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Multi-skilled IT professional specialising in software testing
Debra Barrett
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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Performance and results driven with expertise in identifying risks, defining and managing counter-measures. Proven ability to escalate all test relevant topics and participating effectively in conflict resolution along the IT delivery path. Demonstrated abilities in test strategy/planning, end to end test management across the SDLC, verification/validation of functional and non-functional requirements and management of automation frameworks. Capable of co-ordination and coaching of project teams which regard to proper test procedure, reviewing and selecting techniques for testing and being the point of contact for all testing activities including project reporting and defect management. Deft in personal effectiveness, strategic thinking, team building/managing, influencing skills and project leading skills. Strong team player with excellent analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills. Able to work independently through own private limited company (Fully Tested Ltd), however willing to consider other types of contracts (umbrella or permanent) dependent on the role and requirements.
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English
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2017 - 2018
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Integration Project Test Manager
Carlyle Group.
Addison Lee PLC (Carlyle Group)
Dimensions of Role: Working within an Integration Project Team tasked with managing the migration of a newly acquired business (Tristar Executive Cars) from their legacy IBM platform onto the Addison Lee platform (Saleforce via mulesoft integration).
Responsibilities:
• Liaising with the business users to test newly migrated business on software uploaded to desktops, mobiles and PDA's. The testing also included GPS tracking and text messaging used by the drivers and support staff.
• Day to day management of the dedicated test team and scheduling business testers. This included monitoring the testing and results for quality and producing a daily testing summary (or status report) for the daily stand-up meetings. These meetings were attended by the Project Team as well as key testers, business stakeholders and developers as well.
• Liaising and working with the Haulmont Technology Team (Addison Lee's Software Partner) to ensure that the Kanban methodology used for development of new functionality was aligned to Test Team's Waterfall test plan and timescales.
• Ensuring that all defects were triaged effectively to ensure that the MVP (minimum viable product) could be achieved whilst maintaining acceptable quality of the testing and the systems under test.
• Providing hands-on support to business users during system Go Live events including being available on various sites.
Dimensions of Role: Working within an Integration Project Team tasked with managing the migration of a newly acquired business (Tristar Executive Cars) from their legacy IBM platform onto the Addison Lee platform (Saleforce via mulesoft integration).
Responsibilities:
• Liaising with the business users to test newly migrated business on software uploaded to desktops, mobiles and PDA's. The testing also included GPS tracking and text messaging used by the drivers and support staff.
• Day to day management of the dedicated test team and scheduling business testers. This included monitoring the testing and results for quality and producing a daily testing summary (or status report) for the daily stand-up meetings. These meetings were attended by the Project Team as well as key testers, business stakeholders and developers as well.
• Liaising and working with the Haulmont Technology Team (Addison Lee's Software Partner) to ensure that the Kanban methodology used for development of new functionality was aligned to Test Team's Waterfall test plan and timescales.
• Ensuring that all defects were triaged effectively to ensure that the MVP (minimum viable product) could be achieved whilst maintaining acceptable quality of the testing and the systems under test.
• Providing hands-on support to business users during system Go Live events including being available on various sites.
Management, Test, Integration, Kanban, Technology, PLC, Support, Testing, Test manager, Development, Software, Monitoring, GPS, UP, Manager, Go
2017 - 2017
freelance
QA Consultant
Test Sigma Ltd.
(software development company)
Dimensions of Role: Working with development team to understand and assess the market for a new functional automation test tool in the tech start-up market place.
Responsibilities:
• Developing targeted leads and liaising interested parties / potential clients in the UK and Europe.
• Appraising customer requirements to be feed back to the development team to improve quality of the tool.
• Assisting in the creation of documentation and case studies to support the marketing of the product via the website and social media.
• Evaluating each release of the product for reliability and consistency by checking processes and output
• Reviewing standards and policies for marketing software in the UK and Europe
Dimensions of Role: Working with development team to understand and assess the market for a new functional automation test tool in the tech start-up market place.
Responsibilities:
• Developing targeted leads and liaising interested parties / potential clients in the UK and Europe.
• Appraising customer requirements to be feed back to the development team to improve quality of the tool.
• Assisting in the creation of documentation and case studies to support the marketing of the product via the website and social media.
• Evaluating each release of the product for reliability and consistency by checking processes and output
• Reviewing standards and policies for marketing software in the UK and Europe
Social Media, Marketing, Software development, Automation, Automation test, Test, Website, QA, Support, Development, Software, Processes, UP, Social
2016 - 2017
job
Command Centre QA Lead
Barclaycard.
Dimensions of Role: Test authority for the command centre team engaged to carry out testing of a major upgrade of the cards and statement platform affecting over 10m customers in the UK.
