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Freelance Test Analyst / Consultant Rainham, Essex, UK

An accomplished qualified Test Consultant with 10 years experiences in the Consultancy, Banking, Public and Health sectors.Skilled in Test Methodologies and Development life cycle.

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Hourly Rate / Cost:£44.44 per hour (ex. VAT)
Daily Rate / Cost:£355.56 per day (ex. VAT)
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Seller ID:328241
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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé

I am an experienced Senior Test Analyst with configuration, data migration,testing skills,experiences gained within large and medium seized projects. Lead the Integration team to implement and facilitate SystmOne and SRS application across different NHS PCT’s in the North West and West Midlands. Associate with implementing, manage and the deployment test phases both centrally and at a local level within the IT industry.
Competent Web/E-Commerce application testing professional with broad experience of various software testing methodologies such as VModel, Agile and Waterfall.

Professional mature individual with excellent interpersonal skills,offering a conscientious approach and a calm response to pressure. Responding rapidly and effectively to each new challenge. A quick learner who adapts well to new roles.

Employment History

(Feb 2009 to May 2009)

Test Manager (EADS Defence and Security) FiReControl Project

IBM UK (Winchester)

Projects: System Test to provide a capability for the FiReControl project to move the existing system of 46 fire control rooms in England, based at local fire and rescue services, to a network of nine new amalgamated Regional Control Centres (RCCs).

Responsibilities:
•Maintaining and producing the system Test Plan to undertake formal testing on a large-scale project.
•Liaison with different teams and EADS to identify system requirements, improving the processes governing such Agreement and prioritisation of system requirements and the management of appropriate system testing resources.
•Managing Test execution to the System Test plan and improving system Testing processes and procedures.
•Matrix management of the resources and teams needed to coordinate a system Testing.
•Delivery of system Test Completion Reports, Test Cases, Progress Report, TTRM, Test Strategy, Test Plan and Specification documents.
•Coordinate workshop meeting with clients and witness testing.
•Responsible for all Test, Test Tools Development and configuration management activities.
•Facilitates the development, implementation and adherence of testing department standards in partnership with EADS.
•Practice industry standards and certification (e.g. ISO9000), and drives efforts to bring products into conformance with such standards.
•Manage team compliance with existing measures for reporting testing effort and co-ordinate all testing tasks within IBM test team.

Technologies & Environment : Bugzilla, Wiki,Java Injector,JUnit.Oracle, Java, WebObjects, Windows 2003 server, MDM Server 8.5, WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.17, AIX® 6.1 TL0 SP4,Bespoke CMS & Supported browsers/operating systems and SQL server 2000, DOORS.


(Oct 2008 to Jan 2009)

Integration Senior Test Analyst Lead (Strategic Reporting Solution)

National programme for IT (NMEPfIT) NME West Midlands Ambulance Trust

Project: Verify the End User Interactions using BO Enterprise portal solution (BOXI Infoview). BOXI Infoview should provide access to End User through CSC portal using smartcard authentication based on East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trusts and RBAC Business Functions configured in SRS. Deploying the services to Trusts and PCT around the NME West Midlands Ambulance Trust.

Responsibilities:
•Ensured the delivering and implementing the software across multiple care settings (Hospital and GPs) as well as organizations outside the NHS (Social Services).
•Regression testing (all elements of Generic Data Loader which were present in SRS Delivery will be tested during the 1st cycle of Integration testing)
•Coordinate workshop and witness testing with Connecting for Health and Integration Test Board (external body).
•Delivery of Integration test closure reports, Test Cases, Progress Report, TTRM, Test Strategy, Test Plan and Specification documents for Cfh approval.
•Integrating with NHS Web Services and NHS Tracker Database. RBAC & Smart Card Authentication and Digital Signing Implementation.
•Using information gathered from the stakeholders, produce various artifacts to include use-case specifications, software requirements specifications, business glossaries, supplemental requirements specifications, screen specifications, wireframes, and vision and scope documents
•Reverse-engineer documentation from existing applications through analysis of end-user documentation, interviewing subject-matter experts. Creating documents to support Integration testing activities.
•Ensure all defect reports raised during Integration testing have been recorded in the defect management tool with severity level and resolved accordingly.
•Liaised with CfH Staffs and clients to resolve issues and business changes that arise during implementation.

Technologies & Environment:Supported browsers/operating systems and SQL server 2000,HL7 Messaging,OMVTTools,NIS1&4 Sandpits, BT & NHS Data Centre,NHSCRS, NHS Spine Portal,Business Objects,Siren3 EMS, Lorenzo, Emergency Care Solution, Mercury Quality Centre, XMLSpy, XML, GemPlus solution, SmartCard.


