Experience

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  Scrumconnect Consulting

  • Senior Agile Business Analyst

    • Mar 2021 - Present

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  DWP Digital

  • Senior Agile Business Analyst

    • Jul 2020 - Mar 2021

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  Equal Experts

  • Agile Business Analyst

    • Dec 2019 - Jul 2020

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  Scrumconnect Consulting

  • Agile Business Analyst

    • Apr 2019 - Nov 2019

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  Valtech UK

  • Agile Business Consultant

    • May 2013 - Apr 2019

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  Barclaycard Hamburg, Barclays Bank PLC

  • Test Manager

    • Jan 2013 - May 2013

    Test Manager for Barclaycard, helping to successfully deliver the User Acceptance Test Phase of a large scale migration programme for over one million customers, responsibilities included:-• Managed a team of testers daily through the test preparation and test execution phase of the programme.• Reported progress daily to the programme team and project board identifying and highlighting any potential risks and issues which could impact on delivery.• Liaised with development teams in both Singapore and India to ensure there was always a communication line between the test team and offshore teams, making sure each team was aware of each other’s activities to enable smoother testing.• Ensured the transition between System Test and User Acceptance was as streamlined as possible, and any known issues were visible to both test teams.• Ran a twice-daily checkpoint meeting with all the test streams leads to assist in daily planning and progress reporting.• Ensure applications under test were signed off to a satisfactory standard to the appropriate business users.• Responsible for Test Completion Reports, which contributed to Go/No, Go decisions.• New Applications under my test management were the Barclaycard Customer website, Barclaycard Operations Agent System, Fraud Operations, Disputes/Chargebacks, Fraud strategy using FALCON and Customer Statements.

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  Valtech

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Agile Test Consultant

    • Sep 2011 - Dec 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Lead Agile Test Consultant working on a Media Sales system for a Global Media organisation client Fremantle Media Ltd, responsibilities included:-• Helped to coordinate all test activities through the Daily Scrum and Sprint planning• Reverse Engineering techniques used to analyse existing system decisions, data and constraints• Hands on technical automation skills included using Selenium IDE and an associated Vaadin Test bench plugin to produce an Automated Release Regression Suite, which was incorporated into a Maven Jenkins continuous integration build process.• Liaised and worked closely with development, ensuring any changes managed in the application were impacted and implemented accordingly against the regression suite.• Ensured full documentation of test plans, cases and scenarios, in order to ensure successful execution of the test approach and assisted in on going enhancement of the test process on behalf of the project.• Managed the agile development test phase and stages beyond UAT, Staging, participating in Go No Go decision meetings• Validated with the customer and verified with the development team the correct execution of all test cases and acceptance tests, capturing defects against requirements where necessary• Demonstrated new system functionality to users and stakeholders during the agile development and test phase.• Working knowledge of browser based software, PL/SQL, UML and Agile projects has also been achieved. • Excellent consultative and communication skills, at ease when liaising with project teams, sponsors and senior management.

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  Lloyds TSB

  • Senior Test Manager

    • Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

    Business Test Manager for a project within the HR sector of HBOS and Lloyds Banking, responsible for a number of phases of testing. Duties and responsibilities included:-• Responsible for the User Acceptance and Parallel Run test phase of a large Payroll Migration project. • Helped to define a Test Strategy and liaised with the Systems Integration Test Team to help ensure a smooth hand over from the SIT test phase into UAT.• Duties included the day to day planning of activities, carrying out full risk analysis of test preparation and test execution of all aspects of functionality ensuring that the delivery of the product adhered to customer requirements.• Key role in the Programme Management Governance forum. Providing early identification of risks and issues within the Business Test area which could impact on delivery.• Attended the Stakeholder Steering Group providing regular feedback on progress and addressing any concerns or issues raised by the projects key stakeholders.

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  DWP

  • United Kingdom
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Test Assurance

    • Sep 2008 - May 2011

  • Test Team Lead

    • Dec 2007 - Sep 2008

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  EDS

  • Senior Test Manager

    • May 2007 - Dec 2007

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  Skipton Building Society - HML

  • Senior Test Analyst

    • Jan 2007 - May 2007

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  Valtech

  • Senior Test Lead

    • Nov 2005 - Dec 2006

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  IBM Global Business Services

  • Senior Test Lead - Functional and Non Functional

    • Jan 2005 - Nov 2005

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  Vertex Inc.

  • Senior Test Design Lead

    • Jul 2004 - Jan 2005

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  IBM Global Business Services

  • Non Functional Team Lead

    • Apr 2003 - Jul 2004

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  npower

  • Technical Test Analyst

    • Oct 2002 - Apr 2003

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  Vertex Inc.

  • Integration Environment Support Lead

    • Sep 1998 - Sep 2002

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  AXA

  • Senior Test Analyst

    • Mar 1998 - Sep 1998