Kai Smith Email & Phone Number

Leeds, United Kingdom

Working to Agile methodologies with a team based in Leeds for clients of The Test People (TTP).Consulting with clients and colleagues on test methodologies and quality assurance. Risk based testing following requirements analysis and project discussions. Working with developers to recreate defects and proposing resolutions as well as providing recommendations for defect management and project milestones.Defect management, reporting and conferencing with business and project representatives.Delivering test management solutions, documentation, strategies and guidance on quality improvement across multiple sectors as well as mentoring people new into the testing world.

Bradford, United Kingdom

- Analyse business requirements & create test scenarios- Develop testing scripts- Work closely with business and suppliers to enable targets to be met- Quality Assurance against project needs- Defect identification and analysis

Bradford, United Kingdom

Leading a small team, reporting to a Test Manager, to ensure HM Government's latest Help to Buy scheme was ready to launch on deadline at UKAR.A very quick-moving project that involved a completely new system to be developed in a short space of time for external lenders to send UKAR mortgage data and for the administration of those loans once received.The test team had to be deeply involved in the development of requirements and ensuring the Business Analysts and project team were aware of and understood the risks and issues that arose.Main duties included:- Analysing requirements documents from several areas of the business and translating these in to test requirements- Performing QA on test headers and scripts developed by my team- Creating and managing a test execution schedule- Maintaining a documentation log- Raising risks against the project- Liaising with our suppliers and key business contacts- Managing defects raised by the team

Bradford, United Kingdom

Undertaking a massive learning curve as part of my personal development; taking business requirements and manual test scenarios to develop automated test scripts.- building QTP automation scripts utilising keyword-driven framework and VBScript- liaising with suppliers, business reps and the manual testing team to drive efficient, accurate results- acting as a mortgage systems Subect Matter Expert to take forward an optimise existing automated scripts

Bradford, United Kingdom

- Analyse business requirements & create test scenarios- Develop testing scripts- Work closely with business and suppliers to enable targets to be met- Quality Assurance against project needs- Defect identification and analysis

Bradford, United Kingdom

- Working as a Subject Matter Expert on behalf of the business to drive required results- Developed test scenarios- Identified defects- Worked closely with suppliers and business representatives to create new and develop existing processes

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Acted as an intermediary between the business, IT, Compliance and Finance.Assisted in building of business requirements and User Acceptance Testing.The role also involved managing regular audits, reporting on recommendations to mandate changes within the business as well as managing systems access and user controls.

Not-for-profit organisation- Managed the administration of the organisation- Gave support to the executive team- Provided legislative background and clarification on activities conducted & proposed to promote legal compliance- Assisted in fundraising activities for the company- Authorised financial transactions- Liaised with external organisations- Drove the organisation to charity status

- Reviewing & dealing with abuse reports- Moderating/mediating chat- Community building- Dealing with account queries- Monitoring chat for possible child-luring/grooming

- Handled abuse reports- Dealt with DDoS attacks- Handled network routing- Performed services maintenance- Chat moderation

Aat, Cima, Accounting

Ba (Hons), Leadersip & Management