(Oct 2007 to Oct 2008)

Senior Infrastructure Test Analyst

National programme for IT (NPfIT) (NHS Primary Care Project), Leeds

Project: Migration of all existing GP Records (Patient & GPSolutions) from National Integration Centre into SystmOne data centre via NHS Spine. Migration of all existing ex-Accenture services from the BT data centre into new CSC data centre. (BTex to CSCA).

Responsibilities:

•Prepared business process scenarios and test scripts from generated NHS scenarios by Clinicians, NHS Staffs.
•Carried out full module/unit testing, System testing, Technical Integration testing, model community testing and pipe cleaning. Mentoring and training users on UAT testing.
•Ensuring effective liaison with relevant NHS, NPfIT and supplier staff.
•National Integration Centre supports a number of NASP, LSP and Legacy suppliers throughout testing cycles.
•Provided a standard approach to testing and quality assurance to ensure consistent entry and exit criteria for each stage of testing, including test data for new areas of compliance testing.
•Managed defect reports raised during Integration testing have been recorded in the defect management tool with severity level and resolved accordingly in Mercury Quality Center
•Responsible for all Test Reports, Test Tools Development and configuration management activities.
•Facilitate the SystmOne GP deployment and implementing the software across multiple trusts (The Rigde Medical Centre, East Hill Surgery, Hatfield Street Medical Centre, NHS Rotherham PCT.
•Involved witness testing with Connecting for Health and Integration Test Board (external body).
•Data preparation and environment setup for access for N3 to NHS Spine to SystmOne.
•Keep abreast of new developments in software testing methods and industry good practice.
•Maintain high professional standards when dealing with developers and users of testing services, from NHS and supplier organisations.
•Creating test data for delivery of integration and compliance testing to meet NPfIT requirements.

Technologies & Environment:Supported browsers/operating systems and SQL server 2000,HL7 Messaging,OMVTTools,NIS1&4 Sandpits, BT & NHS Data Centre,NHSCRS, NHS Spine Portal, Lorenzo, SystmOne, Mercury Quality Centre, XMLSpy, XML, GemPlus solution, SmartCard, NWWM Cluster LSP.

SystmOne Modules: GP Summary,Community Health,Out of Hours,Palliative Care (Hospices) Choose & Book,HSW Child Health,ETP.


(Jun 2007 to Oct 2007)

Senior Infrastructure Test Analyst (E2E Testing)

NHS National programme for IT (NMEPfIT) (NHS Secondary Care Project)Leeds

Project: Implement and test SIREN EMS on Lorenzo Regional Care, an integrated patient data management solution that facilities the collection of patient and medical device data from the point of dispatch of emergency care to receiving location and subsequent reporting against collated data for auditing, performance and capacity planning process.

Responsibilities:
•Creating Sandpit environment for different level of testing system Module to Integration and allocating RBAC rights according to business requirement.
•Using MIM and HL7 to interpret the data contents of different health information attach to clinical and non-clinical notes in patient records. Testing the Triggered Post HL7 Alerts as designed.
•Migrate and end-to-end testing of the applications in the data centre (‘Lorenzo, ‘NHS CRS Portal’, and ‘Medusa Technology").
•Using information gathered from the stakeholders, produce various artifacts to include use-case specifications, business glossaries, supplemental requirements specifications, screen specifications, vision and scope documents to meet business process testing requirement.
•Managed witness testing and compliance testing with Connecting for Health and Suppliers.
•Produce solutions to identified risks and issues to meet the business needs.
•Managed defect reports raised during Integration testing have been recorded in the defect management tool with severity level and resolved accordingly in Mercury Quality Center.
•Responsible for all Test Reports, Test Tools Development and configuration management activities.
•Gather the requirements of complex business processes from stakeholders as part of the business modeling and requirements disciplines.

Technologies & Environment:Supported browsers/operating systems and SQL server 2000,HL7 Messaging,OMVTTools,NIS1&4 Sandpits, BT & NHS Data Centre,NHSCRS, NHS Spine Portal, Lorenzo, SystmOne, Mercury Quality Centre, XMLSpy, XML, GemPlus solution, SmartCard, NWWM Cluster LSP.TMS, PDS, SDS, NCR, LRS, GP2GP, PACS, PSIS, EPS, SUS,NHSCRS, PAS.


(Sep 2006 to Jun 2007)

Senior Technical Analyst (HMRC Project) Tax code, PAYE, Self Assessment

Telford Inland Revenue Plaza 2 HMRC Building

Project: Enhancing existing HMRC web portal with functionality such 48 hours confirmation page, communication address fields for PAYE, Corporate Tax and Self Assessment.

