Experience

Schroders

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Assurance Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom

• Implementation & Test Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom Oversight and ownership of testing across Private Assets & Operations Technology Domain Championing best practices and QA Standards Supporting roll out of Shift Left Test automation by promoting awareness, engagement and collaboration between delivery and Quality Engineering teams.

• Programme Test Manager

  • Apr 2020 - Dec 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom Programme: Aladdin Accounting Implementation Ownership of the testing function across multiple workstreams to support the migration of ABoR data to the Aladdin Accounting Platform.

• Implementation Manager

  • Aug 2019 - Mar 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom Programme: SWIFT Migration of £75bn of Scottish Widows and Lloyds insurance and wealth-related assets. Completed across seven tranches between September 2019 and March 2020. Supporting Technology runbook creation, co-ordination and execution throughout all tranches in collaboration with external counterparts using Cutover as the primary tool for runbook orchestration.

• Test Manager

  • Jan 2019 - Jul 2019

  London, England, United Kingdom Programme: Global Trade Reporting, SWIFT Activities: Building a Test Strategy and Approach to support the implementation of a new trade reporting platform built on Microsoft SQL. Leading an offshore QA team to run test execution

• Test Lead

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2018

  London, England, United Kingdom Programme: Aladdin Implementation (IBOR) Hands on test lead responsible for leading an offshore UST QA team, delivering testing activities for the consumption and transformation of Aladdin "trade flow" to Schroders data store and onwards into Simcorp Dimension (ABoR).



Legal & General

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Front Office Test Consultant

  • Nov 2012 - Jun 2016

  London, United Kingdom IND1GO – Front Office Portfolio Modelling System for the Index Business using Agile/BDD methodology. The project involved the development of the following functions within the application: Portfolio modelling (What-If Scenarios) Order generation Re-balancing to benchmark Pre-Trade compliance rules Loading of benchmark / Portfolio datasets from Datahub Asset classes: Bonds, Equities, Futures Tools used: Excel (VBA) - Validating modelling logic Quality… Show more IND1GO – Front Office Portfolio Modelling System for the Index Business using Agile/BDD methodology. The project involved the development of the following functions within the application: Portfolio modelling (What-If Scenarios) Order generation Re-balancing to benchmark Pre-Trade compliance rules Loading of benchmark / Portfolio datasets from Datahub Asset classes: Bonds, Equities, Futures Tools used: Excel (VBA) - Validating modelling logic Quality Centre - Test Script creation and Execution JIRA - Defect and User Story management, Ranorex - Implementation of UI Automation framework of Flex application Cucumber - Creation of feature files (using Gherkin syntax Given, When, Then) to supplement requirements and test coverage. Show less



F&C

• OTC Derivatives Test Consultant

  • Jun 2012 - Oct 2012

  London, United Kingdom Outsource project System Integration Testing of thinkFolio, Cadis, Charles River, Horizon Portfolio



Barings

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior System Test Analyst

  • Jul 2008 - Jun 2012

  London, United Kingdom System Integration testing of PMS and OMS systems across a variety of asset types, Fixed Income, Equities, Futures & Options, FX, Swaps, Collective Investment Schemes. thinkFolio LatentZero Minerva and Sentinel 5.0 Webmethods Cymba FIX protocol SQL Unix



Rolfe & Nolan

• Quality Analyst

  • May 2005 - Jul 2008

  London, United Kingdom Regression testing of back office system RANsys



Logica

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Analyst

  • Jun 2004 - May 2005

  London System Integration testing within the Space & Defence division.