Responsibilities:
• Developing quality assurance guidelines within the project directives
• Supporting 5 test teams and their Test Managers to transition from System Test to UAT
• Creating user guides for the HP ALM set-up required by the project and assisting testers to upload their scripts ready for the UAT test phase
• Presenting targeted reporting to the key stakeholders (daily and weekly) and providing up to the minute status reports to the Command Centre project management team.
Responsibilities:
• Developing quality assurance guidelines within the project directives
• Supporting 5 test teams and their Test Managers to transition from System Test to UAT
• Creating user guides for the HP ALM set-up required by the project and assisting testers to upload their scripts ready for the UAT test phase
• Presenting targeted reporting to the key stakeholders (daily and weekly) and providing up to the minute status reports to the Command Centre project management team.
Project Management, Management, Test, QA, Quality Assurance, Testing, Presenting, UP
2015 - 2015
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Project Test Manager
Premium Credit Ltd.
Dimensions of the role: Managing the integration testing and the UAT phase of a platform conversion (upgrade) project for an insurance premium finance company with more than 2m customers. The objectives of the upgrade from legacy COBOL to .Net technology was to allow the business to future proof their systems.
Responsibilities:
• Providing reports on a daily basis in meetings and via reporting templates for review by the Head of IT and the Project Manager with regards to test planning, execution, progress and any issues for escalation.
• Co-ordinating test preparation and test execution (including batch testing) to schedule and aligned to the overall Test Plan.
• Ensuring that the daily testing statistics were collated and available for reporting into the daily update calls with the key project stakeholders.
• Liaising with Tech Mahindra, the Premium Credit software partner to assess any gaps between development and business requirements for quality purposes. Providing any support necessary to remediate any issues to keep the project delivery on track.
• Supporting the Business Change Managers to build effective lines of communication for informing all business users (internal and external) about the migration of their data
Responsibilities:
• Providing reports on a daily basis in meetings and via reporting templates for review by the Head of IT and the Project Manager with regards to test planning, execution, progress and any issues for escalation.
• Co-ordinating test preparation and test execution (including batch testing) to schedule and aligned to the overall Test Plan.
• Ensuring that the daily testing statistics were collated and available for reporting into the daily update calls with the key project stakeholders.
• Liaising with Tech Mahindra, the Premium Credit software partner to assess any gaps between development and business requirements for quality purposes. Providing any support necessary to remediate any issues to keep the project delivery on track.
• Supporting the Business Change Managers to build effective lines of communication for informing all business users (internal and external) about the migration of their data
Project Manager, Test, Integration, Cobol, Finance, Net, Statistics, Technology, It, Support, Testing, Test manager, Development, Software, Insurance, Manager
2015 - 2015
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UAT Manager
Capita Health and Well-Being.
Dimensions of the role: Supporting UAT activities for the migration of data and business processing on PEGA CRM.
Responsibilities:
• Creation of the UAT plan to include all the user acceptance criteria as provided by the business.
• Managing the business subject matter experts from the key areas (Travel, Finance, Account and SAP) to carry out business acceptance testing
• Liaising with the on-site and off-shore development teams and managing defects linked to UAT or affecting UAT readiness
Responsibilities:
• Creation of the UAT plan to include all the user acceptance criteria as provided by the business.
• Managing the business subject matter experts from the key areas (Travel, Finance, Account and SAP) to carry out business acceptance testing
• Liaising with the on-site and off-shore development teams and managing defects linked to UAT or affecting UAT readiness
CRM, SAP, Finance, Testing, Development, Off-shore, Manager, Processing
2013 - 2014
job
Programme Test Manager
Southwark Council Offices.
Dimensions of the role: Directing and managing the functional test phases of the Desktop Modernisation Programme which was a key deliverable on the Southwark Council IT roadmap. The scope included the upgrade and migration of over 100 applications onto Citrix 6.5 and Windows 10.
Responsibilities:
• Working with the Southwark Head of Applications and the Programme Project Manager to define the Test Strategy from which the Test Plan was derived.
• Planning test schedules and resource requirements for proof of concept, system integration, UAT and business testing/model office against Project Plan.
• Attending workshops with Southwark staff (application managers and super-users) to support them to test their core and non-core applications
• Escalating risks and issues to Capita and Southwark stakeholders as part of a managed test service.
• Informing the Southwark change managers of test progress to allow them to effectively align user training and company communications to ensure smooth delivery of the project into Go Live.
Responsibilities:
• Working with the Southwark Head of Applications and the Programme Project Manager to define the Test Strategy from which the Test Plan was derived.
• Planning test schedules and resource requirements for proof of concept, system integration, UAT and business testing/model office against Project Plan.
• Attending workshops with Southwark staff (application managers and super-users) to support them to test their core and non-core applications
• Escalating risks and issues to Capita and Southwark stakeholders as part of a managed test service.
• Informing the Southwark change managers of test progress to allow them to effectively align user training and company communications to ensure smooth delivery of the project into Go Live.
