Stuart Cassidy Email & Phone Number

London, GB

• Creating and owning the testing lifecycle, including the programme wide test strategy, as well as all test processes and documentation
• Providing Quality Assurance on requirements and technical designs to help identify issues and defects earlier in the lifecycle
• Building and strengthening relationships with key stakeholders at all business levels
• Managing all testing activities (SIT, UAT, Regression), including aligning third party project teams
• Reporting and monitoring programme level test status using in house built test reports so that test progress is accurate and clear
• Building and leading a permanent onshore Test and Release team supporting the global programme, as well as a third-party offshore testing team covering functional, test support and regression testing

San Mateo, California, US

• This project was a continuation of the previous consolidation projects at Sony to combine all areas of the business onto a consolidated SAP platform. This implementation covered all of PlayStation Europe. Requested by.
• Leading UAT for 4 internal teams, ranging from Central Finance & Operations, UK Territory, WWS Studios & Poland Territory, covering a wide range of business processes on the SAP & Portal systems, including interfacing.
• Driving planning of the test execution cycles with the business and monitoring progress
• Ownership & Producing Daily Reports for teams, on today’s test progress, defect status and overall progress
• Identifying and resolving test issues (Inc. arranging meetings between IS and Business team members)
• Reporting the current progress to Management

London, GB

• This project is to redevelop all of Austin Reed group’s websites. This includes the frontend, application server and all system interfaces.
• Owning the Test Strategy and Plan
• Producing and Managing Detailed Test Schedule
• Managing all areas of testing, including SIT, Functional, UAT, Browser Compatibility, Integration (inc 3rd parties),
• Test Planning and Execution of 3rd party interfaces (including requirement identification and test case creation)
• Reporting Daily Progress to the Business (Daily Test Updates, Test Case Progress, Defect Status and Progress)

Tokyo, JP

• This project was the 1st phase of consolidating the European and American SAP systems, onto a single platform, as well as standardizing several business processes.
• Leading UAT for 3 internal teams, ranging between Professional Services, Supply Chain Management and Code Centre, who cover a wide range of complex business processes
• Managing testing on the main SAP platform, satellite systems, batch jobs and internal/external interfaces
• Training users on what UAT is, as well as creating support documentation and user guides
• Working with other teams within Sony to resolve cross entity issues
• Supporting account creation, and resolving access issues

Tokyo, JP

• This project was the 1st phase of a migration of the existing Marketing websites, onto a single consolidated platform. The project took an agile (2 week Sprint) approach, using multiple developments teams in multiple.
• Managing UAT testers (10+) based in Istanbul, who covered testing for 3+ new systems
• Identifying which stories would be covered by UAT, and confirming this with Business stakeholders
• Creating End to End UAT test cases, based on single system requirements (created from multiple stories)
• Defining processes to be used to support UAT
• Training users on what UAT is, as well as creating support documentation and user guides

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

• Supporting testing within the System Integration Testing teams and End to End testing
• Writing & Supporting Automation scripts using a custom tool called Redbox, including altering SQL files to add new queries
• Supporting TDD creating Automated scripts to support development of new/amended features and defect resolution
• Capturing & Modifying XML Deal ‘parcels’ on integrated systems for use within automated scripts
• Writing and Executing SQL statements to query Oracle, verifying data is stored in the correct fields and formats
• Testing data injectors and creating batch files to support this

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

• Managing a team of 30+ Test Leads, Senior Test Analysts, Test Analysts, as well as Performance and Automation engineers
• Managing resource allocation and workload planning of multiple streams/teams, and communicating this to senior management
• Interviewing new members of staff e.g. Test Engineers, Senior TEs, Automation & Performance Engineers
• Inducting new members of staff
• Implemented a new dedicated resource model
• Leading & developing Performance testing abilities throughout the Technology department

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

• Leading and Line Managing a team of 4 people
• Executing and monitoring all performance tests and hardware to identify any potential issues and work with the Development and Support teams to resolve.
• Involved in Load Testing of the live site out of hours with internal Support team
• Monitoring Unix/Linux servers while under load to check processes, CPU usage, memory, etc…
• People management of project test teams, including permanent and contractor resource
• Advise Senior Management on the current state of testing and project process

• QA Lead for projects on the Yell.com, YellDirect.com websites as well as internal Yell applications
• Document Test Plans for projects, requirements matrix, high level & detailed test cases
• Estimating QA resource (cost and elapsed time) to plan and execute tests
• Reviewing Detailed Requirements, Technical Specifications and Design Portfolios.
• Web based manual, compatibility, integration, accessibility, performance and database testing.
• Manage outstanding defects and when releases will be made to the QA environments

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