Working within MLC which is National Australia Bank’s wealth management business.MLC provides investments, superannuation and financial advice to corporate, institutional and retail customers. Using expertise and the capabilities of the NAB Group to give customers a bigger vision of their future and the bigger picture of their wealth.Appointed the Principal Quality Engineer across NAB Wealth. Responsible for managing all non functional testing, primarily performance testing. Further to this I acted as a senior consultant on multiple projects from a Quality Assurance perspective.I was also appointed Technical Lead / Program Test Manager (as a side role), for a complex integration layer (TIBCO) upgrade and migration to cloud (AWS). · Responsible for managing the technical testing team within NAB Wealth, resource allocation,statement of work financials, vendor management and engagement across all projects· Responsible for up-skilling the technical testing team and leading them through a ‘new ways ofworking’, change from waterfall to agile and delivering continuous automated testing· Introduced a continuous testing framework for performance testing using a combinationof open source tooling (jMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, Taurus), which integrated with Jenkins as theautomation server and GIT as the repository· Acting as a senior consultant on several technical projects to coach the tribe and squads onimplementing testing methodologies within agile to ensure quality throughout the delivery cycle· Introduced testing within sprints into several projects and built out a defect managementprocess for the squads to follow· Relationship management with several vendors to ensure resource requirements can be fulfilledwith resources of the highest quality with strong skill sets to fulfil the project desires

CommSec is the Commonwealth Bank Group’s business which provides equities, margin lending and cash services to Australian retail equities traders and investors through CommSec and Wholesale clients such as Financial Advisors and other financial institutions via CommSec Advisor Services. CommSec is the market leader with a 50% market share of the non-advised retail equities market and CommSec Advisor Services is the market leading wholesale equities business with a share of 15% of the market.Appointed the Performance Assurance Delivery Manager across CommSec IT and Institutional Banking & Markets (IB&M). · I was responsible for leading all performance testing activities and also introducing a performance culture in IB&M platform, after educating and displaying value to the stakeholders such as product owners, executive and general managers· Managed performance testing of a cloud migration program, migrating CommSec to a dual active/active cloud configuration of both AWS and Azure· Responsible for defining best practices, frameworks, tooling, mentoring, coaching, financialcosting, resource management and recruitment for the overall CBA NFT team (up to 45 resources)· Responsible for defining performance test scope for all engagements, working closely with scrumteams in an agile methodology, ensuring non-functional requirements are produced and mappedagainst· Working relationship with Test Architects to design, promote and deliver automated performancetest capabilities, moving into a CICD model· Management of test team resources within CommSec and IB&M

· Technical consultant specialising in performance testing, test management and coaching oftechnical testing solutions through all project delivery cycles· Skilled in Agile and Waterfall test methodologies· Implemented testing (functional & non-functional) within agile and CICD environments andcoached the scrum teams on how to achieve this outcome· Responsible for bringing new business opportunities, managing current engagements andmentoring other Planit resources· Negotiation of contract renewals with clients· Relationship management with client stakeholders to provide resource recommendations,technology improvement areas and consultation· Major clients; Commonwealth Bank, NAB Wealth, Medibank and Vodafone