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Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

liverpool,Merseyside

Summary

Senior QA Engineer with over 9 years' experience across the Finance, Retail and Logistics Sectors. Ability to adapt to complex project environments with a well-rounded understanding of both Manual and Automation testing. Personal and approachable with proven experience in identifying, debugging, and providing solutions to software issues. Most recently gained extensive knowledge across AWS microservices as part of a large Flexible Fulfilment Cloud Migration project, driving large sales growth to the business .

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Senior QA Engineer (Contract)

The Very Group
Speke, Liverpool
05.2021 - Current

Senior QA Engineer specializing in Integration/API and Migration testing for a Flexible Fulfilment (FFM) Cloud Migration agile project.

  • ·Responsible for creating, improving, and developing testing strategies across the Retail Tribe.
  • Oversaw and tested multiple successful brand onboarding via the new FFM platform, driving £30m sales turnover within year one.
  • Tested large data migration activities as part of FFM Backfill capabilities, extending product range by ~20%.
  • Conducted Integration Testing across internal AWS Microservices and third-party Oracle Retail Cloud applications using Postman, AWS CLI and GitBash. Validating different schemas and business rules.
  • Led testing activities on Fusion service migration to a new AWS Cloud environment.
  • Led a team creating an automated regression test suite, validating a variety of AWS services and integrating into Jenkins Pipeline. This included defect management and Sprint planning.
  • Utilised and tested database tools and requirements within Oracle, SQL Server and Postgres.

UAT Test Lead (Contract)

DEFRA
Warrington, Cheshire
09.2020 - 05.2021

UAT Test Lead overseeing the successful Windows 10 platform migration by meticulously planning and coordinating companywide business application testing.

  • Collaborated with Test Principle to support effective design verification, validation, planning and execution processes.
  • Extracted software testing requirements from business requirements and functional specifications.
  • Co-ordinating and chairing daily defect meetings, whilst liaising with software development team to resolve application defects.
  • Creating key testing metrics and presenting these to business stakeholders,
  • Tested business applications across diverse range of desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

QA Engineer (Contract)

The Very Group
Liverpool, Merseyside
04.2019 - 08.2020

QA Engineer for a flagship automated Warehouse Management System (WMS) in a fully agile environment. Working as a key member of the Logistics and Fulfilment Tribe, delivering E2E testing across UAT, SIT, and BRT test phases.

  • Analysing user requirements and developing test plans.
  • UAT Lead for all WMS inbound services and customer order reconciliation.
  • Load testing Fusion services using JMeter, simulating Black Friday customer order traffic.
  • SIT multiple services using SoapUI and Toad.

Mobile Automation Test Analyst

Barclays Bank PLC
Knutsford, Cheshire
11.2017 - 04.2019

Mobile Automation Test Analyst

Mobile Automation Test Analyst responsible for testing In app functionality, across both Android and iOS platforms. Pro-actively involved in a fully agile BDD environment, engaging closely with key stakeholders.

  • Responsible for coding new and refactoring business methods using existing Java BDD framework.
  • Accountable for versioning control of application code repositories using Git.
  • Developed complex real time SQL queries to manipulate Oracle databases and integrated these into automation test scripts.
  • Responsible for establishing, refactoring, and executing automated regression test packs across 25 different OS versions.

Software Test Analyst/ Test Lead

MBNA (Bank of America)
Chester, Cheshire
06.2014 - 11.2017

Software Test Lead involved in the full end to end delivery of the SDLC across several high-profile marquee projects.

  • Test lead for FCA Regulatory PSD2 project customer management work stream.
  • Test lead during implementation of MBNA's Mobile app including coordinating test coverage across 20+ multi-platform devices.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Edge Hill University
Ormskirk
09.2011 - 07.2014

A-Levels - Maths & Physics

Preston College
Preston
09.2002 - 07.2004

Skills

  • API – Postman, JMeter
  • Python/ Java (Basic)
  • Defect Management
  • Automation
  • Python/Java (Basic)
  • SQL
  • AWS Cloud Services
  • Jira/ Confluence
  • Oracle Retail Cloud/ Oracle Fusion
  • Migration testing
  • Mobile Testing
  • UAT/SIT/NFT

Languages

English
Native

Timeline

Senior QA Engineer (Contract)

The Very Group
05.2021 - Current

UAT Test Lead (Contract)

DEFRA
09.2020 - 05.2021

QA Engineer (Contract)

The Very Group
04.2019 - 08.2020

Mobile Automation Test Analyst

Barclays Bank PLC
11.2017 - 04.2019

Software Test Analyst/ Test Lead

MBNA (Bank of America)
06.2014 - 11.2017

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Edge Hill University
09.2011 - 07.2014

A-Levels - Maths & Physics

Preston College
09.2002 - 07.2004
Kevin Lee