Head of QA

• Nov 2022 - Present

Working closely with stakeholders to increase efficiency and performance of all development processes by building a new CI/CD framework with substantial efficiency savings. With a mature JavaScript test automation framework my work has largely focussed on improvement and developing a new CI/CD release system. Each release of software extends across many services and I have worked with the release supervisor and devops to reduce many hours of labour to simple decisions and automation. People decide what is required and then the computers complete the tasks required to enact it; coordination is now automated and what was a day’s task is now a single click for the release supervisor. Similarly, previously complex deployment and test processes are now provided through simple interfaces for testers and developers. Show less

Head Of Quality Assurance

• Apr 2022 - Nov 2022

Connecting and creating a QA community with Mercator. Providing training and oversight of 30-40 testers and test managers across a range of projects, mostly for HMRC. Building new QA and operations systems to increase efficiency and quality, whilst reducing costs. Connecting and creating a QA community with Mercator. Providing training and oversight of 30-40 testers and test managers across a range of projects, mostly for HMRC. Building new QA and operations systems to increase efficiency and quality, whilst reducing costs.

QA Manager

• Jul 2019 - Apr 2022

QA and Support Manager in Software Development Department. Also lead developer of highly integrated Python automation framework. QA and Support Manager in Software Development Department. Also lead developer of highly integrated Python automation framework.

Test Automation Engineer

• Jun 2018 - Jul 2019

Senior QA Tester

• Aug 2017 - Jun 2019

Software QA Tester

• Jul 2015 - Aug 2017

Test Lead

• Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

QA Tester

• Sep 2013 - Jul 2014