Robert Palethorpe Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Summary: Leading global provider of digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workspaces for tomorrow and cybersecurity for government & enterprise clients. The company has over $US7.5 billion turnover in 58 countries. The IT as a Service (ITaaS) department is the internal Research and Development team responsible for delivery of all on premise, cloud and hybrid cloud solution offerings.Key responsibilities:• Serves as a corporate resource, providing upper management and executives with broad based technical direction and guidance on the entire quality assurance function• Instigate and drive the adoption of R&D methodologies, tools and processes• Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders and vendors to identify strategic goals and business value solutions• Define the test strategy and lead the QA team to identify and adopt changes, for both technology and business, to achieve the quality expected of a global cloud platform provider• Provide mentoring and coaching to people across the development teamKey achievements:• Implement “just enough” process, reporting and metrics to track meaningful team progress. Doing this enabled multiple teams to identify a number of areas for improvement• Architect, build and drive the adoption of a common automated testing framework that enabled the adoption of UI testing, BDD and unified test execution reporting• Drove the mind shift of “testing is a team responsibility” across multiple agile software teams.• Lead the testing and quality initiatives transformation in delivering a micro-services architecture. Including creating the test strategy, retraining of delivery teams (Dev\QA\BA\Architects), defining levels of tests (Unit, Service, Integration, UAT etc.) and defining how to build & deploy reliable maintainable systems.• Define and lead the adoption of a common “Definitions of Done” across multiple agile software delivery teams

Sydney Area, Australia

Summary:Planit Software Testing Solutions is the 4th largest pure play test consultancy in the world.Key responsibilities:• Provide analysis of current quality assurance, testing and delivery process for a range of clients. Covering test strategy creation, implementation plan, schedule and resourcing• Perform all aspects of Test Team Management and Technical Leadership for Planit and on client sites.• Perform scoping, proposals and proof-of-concept projects for clients investing in functional automation.• Build high performing test (manual and automation) teams.• Develop and deliver training courses, external and internal, for a number automation and test tools.Key achievements:• Create, train and mentor a team of Web Service & B2B Messaging testers, manual and automated, for NBN Co Business-to-Business messaging platform.• Built BDD test automation framework (Cucumber, Ruby, Java, and Selenium) that enabled the team to easily create a suite of automated regression tests.• Re-designed the implementation of a suite of automated test (in TOSCA) to enabled high re-use of component and reduce maintenance over heads. Taking the number of test from 20 to 400, and coverage from around 10% to more than 60% in less than 3 months.

Sydney, Australia

Summary: Symantec Corporation is the largest security software company and the 4th largest software company in the world, employing more than 18,000 fulltime staff. Symantec provides a broad range of products spanning security, storage, identity verification and system management. This role was in the Endpoint Management Group working on the Altiris IT Management Suite (ITMS); a $300+ million annual revenue service-oriented software product for centrally managing enterprise IT infrastructures.The core function of the SQA Manager is to manage the end-to-end functional, regression, automation, integration, acceptance and performance test activities for a number of Core components across the Symantec Management Platform.Key responsibilities:• Management of concurrent agile testing projects (Hot fixes, Point fixes, Roll-ups, Service Packs & Major Releases) for on/off shore teams; including test strategy, test plans, resourcing, estimation, progress tracking and reporting.• People management of 4 full time staff; including mentoring, performance appraisals, training and personal development planning.• Drive automated test efforts using a variety of tools (open source, commercial and custom built).• Liaise with key stake holders to scope product requirements, technical specifications, delivery schedules, and resourcing requirements.• Review internal, partner and customer defect lists to control priority and workflow to development & test teams.• Operate in a Technical Test Lead capacity for new products, features, technologies and tools; including creation and delivery of training content, knowledge transfers, informal reviews, walkthroughs etc.• Participate in test planning, creation & execution phase of multiple projects.• Performance analysis and optimization of Web, Web Services, SQL database & Windows based applications.

Sydney, Australia

Summary: During this time I was FOREX trading using a variety platforms, brokers and strategies. With a focus on researching technical indicators/signals and developing automated trading strategies

Sydney, Australia

Summary: Altiris was a market leader in many aspects of enterprise systems management. In 2007 Altiris was acquired by Symantec. As a Development and Test Manager at Altiris I was responsible for all engineering activities and data requirements of the Patch Management SolutionKey responsibilities:• Ownership of all test activities for Patch Management Data project.• Architect & implement tools needed to create, maintain and re-distribute Patch Management Data.• End-to-end release management of Patch Management Data, for both development and test, on fortnightly schedule within agreed operational SLA’s• Management and Technical Lead for distributed team of 35 staff (3 full time local resources, 32 contract offshore resources).• Design and implement automated and manual test environments.• Development support to customers for a range of Altiris Solutions.• Operate in a Technical Lead capacity for new products, features, technologies and tools• Design and create SQL reports for ITMS Platform/Solutions.• Participate in reviews to ensure products meet the specifications outlined in the PRD’s

Summary: S2 produces an open platform transaction processing software package that is used by banks, financial institutions & other companies worldwide. Key responsibilities:• Management of the IT infrastructure, covering 7 countries within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).• Management and participation in all IT related global infrastructure projects. Such as AD Migration, Disaster Recovery, Corporate Security, Site Relocations, WAN upgrades• Regional fiscal software, hardware and network IT budgeting.• Application packaging and operating system roll-outs for desktop and server SOE’s• Design and creation of Corporate Standards documentation and procedures. • Creation of a test lab for simulations, customer demonstrations & testing.• Design of light client environment using Citrix & Terminal Services.

Summary: Fujitsu Australia is a systems, network & solutions outsourcing division of Fujitsu International/ICL Corporation.Key responsibilities:• Provide 24x7 3rd Line Server support for 100+ servers in a technologically diverse environment. • Supervise, manage and implement server builds, changes to standard configurations, upgrades, audits and software roll-outs.• Systems monitoring and performance analysis.• Participate in a wide range of project teams as a technical consultant, recommending system specifications.• Test and manage hardware, software and large scale application roll-outs. • Automation of server management tasks.• Develop and document domain specifications, security policies and procedures.

Education record

Computer Science (Deferred)

Electrical Engineering (Deferred)