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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

● Perform formal test capability for 2 x UAT test teams, agreeing test scope and schedule and completing on time● Negotiate with 5 asset teams across multiple vendors/suppliers to achieve test schedule● Proactive communicator to Business Process Owners to respond to change, triage defects, agree Sev 2 / Sev 3● Write test estimates for small change requests● Create daily status reporting, defect management● Represent work stream at TMO – Test Management Office daily presentation to Business sponsor● Created test plans and test summaries quickly in Jira● Led small team of test analysts

Melbourne, Australia

• Communicate with wide ranging stakeholder base – Officials, Parents, Coaches, Team managers • Assist driving change of Victorian Hockey to club• Plan & Coordinate logistics of Club days for participants & volunteers• Facilitate committee meetings• Agenda & Minutes• Research & provide links to members to ensure compliance• Manage teams• Post financials to Consumer Affairs VictoriaNote: This is a volunteer role to keep myself busy whilst looking for next role, to give something back to a sporting community I am passionate about & to maintain my passion for organising & scheduling.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Managing change in multiple shared integrated Test Environments for Release Services at NAB for Waterfall and Agile teams as they seek to build, test and implement change to production.Facilitate, coach and organise projects and technology teams to coordinate and bundle defect fixes, code drops, data preparation to maximise project efficiencyOptimise test environment availability and usabilityProvide consistent support to Project Managers, Release Managers, Test Environment Managers by catching and resolving risks and issues before they arise. I am very well regarded by my colleagues in performing governance & support role for our organisation to deliver great value for our customers.Convening meetings, publishing agenda, inviting attendees, setting up conference facilities, taking minutes, following up actions

Melbourne, Australia

Review change records for key information like approved tasks, completion of functional testing, back-out plan to assess readiness and present to CAB - Change Advisory BoardIdentifying cross impacts between technology change and ensuring appropriate back out strategies are tested and ready as needed.Collating implementation run sheet across multiple teamsIdentifying Project delivery risks and issues, then driving individuals to agreement on mitigation plan and undertake itArranging logistics of an implementation such as building access, food, roster, heat map

Melbourne, Australia

• Managed test estimation, strategy and planning across SDLC, System Test (+1), System Integration Test, User Acceptance Test, System Assurance Test.• Led test execution of small teams of 6 testers on several lengthy projects.• Performed light touch test governance for small projects with limited budget.• Defined and Managed waterfall test cycles and iterative test sprints.• Broad experience of testing hardware, software, functional, non-functional, new systems and existing systems.• Tested applications that exist in relative isolation from other systems, and retail systems that have considerable integration complexity with other systems.• Define test data, batch schedule and environment requirements. Performed static testing of documents.• Defect management

Melbourne

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