Director Of Software Engineering
CurrentResponsible for the Development and QA Function for LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions,
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Stuart Chalmers previously worked as Programme Test Manager at Netcompany and Programme Test Manager at Computershare Loan Services.
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An accomplished and high-achieving senior leader with over 20 years experience of working within the IT industry. Programme Test Lead with a proven track record of successfully managing the delivery of multi million/multi year projects and supporting post-implementation activities across V, Waterfall and Agile. Ownership of Project budgets of up to £5M, delivering complex Programmes for Blue Chip companies including Lloyds, UKAR (Bradford and Bingley), BT and Computershare. Extensive experience of delivering software and infrastructure projects and directing the resources to successful completion (all disciplines, FTE, contractor, Managed Service Provider, onshore and offshore). Delivered Projects / Programmes from inception to scale, up to 55 (onshore and offshore) team members to deliver through the full Project lifecycle aimed at a specific go-live goal within a timebound deadline.An influential leader and team player, who can motivate, educate and bridge the gap to achieve results by building long-term and mutually beneficial internal & external stakeholder relationships. Excellent communication and management skills, with a proven ability to seize opportunities, whilst building long lasting trust and mutual respect at all levels. Commercially astute with the ability to successfully deliver on time and in budget whilst providing clear and coherent progress updates to non-technical Programme and executive stakeholders. Proven track record of delivery, particular early career focus on planning test stages, creating test frameworks, test methodologies and delivering testing across all the lifecycle for multiple complex projects. Completed many key Data Centre migrations complemented with functional and non-functional testing of software in use whilst avoiding downtime for organisations of over 3000 employees.
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Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Responsible for the Development and QA Function for LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions,
Leeds
Responsibility on behalf of the System Integrator (SI) for the delivery of the UIT Phase of the Ofgem Faster Switching Programme with the aim of implementing faster and more reliable switching between energy suppliers. Managing the build, development and test of the changes and integration between the 6 Central Switching Systems and the and over 100 Energy Supplier sytemsDay to day management of the SI UIT Team who are responsible for managing all preparation and execution activities for the UIT Phase
Bingley, England, United Kingdom
Succesfully lead a number of work streams on behalf of Computershare ranging from Mortgage and Data Warehousing Transformation to Data Centre MigrationsProgrammes included migration over £30bn of CLS Clients mortgage assets and associated applications from the acquired UKAR HCL Data Centre to the Computershare Data centre, whilst also migrating UKAR applications from their HCL Data Centre to a new UKAR owned Data Centre.Devised Test Strategies for a number of Projects and had overall responsibility for the delivery of the SIT, UAT and Volume and Performance testing of a wide range of applications to prove migration onto the mortgage platform and subsequent propagation of the data into the Computershare application suite.Managed teams ranging from 10 to 30 onshore and offshore resourcesPart of the SME team that led Impact Assessed all changes on the Programme to validate strategies, approaches and estimates. Attendance at weekly Programme meetings and Programme reporting to the Programme Director and COOOwnership and prioritisation decision maker on all Defect, Risk and Issues Management.Led Programme test governance presentations with internal and external audit.
West Yorkshire
During my time at UKAR between 2011 and 2016 I was a key member of the Programme team which enabled UKAR (the government body responsible for the bank bail out) to deliver their objective of selling £43 billion of Assets that had been acquired during the financial crisis in 2007-2008 back to the Private Sector.I was initially engaged by UKAR as a freelance consultant to support the recovery of the Northern Rock to UKAR transformation project, which, following the successful implementation I built and scaled the test team (onshore and offshore) to provide a capability of delivery large scale integration programmes. During this time at UKAR I worked on or led the testing on a number of large integration Programmes for UKAR notably, the successful IBM to HCL Data Centre migration and the Divestment Programme (which included the purchase by Computershare of the UKAR Operations) and the Mortgage Transformation Programme. All of the Programmes were delivered to time, budget and once implemented to the Production environment had minimal issues and impact to service SLA's
Led the SIT and UAT Test Team on the Lloyds and HBOS Integration project and delivered the System Integration (SIT), User Acceptance (UAT), and Critical Business testing for the Telephony domain.Managed full end to end testing lifecycle including requirements review, business processes, creating manual and automated test scenarios, test scripts, test data, defects, test execution and presentation of test results for sign off.Created strategies for the delivery of regression packs and test data.Programme reporting
Delivered the Systems Integration Testing on the SPINE project, which was the central component of the National Programme in the NHS (NPflT).Defined Release Test Strategy, Test Approach, Test Plans and Test Specifications.Led a Functional test team of 40 test analysts on a number of large releases in addition to the live support testing.Defined regression test pack updates on completion of test release and implemented the Unit Test offshore assurance model.
Test Lead, responsible for leading the test team on system and UAT testing.
Environment Manager, responsible for building and managing non functional environments for HBOS Financial Services
Test Lead on a major Mortgage Conversion Project
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Stuart Chalmers is based in Harrogate, England, United Kingdom while working with LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions.
Stuart Chalmers has worked for Lexisnexis Enterprise Solutions, Netcompany, Computershare Loan Services, Ukar Formerly Bradford And Bngley Building Society, and Lloyds Banking Group.
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Stuart Chalmers is listed with skills including Test Management, Functional Testing, Management, Iseb, System Testing, Hp Quality Center, Quality Center, and Defect Tracking.
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