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Geelong

Local Leads is an online marketing agency based in Australia. Our goal is quite simple, making your phone ring with qualified cleints. We differ from other digital marketing agencies because you STRICTLY PAY FOR PERFORMANCE.We help these businesses drive more qualified prospects to their websites, generating more leads, and ultimately helping them grow their businesses in the process using our risk-free approach.Services:- Lead Generation through a range of traffic… Show more Local Leads is an online marketing agency based in Australia. Our goal is quite simple, making your phone ring with qualified cleints. We differ from other digital marketing agencies because you STRICTLY PAY FOR PERFORMANCE.We help these businesses drive more qualified prospects to their websites, generating more leads, and ultimately helping them grow their businesses in the process using our risk-free approach.Services:- Lead Generation through a range of traffic sources - Website and Landing Page Design- Conversion Rate Optimisation- Reputation Management Show less

Geelong, Australia

Geelong, Australia

Geelong, Australia

• Worked collaboratively with analysts and technical stakeholders to ensure business and system requirements were appropriately tested.• Reviewed user stories, identified and reviewed user acceptance criteria for user stories, and participate in prioritization and effort estimation.• Responsible for training sessions and knowledge transfer, supervision, and guidance of all test engineers.• Lead and managed a small group of test engineers. Achieved to grow the team with the addition… Show more • Worked collaboratively with analysts and technical stakeholders to ensure business and system requirements were appropriately tested.• Reviewed user stories, identified and reviewed user acceptance criteria for user stories, and participate in prioritization and effort estimation.• Responsible for training sessions and knowledge transfer, supervision, and guidance of all test engineers.• Lead and managed a small group of test engineers. Achieved to grow the team with the addition of 14 years testing experience whilst not increasing the budget for the testing team Show less

Geelong West, Australia

• Participated in or facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint demos and retrospectives.• Facilitated defect triage to identify resolution business priorities for existing defects.• Mentored and educated team on QA processes and practices and provided thought leadership on agile test delivery.• Provide information and authoritative advice on testing processes, tools, and techniques and maintained testing artifacts.• Provided daily updates to the development team, communicate test… Show more • Participated in or facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint demos and retrospectives.• Facilitated defect triage to identify resolution business priorities for existing defects.• Mentored and educated team on QA processes and practices and provided thought leadership on agile test delivery.• Provide information and authoritative advice on testing processes, tools, and techniques and maintained testing artifacts.• Provided daily updates to the development team, communicate test metrics, quality progress, efficiency and blockers. Show less

Geelong

The TAC is a Victorian Government-owned organisation to pay for treatment and benefits for people injured in transport accidents. It is also involved in promoting road safety in Victoria and in improving Victoria's trauma system. Test Tools: HP ALM and JiraTesting Scope: System, SIT, Security, Regression and Performance Key Responsibilities: • Managed a large and diverse team of Senior Test Analysts and Consultants to ensure understanding and alignment… Show more The TAC is a Victorian Government-owned organisation to pay for treatment and benefits for people injured in transport accidents. It is also involved in promoting road safety in Victoria and in improving Victoria's trauma system. Test Tools: HP ALM and JiraTesting Scope: System, SIT, Security, Regression and Performance Key Responsibilities: • Managed a large and diverse team of Senior Test Analysts and Consultants to ensure understanding and alignment to the overall test objectives • Developed test strategies / plans and managing teams responsible for system, integration and user acceptance testing of business critical applications • Lead the overall testing effort for System, SIT and Performance test phases in a large portfolio of projects spanning both TAC and WorkSafe • Provided vendor testing governance, assisted with the creation of SoW • Identified, assessed and managed risks and issues across projects • Identified opportunities to improve testing practices and achieved to effectively deliver and institutionalize improvements across the Testing Practise • Coordinated the setup of the technical test environments, test data management, and defect management processes Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Revolution IT is Asia Pacific’s leading software testing and application quality management solutions provider. Revolution IT specialise in test consulting, quality and testing services, enterprise applications, requirements management and PMO services. Test Tools: SoapUI, HP ALM and QTP Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, Migration, Useability, UAT and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Lead and managed a team of four senior Test Analysts • Reported… Show more Revolution IT is Asia Pacific’s leading software testing and application quality management solutions provider. Revolution IT specialise in test consulting, quality and testing services, enterprise applications, requirements management and PMO services. Test Tools: SoapUI, HP ALM and QTP Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, Migration, Useability, UAT and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Lead and managed a team of four senior Test Analysts • Reported daily and weekly status, progress, risks and issues to QA Manager and Project Managers • Defined test resources and environment requirements, planned test phases, scope and deliverables • Responsible for developing and implementing a risk-based testing methodology to enable accurate test focus ensuring quality is maintained with aggressive milestones• Planned, designed and executed Functional, Integration, Regression, End to End and Migration testing phases for a SalesForce, SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP BW, TM1 and TIBCO project Show less

