Anthony Collins

Senior Test / QA Consultant working on multiple projects for the Home Office

Responsibilities:

Total ownership of testing and related tasks such as

Create Test Strategy

Create Test plans

Sprint planning

Sprint refinement

Tickets managementRequirement Analysis

Create test scenarios / cases manual and automation test using best practice techniques (BVA, ECP, Decision Tables)

Carry out risk analysis and prioritised test cases to meet delivery deadline

Test estimation

Create test data for test execution

System Test execution manual and automation test

Integration Test execution manual and automation test

UAT test execution manual and automation test

Defects logging and Management

Coordinate UAT executions and management

Report to a product owners and senior stakeholders

Set and run test and defects management meeting

Manage 3rd party suppliers

• D365 CE Implementation
• ECommerce Website
• Mobile App
• Responsibilities:
• Requirement Analysis, create UAT test scenarios / cases
• Execute, manage manual and automation test
• Coordinate UAT executions and management
• Create test strategy and plans
• Sprint planning / Refinement
• User story Analysis, create and execute test cases
• Test Estimation
• Carry out risk analysis and prioritised test cases to meet delivery deadline
• Daily stand-ups
• Defects logging and management
• Regressions
• Create test data for test execution
• Report to a programme test manager
• Set and run test and defects management meeting
• Manage 3rd party suppliers
• Liaise with BA, project manager, solution architect and business
• Technologies: Dynamic 365 CE, Postman, Git, GitHub, Cypress, Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, Amplience (CMS), Webhook
• Foundation Home Loans

• D365 CE Implementation
• Business Intelligence
• BAU, :
• Carry out risk analysis and prioritised test cases to meet delivery deadline
• Created test scripts validate ETL processes and data migration from a legacy SQL 2017 server
• Create, execute, and manage automation and manual test cases for D365 processes
• Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, test estimation and test execution
• Carry out risk analysis and prioritised test cases to meet delivery deadline
• Create test data for test execution
• Weekly test status report and test completion report and sign off
• Technologies: MS Dynamic (365), SQL Server Integrated Services (SSIS) SQL Server 2017, Postman, BancTec, TFS

• Analyse requirement documents and create manual test cases to cover all business processes
• Create and execute automation test case
• Defects management and reporting
• Data verification and validation data count, data integrity and correctness between source and destination systems
• Carried out UI (Layout) checks, data validation checks, and calculated values check on reports
• Visualisation charts UI, and data checks (Tableau Reports)

• Create Test Strategy document and test plan
• Create and execute test cases for Dynamic 365 implementation
• Analysed and validated ETL mapping documents, Data Model diagram and ETL logics
• ETL processes validation with data feeds from upstream applications
• Verify data count, data integrity and correctness between source and destination systems
• UI (Layout) checks, data validation checks, and calculated values check on reports
• Visualisation graphs UI and data check
• Coordinate and monitor end to end testing activities across multiple project streams
• Defects management and reporting

• Sprint Planning, Resource planning, test estimation
• Managing a team of 4 testers, driving development from testing perspective
• Weekly test status report
• Test completion report and sign off
• Created test cases to cover requirements scope, system functionalities, business logics and business rules
• Carried out risk analysis and prioritised test cases to meet delivery deadline
• Created test data for test execution
• Sprint planning meeting

• Business Intelligence, Data Migration (QlikView)
• Responsibilities:
• ETL processes validation
• Verification: Data count, data integrity and correctness between source and destination systems
• UI (Layout) checks, data validation checks and calculated values check on reports
• Visualisation graphs UI and data check
• Defects management and reporting
• Mentoring of junior testers to on testing principles and ISTQB certification
• Technologies: MTM, TFS, SharePoint, Qlikview, SQL server 2012, ETL Tool (Bespoke) MS Office

• Create, execute test scripts to cover defined business logics and processes
• Responsible for defect management and anchoring defect meetings on multiple projects simultaneously
• Provided experience-based advice to the project manager and programme test manager on test approach that increased scope, improved test management to meet deadline delivery
• Contributed towards the creation of training materials
• Introduced the use of structured exploratory testing to meet deadline delivery
• Technologies: QC, SharePoint, Teradata SQL assistant, Putty, Filezila, Callidus, Teradata, Abnitio ETL tool, TIBCO MDM, SAP BO, EDW, Linux, MS Office
• Exterion

• Worked alongside a business analyst, CRM consultant and assisted in requirement gathering from business users
• Performed static testing of requirement and workflow documents generated by the BA
• Created test plan and test cases that covered project and business requirements scope, business logics and business rules
• Analysed workflow diagrams for business processes and created scenarios-based test cases for UAT
• Created test data for test execution
• Created test estimation and scheduling to drive testing effort and ensure deadline was met
• Carried out data migration testing from a bespoke legacy CRM system to dynamics 2013 across entities
• Ensured consistency and high quality in data accuracy throughout testing lifecycle and releases to test environment
• Responsible for weekly releases to test environment and sanity checks
• Technologies: Quality Center, SharePoint, SoapUI, Web Services, .NET, IIS, Java, MS Office, Window 7, SQL

• (MS Dynamics CRM)
• Responsibilities:
• Carried out static test on project requirement documents delivered by project coordinator
• Analysed business rules documents, use-case documents, functional specifications and work flow diagrams to identify testable scenarios
• Liaised with BA to improve test scenario coverage
• Liaised with project coordinator to deliver project on time and within budget
• Designed test cases that captured the entire scope of customers accreditation registration processes built into Dynamics CRM 2011
• Designed test cases that captured the accreditation review processes as contained in requirement document
• Carried out scenarios test executions (positive and negative)
• Test execution, defect management and reporting

• Analysing user stories and identifying appropriate test scenarios
• Designing and creating test cases in Quality centre using appropriate test design techniques
• Configuration and deployment of the application in JBoss and WebSphere application servers
• Configuration of test environment
• Defect management in Jira
• System testing, SIT and regression test execution
• Exploring the system under test to create more test scenarios
• Reporting daily test progress status to the team lead
• Reporting weekly test progress status to the test manager and head of development
• Participating in testing process enhancement meetings

• Analysing business design and technical design documents to identify test scenarios
• Designing and authoring test plans
• Creating test cases in MS Excel, Importing test cases into the test director
• Executing test cases and updating status in Test Director
• Defect Management in Test Director
• Daily status report
• Working closely with Project manager, Business analyst, Support and implementation teams
• Liaising with offshore test leads and Testers based in Thailand
• Positive/ Negative functional test executions; System Testing, Regression Testing
• Creating Test Environment Setup

• Tested the global core and various counties specific customisations
• Responsibilities included analysing functional specifications and workflow diagrams to identify testable scenarios
• Creation of test cases to cover all requirements, workflows and functionalities
• Functional test executions (positive and negative)
• Non-Functional (Load and Performance Testing)
• Cross Browser Testing
• Regression testing
• Defect management
• Weekly test status update meeting / Daily scrum meetings
• Coordinating a team of 3 UAT testers, scheduling and reporting on test status
• Achievements:
• Volunteered to coordinate a team of 3 other Testers and perform the Test Lead responsibilities which created a single reference point for the test team and improved communication.