Kyle Storrie

Test Lead - Feature Team (Finance, Fraud, Appeals, Debt & Error)

09/2023 > Present

• Leading testing of new feature delivery across complex financial and operational workflows.
• Covering functional, integration, and end-to-end testing phases ensuring comprehensive quality across all delivery streams.
• Defining and executing test plans, entry/exit criteria, and business checkout for each major release.
• Prioritising automation candidates from manual regression packs using technical analysis and business-criticality assessments.
• Embedding quality early by shaping test approaches during refinement sessions with internal and third-party Agile teams.
• Managing stakeholder engagement across Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Solution Architects, and supplier teams to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Building and maintaining knowledge repositories to support transitions from supplier-led delivery and ensure programme continuity.

Regression Test Lead - Programme Wide Regression Team

08/2022 > 09/2023

• Led critical-path regression testing for all major releases across a multi-team programme, ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Managed and mentored a team of 8 manual and automation testers, boosting capability, consistency, and confidence in delivery.
• Prioritised automation coverage to accelerate regression cycles and improve efficiency and release readiness.
• Produced structured daily reporting, dashboards, defect trends, and go/no-go recommendations for programme stakeholders.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to ensure regression packs accurately reflected newly developed business-critical processes and workflows.

Test Lead - New Benefit Delivery (ADP / CDP)

06/2021 > 08/2022

• Led system, integration, end-to-end, and user-focused testing for the rollout of key new benefits across multiple delivery teams.
• Defined test strategies aligned with programme, operational, and regulatory requirements.
• Managed defects, risks, and cross-team dependencies throughout delivery cycles.
• Coordinated with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, and supplier teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Provided risk-based guidance and progress reporting to stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

• Coordinated testing activities between two major third-party suppliers for the largest IT project ever undertaken by Cigna International Markets.
• Supported delivery of a global IT infrastructure overhaul, consolidating multiple legacy platforms into a single enterprise solution.
• Maintained full governance of test deliverables, ensuring quality, traceability, and compliance with contractual milestones that triggered vendor payments.
• Worked hands-on across all testing phases, including requirements analysis, test planning, design & execution review.
• Led daily coordination with an offshore test team, ensuring clear prioritisation, readiness of test, and removal of blockers.
• Managed defect triage, root-cause discussions, and cross-vendor resolution activities to keep testing aligned with programme timelines.
• Delivered functionality demonstrations, testing summaries, daily status updates, and stakeholder reports for programme leadership.

• Carried out end-to-end testing activities for a large-scale domain migration project, consolidating nine legacy regional domains into a single force-wide network.
• Supported delivery of a solution enabling officers and staff to log in from anywhere in the country, requiring widespread system, application, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Planned and executed testing for application upgrades required to ensure compatibility with the new domain, covering functional, integration, and environment-specific validation.
• Produced test plans, test preparation materials, and structured test evidence aligned with programme and change governance standards.
• Managed defects through triage, prioritisation, and resolution with third-party suppliers and internal technical teams.
• Prepared documentation for change boards, providing concise testing summaries, risk assessments, and release recommendations.
• Engaged with suppliers, development teams, and project leadership to maintain alignment on testing progress, issues, and migration readiness.

• Joined an in-flight project delivering a solution to share customer and meter data with third-party reading partners.
• Tested integration across a web-based portal, multiple Oracle databases, the legacy billing system, as well as automated Informatica processes.
• Aided successfully delivery of the project to production with no issues reported during the warranty period.
• Provided sole test representation to a core project team, covering a portfolio of small- and medium-sized changes within metering and billing systems.
• Managed multiple projects in parallel, ensuring consistent test coverage, quality, and delivery across all streams.
• Responsibilities included: test strategy and plan creation, requirement analysis, test design and execution, data manipulation, defect management, reporting, third-party engagement, and stakeholder management.

Completed the Edge Testing Academy fast-track programme before being deployed across multiple client projects, both on-site and in-house. Delivered hands-on testing, coordination, and stakeholder engagement across IT change initiatives in financial services, healthcare, and aviation sectors.

Clients:

• Cigna Healthcare – Client on-boarding programme
• Flybe – Mobile application development
• Royal Bank of Scotland – Data warehousing