Emma Cheeseman

• Planning and managing Test Matrix, walk through with stake holders and developers making sure requirements are understood and met.
• Test execution including regression testing, Identifying bugs, risks and anomalies, applying action to prevent re-occurrence.
• Working on bugs and small changes, involving fact finding, investigation, replicating user issues to identify and eliminate root causes.
• Supporting junior team members, offering guidance and coaching to meet personal and team development goals.
• Planning and managing projects through consultations with internal and external teams to meet set objectives on time and on budget.
• Established excellent working relationship with dev leads, project managers and developers to ensure successful completion of 3 major projects.
• Transaction trade testing using iMix

Key Achievements:

• Working in waterfall methodology successfully taking projects through from analysis, planning, testing, through to test completion, adhering to company policies, maintaining compliance and readiness for audits using Azure.
• Enabled product owners and developers to understand product weaknesses/improvements using test completion reports.

• Building and maintaining regression test cases, cycles and suites using Zephyr (Jira).
• Developing and writing manual test scripts.
• Worked closely with technical team members while providing clear updates to non-technical stakeholders.
• Executing and Analysing Test cases both manual and automated using test complete including reporting test results throughout development cycle.
• Implementing and managing Test Complete application tool.
• Managing test completion reports.
• Providing technical training and mentoring of new joiners on application and business specific practices.
• Basic knowledge and use of Selenium on Visual Studio platform
• Reviewed change requests and provided impact assessments to identify best ways to progress changes.
• Built and maintained strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to help meet team objectives.
• Contributed to design and execution of various test phases.
• Transaction trade testing

Key Achievements:

• Working in Agile methodology successfully testing and implementing test stories on a major business project that lasted over 2 years, to upgrade existing client offering platform to a more robust and updated system. This involved analysing the application requirements and design documents to better development process of the project avoiding code re-writing after implementation.

• Managing IT and database support, including establishing functional requirements and completing database design using FileMaker, with C# back end.
• Taking projects through from initial concept to completion through to testing and training.
• Establishing documentation for user stories, business rules and requirements including wireframes using Visio to show user screen layouts, information flow diagrams and workflow diagrams.
• Creating Technical specification including deployment guides and Establishing test cases and requirements.
• Undertaking a range of tasks including identifying problems, converting FileMaker databases into SQL, using SSIS for table creation and TSQL for query manipulation, data cleansing to improve data integrity and system performance.
• Speaking to end users on feedback of performance.
• Manipulating FileMaker servers, uploading and retrieving files for system improvements, as well as providing departmental support and training new employees in the software logic of the system.

Key Achievements:

• Successfully taking the business through a major project that lasted over 4 years, to switch at least 90% of the business to another provider.
• Involving implementing new functionality and improving existing functionality to better support the new business.
• Smooth upgrade of FM web Servers into DMZ environment.
• Successfully automating management information process from a 1 week process to a 3 day process with 100% improvement on business hours disruption.
• Successfully managing the database team, introducing separate development and testing environments resulting in efficient working database system with fewer disruptions to business.

• Undertaking research and project planning to complete tasks such as implementation of an Artist website, using Dreamweaver, ASP and MySQL.
• Established functional requirements with clients and completed extensive database design using SQL, as well as ensuring seamless upgrade of the database onto web hosting server.

• Devising business plans for wireless tracking devices, including conducting market research regarding potential opportunities and competing products, and monitoring the growth of the wireless market in the I.T Sector.
• Writing and presenting comprehensive reports of relevant information and statistics, including sourcing data from online journals and articles and liaising with the Senior Consultant to provide feedback on progress.

• Completing 1 month work experience placement as part of BTEC qualification, undertaking a project to convert software training manuals from Ami Pro to Windows 97, using technical and project planning skills.
• Establishing functional requirements for the solution, followed by developing a test plan, creating manual and automated test scripts, and utilising information analysis to execute the solution seamlessly.

Key Achievement:

• Successfully migrating data 90% faster and with 80% fewer mistakes than on previous occasions.