Experience

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September 2022 – present

Booking.com

Quality Engineering Manager

Outline

Responsible for setting up the foundation and expansion of the test team for the Payments Platform.

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Outline

Responsible for ensuring the product and service meets the established standards of quality including reliability, usability and performance required for distribution in the market.

Key responsibilities

• Stabilizing a QA team of 15 people across the globe with the correct skill set.
• Clarifying key responsibilities for the QA team and creating a team structure which works better for the organisation.
• Moving from spreadsheets to using XRAY in Jira to map test cases and creating test plans for releases.
• Creating a QA roadmap for the entire organisation with special focus on releases, exploratory testing, automation testing and performance testing.
• Being agile by responding to ever changing product roadmap and expectations of the clients.
• Supporting the team to align multiple releases for multiple regions.

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Outline

Part of the senior engineering team to help deliver the biggest project in the UK for over 10 years. Single-handedly managed and devised a release strategy for this.

Key responsibilities

• Worked alongside Senior Managers for rolling out the tribe structure for the web/services/mobile teams in London.
• Ensuring consistency is achieved for processes put in place for the goal teams.
• Responsible for line management of 8 Quality Engineers.
• Helped manage delivery of a project which was an entire re-write for our credit card account management with cross-site teams.
• To help teams move faster, I played a pivotal role in designing, communicating and implementing the release l managementstrategy for 12+ teams cross-site.
• Conducting quarterly & end-of-year reviews for my direct reports including giving feedback for the quality engineers of the wider team.
• Responsible for introduction of various levels of tests in the continuous delivery pipeline
• Devised a QA strategy for the web team
• Involved with the wider Capital One Quality Engineering community to produce strategies for testing and coming up with actionable items to remove roadblocks

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Key responsibilities

• Worked as part of a team (size 12) responsible for generating APIs and storing data in NOSQL databases.
• Use casperJS, Java and Selenium as a test scripting language to test use cases for the site/app
• Use Java to write Oozie jobs to run on the HADOOP cluster
• Devised a QA strategy for the team
• Responsible for setting up the QA team and leading them
• Also supporting a secondary team for testing and helping to ramp them up for Agile practices
• Involved with the wider Hotels.com QA community to produce strategies for testing and coming up with actionable items to remove roadblocks
• Work with tech-ops to ensure smooth deployments on all environments.
• Speaking at a number of meet-ups about the testing techniques used in HADOOP

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Key responsibilities

• Work in a team of 6 to write/execute test scripts
• Use Groovy, Cucumber-JVM and JUnit as a test scripting language
• Test framework creation.
• Help setup Bamboo builds and ensuring all tests are continuously passing for every build.

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