Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

• Jan 2023 - Present

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Jul 2020 - Jan 2023

Test Verification Lead

• Sep 2017 - Jun 2020

I am a key part of the Digital Pathology Solutions Group within Philips. I own the Belfast testing team's strategy for products and tooling that is used in the fight against cancer, making a real difference to people's lives. Working in an agile environment, which initially utilised scrum and has more recently moved to kanban for workload management. I have an emphasis on quality throughout the cycle and assisting in driving DevOps principles from a testing perspective. Key achievements so far have been driving testing into development sprints. I also have been responsible for designing and implementing new testing processes to move away from step heavy scripted testing to focus on a leaner more agile approach to testing utilising more lightweight exploratory testing and used focused end to end flows. Show less

QA Engineer

• Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

Working in a Kanban development environment, I was part of a small QA team of four people which was focused on re-writing regression tests and recommending cases that might be suitable for automated testing in future. In addition to this I further enhanced my own automation skills utilising C# and Specflow. I gained exposure to Git and Powershell scripting. Working in a Kanban development environment, I was part of a small QA team of four people which was focused on re-writing regression tests and recommending cases that might be suitable for automated testing in future. In addition to this I further enhanced my own automation skills utilising C# and Specflow. I gained exposure to Git and Powershell scripting.

QA Lead

• Mar 2016 - Jun 2017

• Direct line management of QA team (5 people) • Definition of test strategy and best practise for entire company • Shortlisting & Interviewing potential QA applicants • Status reporting with risk & issue escalation • Estimation & test planning • Test environment setup & management (via Hyper-V) • Review & selection of test tools • Training & mentoring • Agile scrum environment with some larger waterfall projects • Android device testing • API testing (via SoapUI and Postman) • Powershell scripting Show less

QA Lead

• Apr 2013 - Dec 2015

• Co-ordination of CVS.com QA team • Interviewing potential QA applicants • Risk & Issue management and escalation • Status reporting • Liaising with teams spread between Belfast, Rhode Island & India • Create & implement process improvements • Test planning and strategy • Estimation • Training & mentoring • Co-ordination of CVS.com QA team • Interviewing potential QA applicants • Risk & Issue management and escalation • Status reporting • Liaising with teams spread between Belfast, Rhode Island & India • Create & implement process improvements • Test planning and strategy • Estimation • Training & mentoring

QC Lead

• Dec 2009 - Mar 2013

• Co-ordinating multiple application QA teams• Scheduling testing timeframes for multiple applications• Risk & Issue management and escalation• Aligning resources across teams• Status reporting• Liaising with teams spread between Belfast, Derry, USA & India• Defining testing processes• Liaising with business clients/end users of systems• Co-ordinating projects & releases• Task allocation and management of QA resources• Project slotting & estimation• Training & mentoring• Test strategy planning• Status reporting• Test execution / defect metric gathering & trend analysis• Defect management• Scoping & transition of new work from contractors Show less

Software Tester

• Mar 2005 - Dec 2009

• Complete testing life cycle through Waterfall model from requirements analysis phase through to deployment.• Creation of Quality Control documentation.• Execution and verification of test plan and results.• Analysis of testing requirements• Creating of training documentation and mentoring.• Team hardware specifications and upgrades. • Creation and execution of automated test scripts via Quick Test Pro• Maintenance of automation test database• Creation of automated HTML test result documents• ADHOC review of iteration timelines.• SOX compliance Show less

Technical Support

• Jun 2003 - Mar 2005

• Mentoring new team members. • Training documentation. • Advanced trouble-shooting. • Workload management. • Windows, Web and Mainframe based applications. • Hardware support • Mentoring new team members. • Training documentation. • Advanced trouble-shooting. • Workload management. • Windows, Web and Mainframe based applications. • Hardware support