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Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Build quality into existing processes - getting involved in early stages of SDLC to ensure quality from the start
• Work very closely with product owner, designer, and developers to ensure product meets requirements
• Refine stories - fine-tuning requirements and writing the test cases
• Create test plans and test scripts for all areas of the product
• Carry out manual and automated testing
• Sign off releases once confident right amount of testing has been carried out

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Worked with product and development team to refine user stories and define acceptance criteria
• Created and executed test cases on desktop and mobile
• Regularly updated regression packs
• Replicated issues and raised bugs in Azure DevOps
• Proactive reporting of status and test results to Test Manager
• Created dashboards for each sprint, ensuring work was evenly distributed amongst test team, and that testing was on-schedule

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

• Split The Bills sets up and manages utilities to student houses, giving students a hassle-free way to pay their share of the household bills.
• Sole QA analyst and tester covering all aspects of front end, back end, and end to end testing for Split The Bills. Responsible for championing quality throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring the best possible.
• Worked with a broad range of internal stakeholders including Business Analysts, Product Owners, Designers, Marketers, and SME’s to discuss and capture functional and non-functional requirements to ensure the UIs.
• Carried out all test planning, estimation, scripting, and execution
• Investigated, logged, and tracked issues via JIRA
• Tested UIs manually and automatically for both desktop and mobile platforms, using local devices or BrowserStack to access other devices. A strong attention to detail was required as there were multiple brands.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Established test environment consisting of Windows PCs, Android and iOS devices, utilising multiple operating system releases across all three platforms
• Executed exploratory and testcase-based testing on an extremely varied range of products and websites
• Rapidly and accurately reported test findings
• Participated in usability testing and product reviews, providing feedback to developers on potential improvements, as well as any difficulties encountered with their products
• Used a diverse toolset to capture test data, system logs, crash logs, and screen recordings
• Achieved a gold-rating for activity and quality of work within one month of joining the platform

Birmingham, UK

• Implemented automated testing leveraging TestComplete
• Created a suite of regression tests running nightly against new builds
• Assisted Test Manager in switchover from Waterfall to Agile methodologies
• Liaised with Business Analysts and Technical Specialists to determine testing requirements
• Trained and mentored new members of the testing team

Coventry, United Kingdom

Solely responsible for the creation of the manual testing framework for the software on a new cash handling system. This involved the creation of a library of regressions scripts from scratch. Provided feedback to development team advising on best testing strategies for their organisation.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Conversion of manual regression tests into automated Winrunner and, latterly, QTP scripts. This enabled a more aggressive testing schedule as, previously, regression was a business hours task. Moving this to an overnight automated process significantly reduced the software testing life-cycle timeline.Also heavily involved in bug identification, problem.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Creation and execution of manual test plans and scripts for the ongoing development of Care First, a social care and health management system. Technical analysis of results with feedback to development teams where necessary.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Worked closely with customers to ensure ePOS (electronic point of sale) systems met agreed acceptance criteria via manual testing. Covered UK and European customer base including, but not limited to, Burberry, Austin Reed, WHSmith, Mexx, and Arcadia.