Experience

Capita IT Professional Services

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Test Consultant

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  This current project involves testing the banking mainframe system and appropriate software applications which are used on a day-to-day basis to carry out the procedures required to process client policies by business users - this involved the following test activities; • Sitting with business users to capture the step-by-step daily process to assist in the creation of test scripts. • Setting up the business users onto the middle ground test environment for test execution. • Assisting business users with the execution of the written test scripts capturing evidence of the test runs. • Logging all defects associated with any failed test scripts. • Executing test scripts which are not covered by the business users. • Collating test metrics required for a daily execution report which is distributed and used in management meetings. • Re-testing defects which have the status ‘Ready for re-test’ and closing or re-assigning depending on the outcome of the re-test. Show less



Paymentshield

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Test Analyst

  • Nov 2013 - Jul 2014

  Working for an insurance company, the day-to-day duties of the role include, but are not limited to; • Evaluate and test new or modified software programs using software development procedures to verify that programs function according to user requirements and conform to established guidelines. • Responsible for product testing, from initial reviews through to integration with insurance pricing, charging and billing systems. • System testing, technical integration testing and systems integration testing on multiple insurance products. • Using a wide spectrum of test activities, ranging from UI testing, documentation testing and back-end File Maker database testing. • Test tools used in this role are Quality Centre, Team Foundation Server with Microsoft Test Manager bolted on for creation of the testing mythologies. • Provide ‘How To’ documentation for internal staff. Show less



Valueworks Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• BI/System Test Analyst

  • May 2008 - Nov 2013

  The software application developed was an e-procurement system used by large Landlord organisations acting as Buyers and various types of material and labour Suppliers. • Participated in daily scrums and business requirements review sessions. • Planed, designed and created effective test cases. • Prioritised test requirements and organised test cases accordingly. • Tested the application in functional and system integration testing. • Investigated potential defects and discussed them with developers. • Wrote documentation to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction. • Managed all the activities in the plans to ensure that all the objectives were met and the solutions worked as expected. Previous to the QA role I was responsible for gathering requirements for internal/external reports, designed the layout of the reports, created and tested the final output of the report. The majority of the external client reports were developed using Microsoft SSRS. • Writing SQL scripts in SQL server 2010. • Exporting the data into Excel spread sheets and creating pivot tables to compare data sets. • Developed drill through reports using Microsoft SSRS. Show less



Experian

• Information Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• MIS Analyst

  • Jan 2000 - May 2008

  The initial duties of the role were to provide accurate and up to date statistical information on the performance of the business software to both internal and external clients. The information was gathered and distributed using various software packages such as Crystal reports, SQL (Oracle 10g database), Microsoft Access databases (for internal use) and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, all documentation was presented in Microsoft Word. After several years in the above role the duties of the position changed to include testing the ‘Hunter’ software which was an antifraud application used by many financial organisations. • Participated in feature development from concept to design to construction in order to drive quality into not only the software application, but also the culture of the organisation. • Accurately documented test procedures and results to allow for continuous process improvement and to institutionalise the knowledge base. • Wrote, revised and verified quality standards for product evaluation and quality assurance. • Designed and developed spreadsheets for test management, execution and reporting to enhance the overall software testing process. Show less