Melbourne, Australia

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the highest-level professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football. The project was a partnership between the AFL and Telstra to redevelop the core AFL website, club websites along with mobile platform applications. Test Tools: SoapUI, Perfecto, HP ALM and Jira Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, Migration, Useability, UAT, Mobile and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Recruited and provided leadership… Show more The Australian Football League (AFL) is the highest-level professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football. The project was a partnership between the AFL and Telstra to redevelop the core AFL website, club websites along with mobile platform applications. Test Tools: SoapUI, Perfecto, HP ALM and Jira Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, Migration, Useability, UAT, Mobile and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Recruited and provided leadership for seven senior test analysts • Defined and documented the Project Quality Assurance Strategy / Master Test Plan • Implemented new testing processes and defect process for UAT, System and Integration testing • Responsible for the documentation and execution of Functional and User Acceptance testing • Liaised with vendors to discuss and clarify releases, product functionality and defect resolution • Setup, reviewed and reported on software metrics which were used to measure the quality of releases• Liaised with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Project Program to clarify business requirements, queries, identified issues and reporting project status Show less

London, United Kingdom

Vision IPTV core technology platform, XtremeIPTV, and its wider service delivery capabilities provide an unrivalled, integrated, 360° Over-The-Top (OTT) broadcast distribution network to commercial video content providers.Test Tools: Jira and Selenium Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, Useability, UAT and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Established the Defect Management process / workflow and implemented a Defect Tracking system using Jira • Created… Show more Vision IPTV core technology platform, XtremeIPTV, and its wider service delivery capabilities provide an unrivalled, integrated, 360° Over-The-Top (OTT) broadcast distribution network to commercial video content providers.Test Tools: Jira and Selenium Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, Useability, UAT and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Established the Defect Management process / workflow and implemented a Defect Tracking system using Jira • Created comprehensive test plans with well defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents • Responsible for establishing and implementing a formal testing approach from scratch across multiple projects and teams while adhering to an Agile process• Executed software testing which included functional testing, system testing, regression testing, and integration testing with strict deadlines and minimal resources Show less

Melbourne, Australia

REA Group currently operates 13 websites around the world, with most of the sites ranked first in their respective market (www.realestate.com.au). Together, REA’s multinational portfolio of websites is visited by over 11 million unique browsers each month. Test Tools: Cucumber, Selenium - RC/Webdriver and Jira Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, UAT and Regression Key Responsibilities:• Performed system, regression, exploratory, integration, usability and… Show more REA Group currently operates 13 websites around the world, with most of the sites ranked first in their respective market (www.realestate.com.au). Together, REA’s multinational portfolio of websites is visited by over 11 million unique browsers each month. Test Tools: Cucumber, Selenium - RC/Webdriver and Jira Testing Scope: System, SIT, Security, UAT and Regression Key Responsibilities:• Performed system, regression, exploratory, integration, usability and cross-browser testing • Raised issues in Jira against user stories and use cases in the sprint and end-to-end backlogs • Created end-to-end automated acceptance tests using Cucumber (Ruby), Capybara and Selenium• Attended stand-ups to communicate testing procedures/results to developers and product owners • Created manual integration test scripts from design documentation, story cards and handover sessions Show less

Melbourne, Australia

The minfos system is a complete software solution for pharmacies - providing fully-integrated dispense, point-of-sale, financial, inventory and retail management. Test Tools: Borland Silk Central, Silk Test and Silk Performer Testing Scope: System, SIT, Performance, Regression and UAT Key Responsibilities: • Created functional automated test scripts using Borland Silk Test • Mentored and managed five test analysts and three casual testers • Periodic… Show more The minfos system is a complete software solution for pharmacies - providing fully-integrated dispense, point-of-sale, financial, inventory and retail management. Test Tools: Borland Silk Central, Silk Test and Silk Performer Testing Scope: System, SIT, Performance, Regression and UAT Key Responsibilities: • Created functional automated test scripts using Borland Silk Test • Mentored and managed five test analysts and three casual testers • Periodic reporting of test status for all projects to senior management • Provided initial test estimation and resource planning for upcoming projects• Designed, managed and executed test plans covering the entire project development • Established software quality metrics and supporting systems to provide reporting of quality indicators • Developed a recruiting and interview process to screen, assess and interview candidates for test analyst positions and carried out performance reviews • Ensured business analysts, project managers, developers, and quality assurance analysts adhered to the processes for requirements management, defect management, and change control processes Show less

