Tools/Technology: C# Selenium, SpecFlow, API testing

Tools/Technology: C# Selenium, Restsharp, SpecFlow, Sause Labs, Microsoft Azure and DevOps, Firebase, Octopus, Postman, JMeter• Responsible for leading and managing the testing function for an SME fintech company, including test planning, execution, and reporting. • Develop and implement the overall testing strategy, ensuring it aligns with business goals and standards.• Re-establishing a team of 3 and growing to 5 across 10 unique project streams. Implementing QA improvements, Leading the test team to ensure that all testing is carried out effectively, efficiently and to the highest standards, including functional, non-functional and automation testing. • Work closely with stakeholders, including C-level members, across the business to ensure that testing is aligned with business needs and priorities. • Manage relationships with third-party suppliers and vendors, including managing contracts such as Sause Labs and Postman. • Manage and develop a team of testers, including hiring, training, and performance management. • Responsible for creating and managing numerous test automation frameworks for both API, Mobile and UI testing. Ensuring frameworks are robust, reliable, and scalable. Utilising tools such as C#, Xunit, Selenium, RestSharp, JMeter, and Postman as part of Azure/Octopus build pipelines.• Responsible for producing high-quality testing documentation, including test plans, test cases and test reports. Also, the management of bug backlogs and reporting. • Champion the use of best practices in testing, including pushing for ISO27001 compliance. • Won the Employee of the Year 2020 award, determined through a company-wide vote. • Promoted from Test Lead to QA Manager in December 2020.

Tools/Technology: C#, Selenium, Restsharp, Selenium Grid, Cypress, Javascript, SOAPUI Pro, Groovy, XML, JSON, REST API, Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL, GIT, Amazon Web Services (Cognito, S3, Dynamo DB, EC2, Could Watch), Docker, Jira, Jenkins, Automated CI release, ISO27001 accreditation.• Responsible for leading and managing the testing function for a small start-up AI company, including test planning, execution, and reporting. • Other responsibilities Include writing company test strategy, evaluating, and selecting external partners and tools, developing automated frameworks for functional and non-functional testing, recruitment, and liaising with all areas of the business and stakeholders.• Established a QA practice, hiring and leading another Jr QA, while working across 4 project streams. • Responsible for recruitment of QA resources and leading team members involved in test activity within a serverless environment.• Developed C# based frameworks, JavaScript Cypress framework and JMeter framework for automated testing of products.• Implemented ISO27001 standards within the business and achieved accreditation. Member of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) steering committee that oversees ISO27001 standards.• Led engagement of external security testing partner.• Designed and led testing on proof-of-concept projects that secured £4 million worth of venture capital funding as well as bid-winning products.

Tools/Technology: SOAPUI Pro, Groovy, Java, XML, JSON, REST API, Microsoft SQL Server, GIT, AWS, Jmeter, Leankit, MTputty/Putty, GO, Automated release.• Responsible for producing high-quality testing documentation, including test plans, test cases and test reports on individual projects. Also responsible for the management of bug backlogs and reporting within each project. • While embedded within multiple project teams, developed an ‘in-team’ testing process, ensuring it aligns with business goals, standards, and overall test strategy.• Fast-paced agile environment using automated regression tests developed in SOAPUI Pro (Now ReadyAPI) with Groovy scripting and load tests using JMeter.• Contributed to and created BDD acceptance criteria using Leankit.• Performed exploratory testing of rates frontend, documenting test strategy, results, and issues to ensure that all testing is carried out effectively, efficiently and to the highest standards, including functional, non-functional and automation testing.• Reported defects to the teams in a complex program of development.

Tools/Technology: SOAPUI Pro, Groovy, Java, XML, JSON, REST API, SQL Server, Tortoise SVN, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence, burp suite, Ruby, Cucumber, Rake, Watir WebDriver, AWS.• Promoted from Test Analyst in 2013• Delivered projects in Waterfall, Agile Scrum and Kanban, using BDD and Jira for tracking and monitoring requirements.• Responsible for documentation of projects, including test plans, test cases and test reports for individual projects. Contributed to, and created, BDD Acceptance criteria and helped find the best MMF for MVP. Also responsible for the management of bug backlogs and reporting within each project. • Integrated SOAPUI Pro with Bamboo, using Maven for automated API functional Regression and Smoke tests, re-establishing regression in automated principles, reducing test time and removing manual checks.• Created early warning 'Consumer-Driven Contracts' to enable backward compatibility and find issues before code release. Also introduced Burp Suite for security testing.• Liaised with offshore development to complete work in a strict 7-day turnaround for maintenance release cycles, identified key areas of improvement in regression tests and tracked all bugs with the offshore development team.• Facilitated Open API ways of working and test suite knowledge transfer with offshore and internal teams.• Recruited and appointed a Contract Test Analyst.• Created automated front-end tests using Ruby/cucumber/Watir Web Driver.

Tools/Technology: Citratest, VB.net, SQL, Bugzilla, Perfmon, batch.• Continued work on the Defence Medical Information Capability Program (DMICP) after a request to continue duties conducted during an Industrial Placement.• Primarily responsible for design, execution, maintenance, and documentation of automated load tests, and relevant data, on a bespoke MOD system, all scripts written using a tool call CitraTest (By Tevron) that utilises VB.net. Also including the creation of batch files to prepopulate the Date Base for test data.• Responsible for design, execution, and maintenance of manual functional testing on DMICP, against the bespoke MOD platforms during Test Release, FAT and UAT testing. Also including MOD Stakeholder engagement during these phases.• Automation of manual checks utilising CitraTest (By Tevron) for regression.

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