CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé

A delivery focused Project/Test Manager with over nine years IT experience. PRINCE 2 Practitioner and ISEB software test practitioner qualified. Has strong experience in Oracle, SQL, UNIX and Test Director
4 years project/test management experience in PRINCE 2 environments managing in-house teams & third-party suppliers


General Skills: Test/Project management, Resource planning, costing, reporting to stakeholders, Functional System, Integration, UAT & regression test experience, excellent communication skills, ability to communicate at all levels of projects.

Software: MS Project (3 Yrs), Oracle (6 Yrs), SQL (6 Yrs), UNIX (5 Yrs), Informatica (2 Yrs), Test Director (6 yrs), Business Objects (3 Yrs), MQ (6 months), Siebel Analytics, DB2, SAP (2 yrs), SQL Server (2 yrs)

Accreditation: Prince 2 Practitioner Certificate, Prince 2 Foundation Certificate, MS Project Intermediate, ISEB Software Test Foundation Certificate, ISEB Software Test Practitioner certificate, BCS (MBCS)

Assignments

Somerfield (Retail), Bristol Feb 2008 – Present UAT Test Manager (Contract)
• Responsible for UAT of payroll/HR migration from SAP HR to Ceridian HRe and Integration with Kronos
• Resource planning using Microsoft Project
• Identified project time, budget & quality constraints
• Managed team of 6 testers
• Stakeholder management of 3 different suppliers (TCS, Kronos & Ceridian)
• Training team members
• Reviewed test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Reported progress to Project Manager and escalated any issues or delays
• Co-ordinated and monitored test analysts Workload
• Raised risks at phase and project level

Tesco (Retail), London Jul 2007 – Feb 2008 Project Test Lead (Contract)
• Responsible for Functional System test & Non-Functional System Test of Tesco Online website
• Resource planning using Microsoft Project for projects up to 2500 planned days
• Identified project time, budget & quality constraints
• Managed team of 12 testers throughout test project lifecycle
• Wrote test plans and best-practice documentation
• Training team members
• Carried out Compatibility testing to RNIB standard
• Reviewed test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Reported progress to Programme Manager and escalated any issues or delays
• Co-ordinated and monitored test analysts Workload
• Raised risks at phase and project level

Capita (Government), Bristol Mar 2007 – Jun 2007 Stream Leader (Contract)
• Responsible for Functional System test of TV Licensing data warehouse
• Integration testing from source system to target system checking ORACLE & Teradata databases
• Testing Siebel front-end ensuring it meets requirements.
• Managed test incident logging
• Reviewed test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Reported progress to Test Manager and escalated any issues or delays
• Training BBC users how to run reports to access information from the system

Severn Trent (Utilities), Birmingham Sep 2006 – Feb 2007 Test Manager (Contract)
• Responsible for Functional System test of billing system application using MQ technology
• Integration testing from source system to target system checking ORACLE & DB2 databases
• Wrote test strategy & system test plan
• Advising management on best practice for software testing
• Created automated tests using Mercury QTP
• Detailed the test procedures for test phase
• Reviewed test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Managed test incident logging
• Reported progress to Project Manager and escalated any issues or delays


WorldPay (Financial), Cambridge May 2006 – Sep 2006 Test Lead (Contract)
• Responsible for Functional System test of Java web online-transaction application
• Integration testing from source system to target system checking ORACLE back-end.
• Wrote low-level test plan template for department
• Created manual scripts using Mercury Quality Centre (Test Director)
• Identified test conditions and created test cases against requirements
• Logged & managed defects

DML (Defence), Plymouth Nov 2005 – Apr 2006
Test Lead (Contract)
• Responsible for Unit, Integration, Functional System & Regression test of Dockyard CRM
• Defect management using Fogbugz tool.
• SQL scripting using TOAD SQL query tool
• Data creation using CSV files & XML feeds.
• Identified test conditions and created test cases against requirements

Royal Bank of Scotland (Retail), Leeds Aug 2005 – Nov 2005
Project Test Lead (Contract)
• Responsible for Functional & Integration & Regression test of Oracle Forms Tracker website.
• Functional test of Oracle Financial and Oracle HR modules
• Resource planning using Microsoft Project
• Created manual scripts using Test Director for UAT testing.
• Wrote test strategy and plan for Tracker data warehouse project.
• Advising management on best practice for software testing
• Co-ordinated and monitored test analysts workload
• Review test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Training users how to access business information via reports

EDS/Capgemini (HMRC) (Government), Telford Feb 2004 – Aug 2005
Project Test Manager (Contract)
• Responsible for management of functional test of Oracle Data Warehouse on UNIX, Data Mart for MIS and web-based test on .NET (on-line test)
• Resource planning using Microsoft Project for projects up to 2500 planned days
• Co-ordinated Tested Data Mart for MIS using Business Objects
• Web testing on .NET using SQL & UNIX scripting
• Creation of test strategy and plans for system test life cycle
• Managed UAT Testing with Users from client site, training HMRC staff how to access Tax Credit data
• Responsible for training junior testers (teams ranging from 3 to 10 testers)
• Integration testing and data migration testing from Oracle 8i/Oracle 9i and NT to XP.
• Co-ordinated and monitored test analysts workload
• Reported to Programme Manager and escalated any issues or delays


Siemens Energy (Utilities), Nottingham Apr 2003 – Feb 2004
Business Objects Reports Tester (Contract)
• Functional System & Regression test of energy supply trends data using Business Objects.
• Analysed requirements for companies such as Powergen & Npower

Home – based Oct 2002 – Apr 2003
Database Designer
• Developed & tested bespoke applications for clients in VB and MS Access.

Marconi Communications, Nottingham Dec 2000 – Oct 2002
Software Test Engineer
• Tested Internet switch hardware kit (SDH, Photonics)
• Functional tested network management software on UNIX, Sun Solaris & NT platforms
• Wrote high-level & low-level test plans to ISO 9001 standard.

GEAC Publishing Systems (Publishing), Long Eaton Dec 1999 – Dec 2000
Help-desk Analyst / Software Tester
• Tested newspaper distribution software for clients such as The Guardian and The Independent.
• Provided 1st and 2nd line support for New Zealand Herald and Newsquest group.

Rolls Royce (Aerospace), Derby Jan 1999 – Dec 1999
SAP Implementation UAT (Contract)
• Tested SAP R3 implementation to archive paper-based documentation into SAP.
• Tested usability of SAP system for Rolls Royce users.


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