Alex Simpson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Curium is an Insurtech start up bringing a SaaS solution for claims management and compliance. This is an all-encompassing “get your hands dirty” business development role, involving market research, product design, marketing and project management.

Sydney, Australia

Trusty Shovel is a digital consultancy I created as a side hustle during a year of travelling, which quickly became a full-time job. It also served as a conduit to develop some useful entrepreneurial skills. Under the name of Trusty Shovel, I provide website build and digital marketing services so small and medium companies in both the construction and.

Sydney, Australia

CTM is a global leader in business travel management with its own in-house software development team. As Product Owner for the Flybuysⓒ travel ecommerce platform, I was responsible for the development roadmap, which included integrations with several internal and external systems and the evolving complexities of a membership points-based redemption.

London, United Kingdom

• Open Destinations is a leading SaaS solution for the tour operator industry, offering a front, mid and back office stack of solutions to some of the world largest and most complex tour operators. This was a client.
• Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for clients, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans.
• Analysing and documenting business processes.
• Document workflows and results of business analysis to obtain sign-off from clients on the specifications.
• Formed the link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle.
• Day to day management of change requests in relation to the project plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met.

Group HQ - London

• STA Travel was a global travel company, specialising in gap year experiences for students and young people. Based in the global headquarters in London, UK, My role as a Business Analyst formed part of a team of.
• Gathering eCommerce business requirements from multiple STA Travel divisions.
• Working with the eCommerce Managers in the Divisions to determine the business relevance and cost/benefit for all functionality requests.
• Verifying requirements and investigating preferred solutions ensuring there are no conflicts with other project streams.
• Documentation of process flows, associated dependencies, and test cases for business acceptance.
• Managing supplier relationships with 3rd party software suppliers in order to communicate STA Travel requirements, thus allowing them to provide estimates and deliver solutions.

London, United Kingdom

• Management of multiple simultaneous projects across various business functions
• Central point of contact between Operations, Development and Product teams
• Project Planning to very tight deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Stakeholder communication with suppliers, business units and senior management
• Regular progress reporting across all levels of the business, including executive management
• Analysis and documentation of new business processes

London, United Kingdom

• Management of a team of 4 software testers with responsibility for goal setting and performance management
• Relationship management between the quality assurance team and the internal business clients
• Delivery of the test projects within agreed timeframes
• Requirements review (including use cases) and test case documentation
• Design of Test Strategies/Plans, and reporting against these plans
• Coordination of testing activities across various projects

London, United Kingdom

• Generation and execution of manual and Automated test scripts from requirements documentation
• Defect Management
• Executing test strategies for meeting operational and business quality goals
• Specification of test data

London, United Kingdom

• Providing support to network users and responding to requests in a timely manner
• Managing issues database
• Resolving user issues of teaching staff, support staff and students
• Network maintenance