United Kingdom
A versatile and highly successful Senior Test Professional with expert technical knowledge and diverse experience of the Finance and Insurance sectors; building and implementing specialist solutions to drive digital, IT and business transformation. A proficient strategist, follower of the latest ‘agile’ methodologies, with a deep understanding of business needs and an adept facility to control projects; capturing requirements whilst supporting effective communication and ‘full-cycle’ delivery. A multi-dimensional leader who thrives at the interface between the business and technical world; transforming requirements into technical specifications and explaining technical possibilities to all parties.
Responsible for the Test and QA of 8 brand new data centres, 4 physical and 4 virtual across the globe to provide the end client a 99.9% resilient cloud offering whilst maintaining legacy systems The infrastructure test strategy and end user strategy was developed by myself, a risk based testing approach used due to challenging timelines whilst maintaining a quality test approach. Worked with teams across the globe to verify code and infrastructure readiness, also provided direct reporting to the SLT in IBM and the end client. For a detailed breakdown of my many accomplishments over the last 12 years and in my most recent role please contact me or request my C.V.
Programme Test Manager - Data Centre Migrations - Multiple Financial clients Programme Test Manager - End User Computing - Windows 8.1 Upgrade Programme Test Manager - Data Centre Migrations - Virtualisation Programme Test Manager - Mainframe upgrade Programme Test Manager - Regulatory environment and product delivery