersetBusiness assurance test managerRole: Design & deliver business assurance testing programme for the Rotork migration to Dynamics 365.I worked alongside Hitachi consulting services and with multiple business operations resources across Rotork’s global operationsRotork’s programme was a global one of migrating multiple legacy systems to one Dynamics 365 solution starting with F&OKey achievements• Supplied testing framework, processes & maturity model for the programme and for BAU service continuity • Managed the development and delivery of multiple business assurance testing suites for various Rotork divisions• Provided vendor management service to push delivery quality to RotorkDeliveries• Business assurance framework and processes for Rotork globally• Multiple test suites for Dynamics 365 programme assurance

Brighton, United Kingdom

Sept 2018 – March 2019One Family Friendly Society, Brighton, E SussexSenior test managerRole: Design & deliver the testing programme for One Family’s finance transformation to Dynamics 365 F&OI worked with vendor suppliers and business SME’s on time critical deliveries of the programme Key achievements• Successful time critical deliveries of testing to enable specific implementations of key programme entities• Accomplished full End to end & parallel/duplicate runs of whole suites of business transactions and reconciliations• Delivered a quality and persisting test assurance & resourcing framework to the business that did not previously existDeliveries• Business assurance framework and processes for One Family that persists to this day• Multiple test suites for Dynamics 365 programme assurance for multiple testing phases across multiple products

London & Manchester

I was invited to return to manage the business testing of the Fraud & Financial Crime transaction monitoring systems (Brighterion) migration to Worldpays own infrastructure; a £2m programme that will deliver savings of £8m over 3 years• Brighterion Transaction monitoring migration to self-hosting• HP ALM as the main test tool

London

TSB split from Lloyds Banking Group to become a challenger high street bank and were subsequently acquired by Banco Sabadell. • NICE Actimize Fraud & Fin Crime portfolio implementation to TSB/Sabadell• HP ALM as the main test tool

London, United Kingdom

The Front Office Business testing and proving team consisted of four teams totalling 76 test and business analysts including an offshore element of 19. • Clone of RBS branch banking systems – Personal & Commercial (RMP, Caustic etc.)• HP ALM as the main test tool

Test manager in various roles on the WorldPay £300m+ transformation programme to separate from RBS and prepare Worldpay for independence• Worldpay New Acquiring Platform• Brighterion transaction monitoring• HP ALM as the main test tool

London

Using Brighterion iSupervise, iPrevent, iPredict, iComply, iProtect

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is tasked with implementing the Auto Enrolment compliance regime for the Pensions Act 2008 and is working in partnership with Capita who are the supplying contractor for the technology and business systems.

London, United Kingdom

Since separating from RBS, WorldPay have initiated a global transformation programme including a replacement platform for their Payments Merchant Acquirer Fraud & Credit monitoring department. My role was specifically to deliver their anti-money laundering initiative

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is tasked with implementing the Auto Enrolment compliance regime for the Pensions Act 2008 and is working in partnership with Capita who are the supplying contractor for the technology and business systems.

Test and Assurance manager for global reference data in the LTSB/HBOS integration programme.Responsible for delivery of assurance workstream across 112 centrally maintained reference data applications in use through SIT, UAT, CBT, Live Trials and proving cycles.Reporting to programme board level on strategy, progress and planned deliverables.

The Pensions Regulator has undergone an organizational transformation to become a risk based regulator and has deployed new operating models and a number of new supporting systems.• Devised & implemented the organisations corporate test strategies for systems testing, Systems integration (SIT), Operational acceptance (OAT), User acceptance (UAT) and supplier side testing.• Planned, resourced & delivered Systems test, SIT, OAT & UAT test phases into production including in-house & outsourced builds, data migration suites & 3rd party integration testing.• Managed teams of up to 15 testers across all testing disciplines.• Delivered HMRC data sharing project testing incl end to end cross org testing and implemented into Live.• Delivered SIT & UAT on OpenText Document management & Microsoft Dynamics CRM with external suppliers. • Performed day to day defect management to resolution, re-test & regression test.• Controlled specification & software releases into test environments

Direct Line and Churchill Insurance undertook a merger of systems and business processes which involved the migration of Churchill customer base to the Direct Line platform.• Devised testing plans & methods, plans and models for a team of 110 Systems Integration & UAT test analysts and 8 line managed test leads.• Delivered testing across concurrent testing streams to production incl data and business process migration.• Motor, Home, Travel, Pet streams, print fulfillment stream• Critical path implementation testing• Performed day to day defect management to resolution, re-test & regression test.• Controlled specification & software releases into test environments• Provided daily PMO reporting to local project board• Provided Programme steering committee reporting

This Royal Bank programme migrated 110 Consumer & 60 Commercial credit card products from a magnetic stripe basis to chip & PIN with associated host system upgrades.• Devised Systems integration & UAT testing strategies & methods, plans and reporting models for a team of 35 UAT test analysts & 4 test team leads.• Delivered SIT & UAT migration test phases on Consumer & Commercial chip & PIN card products on TSYS hosting platform with above team of testers.• Performed day to day test plan & defect management to resolution, re-test & regression test.• Controlled specification & software releases into test environments• Provided daily PMO reporting to project board in Edinburgh• Provided programme steering committee reporting updates

The Royal bank and NatWest undertook a merger of mainframe retail banking platforms which involved the migration of the existing NW customer base to the Royal Bank system.• Devised testing strategies, methods & plans for SIT, UAT & business integration in London & Edinburgh with a team of senior test analysts.• Delivered UAT & integration test phases on Retail bank products testing via RBS Critical Business Process (CBP) models• Performed day to day test plan & defect management to resolution, re-test & regression test.• Controlled specification & software releases into test environments• Provided daily PMO reporting to project board in Edinburgh