Sport enthusiast - 25 years of team sport / Triathlete: Help me to manage my stress well, be better at ownership, learn from challenges and improve my communication
Emmanuel HALTER
Lead QA Engineer
London
Summary
Enthusiastic Lead QA Engineer who love empowering people to do their best and be better everyday.
With proven ability to switch between business and tech tasks, I thrive with challenges and missions where we make people life's/the world a better place.
"Nothing's impossible, everything's a challenge".
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead QA Engineer
UKTV
London
04.2022 - 07.2025
- Create & oversee the quality strategy and team goals to facilitate quality across our organization
- Define guard safe, scope and mission to help us achieve better quality
- Create roadmap each year to improve quality aligned with business goals
- Define and lead the automation strategy effort across all our platforms
- Help team members to achieve personal goals by creating specific tasks (promoted 2 Junior to QA over one year period)
- Increase quality awareness by mentoring leadership team / external department (eg: marketing)
- Teach shift-left & shift-right mindset to improve quality across our department
- Decrease time to test our platforms by 60% with our automation test suites
- Manage budget (£15k+/year) to purchase & recycle devices, tools and training the QA team
- Identify our product weak points (eg: episode search) by conducting data query/analysis on Piano
- Update our fleet of devices by searching for user data from analytics
- Harness AI technology power to reduce test tasks time by 20%.
- Create processes to facilitate work with external department and save time to manage tasks
- Bug process with Ops / Social team
- Tech support for customers issues
- Testing strategy with Marketing
Lead QA Engineer
Thortful
London
07.2021 - 12.2021
- Create the quality strategy for the next 7 months (short term / long term goals)
- Create personal goals for the QA members with milestones to help them grow as QA
- Decrease the time to manage issues by 50% by creating a new bug process
- Decrease time to release by 20% by creating simple UI and API checks.
- Increase the quality awareness within the company through interactive session / mini games
- Enhancing product quality by improving QA processes and sharing it so everyone can contribute
- Bugs / Ticket release / Relevant testing method
QA Engineer -> Senior QA Engineer
Betway Group
London
10.2016 - 06.2021
- Built 2 automation suites (C#) to increase by 70% our testing speed for release.
- Built dashboards through AppInsights to check automation data every day and help for decisions.
- Successfully mentor a team member to help him being promoted Senior
- Lead our cross-location team several time to test our CRM platform
- Co-lead a survey E2E within our QA department to improve our way of working with action points
- Learning from mistakes: anticipate potential risks (functional or not) for high stake releases
JAVA/Web Developer
Credit Agricole Private banking / Sogeti / Personal development
Lyon / Geneva
02.2012 - 04.2016
- Work with a vast sample of technologies including JAVA, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, XML, JSON
Education
Master of Business Administration - Information System Management
IAE Lyon 3
France 10.2011 - 09.2012
Master of Science - IT Engineering
University Lyon 1
France 09.2010 - 09.2011
Skills
Testing
Volunteering
- Current - Gembaa: Helping test a project management tool to keep my testing skills sharp
- 2022-2024 - CYF (Code Your Future): Part of the Personal Development team, helping people to grow as soon-to-be software engineers
- 2024 - Mentoring: Helped a QA to be considered Senior through technical skill improvements over 6 months
Interests
History/reader enthusiast: Help me understand the world we are living in and challenge my mindset
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Lead QA Engineer
UKTV
04.2022 - 07.2025
Lead QA Engineer
Thortful
07.2021 - 12.2021
QA Engineer -> Senior QA Engineer
Betway Group
10.2016 - 06.2021
JAVA/Web Developer
Credit Agricole Private banking / Sogeti / Personal development
02.2012 - 04.2016
Master of Business Administration - Information System Management
IAE Lyon 3
10.2011 - 09.2012
Master of Science - IT Engineering
University Lyon 1
09.2010 - 09.2011
Work Availability
monday
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morning
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Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Quote
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
Barack Obama
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