Stuart Bowles Email & Phone Number

Keymer, GB

Bermuda, BM

London, Greater London, GB

London, London, GB

Southern Housing Group (SHG) is among the largest and oldest housing associations in the UK, managing 28,000 homes for over 66,000 residents in London and the south east of England.SHG, working with partners, Verizon Conn3ct, were replacing an on-prem Avaya telephony system with an omni-channel Cisco Finesse cloud platform interfacing with Microsoft.

London, London, GB

On assignment to lead & motivate a team of 8 system test & business test resources to deliver in-sprint and integration testing of an annuity payroll, re-insurance & CRM system. Remote matrix management of vendor and business resources. Implemented a transparent test approach where previously it was considered a “black box”, improving trust from key.

London, England, GB

Accepted a request from the end client to work on a new assignment leading the overall test strategy of their Transformation Programme. Designed and implemented overall test strategy with accountability for all stages of test. Managing test resources across multiple concurrent projects, a high level of quality & governance was maintained over 8 production.

London, England, GB

On assignment to lead a team of QA Engineers to deliver multiple releases under a business transformation project. Influenced organisation to grow QA team from 2 to 7 QA Engineers to deliver against demand. Releases included re-platforming Travel Insurance CRM and claims payment systems, data migrations & ETL with 3rd party data suppliers (EasyJet, Zurich.

London, London, GB

Responsible for implementing & driving cost effective Programme Test Strategies for complex pensions & bulk annuities systems development. Overall accountability for all stages of test. Led, coached & mentored concurrent, cross-functional test teams transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methods. Designed and implemented divisional Automation Test Strategy.

London, London, GB

Responsible for Project & Test Management of upgrade, re-platforming and decommissioning programme for underlying hardware and software infrastructure - pensions, bulk and individual annuity systems.Reduced business test overheads, by defining relationship, standards & controls of 3rd party vendor regression test engagement on behalf of the Business..

London, London, GB

Responsible for Test Plans, resource management, risk escalation for software enhancement projects on pensions & bulk & individual annuity systems (sales, pricing, administration).Key Relationships: Senior Business Managers, 3rd party Vendors, project & test teams.

Brighton, England, GB

Responsible for planning test strategy, supervising execution and coordinating all UAT activities across multiple project work streams. Also involved in creating aligned processes between Test, Development, and Business teams implementing Agile methods.Key Relationships: Department heads, Business managers & staff, 3rd party Vendors, project & test teams.

Brighton, England, GB

Responsible for Test QA across multiple project work streams. Throughout role, achieved low defect leakage into Production, capturing between 96% - 100% of all defects.

Brighton, England, GB

Customer-facing Incident Management & test support for Production systems. Proactively influenced test coverage on projects reducing number and severity of Production defects. Built trusting, strong relationships with Senior Business stakeholders and staff alike, improving image of Change Department.Key Relationships: Company Directors, Department heads.

Brighton, England, GB

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc Hons), Electronic Imaging And Media Communication

A-Level, Maths, Physics, Media Studies