Experience

Moneybox

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of QA

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  London, United Kingdom Head of Quality for a rapidly growing digital savings & investment platform. Helping a generation save & invest for the future. Key Responsibilities: - Setting the vision for the QA function incl. defining strategy, approach and frameworks. - Day to day management of senior QA team incl. providing guidance and oversight to QA engineers. - Supporting the ongoing development of the delivery methodology and ensuring that QA services are delivered in a repeatable, dependable and… Show more Head of Quality for a rapidly growing digital savings & investment platform. Helping a generation save & invest for the future. Key Responsibilities: - Setting the vision for the QA function incl. defining strategy, approach and frameworks. - Day to day management of senior QA team incl. providing guidance and oversight to QA engineers. - Supporting the ongoing development of the delivery methodology and ensuring that QA services are delivered in a repeatable, dependable and best-practice approach. - Championing innovation and continuous improvement initiatives. - Producing QA delivery plans incl. defining the deliverable milestones, test tasks and activities, tracking progress and implementing strategies to recover slippage. - Management of QA risks & issues with complex interdependencies. - Implementing well-structured approaches to defect management and incident reporting. - Hiring, career development, and performance reviews for rapidly growing QA function. Show less



Nest pensions

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Lead Project Manager

  • Jul 2018 - Apr 2019

  London, United Kingdom Lead project manager on a scheme administration procurement programme for a large auto enrolment pension scheme (8m+ members). Key Responsibilities - Ownership of the key contract schedules (incl. governance, change & delivery) in the new scheme administration agreement. - Chairing workshops with large groups of internal & external stakeholders to negotiate & influence the governance, change & delivery aspects of the new scheme administration agreement. - Managing programme… Show more Lead project manager on a scheme administration procurement programme for a large auto enrolment pension scheme (8m+ members). Key Responsibilities - Ownership of the key contract schedules (incl. governance, change & delivery) in the new scheme administration agreement. - Chairing workshops with large groups of internal & external stakeholders to negotiate & influence the governance, change & delivery aspects of the new scheme administration agreement. - Managing programme delivery & delivery of multiple individual projects with complex dependencies. - Providing guidance and oversight to project managers & workstream leads on all aspects of delivery. Subject matter expert for agile & quality assurance on transformation programmes. - Identification, analysis & management of programme risk & issues. - Driving the creation & improvement of processes, procedures & tools to support programmes from a PMO standpoint (incl. JIRA & K2 proof of concepts). - Development & management of concurrent project plans including tasks, milestones & dependencies. - Collaborating closely with senior executives to track KPIs of individual projects. Show less



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2018

  London, United Kingdom - Defining and implementing programme test strategies for large, complex and specialised client delivery. - Day to day management of large test teams (30+ onshore & offshore resources) throughout the full SDLC. - Co-ordination of testing activities across all test levels incl. providing guidance and oversight to test managers & test leads throughout the full SDLC. - Subject matter expert for testing elements of large digital transformation programmes. - Providing strong test… Show more - Defining and implementing programme test strategies for large, complex and specialised client delivery. - Day to day management of large test teams (30+ onshore & offshore resources) throughout the full SDLC. - Co-ordination of testing activities across all test levels incl. providing guidance and oversight to test managers & test leads throughout the full SDLC. - Subject matter expert for testing elements of large digital transformation programmes. - Providing strong test governance of development partners & supplier activities. - Identifying and implementing the most appropriate and efficient testing solutions for clients. - Championing innovation and setting up continuous testing frameworks utilising multi-layer automation (e.g. unit, API & UI). - Conducting test assessments to provide an independent view of the effectiveness of current testing methods. - Conducting proof of concepts on large numbers of digital testing tools (10+) to support clients with strategic tool selection & test automation. - Management of programme testing risks & issues with complex interdependencies. - Owning the integration of automated testing tools (e.g. Protractor, ReadyAPI) with Test Management tools (e.g. JIRA, Zephyr). - Delivery of feature-specific approaches, progress reports and test phase completion reports. - Identification & selection of 3rd party suppliers for all specialist types of testing (e.g. Security, NFT, and Accessibility). - Chairing project stand ups, status meetings, walkthrough and review sessions, workshops and retrospectives. - Defining and implementing organisational level defect & release management processes incl. running daily triage/prioritisation sessions and reporting the status and progress of high priority defects. - Business development initiatives including bid proposal and contract/commercial management. - Career development, and performance review for test leads, test consultants & test analysts. Show less