Freelance trainer at Pelican Associates (UK) Ltd

United Kingdom

June 2012-Present

Creating and delivering training courses for a variety of clients, in subjects including: Apache JMeter, performance testing, test automation, functional testing, Scrum principles, Agile testing and Belbin team roles.

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Test Lead at Pelican Associates (UK) Ltd

www.pa-uk.net
March 2012-December 2012

Responsible for system to system integration testing of large-scale data processing systems, for a large Government department, in a fast-paced iterative software development environment: continually refined test processes to speed delivery and improve quality used bespoke python-based test harnesses to run automated tests analysed risk-based test bases and developed exploratory tests used IBM Rational Team Concert

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Agile Test Specialist at Pelican Associates (UK) Ltd

www.pa-uk.net
June 2009-March 2012

Working for a large Government department on a number of software development projects, using Scrum, to deliver large-scale data storage/extraction products based on Oracle databases, Hadoop/Cloud technologies and Java/Perl Web UIs. Responsibilities included: managed complete test lifecycle for Scrum teams advised Scrum teams and testers in Agile principles developed Agile test techniques, such as session-based exploratory testing, automated testing and Alpha/Beta testing trained testers in the use of Open Source tools, such as Apache JMeter, for functional and non-functional automated testing created bespoke test harnesses using Java, Shell scripts, Hadoop and SQL used IBM Rational Team Concert and Quality Manager developed lightweight test documentation set

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Agile Test Specialist at Pelican Associates (UK) Ltd

www.pa-uk.net
October 2007-May 2009

Working for large Government department on Agile projects delivering large-scale data storage/extraction products managed testing on a variety of work packages. Responsibilites included: developed Agile test strategies and techniques pioneered use of Apache JMeter for automated Web (HTTP and SOAP/XML) and database (JDBC) testing produced test documentation, including test plans, scripts and reports

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Test Lead at Pelican Associates (UK) Ltd

United Kingdom
www.pa-uk.net
October 2005-September 2007

Working for large government department on RUP managed project delivering large-scale data storage/extraction product. Managed complete test lifecycle through each phase of a RUP Evolution. Managed test team of up to 5 testers, inc instruction in technical testing. Developed test harness and system level automated scripts using JUnit, HTTPUnit and Shell scripts

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Technical Tester at Logica CMG

United Kingdom

March 2005-September 2005

Functional and non-functional testing of infrastructure for a large government department, in an integrated test facility. Extensive use of automated testing using Java, Shell scripting and Rational Robot.

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System/Applications Tester at Logica CMG

United Kingdom

November 2003-February 2005

Testing and integrating Windows and Unix applications on large-scale desktop development project.

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Developer/Tester at Logica CMG

United Kingdom

June 2001-October 2003

Developing and testing bespoke Java, VB and Perl products.

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Teacher at South Bromsgrove High School

United Kingdom

September 1998-July 1999

Teaching History and RE in secondary school

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Resident Support Manager at YMCA, Crewe

United Kingdom

September 1993-May 1995

Providing pastoral support and training for 60+ YMCA hostel residents.

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