Project Manager, Training, System Integration, Test, Integration, Windows, Service, It, Workshops, Support, Citrix, Testing, Test manager, Office, Manager, Go
2012 - 2013
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Account Test Manager
AXA PPP Healthcare.
Dimensions of the role: Test management of small/medium change projects aligned to the AXA Group IT roadmap Whilst reporting directly to the AXA IT Manager also working as the Lead Consultant for Capita with overall responsibility for Capita resources working as part of a managed test service on site.
Responsibilities:
• Delivery of the Test Plan and Testing for the SAP R3 project which migrated financial accounting processes from legacy Mainframe to SAP via Informatica integration.
• Delivery of the Test Plan and Testing for the PCIDSS compliance project which was linked to the storage and transmission of secure data from credit cards used for AXA business transactions.
• Reporting against all testing for assigned projects and managing risks by escalating through all levels of management to Project Board level.
• Providing Support and Training for test resources on HP Quality Centre (Test Tool)
Responsibilities:
• Delivery of the Test Plan and Testing for the SAP R3 project which migrated financial accounting processes from legacy Mainframe to SAP via Informatica integration.
• Delivery of the Test Plan and Testing for the PCIDSS compliance project which was linked to the storage and transmission of secure data from credit cards used for AXA business transactions.
• Reporting against all testing for assigned projects and managing risks by escalating through all levels of management to Project Board level.
• Providing Support and Training for test resources on HP Quality Centre (Test Tool)
Training, SAP, Test management, Management, Test, Integration, Compliance, Service, It, Support, Mainframe, Testing, Test manager, Storage, Processes, Manager
2010 - 2012
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Release Test Manager
Prudential.
Dimensions of the role: Managing the Test Team as part of the Capita Managed Test Service supplied to Prudential E-Business for all key releases and Business As Usual.
Responsibilities: Delivering the Capita Managed Test Service which supported the Web-logic platform releases. Reporting to the Prudential Head of E-business and the Capita Account Manager
• Managing the Test Team who carried out manual testing, automated regression and performance testing using the HP Test Suite of tools.
• Working with the Environments team to ensure that the test environment was ready for use by the Test Team.
• Managing the Test budget to ensure there were adequate resources for all release testing activities.
• Managing the risks associated with testing including those requiring escalation to senior management and stakeholders.
• Participating in CAB meetings on a bi-monthly basis
• Ensuring all test assets were available for audit and ensuring that the testing complied to industry standards and guidelines as set by Capita
Responsibilities: Delivering the Capita Managed Test Service which supported the Web-logic platform releases. Reporting to the Prudential Head of E-business and the Capita Account Manager
• Managing the Test Team who carried out manual testing, automated regression and performance testing using the HP Test Suite of tools.
• Working with the Environments team to ensure that the test environment was ready for use by the Test Team.
• Managing the Test budget to ensure there were adequate resources for all release testing activities.
• Managing the risks associated with testing including those requiring escalation to senior management and stakeholders.
• Participating in CAB meetings on a bi-monthly basis
• Ensuring all test assets were available for audit and ensuring that the testing complied to industry standards and guidelines as set by Capita
Budget, Manual testing, Account Manager, Management, Test, Audit, Service, Testing, Test manager, BEE, Web, Audit, Logic, Manager
2009 - 2010
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UAT Coordinator for the Oracle Data Migration Project
Aviva Insurance.
Dimensions of the role: Managing the joined-up approach required between the Oracle Data Migration project and other dependent projects within a string of releases. Reporting to the Programme Test Manager and the Oracle Data Migration Project Manager.
Responsibilities:
• Analysing the business requirements and planning the UAT test approach.
• Working 3rd parties (i.e. Brokers) contracted by Aviva to verify that all the requirements were covered and aligned to the overall Test Plan.
• Creating the UAT section of the Test Plan and providing test stats for inclusion in the Test Completion Report
• Requesting appropriate test environments, logins, and test profiles prior to the start of the UAT test phase
• Creating XML schemas to support integration testing and to meet entry criteria for UAT
• Managing the test sets and monitoring defects in HP Test Director including running daily reports.
• Escalating risks and issues to the Programme Test Manager and the Data Migration Project Manager.
• Participating in post release peer reviews and supporting the Go Live warranty period where the service was transitioned over to IBM.
Responsibilities:
• Analysing the business requirements and planning the UAT test approach.
• Working 3rd parties (i.e. Brokers) contracted by Aviva to verify that all the requirements were covered and aligned to the overall Test Plan.
• Creating the UAT section of the Test Plan and providing test stats for inclusion in the Test Completion Report
• Requesting appropriate test environments, logins, and test profiles prior to the start of the UAT test phase
• Creating XML schemas to support integration testing and to meet entry criteria for UAT
• Managing the test sets and monitoring defects in HP Test Director including running daily reports.
