Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
An ISTQB-ISEB qualified professional with over 12 years’ experience of testing activities in UAT, System and Systems Integration within Financial Services, on projects involving business and technology changes. • Good knowledge and involvement in the different Software Development Life Cycle phases. • Proven experience in all the different steps of the Testing Cycle and Testing methodologies - Waterfall and Agile-. • Good stakeholder management working alongside Project managers, Business Analysts, Product Owners and Developers. • Able to analyse and understand business processes, requirements and system design documentation in order to define test plans, test coverage and test cases. • Performs quality assurance of requirements for completeness, coverage, correctness and testability. • Creates and executes end to end business scenarios, identifies defects and deviations from original requirements and manages them via triage meetings in order to assess and highlight key blockers to complete delivery and execution on time. • Experience in producing and maintaining regression test packs across all the systems. • Use of test management, bug tracking and project management tools including Jira, Test Rail, Microsoft Test Manager/TFS, Gemini and HP Quality Center in order to trace requirements, record test results, and track bugs, stories and technical tasks.
Responsible for the testing, implementation and maintenance releases of Megara, a third party global securities processing platform which enabled the successful automation of the back office tasks within the Collateral Management and Custody department. • Covering of different modules including: Settlement, Cash Management, Collateral Management and Corporate Actions. • Designing and maintaining test conditions, test specifications, test scripts and procedures. • Specifying and preparing test data. • Execution of functional, non-functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing and recording of test results. • Logging defects and producing defect reports. • Regression testing and re-testing of defect fixes. • Supporting the Test Leader with the design and maintenance of test plans and test progress reporting. • Providing support to business users in the creation of UAT scripts and during UAT execution, including model office.
Responsible for testing and implementing maintenance releases in COSMIC, the system that managed the Global Custody and Securities Servicing. • Involved in the preparation and execution of Swift Releases, covering messages for Trading (MT54X), Settlement (MT54Y) and Status Updates (MT548). • Worked closely with Business Area and Technology to ensure understanding of testing requirements and problems to identify and execute appropriate testing solutions. • Managed testing, making sure it was prepared, planned and executed in structured ways, whilst working towards scheduled delivery dates. • Supported pre and post-implementation activities in production of system upgrades and new applications. • Kept up to date with changing operational processes and technology. • Provided support to business areas during Familiarisation testing (FAM) to ensure they were content with the changes.
Responsible for monitoring the integrity of daily SAP retail logistics tasks within the departments of Article Master, Replenishment and Product Inventory covering the dry-stock activities in Europe. • Monitored the accuracy of daily data input in the system via collation and review of daily, weekly and monthly reports • Created and implemented new procedures to establish best working processes. • Ensured departments within the company complied with relevant requirements and assisted with internal and external audits. • Provided client support to internal and external clients ensuring all service issues were dealt with promptly. • Worked closely with Management, the Global Technical Team and Project Team testing and providing feedback of implementation of new global systems