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Newport, GB

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• Ongoing project working on the rebuilding of a legacy database system and rebuilding using web based third party technology.
• Complex project including two data migrations and web application functional testing.
• Liasing with a wealth of Business Stakeholders and ensuring their understanding and acceptance of all areas of the project.
• Performing functional testing using Agile methodologies.
• Co-ordinating a large UAT cycle with stakeholders to ensure final acceptance of system.
• Helping the stakeholders to understand the rationale behind the changes being presented and the longer term plan.

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

• Effectively managing multiple Digital and Bank-wide releases concurrently.
• Eliminating resource-intensive manual spreadsheet manipulation from multiple sources by implementing real-time test result spreadsheets using OneDrive functionality.
• Working closely with stakeholders with changes within these releases from different areas of the business i.e., Cards, Loans, and Personal Current Accounts, etc.
• Planning and executing UAT, Regression, Live Proving cycles for each release ensuring all documentation and guidelines are adhered to so as to pass through quality gates.
• Hands on involvement with all testing activities to ensure full understanding of processes/systems.
• Liaising with Release Management to address all unforeseen change exceptions while performing impact assessment with the focus on maintaining delivery dates.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Developed an innovative solution that enabled the Collections team to offer customers alternative ways of maintaining payments on their loans at reduced rates and help reduce outstanding arrears by restructuring their.
• Led the project for addressing a long-standing issue in the AS400 system where customers were mistakenly being reported as in arrears due to specific actions on their account.
• Made changes to the structure and information contained within the Sanctions file.
• Incorporated new changes into the Continuous Integration team so that the automation pack would always include the most up to date journeys.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

• Successfully managed the desktop Transformation Programme for upgrading a large scale Operating System (XP to Windows 7) across the entire Business, covering laptops/Desktops in all Branch, Head Office and Customer.
• Reviewed test deliverables on behalf of TSB for Test Governance, facilitating the common Portfolio Programme, as LBG and TSB currently share infrastructure.
• Tracked and ensured delivery of in-flight projects while reviewing documentation prior to implementation and maintaining full traceability in-case of an audit.

Bristol / Edinburgh

• Liquidity Release 2 - Version Upgrade & Infrastructure Migration
• Defect Management
• Daily Progress Reporting &
• Stakeholder Management
• Introduced a modular scripting approach to ensure progress reporting reflected the test situation accurately
• Full Testing Lifecycle covered from Requirements Static Review through to Test Execution and Live Proving.

Bristol/Edinburgh

• Liquidity Release 1 - New Product Introduction
• Commercial Banking Project covering multiple account management system (Pooling & Sweeping).
• Full Testing Lifecycle covered from Requirements Static Review through to Test Execution and Live Proving.
• Worked across multiple sites in Bristol & Edinburgh.
• Test Data Preparation
• Test Planning & Execution

Cardiff

• Rackspace Environment Migration - Covering Disaster Recovery, Pre Production and Live Environments.
• IVR (Interactive Voice Recognition) Rebuild and New Functionality – Telephony/AS400/Web-Based
• AS400 and Web-Based applications.
• Interface Testing – CAP, Experian, RTS, Target and Webservices (SOAPUI).
• Test Scripting & Defect Management using QC10.
• All changes progressed from Requirements Analysis & Test Planning through to Test Completion and Implementation.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Located at Barclaycard to test a data centre migration project. This included Pre-Production, Production, Data Recovery and multiple test environments.
• Test Scripting & Defect Management using QC10.
• AS400 and Web-Based applications.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the planning and testing of Small Changes across a variety of systems for Barclays Partner Finance and UK Secured Lending.
• All areas of the Loan Process covered including Application Entry, Account Management and Collections.
• Systems included Icenet, AS400, TRIAD & Debt Manager.
• Managed multiple Small Changes simultaneously which achieved an increase of successful implementations in comparison to the previous year.
• All changes progressed from Requirements Analysis & Test Planning through to Test Completion and Implementation.
• Test scripting & Defect Management performed using QC10.

• Test Lead for a web based call servicing application.
• Other projects include Mortgage Arrears Management, Mortgage application input processes, Insurance Portfolio Security Enhancements, Insurance applications systems and Portfolio Migration.
• Completed both manual and automated testing across both web-based and AS400 systems.
• Creation of test strategy/scripts for each phase of testing
• Managing resources to meet milestones
• Identify test scenarios suited to automation throughout project

• Automation Test Analyst in an insurance servicing environment.
• Creation of Automation Test Plan
• Identify test scenarios suited to automation
• Automation - Data Entry & Regression suite creation
• Performance / Load Testing
• Defect Management & Testing

• Manual and Automation Software tester for web-based customer relationship management community.
• Created an automated regression suite from scratch using Selenium.
• Derived test scripts from initial requirements.
• Completed full SIT and UAT test phases.
• Reported test progress to the project management team.
• Recording and prioritising defects.

• Software tester for web-based document management product.
• Derived test scripts from initial user stories.
• Liased with team in India to ensure both sites were informed of progress.
• Completed full SIT and UAT test phases and product successfully went live with no major issues.
• Recording and prioritising defects.
• Produced documentation for areas that I had worked on and ensured that these were uploaded to a knowledge transfer wiki database.

• Test Analyst working within the card services department with exposure to Card Activations, Internet Banking, Migration and Card Decisioning Strategies.
• Took projects forward from initial analysis and sign off of requirements to scripting and executing the tests.
• Chaired test planning and test progress walkthroughs with key stakeholders.
• Ensured all testing and procedures adhered to FSA regulations.
• Test data preparation.
• Used QTP/Winrunner to aid testing where this offered the best solution.

Bsc, Business & Marketing

A Level, Design & Technology, Physics