Trevor Hunter

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Principal Software Tester at Oxford Instruments @ Oxford Instruments
abingdon, oxfordshire, united kingdom
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Marlow, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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•Day to day hands on management of local and multi-national product testing groups.•Excellent communication skills with the ability to keep the team motivated in all situations.•Extensive knowledge of product lifecycles and interdependencies.•Wide range of experience in optimising the efficiency of the test process.•Working closely with customer support to resolve customer issues.•Communication of test reports, defect trends and statistics.•Leading by example and enjoy getting involved with the testing process.•Flexible and able to dynamically adapt to ever changing environments even under great pressure.•Planned and oversaw the transition from several version control systems to a worldwide solution.•Created and presented Subversion and Bugzilla training to six worldwide sites.•Offered and implemented constructive ways to improve the development processes

Trevor Hunter's Current Company Details
Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments

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Principal Software Tester at Oxford Instruments
abingdon, oxfordshire, united kingdom
Website:
oxford-instruments.com
Employees:
1412
Trevor Hunter Work Experience Details
  • Oxford Instruments
    Principal Software Tester
    Oxford Instruments Jun 2013 - Present
    High Wycombe
    •Full responsibility for the Software testing team of six•Using the agile software development methodology, successfully shipped several releases of our flagship product AZtec, plus some incremental products - All to schedule and budget.•Wrote and introduced automated software testing using coded user interface testing.•Introduced a regression test to run upon the nightly build and promote the build if successful.•Introduced clonezilla as a solution to retrieve clean setups, enabling deterministic test environments.
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  • Oxford Instruments
    Senior Software Tester
    Oxford Instruments Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
    High Wycombe
    A global leader in advanced analytical systems for most of the world’s major international companies. • Working in an Agile Scrum environment, I play a key role in the definition, planning, development and execution of tests for multiple projects.• Using my passion for quality and mentoring skills help advance the QA/Testing team.
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  • Macrovision / Rovi
    Quality Assurance Manager - Ripguard
    Macrovision / Rovi Jan 2009 - Mar 2013
    Maidenhead
    Our team are responsible for the continuous development of copy protection schemes for DVD. With a high degree of success, our RipGuard product has prevented the illegal copying of the latest movie releases whilst maintaining complete compatibility with over 99% of DVD player models.•Responsible for the complete QA activity, including software testing and compatibility testing.•Developed perl scripts for the automated tracking and testing of movie ripper updates.•Promoted the use of agile methodology principles to allow us to react in a timely fashion to changing requirements whilst maintaining the highest quality. By automation, reducing test duplication and smart prioritisation has allowed us to improve from 3 releases in 2009 to 9 successful releases in 2012, all within schedule and budget.•Day to day hands on involvement at all levels, upon the activities I was responsible for.
  • Arc International Ltd
    Release Process And Methodology Manager
    Arc International Ltd Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
    St Albans, United Kingdom
    At ARC International we offered a diverse range of products including a processor design (used in over 2 million devices) and audio and video codecs which offered a complete multimedia solution for customers.ARC Processors are widely used to this day in Pace set to boxes for cable and Satellite TV, Sandisk SD cards and multiple other devices.•Managed a release test team in St Albans and San Jose.•Responsible for the version control system, defect tracking system and the shared test lab used globally.•Managed the successful migration of the version control systems to Subversion.•Managed the migration of the defect tracking systems to Bugzilla.
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  • Arc International Ltd
    Release Testing Manager
    Arc International Ltd May 2007 - Jan 2008
    Elstree
    •Responsible for the release testing of each of ARC’s products. •Created and publishing release checklists.•Ensured over 100 quality products were shipped on schedule to the market. •Our processes were optimised by automating more than 85% of the process.
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  • Arc International Ltd
    System Test And Verification Manager
    Arc International Ltd May 2004 - May 2007
    Elstree
    •Responsible for the testing of ARC’s products.•Responsible for the verification of the processor core.
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  • Arc International Ltd
    User Acceptance Test Manager
    Arc International Ltd Jul 2000 - May 2007
    Elstree
    •From a small startup we helped ARC grow into being a worldwide business success.•Introduced an electronic bug tracking systems.•Creation of test checklists.•Introduced test automation to ARC. As our processor is configurable the challenge was to optimise and efficiently test over million possible design configurations.
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  • Hitachi Micro Systems Europe
    Software Test Team Leader
    Hitachi Micro Systems Europe Jan 1998 - Jul 2000
    Maidenhead
    Hitachi Micro Systems Europe, promoted their SH and H8 micro controllers by developing the hardware and software for evaluation boards. In addition we worked with Mageneti Morelli to develop OSEC software for engine managment systems used in Volkwagens, Fiats, Ferrarris.•Responsible for the software test group.•Created a number of software development tools to support the Hitachi SH / H8 embedded family of processors, and low level bios drivers to interface with Engine Management Systems.•Adopted a dynamic test strategy to cater anywhere from GUI testing to Operating System level. •Testing was out-sourced to external organisations, therefore strict control of the process was necessary. •Created and introduced a bug tracking system.•Created and introduced an electronic test specification database.•Updated a schedule for the testing of the software.•Introduced the concept of the automation of testing.•Pursued good quality test resources from India.
  • Silverplatter Information
    Project Manager
    Silverplatter Information 1996 - 1998
    Chiswick, London
    At SilverPlatter we offered access to medical and government databases via CD, DVD and web.•Promoted and Introduced Test Automation, including designing and giving training courses on MS Visual Test •Managed remote test team in Boston, MA, USA
  • Insignia Solutions
    Team Leader
    Insignia Solutions Jan 1989 - Nov 1996
    High Wycombe
    At Insignia Solutions we achieved great success with our PC emulation solutions for multiple platforms including Apple MacOS, Unix and Vax VMS. And were proud to achieve the Queen's award for techonology in 1993 and the Queen's award for Export in 1994.•Recruitment of new staff and the written appraisals of.•Day to day management of 8 Senior Test Engineers and 10 Test Engineers.•Projects life cycle management – test plans/communication links globally.•Work scheduling for 17 engineers.•Created and published test reports.•Technical Support assistance post release.•Attended regular team lead/time management, and appraisal-training courses.
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  • London Stock Exchange
    Assistant Technician
    London Stock Exchange May 1988 - Oct 1988
    City Of London
    Developed Z80 assembler code for the intial electronic transfer of market stock data
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