Highlights:Over twenty years robust hands-on test management commercial experience within global multi-lingual digital platforms, as well as having strong strategic, team and stakeholder management skills. An AEM CMS (Java) certified business practitioner, Agile & PRINCE2/ISEB practitioner and security cleared. Working with clients including Whitbread, Renault, BMW, Nike, HSBC, Motorola, Roche, MI5 & Vodafone. Communicating on every level; team, dept, stakeholder, sponsor, suppliers, third parties, on/off-shore, working cohesively as a team.

Skills:quality, testing, automation

Goal:Passionate about ensuring the target audience has a seamless user experience, using Automation AI principles.

Agile Test Manager 04/2016 - current
Whitbread, London, London United Kingdom
Industry: Hospitality
Managing and supporting the Agile QA team, (20 people) operationally and strategically on daily basis. Covering business critical, (£1 billion) digital platforms for Premier Inn, Hub Hotels, Costa Coffee, Beefeater and Brewers Fayre.
Embedding quality and test automation as BDD, TDD development principles within the Sprint teams. Implementing “Shift Left” Automation pyramid principles in Dev cycle, focussing on increased unit testing confidence. • Implementing Automation AI principles in Natural Language Processing, (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL). • Facilitation of inter-team test communication across the product teams. • Presenting an aggregate view of testing utilisation to high level management. • Personal support, mentoring and testing professional development for QA team. • Constant daily risk, crisis, reprioritisation and change management expected within an Agile environment. • Budgeting/forecasting for testing as a service dependent on organisational process. • Be an advocate of Digital and Agile testing throughout the organisation, building strong trust relationship and confidence. • Constant recruitment of team members on growing business needs. • Providing technical expertise, e.g. proper use of test techniques, processes, functional, cross platform and non-functional automation frameworks, testing tools and services to support Product team’s Agile delivery. • Providing strategic and operational support to the Whitbread wider organisation in consistent best practises and shared learning. Technical stack/tools • Java 8.0 Web Selenium/Android Appium/iOS XCode Automation, IntelliJ, Cucumber, BDD/TDD, Jenkins CI, JMeter, SOAPUI/RestAssured, AWS, Docker on demand, GitHub, JIRA, Zephyr, Perfecto, Adobe AEM, Salesforce, AngularJS, Grafana, ElK/Kibana, SiteSpeed, Omniture and Oracle.--

Ravensbourne 09/1993 - 07/1996
Kent, , United Kingdom
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Product Engineering
- Course focuses on developing well-rounded individuals with the skills and knowledge to produce both digital and physical products for the mass market.