Experience

ClearRoute

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Technology and Solutions

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Freelance

• www.gofire.co.uk

  • May 2020 - Present

  *Personal Project* Go Fire aims to answer questions like - If I salary sacrificed 10% more a month, how would that affect my overall net worth in 30 years compared to investing post-tax. - How many more years will I need to work until I can retire *Personal Project* Go Fire aims to answer questions like - If I salary sacrificed 10% more a month, how would that affect my overall net worth in 30 years compared to investing post-tax. - How many more years will I need to work until I can retire



ECS

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Principal Consultant

  • Mar 2020 - Jun 2022

  SolutionsImplementationMentoringRecruitmentWorkshopsMeetupsPublic SpeakingReviews

• Test Architect

  • Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

• Senior Engineer in Test

  • Jan 2016 - Dec 2017



bp

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Test Engineer - Via ECS

  • Feb 2020 - Jun 2022

  Interact, assess, enable, lead and consult for a wide range of technologies, global teams and senior stakeholders.Remain hands-on for - Custom tooling- Development- DevOps - ArchitectureAnd of course... testing ✅Javascript | Node | Python | React | React Native | AWS | Azure | Typescript | Docker

• Test Architect - Via ECS

  • Apr 2019 - Feb 2020

  Own quality for a brand new aggregator application being brought to market.Define and implement the test strategy across the whole stack.Coach engineers on why tests are valuable and how to write more testable applications.Fully cross-functional team.Heavy experience with application pipelinesHelp define and implement deployment strategy.Help define application infrastructure.Build test frameworks to support multiple microservices, 3 frontends, and infrastructure.Full Continuous delivery achieved.All builds and test pipelines providing reliable feedback in under 10 minutes.Lead and coach test team.| Node | React | Azure | Kubernetes | Microservices | Cypress | Applitools | Contract Testing | Show less



The Times

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tools and Engineering Lead - Via Ecs Digital

  • Oct 2016 - Apr 2019

  www.thetimes.co.uk Overarching Goal Improve quality and lead time Multiple teams, methodologies, and languages. Heavy test automation experience across web, native, API at all levels of the testing pyramid. Heavy CI experience across - all the tools Architecting complicated testing solutions Isolating services and applications Heavy DevOps and build pipeline experience AWS Docker JavaScript React Native Java Containerised front end application and rebuilt deployment pipelines to use aws ECS, blue / green deployments & PR environments. Aye Spy node visual regression tool https://github.com/newsuk/AyeSpy Autoscaling Selenium grid that has the capability to self-update Infrastructure cost savings in the thousands AWS ECS / Docker compose / bash https://github.com/L0wry/Autoscaling-Selenium-Grid-ECS-DockerCompose Fructose React native app to enable isolated react native component testing at UI level https://github.com/newsuk/fructose Dextrose node client app communicates to fructose via WebSockets to enable isolated react native component snapshotting https://github.com/newsuk/dextrose Release-documentation-cli node cli app that populates the git release page and enables automated release documentation for the teams. code-owner-enforcer Node Slack integration bot to report repositories that have unauthorised or incorrect codeowners Fixture Generator Package GraphQl | Typescript https://github.com/newsuk/times-components/tree/master/packages/fixture-generator Using graphQl schema introspection we can decouple our front end from our API and still have assurance our data used in development and test is correct. Presenting concepts to large groups of people Show less



Majestic Wine

• United Kingdom
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Sdet - Via ECS

  • Jul 2016 - Oct 2016

  https://www.majestic.co.uk Define, lead and present the test strategy while Majestic transitions to an in-house e-commerce solution. https://www.majestic.co.uk Define, lead and present the test strategy while Majestic transitions to an in-house e-commerce solution.



bp

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sdet - Via ECS

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2016



Trace One

• France
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• QA Analyst

  • Oct 2014 - Dec 2015

• Software Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2014

• Junior Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Sep 2011 - Aug 2012



Knowall IT Ltd

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Technician

  • May 2010 - Sep 2011