Test Manager

to be used for QA team to conduct regression testing

Senior Test Analyst [Short term Contract]
Working on a NHS project which was in the process of digitalising the NHS `red book' which traditionally is book used by pregnant '' females and mothers of new born babies. The focus of the project was to continue to support the digital `''e-
Redbookprocess and allow for easier interaction between mother and her child's NHS records.

Duties and responsibilities:
* Exploratory testing where required
* In-depth Analysis of HTML headers (Send and receive) and web traffic
* Strong communication with developers who were based in different cities which truly helped to meet project deadlines
* Backend testing was 70% and frontend 30%
* Conducting API testing where required in order to ensure in depth testing was done.
* Creating a test strategy and plan which allowed for improved testing to be performed
* Regular daily meetings both in office and remotely with all levels of stakeholders
* Providing reports to senior management's on the progress of testing which allowed for stakeholders to keep updated on a regular basis

Duties and responsibilities:
* During the first 2 months of starting the role I Improved both the existing test process and the test scripts to improve both test efficiency and test coverage. As a result, this led to a 50% increase in defects found.
* Writing test scripts and test scenarios to be used to do both UAT and A/B testing involving the optimisation and personalisation experiences of visitors behaviour on the mobile app and web site.
* Conducting tests on desktop website ' and mobile application [ios and android - native and hybrid) platforms [tablet and mobile phone]

* Involved in releases on a weekly basis for the different brands (Ladbrokes, coral, gala bingo), where smoke testing was conducted and engagement in experiences.
* Being the only dedicated QA to this project for the first 7 months I was always busy communicating with different stakeholders including the end user's and providing up-to-date reports to senior management when required.
* Involved in meetings to discuss the new optimisation experiences to be pushed out to customers on the different brand sites (Ladbrokes, coral and gala bingo).
* Liaising with developers and project managers within Ladbrokes-coral brands and 3 party client: Qubit (Analytic rd

Optimisation) on a daily basis
* Designing a test plan and test strategy mostly for my own personal use but also shared with test manager.
* Estimate Test effort on a Story basis BDD
* Defect management: improving existing defect reporting and ensuring defects clearly written and communicated at all levels.
* Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
* Handing over my knowledge and experience to the new permanent test analysts.

Working on a project which was in early stages of a large business transformation programme involving a replacement of a ticket verification system on more than 100 physical sites.

Duties and responsibilities:
* Executing test scripts on the online store, POS terminals and MPOS (mobile point of sale) devices
* Creating new manual test scripts
* and editing existing test scripts
* Raising and tracking defects using JIRA
* Executing Regression test packs
* In-depth Verification testing was involved on the various sites

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Quality Assurance Analyst

Working for Ashgaming, an interactive gambling and betting games development company. Working on a range of game projects involving: automation, mobile testing and desktop testing.
Duties and responsibilities:

* Researched different automation testing tools, frameworks and technologies. Which I then used to recommend to
the Test manager a selection of tools which I felt were the best fit for the company.
* Involved in automation testing when the automated test framework was first implemented by developers. Spending
2-3 months using Jbehave to create automated test scripts [Textual stories] for web/desktop game applications and executing these test scripts using Selenium webdriver. The test scripts were successfully used as a template to be used to execute new game applications.
* Manually testing mobile game applications on iOS, Android and window systems using various different tablets and
smart phones. An Agile approach was used to test these applications and working closely with HTML5 developers was the norm.
* Involved in manually testing desktop/web game applications (Flash/Java) where the focus was on integration testing
between the different gaming platforms (such as: GTS, William hill, Open bet, Finsoft). Smoke and exploratory testing on game releases and new game applications respectively.
* Manual execution of regression test packs using and updating the regression test pack using Test link to suit the
change in business requirements.
* Raising and tracking defects using the bug tracker software Mantis and liaising with Java/HTML5 and flash
developers to discuss defects.
* Attending scrum meetings with the project team
* Collect bug statistics for several games (mini and desktop games) in each testing stage. These bug statistics were
used by the test manager for planning.

Working on several projects in Barclays which involved manually executing test scripts on Barclay's Interactive Voice
Response system and another project where I was executing test scripts against Barclays IPhone app.

Duties and responsibilities:

* Model test plans: test conditions, test scripts expected results
* Assist in the development of the Test Plans
* Attend defect meetings
* Peer review of test conditions and test scripts and rework
* Execution of test conditions and test scripts and rework
* Execution of test cycles
* Raising, tracking and maintenance of defects using Quality Center
* Preparation and maintenance of test data
* Daily status reporting during execution to the test team lead
* Manage day to day execution for System Integration Testing