PROFILE:

• Professional Test Lead with over Nineteen years of experience in quality assurance and testing of various software products in different environments in the Financial, Insurance, Transport, Sports and Retail industries.
• I am an energetic and flexible customer oriented professional, with a focus on timely results through dedication and teamwork, willing and able to adapt readily to varied technologies.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Application Specialisations: Oracle E - Business Suite, Primavera P3e & P6, Web Applications.

Oracle Cloud: Finance, HCM and Taleo Recruit.

Workday: Workday HCM, Taleo- HCM Integration, Workday - SAP payroll integration.

Cornerstone: Learning Management System.

Oracle E-Business Suite (V12, 11.5.10+): Financials (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger); HRMS (Payroll, iRecruitment, Competency, Oracle Learning Management, Self-Service), iProcurement, Supply Chain Management (iStore, Order Management, Inventory), Oracle Time & Labour, Oracle Projects, SOA Suite (BEPL, ESB), Disco Reports.

Languages: HTML,CXML, ASP, JAVA SCRIPT, MS SQL, SQL PLUS, Oracle PL/SQL

Automated Test tools: Test Director/Quality Center, Winrunner, Test Drive Gold, TestWeb, Test Plan, Quality Centre, Quick Test Professional, SQL Developer, TOAD

JOB HISTORY:

Confidential

Workday Programme Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Lead for the implementation of Confidential ’s HRIS Transformation Programme .
• I defined the Test Strategy for the programme and the subsequent Test Plans for each Testing phase - Configuration and Prototype, End to End and UAT test phases.
• Confidential implemented the Time and Absence, Core HCM (including recruitment) and Payroll modules of Workday.
• Working with the System Integrator (Workday) and Functional Consultants on the project, I created test scenarios for each module based on the Business Process and Configuration Workbooks.
• As a hands-on test lead, I coordinated the test effort during testing phases, I was heavily involved in executing the test scenarios and reporting the progress of testing to the programme team.
• I ensure that the Test Scenario packs use during implementation were suitable and easily convertible to Regression Test packs in the future post implementation.

Confidential

Workday Programme Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test lead of the implementation of the Confidential Workday Programme in the UK and 13 European countries.
• Working with the System Integrator (Alight), I managed the testing of the Configuration, End to End and UAT test phases.
• Confidential implemented the Time and Absence, Core HCM, and Talent and Performance modules of Workday.
• I led the Configuration and End to End test of the integration of the Workday solution with the Avature Recruitment system and the payroll systems of all the 13 countries in scope.
• I was responsible for creating the Test Approach and Test Plans for all the phases of the programme.
• I led a team of testers and we worked with the SI, Workstream leads and SMEs to develop test scenarios for the Configuration, End to End and UAT test phases.
• I Managed the test team and all test activities during planning and execution, including coordinating logistics, and resources, triaging of defects and managing daily defect calls with the Project team and SI.
• I was Involved in hands on test execution in the functional and End - 2End test phases.
• I Produced the end of test report to facilitate the signoff in each test phase.

Confidential

Workday Programme Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test Manager of the implementation of the Tim Absence Management, Talent, Benefits and Advance Compensation modules of Workday and Cornerstones Learning Management System (LMS).
• My key deliverables were to manage and ensure the successful signoff of the Prototype, End to End and UAT phases of all workstreams in the programme. I was responsible for creating the Test Approach and Test Plans for all the phases of the programme.
• Worked closely with the System Integrator Alight (Aon Hewitt), Confidential Workstream leads and SMEs to ensure that the testing was performed to the high standard required by the client (Hiscox).
• Worked with the workstream Business Analysts to develop test scenarios and test scripts for each phase. Managed the test team and all test activities during planning and execution, including coordinating logistics, and resources, triaging of defects and managing daily defect calls with System Integrator.
• Involved in hands on test execution in the functional and End - 2End test phases.
• Produced the end of test report to facilitate the signoff in each test phase.
• Worked with the HR support team to convert the existing test scripts to Regression Test packs for future releases post implementation.

Confidential

Oracle Cloud (Fusion) Implementation Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• My responsibilities included planning and managing the delivery of System Integration Testing (SIT) and the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities to ensure that the target platform s functionality as configured by the delivery partner conforms to the needs and requirements of RFU. Led and managed all testing activities of the transformation, providing regular updates of progress against plan to the Programme Manager and Project Lead.
• Responsible for the creation of the overall Test Strategy/Approach and the Test Plans for the SIT and UAT phases for the Oracle HCM, Oracle HCM to Ernie Payroll Integration, Taleo Recruit to HCM Integration, and ERP Finance (P2P, O2C and ALCM modules) implementation phases.
• Worked closely with the System Integrator (Certus) and RFU stakeholders to ensure the successful testing and delivery of all test phases. Coordinated the development and sign - off of all test scenarios and scripts for each phase. Ensured the alignment of data, people and activities across the RFU and the delivery partner to deliver the appropriate end-to-end testing of relevant business process and new system functionality.
• Managed test activities, including logistics, triaging of defects, assigning priority and co-ordination of testing resources.
• Produced Test Report at the end of each test phase.
• Identified and managed UAT related risks, issues and dependencies to minimise impact on the project.
• Managed the conversion of SIT and UAT test scripts to a Regression Test pack for the RFU - this is for the purpose of testing future releases post implementation.

