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Gloucester, United Kingdom

Write test approach and plan, test scripts and execute tests for changes required by Retail Finance to meet regulatory reporting requirements.

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Wrote test plans and test scripts, executed tests against data and Business Objects reports for Retail Finance.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Test analyst working in the Mortgage Risk calculation area, developed business as usual test approach. Wrote test plans and test scripts, executed tests and delivered summarised calculations results to mathematical and business SME's.

North London

Liaison with business users to determine reporting requirements. Conducted gap analysis of data requirements. Wrote business acceptance test plans for first phase of the Solvency II Data Warehouse development and for agile Business Objects reporting development. Writing test conditions and SQL queries for Solvency II data testing and also executing some initial testing for Business Objects reporting.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Planned and executed functional testing of core banking processes for technical proving phase of SAP Banking solution. Facilitated workshops to document new and existing financial reconciliation procedures. Mapped General Ledger impact of financial transactions. Wrote the financial reconciliation test plan and test conditions. Led test preparation and text execution. Trained and helped colleagues in understanding and testing in financial and accounting solution.Reviewed and revised test scripts and diagnosed defects.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Working on the Basel 2 Accord data warehouse development within a team of 10+ testers I played a significant role in testing the Retail Secured, Treasury, Commercial and Regulatory Capital phases of the programme.Mainly involved in testing the development of the Enterprise layer of the Basel 2 Data Warehouse, which was built on an SQL Server platform, using SQL Server 2005, C# and .NET processing. Reviewed mapping specifications and wrote test conditions and test scripts. Extracted test data, prepared and documented test cases, prepared SQL scripts to query results. Executed tests using batch scripts, and checked results using SQL and Excel extensively. Used Quality Centre for test scripting, and to manage test execution and defect tracking. Provided support to other team members, and assisted in mentoring and handover to Nationwide’s strategic development partners.

Cheltenham, Uk

Tested Marlborough Stirling’s OMIGA Point of Sale Mortgage Application Processing system - implementation, to meet new mortgage regulatory requirements. Prepared test scripts, executed testing of on-line XML interface to Transact (credit search and underwriting decision system), Wrote and executed SQL queries to verify results and analyse problemsDetailed analysis and specification of client specific mortgage regulation requirements, including document production.

Northampton, United Kingdom

In the early stages of testing the Basel 2 Accord data warehouse development within a small team, we tested the initial data extract and load procedures and software for the historical data store.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Wrote the implementation strategy and implementation plan for decommissioning a legacy data warehouse. Wrote the test strategy and test plan. Co-ordinated test planning and execution and provided liaison with user acceptance testers in data receiving teams and provided analysis and testing support to the project, using IBM TSO and Unisys LINC tools.

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Developed and documented the test strategy for the Management Information and Marketing data warehouse, which was also used for operational and regulatory reporting. Planned, scripted and executed testing of the Management Information data warehouse which was developed using SAS. Tests covered data quality, banking reports, marketing initiatives, customer communications and population of Viper data marts. The tools included Test Director, BRIO, Access, Excel and SQL. Planned and executed unit and functional testing of archive database and data retrieval query system for dealing with customer queries and regulatory requirements post closure of the bank.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Jointly developed and documented the test strategy for the HiPortfolio Investment Management implementation and interfaces within the context of a large SAP Financials project. Detailed analysis of the HiPortfolio to SAP interface, including the extract of data via the report generator function, delivery to XML interface software; also analysis of the interface to the FDS Equity system. Integration test, data acceptance test and post implementation support for interfaces from Life and Pensions Admin systems to SAP R/3.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics

Bcts, Theology/Theological Studies