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Farnborough, GB

Riverwoods, IL, US

• Performed QA (manual and automated) on numerous systems used throughout the Diners Club International network, including a new settlement system between Diners Club and Discover.
• Test requirements – Created test requirements via analysis of the user/system requirements.
• Project test documentation - Participated in the production of project test plans, test strategies and reports.
• Test Automation (WinRunner) – Assisted in the design and scripting of automated test scripts to fully regression test a multi application GUI web based system.
• Test scripts/defects - Creation of test scripts and defects within Quality Centre.
• Batch Testing – White box system testing of daily and monthly UNIX based SQL batch processes.

US

• 13 month contract position (Five renewals)Designed and wrote automated scripts (using QARun Test Script Language) to test functional and non-functional updates to Criminal and Family law legacy court systems (CaseMan.
• Test conditions – Created test conditions using positive and negative testing techniques to form the basis of automated test scripts.
• Test Automation Design (QARun) – Designed and wrote new automated test scripts (and amended existing scripts) to test updates to the Criminal and Family law court systems.
• Reviews – Conducted formal reviews of test conditions and automated test scripts written by other testers.
• Test Automation Run (QARun) - Ran automated test scripts for the purposes of system and regression testing. Checked the automated test script logs and legal output produced by the system under test.
• Defect logging - Logged defects within PVCS Tracker.

New York, New York, US

• 10 month contract positionQA performed on a new settlement system between Diners Club and MasterCard. System was required due to the migration of Diners Club US and Canadian franchises to MasterCard format.
• Reviews - Participated in formal reviews of business requirements and system design documents. Identifying areas of project risk.
• Project test documentation - Participated in the production of project test plans, test strategies and reports.
• Test conditions – Created test conditions using equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis.
• Test scripts/defects - Created test scripts and recorded defects within Mercury Test Director.
• Functional Testing – Performed system, GUI, and regression testing against the reconciliation side of the project.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Lead a team of testers to ensure that both functional and non-functional aspects of a web based equity research application met its release criteria. Prior to this I was responsible for testing the COM API‘s of equity.
• Test project lead - Responsible for a team of three testers. Scheduled and assigned work, and monitored testing metrics and team performance.
• Knowledge gathering/Test documentation - Gathered project requirements, specifications, priorities, etc. which were used to assist in the production of test plans, scripts, test reports, and testing user guide.
• Testing representative - Attended project meetings with project management and development acting as the testing team representative.
• Testing estimates – Provided high-level estimates of total test effort required to project management.
• White box testing – Used VB to develop test tools that allowed white box testing techniques to be conducted against COM API’s.

US

Performed QA on updates to a range of financial banking applications to ensure they met their acceptance criteria.

Stockley Park, Uxbridge, GB

12 month University industrial placement year positionPerformed QA on hardware driver applications to ensure they met their functional and non-functional design specifications.