Victoria S. Email & Phone Number

Leadership of a team testing new features and functionality on the Slimming World websites and APP, overseeing testing activities, conducting regular review sessions with team members, establishing goals which align to team and department visions, communicating these to team members and regularly assessing progress against these. Attending project initiation, requirement, and design meetings to ensure a comprehensive understanding to inform the test approach.Ensuring that the team are defining a suitable and effective testing approach and that best practices are adhered to, items in and out of scope are successfully agreed and any risks are raised and effectively mitigated where appropriate.Implementing process change to ensure testing follows best practise techniques, supporting the effective production of test strategy documentation and reviewing test cases/scripts at the relevant stages of the software testing lifecycle.Working closely with the automation engineers focussing on the creation of a regression suite, automating repeatable tests to ensure that manual testing is used for most crucial areas.Planning resources effectively, providing high level test estimates, monitoring testing progress and communicating with key stakeholders setting expectations.Mentoring, providing guidance and facilitating knowledge sharing sessions to enhance product knowledge across the testing team.Overseeing the setup of a knowledge base, ensuring that this library was maintained across iterations and could be utilised for consistency by all members of the testing team and serve as an onboarding tool for new team members.

Alfreton, England, United Kingdom

Working as part of a feature team, following agile methodology attending scrum stand up and ceremonies.Analysing business requirements, conducting static testing ensuring a comprehensive understanding of any work before considering test design activities.Writing and distributing test approach documentation, completing functional and some forms of non-functional testing, producing, and executing test scripts.Build and deploy development work to test environments, create APP builds and download to devices for test execution.Conducting feature demonstrations to stakeholders, coordinating, and supporting UAT testing of new websites, APP’s, features, and functionality. Maintaining communication of project progress updates.Analysis of user data to inform testing, collaboration with the development and product owner teams to set a benchmark for company software support matrix.Acting as a mentor for other members of QA advocating best practise, providing appropriate support, and coaching where required.

Alfreton, England, United Kingdom

Evaluating specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria to identify test requirements.Identifying issues, risks & dependencies pertaining to the testing of new or amended services.Creating test plans and test scripts, executing these and reporting on outcome.Backend database and API testing, front end multi browser web and app testing, end to end testing ensuring that features and functions on the website and APP aligned with the specification and acceptance criteria had been satisfied.Report and manage defects, retest the fixes provided for these and support release testing process.Working with the member support team to triage bugs, troubleshooting and providing repeatable steps for developer recreation and debugging.

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Being the first point of contact for all clients regarding software projects, responsible for maintainingclient communications and building relations with new clients.Taking part in conference calls, client meetings and performing Webex demonstrations to clients tohighlight new and existing software developments.Working alongside the Web Apps team gathering requirements for new software projects, writingspecification documents for custom dashboard developments.Conducting testing post development to identify bugs within the software, this requires a critical eye tohelp ensure that the quality of development work released to the client remains consistent.Following delivery of software to clients; providing first line support answering any queries/questions,solving problems where possible before passing them on to the web team.