Ryan Williamson Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Contract Role:Unit and Integration testing APIs on broadband provisioning systems.

Contract Role: • Responsible for identifying and executing functional, integration and regression testing across the group of Eurosports and Discovery Apps on both Android and iOS platforms and co-ordinating releases to Live.• Full range of analysis and testing required across a wide range of Discovery Channel’s international Websites and Apps primarily to deliver migration from platforms like Escenic, Fusion, Sitecore and Wordpress to a consolidated Content Management System (Adobe Experience Manager). Defining and building required scenario files as input to automated regression suites.

Contract Role: • Responsible for all functional testing activities required to deliver over 20 releases of Channel 4’s iOS All4 App to Live on full range of iOS devices and iOS versions, Android devices as well as interfaces to Channel 4’s .Com site.• Transcodes, Video on Demand, Downloads, Fairplay Encryption, Live Streaming, Airplay, Chromecast, HDMI, 3G/4G. • Webservice and API testing via Soapui, Jsoneditor, Postman, Charles, Fiddler, Apigee.• App and .Com UI testing.• Verification of 3rd party Dynamic Ad Insertion (Freewheel, Brightcove), establishing testing processes and error reporting and recovery.• Close collaboration with 3rd party suppliers and key business stakeholders (both on-site and distributed).• 3rd party logging (Omniture, Conviva, Kantar).• Build deployment and reporting via Fabric Crashlytics and HockeyApp.• Test execution in Cucumber and Gherkin BDD.• Daily Scrum stand-ups, triage meetings and assigning testing responsibilities.• Analysis of project scope and providing realistic and reliable project estimates to project management.• Designed, planned, managed and altered all testing processes on an ongoing basis.• Managed multiple QA requirements across different builds simultaneously within tight time schedules.• Creating concise and clear progress reports for senior management on a daily/weekly basis. • Closely interacted with product management, business and development teams to assure most effective QA available.• Working closely with external teams to ensure required Regression identified and executed.• Regression pack definition and maintenance.• Exploratory testing of User journeys.• Showcasing of altered and new functionality in each release to Product Owners and Stakeholders by providing planning, constructing and preparation of UAT test scripts.• Accessibility testing of App functionality on native iOS.

Contract Role: Integration Test Team Lead• Responsible for Systems Integration testing a variety of Web Service based systems (featuring a ‘rules-engine’ feeding a DB2 ‘back-end’ database system delivering data to a business facing UI).• Defining, maintaining and managing testing processes, methods and environments for all QA activities required over multiple releases, branches and environments in a Continuous build process.• Building, monitoring, reviewing and updating both manual and automated (Soapui) Regression and Acceptance test packs.• Defect tracking and management.• Planning and managing User and Business Acceptance Testing to Sign-Off.• Hands on execution across all levels of testing activities.• General team administration tasks and daily management meetings. Contract Role: Defect Manager • Defining acceptable defect standards and processes across multiple work streams and ensuring defects raised and resolved to the required standards and timescales. • Establishing and maintaining defect processes internally and with external suppliers to track and monitor defect creation and resolution.• Establishing and running defect triage meetings as required.• Creating defect reporting and ensuring visibility of overall defect status and trends to all interested parties.• Input to the build, deployment and release process with knowledge of defect statuses and impacts across multiple environments and code versions.• Ensuring defects retested to appropriate standards on correct environments and code bases.

Contract Role:Defining, maintaining and managing testing processes and methods for all QA activities required over 41 major version releases of a customer provisioning system (including large scale Data Migration of 1.8 million customers via Extract Transform Load (ETL) activities and System Integration projects) in a Continuous build/Agile/BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) framework. Hands on execution across all levels of testing activities.

Contract Role:System and Integration testing of Web based ‘front-end’ application and legacy CICS based ‘back office’ systems via Tibco Staffware workflow package on an Oracle Database.

Contract Role: • Worked on Joint Venture (MLHSBC) between two major City Banks. Responsible for creating and maintaining ‘Best Practice’ testing process for system, integration and automated testing of newly developed eCommerce Web 'Front-End' functionality and legacy 'Back-End' technology.• Defining testing scope and requirements, producing testing entry, exit and sign-off documentation. Test script planning, writing and review. Unit, System and Integration Test planning, execution and management of Black and White box testing. Controlling bug tracking, resolution and re-testing as well as environment and version control for ‘patch’ fixes and implementation.• Liaising with IBM and other third parties, agreeing deliverables and timescales for testing of Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application.• Involved in establishing Call Centre User Acceptance Testing teams, test approaches, scripting and test execution.• Regression Test automation of stabilised system.

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