Geelong, Australia

Radiant Systems (NCR) is a global technology company with self-service solutions for ATM machines, POS systems, Fuel / Convenience stores and airline check-in systems. Test Tools: Card financial Simulator, Fuel Simulators and bespoke python test harness automation suite Testing Scope: Hardware simulation, System, SIT, UAT, Security and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Standardization and continual improvement of the testing processes• Key contributor of… Show more Radiant Systems (NCR) is a global technology company with self-service solutions for ATM machines, POS systems, Fuel / Convenience stores and airline check-in systems. Test Tools: Card financial Simulator, Fuel Simulators and bespoke python test harness automation suite Testing Scope: Hardware simulation, System, SIT, UAT, Security and Regression Key Responsibilities: • Standardization and continual improvement of the testing processes• Key contributor of the test automation process and provided "best practice" advice and guidelines in use of automation test tools • Responsible for the overall test management, including the creation of project documentation, scoping, estimating, test planning and post deployments reviews • Developed and supervised the execution of test cases for installation, functional, regression, usability and performance testing of concurrent projects spanning international teams Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Online document management, web collaboration and project management software for construction, engineering and facility management. Aconex is the world’s most widely-used online collaboration platform for construction and engineering projects and one of the world’s most globally successful Software-as-a-Service companies.Test Tools: Radview QALoad, WebFT, Jira, QTP, Test Director Testing Scope: System, SIT, UAT and Regression.Key Responsibilities: • Raised… Show more Online document management, web collaboration and project management software for construction, engineering and facility management. Aconex is the world’s most widely-used online collaboration platform for construction and engineering projects and one of the world’s most globally successful Software-as-a-Service companies.Test Tools: Radview QALoad, WebFT, Jira, QTP, Test Director Testing Scope: System, SIT, UAT and Regression.Key Responsibilities: • Raised defects and enhancements using JIRA • Preparation and creation of test data using SQL • Executed manual test plans within Mercury Quality Center• Developed manual test plans covering functional correctness • Assisted with the training and mentoring of junior tester analysts • Developed and executed automated testing scripts using Quick Test Pro (QTP)• Liaised closely with business analysts and developers to verify testing requirements • Assisted Support and Client Services staff regarding any potential issues with Beta software• Reviewed functional requirements and specifications documents and prepared test requirements Show less

Melbourne, Australia

The minfos system is a complete software solution for pharmacies - providing fully-integrated dispense, point-of-sale, financial, inventory and retail management. Test Tools: Compuware QADirector, Test Partner, Track Record and Rational Testing Scope: System, SIT, Performance, Regression and UAT Key Responsibilities: • Managed client and vendor relationships • Created testing processes, test cases and scripts • Created and executed manual test… Show more The minfos system is a complete software solution for pharmacies - providing fully-integrated dispense, point-of-sale, financial, inventory and retail management. Test Tools: Compuware QADirector, Test Partner, Track Record and Rational Testing Scope: System, SIT, Performance, Regression and UAT Key Responsibilities: • Managed client and vendor relationships • Created testing processes, test cases and scripts • Created and executed manual test cases using QA Director • Investigated and resolved complex software / hardware issues • Researched and appraised new technologies and methodologies • Logged defects and software enhancements into Compuware Reconcile • Developed functional software specifications and requirements documentation • Utilized Compuware Test Partner to design, code, and maintain large data-driven scripts • Responsible for the creation of QA automation project framework, including: defining standards, testing procedures and best practices, creating functions, defining naming conventions and project documentation Show less

Geelong, Australia

Geelong, Australia

Honours Degree, Computer Science, First Class

Bachelor Of Computing, Software Development / Computer Science, High Distinction Average

Bachelor Of Computing, Information Systems

Diploma Of Information Technology, Information Technology, High Distinction Average

Cert Iv Of Information Technology, Information Technology, High Distinction Average

Cert Ii Of Information Technology, Information Technology, High Distinction Average