Steve Farrow

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Test Manager
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Greater Ipswich Area, United Kingdom
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About Steve Farrow

An experienced Test manager, leading multiple test and assurance teams, providing whole life test management on critical and complex IT change and transformation programmes across both public and government sectors. I drive technical direction and management to ensure that projects are delivered on time, with quality assurance and receive high customer clarity and satisfaction through my ongoing collaborative approach and clear direction setting.The test strategies, plans and services I set out for each project are developed and adapted to provide the best outcomes for the customer. Through my direction on the Software Engineering Improvement team, I provide technical and practical direction and support to both my teams and the wider test communities to ensure that best practices and learnings are adopted and those improvements are delivered to the customers.I have experience across many methodologies, including Waterfall and V model. Also in Agile and DevOps where I am developing Continuous Testing strategies to accelerate and prioritize the deliverables.Key Skills/Experience• Stakeholder engagement

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  • Dixons Carphone
    Project / Test Manager - Id Mobile
    Dixons Carphone May 2015 - Dec 2017
    London, Reading, Ipswich
    Project and Senior Test Manager working for Tech Mahindra client. Owning and integrating multiple streams of work across varied methodologies (Waterfall/Agile). Primarily responsible for integrating Network elements and web services onto a Live platform with >2m active users. Originally delivered customer migrations from offline charging model into an new CRM and online billing solution. Then test managed and delivered a number of interim releases to expand the customer propositions,… Show more Project and Senior Test Manager working for Tech Mahindra client. Owning and integrating multiple streams of work across varied methodologies (Waterfall/Agile). Primarily responsible for integrating Network elements and web services onto a Live platform with >2m active users. Originally delivered customer migrations from offline charging model into an new CRM and online billing solution. Then test managed and delivered a number of interim releases to expand the customer propositions, whilst ensuring customer experience remained priority. The current major release has successfully delivered a new IP call Network, updated OSS/BSS platforms that will allow ID Mobile to exploit new digital voice calling (VOLTE) in readiness for major vendor and service provider launches in 2018. This has also been delivered in parallel to multiple Agile work streams for integrating new web services by releasing updated mobile Apps (IOS/Android) and desktop portal solutions. Show less
  • Truphone (On Contract From Tech Mahindra)
    Qa Programme Test Manager
    Truphone (On Contract From Tech Mahindra) Jul 2012 - Mar 2015
    London, United Kingdom
    Owning Test and Migrations activities within mobile telecoms provider, Truphone. From the initial Due Diligence I built up and managed a £5m portfolio of business operations and controlled a number of project teams, primarily undertaking E2E / User acceptance / System Integration testing, with associated Business Analyst activities. I owned the strategic planning and management process and worked closely with the client reporting into them at director and board level. I managed an… Show more Owning Test and Migrations activities within mobile telecoms provider, Truphone. From the initial Due Diligence I built up and managed a £5m portfolio of business operations and controlled a number of project teams, primarily undertaking E2E / User acceptance / System Integration testing, with associated Business Analyst activities. I owned the strategic planning and management process and worked closely with the client reporting into them at director and board level. I managed an onshore/offshore team of 50 people ensuring correct resources were available at most effective locations, actively managed the complex projects ensuring that they were on time to cost and at a quality level to proceed into production. I led on vendor integration activities and defect / problem resolutions. I was based in client premises and was recognised as the day to day “go to” contact for all business stakeholders. Show less
  • Bt (On Contract From Tech Mahindra)
    Project Manager - Migrations
    Bt (On Contract From Tech Mahindra) Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
    Ipswich, United Kingdom
    Project Manager for a BT Migrations project, designed to meet the Equivalence of Input requirements from Offcom. Project is about migrating customer records and technical data from existing legacy OSS stack onto a new OSS stack ensuring 100% data quality is maintained both for the customer and for BTs internal systems and revenue streams. This is about providing direction, strategic guidance and test delivery management working with offshore test teams and component delivery teams from a… Show more Project Manager for a BT Migrations project, designed to meet the Equivalence of Input requirements from Offcom. Project is about migrating customer records and technical data from existing legacy OSS stack onto a new OSS stack ensuring 100% data quality is maintained both for the customer and for BTs internal systems and revenue streams. This is about providing direction, strategic guidance and test delivery management working with offshore test teams and component delivery teams from a number of external vendors. Show less
