Maryse de Boer

Speech recognition and medical transcription solutions.

• Creating test scenarios, user stories and test scripts in order to carry out and document a broad range of testing in both TestRail and JIRA.
• Front- and back-end testing of newly developed features as well as updates and additions to existing platforms.
• Cross platform testing and testing in newer and older platform versions to reflect diversity in customer usage.
• Liaising with developers to ensure full comprehension and correct implementation of requirements.
• Liaising with various teams who develop affiliated applications to ensure a seamless workflow and coordinated deployments.
• Undertaking frequent and extensive regression testing to ensure no functionality has been lost or compromised after patch updates or hotfixes.
• Logging and tracking defects and requirements in JIRA.
• Investigating and allocating resources to defects.
• Running and maintaining automated test suite frameworks.

Software house catering to the financial industry.

• Identifying changes to existing functionality and addition of new functionality from functional specifications.
• Liaising with developers and business analysts to ensure full comprehension of the requirements.
• Reviewing Functional Specifications and test plans to ensure the information included is suitably conveyed from a testing point of view.
• Creating and maintaining test plans to identify test conditions.
• Creating and maintaining test scripts based on test conditions identified in the test plan to ensure optimal test coverage.
• Usage of templates and parameterisation in Quality Centre to increase flexibility of tests.
• Raising and tracking defects in Quality Centre.
• Performing extensive regression testing to ensure newly implemented functionality has not had a detrimental effect on existing functionality.
• Providing relevant project feedback, on a day-to-day basis, to all appropriate project stakeholders including senior management and client representatives from institutions such as HSBC and Barclays.
• Working closely with line management in formalising and implementing changes to improve processes.
• Running and maintaining automated test suites to validate overall software functionality.
• Contributed to continuous improvement initiatives within the QA team.

Internet agency focusing on e-commerce, web development and customer support.

• Front- and back-end testing of newly developed sites as well as updates and additions to existing websites for a wide variety of clients, from small business e-commerce, international charities to local housing authorities.
• Cross browser testing to reflect customer browser usage diversity.
• Comprehensive regression testing to ensure no functionality has been lost or compromised after updates or additional functionality had been implemented.
• Creating test scenarios, user stories and test scripts in order to carry out and document a broad range of testing.
• Logging and tracking defects and issues in Gemini.
• Estimating testing time required and making sure to stay within the estimated time to ensure smooth and timely handovers to the client.
• Working to tight deadlines to ensure websites and platforms can and will go live at the designated time.
• Fielding all incoming customer support calls on dedicated customer support lines.
• Liaising with clients during critical periods when issues are being investigated and resolved.

Software House specialising in bespoke software for the insurance and underwriting sector.

• Planning, scripting and maintaining test documentation in Apache Subversion.
• Designing and prioritising test cases through careful analysis of the project's specifications.
• Performing reviews and other quality assurance tasks against project documentation such as making sure correct wording is used in the underwriting and calculations of premiums are correct.
• Liaising with Business Analysts to ensure requirements are concise and can be translated into test conditions.
• Executing tests on a variety of general insurance software applications (Web Based and bespoke) for insurance companies such as Zurich, Legal & General, AIG and Aviva for their car, home and other insurance products.
• Raising defects via the defect tracking tool and liaising with Development teams to promote swift resolution of any bugs or failures.
• Generating and testing of assorted Point Of Sale documentation such as Direct Debit agreements, insurance certificates and policy summaries.
• Design and execute test cases ensuring the Electronic Data Interchange functionality meets the specified behaviour and is transmitting the correct messages and triggers the right endorsements.