Networkrail

A driven professional, test team lead and test manager with very good inter-personal, technical, and management skills with great vision and the ability to develop and motivate myself and other individuals in achieving success. A highly motivated individual, team player with strong communication and negotiation skills, very adept in issue resolutio... ns. Has been responsible for managing testers of different backgrounds and ability with hands on approach to management. Very adept in writing test documentations from test strategies, test plans to test reports and possess a thorough and detailed understanding of the full testing life cycle using various test methodologies and tools across extensive platforms and environments. Over 12 years in manual and automated functional and non functional testing including regression testing, performance, load/stress testing, defect tracking, requirements gathering and liaising with different project areas and personnel across major platforms and industries 10 years total automated testing experience and over years manual testing experience using Mercury WinRunner, QTP, LoadRunner and Test Director, Rational Administrator, Performance Tester, Manual Tester, Robot and Manager, fitNesse, SOAtest etc. With a budget of 457k I am responsible for the delivery of the Debenhams International project. I lead a total of 19 test analysts using the agile methodology adopting agile concepts. The project involves the delivery of the new Debenhams DDO 1 store add DOTDE sites to very tight deadlines. I plan, recruit, manage and report progress on testing activities to the project board via teleconferences and daily team status calls and reporting. Salsa and Jira for defect tracking. Salsa in-house and Jira 3rd party supplier Use very complicated test environment setups that include many legacy systems i.e Yantra. MQ, SI/HUB, POS and AS400 Euphrates Cash Office Solutions, CODA to name just a few. My role at the LTA is to lead the performance test team using VSTS 2008 (Visual Studio Team Suite) ...Read More