Responsibilities:

•Test Conditions identified as a team. Identification of Test objectives was done, entry/exit criteria Test conditions/scenarios/Script writing, Quality check of Test Scripts. System/Functionality Testing, Bug fixes, Regression Tests, Integration Tests, Support for Performance and User Acceptance Testing. Defect Logging, tracking & Re-tests
•Work with developers to understand and define test requirements using RUP and UML methodology.
•Creating High Level Test Cases which map back to Use Case Scenarios and Business Specified Test Points
•As lead analyst for RUP/SDLC operations, responsible to ensure business analysis artifacts are compliant with published standards and best practices.
•Used T.O.A.D (Tool for Oracle Application Developers) to connect to the Oracle Databases to browse tables and edit fields.
•Produce UML models to support project-related artifacts
•Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders to inform them of project progress and convey upcoming activities
•Ensuring improvement in test infrastructure meets CMMI LEVEL 2 requirements covering the product life cycle.
•Reverse-engineer documentation from existing applications through analysis of end-user documentation, interviewing subject-matter experts, and application use
•Support configuration management activities ensuring requirements artifacts are synchronized with current software releases.

Technologies & Environment:Oracle 9i,MS SQL Server 2003,WebMethods, WebLogic, Toad, Remedy, Rational Suite, Gateway, WindowsXp,RUP and UML methodology.


(Nov 2005 to Aug 2006)

Senior Design Test Analyst / Defect Co-coordinator

Scottish and Southern Energy Havant

Project: Enhancing and migration data’s of all existing ex-British gas customer and new customer moving onto Scottish Energy. Prepared and package application for deployment within Citrix to meet the appropriate standards.

Responsibilities:

•Identify key use-case flows to quality assurance staff to ensure that sufficient test scenarios are generated to stress all aspects of developed applications
•Performed “forensic requirements analysis” on current systems with incomplete or insufficient documentation. This involved researching existing documentation and correspondence as well as conducting interviews with stakeholders to discover application flows and interactions so current applications would have proper documentation and future application scope could be determined
•Responsible for taking internal customer requirements, translating them into functional specifications, and conveying them to the development staff
•Interface with database analysis, application development, and quality assurance staff to ensure consistent transitions and the maintenance of traceability matrixs.
•Produce UML models to support project-related artifacts
•Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders to inform them of project progress and convey upcoming activities
•Analyse and write detailed specifications and Test Requirements using Test Director. Creating XML files based on Schema rules.
•Liaison with the Client to ensure prompt delivery of defect fixes and releases. Executing of Batch scripts.
•Liaise with systems, project management and business development staff members to assist in the development, testing, and deployment of a primary internal application
•Perform gap analysis of business data to ensure smooth introduction of new data structures.

Technologies & Environment:Oracle 9i,MS SQL Server 2003,WebMethods, Toad, Remedy, Rational Suite, Gateway, DbVisualizer for Web logic,RUP and UML methodology, IBM AS 400, Unix, Middleware software testing, Soft grid and Meta frame, Active Directory,PVCS Tracker.


(Jul 2005 to Nov 2005)

Senior Technical Test Analyst

O2 Telecommunication , Dublin

Project: Responsible for testing online Web portal applications running Oracle backend, developed by Software development team.

Responsibilities:

•Support the user acceptance testing function, ensuring the user acceptance testing is performed in accordance with laid down standards, ensuring defects identified during test is logged, ownership assigned, resolved and closed using Test director.
•Manually scripting test cases to satisfy coverage and defined requirement.
•Responsible for creating test script to run on vanilla and reviewing both Functional and Technical Spec.
•Liaised with business users, business/ technical analyst and developers to study and clarify users and systems requirement, using this to draw up system design as well as test strategy.
•Responsible for the production of documents to facilitate efficient and effective testing environment.
•Re-write and maintain the functional specifications (consisting of use-cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams) for their retail path, customer account management, customer service, billing service, and enterprise resource planning systems.
•Responsible for taking internal customer requirements, translating them into functional specifications, and conveying them to the development staff
•Perform gap analysis of business data to ensure smooth introduction of new data structures.

Technologies & Environment:Oracle 9i,MS SQL Server 2003,WebMethods, Toad, Remedy, Rational Suite, Gateway, DbVisualizer for Web logic,RUP and UML methodology,Clear case, Test Manager, Axe, Meta frame, Active Directory,PVCS Tracker.


