Assurity is a New Zealand owned and operated digital delivery consultancy based across Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. We’ve developed services and solutions focused on improving the quality of the technology our clients build and the speed in which they deliver it. I have had a number of roles at Assurity and I have summarised the most recent and relevant below: Delivery Lead 2017-2020This is a key client and account management role within the organisation, key aspects… Show more Assurity is a New Zealand owned and operated digital delivery consultancy based across Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. We’ve developed services and solutions focused on improving the quality of the technology our clients build and the speed in which they deliver it. I have had a number of roles at Assurity and I have summarised the most recent and relevant below: Delivery Lead 2017-2020This is a key client and account management role within the organisation, key aspects of the role include: -Client acquisition and growth through developing and maintaining client relationships. - Gaining an understanding of client challenges and issues, then working with internal service teams to tailor solutions to address issues. - Account management and growth - creating account strategies for growth of business and identifying opportunities for the introduction of novel services lines, generating leads and leading pre-sales meetings, bringing together internal teams to prepare high quality proposals, across Digital Transformation, Business Analysis, Agile Delivery, Software Testing, Education and DevOps service lines.- Commercial management - reporting of financial performance of accounts to plan.- Account issue escalation management and resolution- Ensuring account and project profitability with appropriate proposal pricing- Delivery team management - ensuring a common understanding of goals, milestones and commercial targets and how each team member contributes.- Performance review contribution of delivery team members- Experience of CRM (opportunity and lead management) and ESS (project timesheeting and financial reporting) software Show less

Responsible for the delivery of tested and validated project and services group solutions across the various programme release plans.

Responsible for the delivery of tested and validated project and mobile programme solutions within the programme release plan.

* Head of Department responsibilities (Resource Forecasting, Hiring and Line Management of Test Managers and Test Engineers) for OSS, multimillion dollar projects across fulfilment including DSL & IP-VPN provisioning systems, IMS VoIP and Data provisioning platform, as well as assure fault, performance and service management systems in both the fixed and mobile networks. * Internal and External Customer Engagement – Identify resources, human and physical from suppliers globally, such as… Show more * Head of Department responsibilities (Resource Forecasting, Hiring and Line Management of Test Managers and Test Engineers) for OSS, multimillion dollar projects across fulfilment including DSL & IP-VPN provisioning systems, IMS VoIP and Data provisioning platform, as well as assure fault, performance and service management systems in both the fixed and mobile networks. * Internal and External Customer Engagement – Identify resources, human and physical from suppliers globally, such as back office resources in Alcatel-Lucent worldwide, or other international IS services vendors to deliver to the OSS Test objectives for the NZ fixed and mobile delivery programmes or to external customers directly* Responsible for the adherence of the OSS Test Department to currently defined quality processes, as well as identifying areas for improvements in terms or process of tools to the regional Software Engineering Process Group.* Project and Programme Test Delivery cost estimation* Project Test documentation delivery and phase execution management* Industry Alliance Test work stream member Show less

* Responsible for the production, review and delivery of OSS project Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Specifications and Test Reports* Responsible for the management and execution of OSS project phases in both internal and customer environment including team adherence to quality processes* Defect reporting and lifecycle management* Line Management of a team of test engineers* Project test effort resource forecasting* Customer engagement to secure environment and resources… Show more * Responsible for the production, review and delivery of OSS project Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Specifications and Test Reports* Responsible for the management and execution of OSS project phases in both internal and customer environment including team adherence to quality processes* Defect reporting and lifecycle management* Line Management of a team of test engineers* Project test effort resource forecasting* Customer engagement to secure environment and resources for testing Show less

* Test Engineer responsible for the execution of functional, integration and regression testing of DSL provisioning platform for Telstra in Australia and DSL & IP-VPN platform for Telecom New Zealand * Part of a multi-vendor team, engaging closely with delivery partners to execute project test outcomes

* Member of the IS team – responsible for systems auditing and management * Software License Management* Systems virus and security management* Workstation and Server setup, configuration and maintenance

Graduate Engineer Position* C++ telephony fund management application* Distributed team working environment, close working relationship with design and development team in the US.* Responsible for successfully migrating application into source configuration management platform and to use a tailored class library* SDLC responsibilities including defining requirements, submitting designs, implementing code changes and executing unit and integration testing of new requirements and… Show more Graduate Engineer Position* C++ telephony fund management application* Distributed team working environment, close working relationship with design and development team in the US.* Responsible for successfully migrating application into source configuration management platform and to use a tailored class library* SDLC responsibilities including defining requirements, submitting designs, implementing code changes and executing unit and integration testing of new requirements and defect fixes Show less