  • Bt Wholesale (On Contract From Tech Mahindra)
    Project Manager – Fibre & Future Voice
    Bt Wholesale (On Contract From Tech Mahindra) Dec 2006 - Jan 2011
    Ipswich, United Kingdom
    Project manager and principal customer engagement lead for BTs Voice portfolio. Managing various teams involved in new telecoms software designed to allow BT to transform its customers to new digital networks, providing enhanced voice and fibre voice services. I was responsible for leading and ensuring the delivery of testing services by onshore and offshore matrix test teams for both OSS and networks solutions. 6 month secondment : Managed IP services for KcomProject manager for… Show more Project manager and principal customer engagement lead for BTs Voice portfolio. Managing various teams involved in new telecoms software designed to allow BT to transform its customers to new digital networks, providing enhanced voice and fibre voice services. I was responsible for leading and ensuring the delivery of testing services by onshore and offshore matrix test teams for both OSS and networks solutions. 6 month secondment : Managed IP services for KcomProject manager for multiple phases of the introduction of IP services by KCOM to their customers using existing BT architectures and platforms Show less
  • Bt Retail ( On Contract From Tech Mahindra)
    Pmo / Project Manager
    Bt Retail ( On Contract From Tech Mahindra) Sep 2002 - Nov 2006
    Ipswich, United Kingdom
    Working for BT Retail providing project and programme office skills across a number of short-term assignments developing BT Retails customer facing products, such as BT.com, BT Broadband and developing pro-active network monitoring solutions designed to improve customer experience, limiting service impacts and providing improved availability
  • Telefónica Uk
    Online Delivery Manager – Source02.Com
    Telefónica Uk Sep 2001 - Aug 2002
    Ipswich, Slough And London
    I was delivery Manager for a commercial extranet, aimed at mobile telecoms developers and acting as a gateway into O2, and their extensive R&D facilities. Bringing together resources, managing and developing a commercial extranet. I was directly responsible for developing the sourceO2 website, delivery of content, migration to Microsoft CMS, I developed the technical infrastructure, processes and supporting collaterals. I delivery managed all bespoke applications launched on the extranet. I was… Show more I was delivery Manager for a commercial extranet, aimed at mobile telecoms developers and acting as a gateway into O2, and their extensive R&D facilities. Bringing together resources, managing and developing a commercial extranet. I was directly responsible for developing the sourceO2 website, delivery of content, migration to Microsoft CMS, I developed the technical infrastructure, processes and supporting collaterals. I delivery managed all bespoke applications launched on the extranet. I was also account manager for many external development companies Show less
  • Bt Wireless
    Online Delivery Manager – Mobilityleaders.Com
    Bt Wireless 1999 - 2001
    Ipswich, United Kingdom
    I was online Delivery Manager for mobilityleaders.com a highly secure commercial extranet owned by BT, AT&T and leading mobile phone suppliers. The online tools and face to face events were helping other countries develop standard GSM services and interconnects in their countries. I owned and managed the extranet website and delivery managed new services from internal and 3rd party development teams.
  • Bt  Software Engineering Centre
    Project Support / Online Developer
    Bt Software Engineering Centre 1996 - 1999
    Ipswich, United Kingdom
    Software development project support, including management reporting, financial controls and quality assurance within a programme office. Designed, developed and delivered a number of online applications to improve internal processes
  • Skillsoft (Formally Known As Netg)
    Technical Learning Centre Manager
    Skillsoft (Formally Known As Netg) 1995 - 1996
    London / Ipswich
    Based on customer (BT) premises, I setup, marketed and managed a technical skills learning centre and developed online distance learning tools to support remote customer projects. These were hailed as a major success by BT and NETg, who adopted the online strategy across NETg, resulting in many new accounts being signed up.

Steve Farrow Skills

Offshore Operations Telecommunications Project Management Project Delivery Service Delivery Project Planning Integration Management Testing Requirements Analysis Ms Project Sdlc Test Management Business Analysis Agile Methodologies Solution Architecture Strategy Mobile Devices Mobile Communications Telecom Bss Software Project Management Programme Manager Software Documentation Insurance Defect Tracking Process Management Agile And Waterfall Methodologies Regression Testing E2e Pmo Client Relations Itil Prince2 Istqb Iseb Stakeholder Management Resource Management Business Case Development Risk Management It Governance Change Management Reporting And Analysis Software Development Life Cycle

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