I am a Senior Test Analyst with over twenty years experience who has worked for a number of high profile companies including repeat assignments. I have experience in Financial Services, General Insurance and Banking as a test analyst and test lead. I have experience liaising with third party companies and have a proven record of test delivery with external partners. I have attained industry standard qualifications in ISEB and ITIL certification.

• Requirements Analysis
• Lifecycle Testing and Execution
• Quality Center / ALM
• Testing Documentation
• Third-party relationships
• Defect Methodology

Nov 2019 – Present

Capita CCRS – Contractor

Test analysis and execution in scrum driven delivery of third party project.

 

May 2019 – Oct 2019

Awaze – Contractor

Test analysis supporting a data-driven re-pricing project.

 

August 2017 – April 2019

NEST Corporation – Contractor

Testing platform updates for Auto Enrolment Pension provision as part of the Government reforms.

 

August 2015 – July 2017

Capita CCRS – Contractor

Worked on third party implementations for data-driven deliveries across different sectors.

 

October 2014 – April 2015

Travelex – Contractor

Test analysis and business testing co-ordination of a third party launch of foreign currency products.

 

July 2013 – September 2014

NEST Corporation – Contractor

Tested platform updates for Auto Enrolment Pension provision as part of the Government reforms.

 

October 2011 – May 2013

Aviva Life – Contractor

Tested Prosper platform selling Aviva Life protection products through third party sales channels including regulatory changes and enhancements. Involved liaising with third parties to agree testing coverage and supporting joint end to end testing.

 

August 2010 – August 2011

Virgin Money – Contractor

Tested project enhancements to the Virgin Money Giving website for the first six months followed by assignment on data warehouse for a banking platform integration project.

 

October 2009 – July 2010

Lloyds Banking Group – Contractor

Supported business areas for completion of phased End to End testing for company wide integration programme.

 

February 2008 – July 2009

Norwich Union Life / Aviva Life – Contractor

Tested the Lifetime wrapper product for Norwich Union Life investment products. The product provided an aggregation of products allowing the IFA or customer to administer online in one place.

 

July 2007 – December 2007

Virgin Money Limited – Contractor

Tested BAU and project enhancements to the in-house company data warehouse. This involved proving the ETL process from third party source to data warehouse.

 

October 2006 – July 2007

Norwich Union Insurance Limited – Contractor

Co-ordinated End to End testing of downstream interfaces. This involved the engagement of business users and off shore testing resource and reporting to upper management.

 

October 2000 – July 2006

Virgin Money Limited – Permanent

Test Analyst working on numerous projects including BAU, new product launches, data warehouse and Test team Lead.

 

October 1998 – October 2000

Norwich Union Insurance Limited – Permanent

Test Analyst working on General Insurance product migration to new platform.