(May 2005 to Jul 2005)

Senior UAT Test Analyst

Abbey Bank Plc, , Regent Place, Milton Keynes

Project: Business Optimisation (BOP) to rationalise systems across Abbey Bank and Scotia and developing a comprehensive test environment for a bespoke application called WinSIPP. Data Migration and UAT testing.

Responsibilities:

•Mortgage - Development of a strategic Mortgage Point of Sale system for deployment in multi-channel environment and integration across different divisions of the company.
•Enabling re-use of processes and business rules across multiple distribution channels (Retail Branches, Central Service Centres, Agents, Intermediaries and Internet).
•Integration with many existing systems such as Customer Information System (CIS), mortgage systems, Postal Address File, and external Credit Risk/Bureau processes.
•Management of third-party Outsourcing Company's resources.
•Development and deployment of configuration tools and processes to enable control and re-use of components across many channels and organisations.
•Investment Accounts - Resource requirement for testing of application logic to account opening, both in-house and at the external Credit Risk Bureau
•Ability to test credit ratings of individuals applying for personal loans.
•Ability to assess physical storage requirements through specialized applications.
•Bespoke Application Development with process logic on the credit risk components, both in-house and at the external Credit Risk Bureau.
•Customer Database - Architectural Design, Development and Deployment for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Programme
•Real-time creation and delivery of rule-based prompts for enhanced customer service and cross product holdings and integration with the existing Mainframe and Windows systems
•Use of open standards technology and tool sets for application integration
•Insurance – To review Insurance Business Requirement document and to identify any areas where the required functionality cannot be met.

Technologies & Environment:Oracle 9i,MS SQL Server 2003,WebMethods, Toad, Remedy, Rational Suite, Gateway, DbVisualizer for Web logic,RUP and UML methodology,Clear case, Test Manager, Meta frame, Active Directory,PVCS Tracker,IBM AS 400, PRINCE 2, ,ERoom Enterprise 7.0 (Content Management System), Test management and CRM.


(Jul 2003 to Apr 2005)

Senior Infrastructure Test Analyst / Integrator

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) , Fleet

Project: Employed to packaged and provide technical consultancy for Windows 2000 and Windows XP and distribution Court Service, Barclays Desktop support. A global project to upgrade the entire clients site and provide site visit where required.

Responsibilities:
● Coordinate Radia essential (Novadigm) to create the package for development via Radia system Explorer.
•Managed Radia System Explorer to deploy the application to the test environment on the desktop.
•Importing the application service via Application Manger eWrap™ Application Export for the System Assurance.
•Ensured that testing activities will allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
•Created process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
•Identified and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions. Using different browser technologies to test application functionality.
•Tested applications deployed using Radia (HP Openview management system)
•Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications - verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
Execution of test scripts using batch data processing and manual test execution using front end user entries.
•Experience in Networks, Backup/Restore solutions, HP Protect Tools.

Technologies & Environment:SMS Installer, WinInstall LE, AdminStudio, Wise Installer, HP Radia and Softgrid, RUP and UML methodology,Clear case, Test Manager, Meta frame, Active Directory,PVCS Tracker, PRINCE 2, Antivirus solutions,Test management and CRM.


(Apr 2003 to Jun 2003)

Script Integrator Analyst

Glaxo Welcome (GSK), , Barnard Castle

Project: Employed to provide analysis and technical consultancy for Windows XP application packaging and distribution for GMS Desktop Support. A global project to upgrade all Europe sites.

Responsibilities:

•Designed and implemented procedures for scripting and packaging application.
•Testing the build and liaising with user in Europe.
• Compiled Packaging Templates and guidelines to enhance consistency within the application packaging process.
•Registry interrogation of HKLM, HK_current_Config, HKUSERS.
•Compiling, Testing and Debugging.
•Responsible for providing daily update reports to Test Manager.

Professional Qualifications

Patient Demographic and Lorenzo (Secondary Care Record & Primary Care Record)
Health Level Seven Messaging (OMVT Tools)
Applied Software Testing (Acceptance Workshop)
Principle of Web Testing (WEB & WAP Testing)
ISEB Certificate (Foundation)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Delphi Programming Fundamentals

Education

(Sep 1994 to Dec 1995)

University of Greenwich

Master’s in Distributed Computing Systems


(Sep 1991 to Jul 1994)

Thames Valley University

Bsc (Hons) Business Information Management


(Sep 1990 to Jul 1991)

Hackney College

Access in Business Information Technology

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  • Test Analyst/Consultant: I require a Test Analyst to compose test plans for a Saas Application being rolled out within the business. Please apply for more details.

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