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London, United Kingdom

Aylesbury

• Successfully acted as Test Lead on the transition of fund administration to State Street from Lloyds Banking Group, ensured that the business undertook the right level of testing to mitigate risk. HP Quality Center was.
• Produced high quality Test Plans to communicate the timescale and scope of testing and End of Test Reports to document the results of testing for a variety of complex Investment Accounting projects. Reports were signed.
• Communicated regular excel based progress reports and held daily phone conferences during testing, to ensure that high impact issues or defects were made visible to stakeholders, enabling them to be resolved.
• Managed business resources to ensure that testing was undertaken in line with Test Plans, ensuring that business as usual work was not impacted as a result of testing activities.
• Utilised Test Director and HP Quality Center to manage defects and coordinate script writing and execution enabling testing to be closely monitored and evidence recorded.
• Deputised as Team Manager during periods of absence, attending weekly managers meetings and chairing team meetings.

Aylesbury

• Acted as a System Acceptance Tester and Test Lead working on a variety of high profile projects in conjunction with an offshore test team based in India. Delivered a critical Box Management system for the Investment.
• Produced high quality Test Plans to communicate the timescale and scope of testing and End of Test Reports to document the results of testing for a variety of complex projects. Reports were signed off by senior.
• Utilised Quick Test Pro to undertake test mainframe batch preparation and monitored batch progress to enable issues to be resolved without impacting testing.
• Chaired daily phone conferences with offshore testers in India and the UK based testers to ensure that defects were reported and resolved efficiently enabling testing to be delivered to a high quality, within budget.
• Undertook test preparation and execution for a variety of Investment Accounting change projects using HP Quality Center and Test Director.

Aylesbury

• Successfully coordinated User Acceptance Testing of system and process change relating to regulatory Pension Simplification changes. Influenced business users to enable them to understand the impact of changes to their.
• Chaired daily update meetings with business testers to ensure that defects were promptly reported to development areas and resolved efficiently.
• Trained business users in the importance of testing and the use of the Test Director application enabling the production of high quality test scripts based on project requirements.

Aylesbury

• Reviewed the selling of Personal and Managed Pension Policies for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, met targets and work produced was to a consistently high standard.
• Successfully produced monthly and quarterly Pension Review regulatory returns to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) reports were produced to a high quality and by the deadline imposed by the FSA, failure to meet.
• Provided system training to new starters and received a colleague award reflecting the quality of the training provided.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Information Technology, 2:2

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