• Escalating risks and issues to the Programme Test Manager and the Data Migration Project Manager.
• Participating in post release peer reviews and supporting the Go Live warranty period where the service was transitioned over to IBM.
Project Manager, Oracle, XML, Test, Integration, Service, Support, Testing, Test manager, Coordinator, Monitoring, UP, Manager, Go
2008 - 2009
job
BAU Test Lead
Royal Mail Group.
Dimensions of the Role: Day to day management of the BAU test team delivering automated regression and performance testing for each release. Ensuring that project with E-business were adequately planned for and tested by the Project Test Team.
Responsibilities:
• Involvement in Release Planning alongside the Release Manager.
• Creating the managed service Test strategy and keeping it updated.
• Creating Project Test Plans for the Test teams.
• Maintaining the test schedule and resource planning.
• Providing sign off for the test activities for each release.
• Reporting to the Head of E-Business and the AppLabs Account Manager on a weekly basis.
• Ensuring that the standards for CMMI Level 5 for continuous improvement of test processes were considered at all times including planned audits.
Responsibilities:
• Involvement in Release Planning alongside the Release Manager.
• Creating the managed service Test strategy and keeping it updated.
• Creating Project Test Plans for the Test teams.
• Maintaining the test schedule and resource planning.
• Providing sign off for the test activities for each release.
• Reporting to the Head of E-Business and the AppLabs Account Manager on a weekly basis.
• Ensuring that the standards for CMMI Level 5 for continuous improvement of test processes were considered at all times including planned audits.
Account Manager, Management, Test, Continuous improvement, Service, It, Testing, Release manager, Processes, Manager
2007 - 2008
job
Senior Test Analyst - Openwork
Zurich Insurance.
Dimensions of the Role: Working as part of the Test Team within a managed Test Service. Using SQL to interrogate databases for test data and carrying out manual testing for POS (point-of-sale) systems that were used by Openwork mortgage and financial advisors.
Responsibilities:
• Creating test requirements from business and design documentation.
• Liaising with Project Managers and other subject matter experts involved in specific projects to keep them aligned to test progress.
• Building manual test scripts using excel spreadsheets.
• Executing test scripts and raising defect on Track Record (Compuware Tool)
• Escalating risks and issues to the Test Manager.
Responsibilities:
• Creating test requirements from business and design documentation.
• Liaising with Project Managers and other subject matter experts involved in specific projects to keep them aligned to test progress.
• Building manual test scripts using excel spreadsheets.
• Executing test scripts and raising defect on Track Record (Compuware Tool)
• Escalating risks and issues to the Test Manager.
Design, Sql, Excel, Manual testing, Test, Service, Analyst, Pos, Testing, Test manager, Point-of-sale, Manager
2007 - 2007
job
Test Analyst
Norwich Union.
Norwich
Dimensions of the Role: Carrying out test preparation and test execution tasks as part of the Project Transformation Team, engaged to deliver a web platform for Customer Services.
Responsibilities:
• Reviewing business and design documentation in order to establish Test Requirements
• Liaising with the business SME's to understand existing business process flows
• Training business SME's to use HP Test Director for business acceptance testing
• Supporting the business to produce user manuals for the new system
• Liaising with the development team and providing feedback during the system build phase
• Producing Test Scripts to be used for Integration Testing and UAT test phases
• Reporting to the AppLabs Programme Test Manager on a daily basis.
Dimensions of the Role: Carrying out test preparation and test execution tasks as part of the Project Transformation Team, engaged to deliver a web platform for Customer Services.
Responsibilities:
• Reviewing business and design documentation in order to establish Test Requirements
• Liaising with the business SME's to understand existing business process flows
• Training business SME's to use HP Test Director for business acceptance testing
• Supporting the business to produce user manuals for the new system
• Liaising with the development team and providing feedback during the system build phase
• Producing Test Scripts to be used for Integration Testing and UAT test phases
• Reporting to the AppLabs Programme Test Manager on a daily basis.
Design, Training, Test, Integration, Analyst, Transformation, Testing, Test manager, Development, Web, Manager
2002 - 2007
job
Test Technician
Churchill Insurance.
Dimensions of the Role: Working with the Business As Usual test team to provide testing support for small to medium changes on the UNIX platform.
Unix, Test, Support, Testing
2000 - 2002
freelance
Consultant
The Beauty Studio.
Dimensions of the Role: Managing a small business as a sole trader providing beauty services.
1991 - 1996
temp
Clerical Temp
Kelly Girl.
Dimensions of the Role: Working in various clerical roles with Kelly Girl clients including government privatisation projects.
1986 - 1988
job
Back Office Clerk - Debenhams Oxford Street
Top Shop concession.
Dimensions of the Role: Supporting the customer facing staff to reconcile tills, receipts and stock for Top Shop concession.
Office
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