Riaz Abdullah Email & Phone Number

Bolton, England, United Kingdom

Working closely with the Head of Testing guiding the department through a Group Transfomation programme. The role involved adopting and embedding new ways of working including agile delivery and promoting automation. My role as the SME in the area was to introduce tools such as JIRA, Confluence and HP UFT14. Aswell as researching DevOps and upskilling the.

Halifax

• Fast passed digital delivery of the ‘Tablets in Branch’ project delivering bespoke Mobile Applications into the bank’s branches across the UK. Using the Agile methodology working closing with Product Owners, Business.
• BDD delivery of changes to a number of Mobile Apps.
• Working in an agile environment attending daily stand ups, analysing feature files and providing expert guidance on quality assurance.
• Reviewing User Stories on Kanban and producing Test Conditions, Test Schedule and Test Scripts for 3 phases of testing.
• Delivered GDPR changes for consumer Onboarding journeys..

Halifax, United Kingdom

• The project was the migration of circa 75k heritage loan accounts to an application managed by a 3rd Party. The migration had impact on 11 business divisions and each was required to perform regression UAT testing to.
• Leadership of 4 business divisions Global Payments, OPPI, PPI and Document Services.
• Processes tested: Faster Payments, CHAPS, BACS, PPI Redress, Document printing, CoCo Annual Statements, In Flight payments testing.
• Liaison to divisional test managers.
• Produced templates and guides for test managers.
• Review and sign off of Test Plans, Test Conditions, Test Schedule, Test Data Requirements, environment requirements and batch requirements.

Halifax, United Kingdom

• After a further extension of my contract, I was made responsible for leading a digital online banking project which would allow customers to redesignate their savings account. The project involved working with the.
• Produced and gained sign off on a UAT Test Plan.
• Devise Test scenarios based on Risk Based Testing
• Execute Test Cases on a simulation of the banks online banking website.
• Manage documentation and ‘Print & packs’ to be printed by 3rd Party.
• Liaise with IT in ensuring relevant batch jobs are scheduled to allow UAT testing.

Halifax, United Kingdom

As a result of the successful delivery of my previous project at Lloyds Banking Group, I progressed onto another programme of work within the orgnaisation upon recommendation. This new role involved leading two projects in parallel providing expert test analysis to the UAT Test Manager. This included producing and delivering a Test Approach presentation.

Halifax, United Kingdom

The solution included a SAP based HR Payroll system integrated with HRIS (HR management system) with Datatstage (GDW) as middleware. Over 100 interfaces run between these systems and numourous other downstream and 3rd Party systems. I was responsible for initially analysing functional specifictions, Mid Level Platform Specifications, Business Requirements.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• As a member of the Retail Change Management department, I successfully delivered three projects during my tenure with Royal Bank of Scotland and received a Silver Award for an internal recognition initiative. The first.
• UAT test analysis for PPI Annual Review Letters project.
• Delivered Test Planning and execution.
• Provided engagement with 3rd Party supplier for printing.
• Delivered new Cash ISA Transfer project.
• System involved Vocalink acquiring money from ceding account and adding to acquiring account.

Riaz has worked for AppLabs, who are the largest Independent Software Testing consultancy, for several years and has achieved a Senior position within the company. Starting as a Graduate employee Riaz has achieved a Senior Consultant status within the company, leading to a Test Management position on a high profile project for an International IT company..

Woking

Riaz lead a team of 6 off-shore test analysts in testing an integrated Finance and Operations system. The solution involved Microsoft AX, EAM and BizTalk which were integrated to produce a highly complex and sensitive solution. The team managed by Riaz successfully performed Integration and UAT Testing spanning several customised solutions for numorous.

Test Management of a medium sized solution developed by Oracle and delivered to new government funded schools. The project involved managment of a team in delivering UAT Testing across 7 new schools. This encompassed testing of a bespoke e-learning tool and integration testing of all components of the solution. The project has been delivered successfully.

Prior to taking over as a Test Manager, I was involved in performing a Test Lead role on the BSF Schools project. This position involved creating Test documentation such as Test Plans, Test Specifications and ultimately creating Test Scripts for execution. The success of the role has led to my position as a Test Manager on the next phase of the project.

The project involved UAT and Integration testing of components which were to be migrated to a different operating system. The project which affected 15 departments spread over 3 sites involved testing bespoke software on the new platform as well as engaging the business in ensuring the solution meets their requirements.I managed a team of 4 test analysts.

I was the Test Lead on a crucial project which was changing how the insurance company was quoting for a certain product. The new solution involved several components which were initially tested individually and thereafter tested for integration and finally from a User Acceptance view point. The project also involved receiving UML formatted information from.

During this role I was required to analyse several projects in parallel and produce test documentation to aid the commencement of the project. This therefore involved creating estimations, test strategies, test plans and deep engagement with the business to ensure the Testing efforts were documented as per requirements.

Multi Million pound government initiatied project to deliver a state of the art IT Solution into 3 new purpose build Schools. The role involved Co-Ordinating the testing efforts to ensure the solution was tested fully prior to installation into Schools.

Bsc Hons, Computer Science And Information Systems

Achieved a high 2:1 degree at the end of a 4 year degree course. This included 1 year placement at MBNA Europe Bank Ltd.

A Levels, Accounting, Business, Computing

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