Experience

Immersive Labs

• United Kingdom
• Computer and Network Security
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Software Developer in Test

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  I am responsible for the creation of two testing frameworks within the company, one based on Testcafe which we use for end to end test - smoke and regressions - this is currently being replaced by a Playwright base framework. These frameworks are written in typescript, and run on docker and semaphore, reporting results to datadog. I was responsible for the initial integration between the testcafe framework and datadog.I am also responsible for our load testing framework, which is based on K6. Again written in typescript, at present tests are written ad-hoc for new features or events, though I am investigating the possibility of regular performance based testing using our development environments. We also have a tiny datadog synthetics browser test that I authored which runs on our live systems every 15 minutes in the UK and the US, on chrome and firefox, this checks key functionality Show less

• Software Developer In Test

  • Sep 2020 - Jan 2022



Black Swan Data

• United Kingdom
• Market Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

  One of a QA team of 2 developers, tasked with automating and ad-hoc testing a number of internal and external applications which together made up https://www.blackswan.com/trendscope/. I was the Front End tester. I created an automation system for use by data analysts so they could check their monthly datasets as they became ready, this used node-js, Testcafe, docker, git and parameterized Jenkins jobs. I had also created a smoke test to be run on fortnightly sprint build of this product, and was working on a smoke test for on of the internal products responsible for curating the ontologies of terms used to link the data together. As well as creating the two UI E2E automation project I was the QA team member on 3 other teams, and was responsible for testing new features and ad-hoc testing each release of those internal application. Show less



Thomson Reuters

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Test Lead

  • Mar 2014 - Jul 2019

  Responsible for the innovation of testing automation for our global Statutory Reporting web platform. Also day to day responsible for the functional and end to end testing of this web platform using cucumber, protractor, testcafe and other technologies.We test the functionality of our app without the UI, as UI testing is slow, fragile and out of date rapidly. We have some UI testing but they are only small smoke tests designed to ensure that everything is roughly connected, or UI tests with a mocked back end to test the UI. Show less

• Senior Test Analyst

  • Jun 2007 - Feb 2014

  Conversion of original manual desktop app testing scripts to automated using QTP, driven from an excel sheet to allow easy definition by a BA. Transition from desktop app to microservice based webapp. Creation of service testing and introduction of protractor testing project. We changed from waterfall to agile during this period.

• Test Analyst

  • Jun 2006 - Jun 2007

  Creation of manual testing scripts for various new features. Manual running of scripts against product. Fully waterfall development process. Passed ISEB intermediate. Introduced some risk based testing strategies.



HARLYN SYSTEMS LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Software Development

• Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Nov 2000 - Sep 2004

  Manual and automated software tester using Winrunner (precursor to QTP) and VB6 Manual and automated software tester using Winrunner (precursor to QTP) and VB6



Oxford GlycoSciences (UK) Limited

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research

• Assistant Database curator

  • May 1997 - Nov 1999

  was responsible for training new recruits and external collaborators. I wrote and gave several training courses on how to use our systems. I was also gave UNIX and Windows help to the less computer literate members of the team. Responsible for the development of a Web based OGS tour, which showed the route taken by samples from Lab to Report, allowing the user to access various training documents. was responsible for training new recruits and external collaborators. I wrote and gave several training courses on how to use our systems. I was also gave UNIX and Windows help to the less computer literate members of the team. Responsible for the development of a Web based OGS tour, which showed the route taken by samples from Lab to Report, allowing the user to access various training documents.



Cray Research

• Computer Hardware
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software analyst

  • Jan 1993 - Jul 1995

  I was the sole member of staff responsible for ensuring that CRAY to IBM connectivity products were developed according to good quality practices and that errors were detected before products were sold to the customer. Being the only member of the UK team with IBM product knowledge to transfer to the United States, I was responsible for the transfer of products from the UK team to the new US team. I developed a suite of programs to generate sets of tests for the products our team had responsibility for. I was also responsible for organising alpha and field tests. Upon product release I was the primary focus for products in their initial settling down period. Show less



Cray Research International Inc

• Software Analyst

  • Mar 1991 - Jan 1993

  I was a member of a team of nine who were responsible for the quality of CRAY to non-CRAY connectivity products. Our remit was wide ranging, including the establishment of good development practices, the testing of code, and the development of test suites. I was responsible for the maintenance and development of a suite of tests for use with IBM to CRAY connectivity. I was a member of a team of nine who were responsible for the quality of CRAY to non-CRAY connectivity products. Our remit was wide ranging, including the establishment of good development practices, the testing of code, and the development of test suites. I was responsible for the maintenance and development of a suite of tests for use with IBM to CRAY connectivity.



Alison Associates Ltd

• Reading, England, United Kingdom

• Software Analyst/Team Leader

  • Nov 1987 - Mar 1991

  I was the team leader of a small team responsible for the development of a PC-based budgeting package for the motor trade using Turbo Pascal on a pre-Windows PC. I was also involved with maintenance and development of other accounting packages for the motor trade, which were written in Fortran on VMS. I was also responsible for training and support to users of the system. I was the team leader of a small team responsible for the development of a PC-based budgeting package for the motor trade using Turbo Pascal on a pre-Windows PC. I was also involved with maintenance and development of other accounting packages for the motor trade, which were written in Fortran on VMS. I was also responsible for training and support to users of the system.