Simon Frampton Email & Phone Number

Altrincham, Gb

Salford, Greater Manchester

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for manual bug, regression, exploratory and load testing in the following projects:• On-going support for the current Desktop Weather site • Launch of and on-going support for the Responsive Mobile Weather site • Launch of and on-going support for the Weather App – the first BBC app to be launched simultaneously on both iOS and Android platforms and one of the most popular BBC apps in terms of total downloads and active usage• Launch of and on-going support for the Local Weather Warnings service – the first Weather service hosted on AWS• Launch of and on-going support for the Weather Watchers – a crowd-sourcing Weather site that allows people to share their weather reports and images entirely hosted on AWSOther responsibilities within the Weather team include:• Participating in backlog grooming sessions, sprint pre-planning sessions, demos, retrospectives and scheduled sprint planning sessions and leading on the same in the absence of Project Manager/Product Owner• Involved in recruitment of testers to the team including creating job specifications• Creation and maintenance of test documentation in TestRails and Confluence• Preparation of Release Notes & Notifications for all products to all stakeholders• Support and mentoring of other testers on the team• Liaising with external and internal clients on collaborative projects and to track and progress issues raised• Leading on decisions around Browser Support standards for the Weather products based on information gathered from user statistics• Involved in cross department working group for Browser Support standards and guidelines

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsibilities and achievements include:• Participating in (and occasionally running) daily stand-up meetings for both development and test teams and participating in sprint planning sessions and retrospectives as part of the Agile (Scrum) process for development projects• Creating test data packs to use with a bespoke Java based test client designed to exercise a MySQL database and a Java based storage and retrieval client• Creating JMeter test plans to allow automated stress and load testing of the same MySQL database and storage/retrieval client• Assisting with the integration of both the above into the team continuous integration process (CI) using Jenkins/Hudson• Performing acceptance and regression testing of a Java based proxy server for video streaming• Creating, extending and reviewing FitNesse acceptance tests for the API layer of a web based application that will provide users with a full breakdown of their utility bill costs/consumption• Creating test data for the above project using CSV files to provide data injection scripts for a MySQL database• Reviewing JMeter test scripts designed to simulate typical load scenarios on the entire application system and its component services to ensure the system under test can cope with a large user population• Execution and analysis of above script results to contribute towards project reporting• Deployment and maintenance of RTH (RTH is an open source Test Management tool utilising a MySQL database accessed through PHP pages to record and maintain test requirements and test scripts as well as providing a means of recording manual test execution results and associated reports.)• Providing training workshops on RTH for other test team members• Assisting the Web UI team to perform acceptance, regression and bug-fix testing of the company’s product portfolio covering a variety of projects for different business partners

Responsibilities and achievements include:• Providing cover in the absence of the Test Manager• Test resource allocation both in terms of testing equipment resources and work allocation for team members• Deployment and maintenance of RTH (RTH is an open source Test Management tool utilising a MySQL database accessed through PHP pages to record and maintain test requirements and test scripts as well as providing a means of recording manual test execution results and associated reports.)• Creation and maintenance of internal templates for Test Case/Scenario documentation process• Liaising with other team leads in development, business and management teams to prioritise and manage major releases, scheduled and emergency patch releases• Liaising with external contractors for interface projects• Writing test documentation (test plans, specifications, scripts and testing reports) to IEEE 829 standard for external use• Providing support for existing team members and new starters• Providing expert guidance for other teams• Assisting in the roll out of new team processes and workflows deigned to improve the visibility and raise the profile of the testing team within the company• Manual system, regression and UAT testing of the core product – a Java based web application • Creation of internal templates for Test Estimation process• Creation of guidance documentation for Preparing and Deploying test builds• Creation and maintenance of an automated batch process to perform localised build deployments• Preparation and Deployment of test builds• Maintenance of test environment configuration• Preparation of test estimates and test case documentation• Manual system, regression and UAT testing of bug fixes• Working alongside other team members in development and business teams in order to progress allocated work

Responsibilities included:• Creation, implementation and maintenance of automated regression test scripts and associated documentation using TestComplete. Over the term of my contract I established a regression testing suite that comprised of over 50 test scripts covering approximately 70% of the functionality of the core application.• Upgrading and maintaining the performance monitoring test suite at two client sites. I was also responsible for producing monthly reports on the results of these tests for key stakeholders (internally and externally) every month

Master Of Science - Msc, Digital And Technology Specialist (Software Engineer), Distinction

Bsc (Hons), Software Engineering, 2:2