Confidential

Workday Programme Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global Test Manager for the implementation of the Workday HCM Programme across 42 countries and to 45,000 employees.
• Produced a Programme wide Test Strategy for the Workday implementation that encompasses HR process change, enabled by on-premise and cloud based technologies.
• Produced the overall programme Test Strategy in-line with the Workday Accelerated development methodology.
• Produced the individual test plans for the individual test cases defined in the Test Strategy - Functional System Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Payroll Parallel Testing.
• Coordinated and managed all Test activities in the above Test phases reporting the progress of Test activities to the Programme manager and other senior stakeholders on a timely basis. Coordinated End to End test of the Workday solution and existing payroll systems with 10 Payroll Integrated and 32 non-payroll integrated HR Shared Service centres in f 5 regions - UK, Europe, USA Africa, and Asia.

Confidential

Oracle HR and Payroll Implementation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead Tester on the HR and Payroll implementation programme, managed the System test, Integration Testing and UAT phases.
• Produced the Project Test Strategy, System Test Plan and SIT plan for the Oracle HR and Payroll implementation programme, produced Test Phase Completion Reports at the end of each test phase, ensured that all exit criteria was met before commencing to the next test phase.
• Planed, prepared and executed test scripts and conditions on a timely basis and completed all test activities within agreed timescales, liaised with all areas of IT and the business to ensure that testing activities in all test phases were carried out on a timely basis.
• Created weekly status and test progress/execution reports utilising JIRA and Zephyr test tools.
• Assumed the responsibility for the development and continual changes of plans for tests, managed the test impact of change requests and other various changes in the business requirements.
• Ensured that tests were executed and progress recorded in Zephyr, ensured that all faults were identified and reported in JIRA.
• Ensure that integrity of the test environment and data is maintained. Plan and schedule own test activities of self and other testers.
• Produce progress reports where appropriate for the Programme Test Manager and Business programme Manager.
• Supported the Finance function on the regression testing of the HR changes on the Oracle Finance module.
• Assisted the business during UAT preparation - provided System test scripts as the basis of the UAT scripts, supported in creation of the HR and UAT Test plan and schedule, provided environmental support for user roles and responsibility during UAT ensuring that the participants have user accounts and the corresponding Oracle responsibly assigned and maintained.

Confidential

ERP Programme Test Manager /Test Assurance Manager

Responsibilities:

• ERP Programme test Manager for major Oracle E-Business implementations integrating with multiple external systems. Produce the Test Strategy and Test Plan on each project’s merits, usually encompassing System, System Integration, UAT and PPT Test Phases.
• Define test approach and methodology to adopt for all test phases in the SDLC. Lead the regression testing of multiple releases including family pack patches and technical upgrades.
• As the ERP Project Test Manager I was responsible for the R12 upgrade of the Confidential ’s Oracle E-Business infrastructure.
• As Project Test Manger in Confidential I successfully delivered the following projects;
• Multiple projects to facilitate employee movement between Oracle and non Oracle payroll; the introduction of new absence processing policy and business logic; the implementation of salary sacrifice pensions; overhaul of the implementation of the OTL timecards, including a bespoke interface to import timecard data from the Shift Logic rostering system; overhaul of the Networkrail’s defined pension scheme.
• Strong experience in defining and managing payroll projects in system testing, UAT stages. Experience of parallel run testing during the pre-production phase against the production environment in order to analyse and assure the quality of data of the system under test.
• Worked closely with senior business stakeholders and suppliers (CSC, Logica, CapGemini) on the project to define the most suitable testing process and delivery plan for a release.
• Responsible for test planning and test coordination of Confidential s Oracle E - Business infrastructure from R11i to R12.
• Defined a hybrid test approach for the project with the supplier s test manager and technical leads.
• Worked with third party suppliers to define the testing approach and execute the testing for the SOA upgrade project.
• Test lead on the implementation of the Oracle Learning Management module. Created the Test Strategy and Test plan for the System test phase of the project. I was involved in creating test scripts and executing tests during the system test and SIT phases, tested the integration of OLM with the core HR and HR Self-Service modules, executed regression tests for HR and Self-service. Supported the business in UAT planning and writing UAT scripts. Managed the UAT execution phase, responsible for managing defects, tracking defects and reporting test outcome to stakeholders.
• Implementation of OTL timecards for over 15 employee T&Cs each with separate roster patterns and associated earning policy business logic, rolled out for 12,000 rostered employees.
• Upgrade of Oracle 11i E-Business Financials including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger. Performed functional testing, integration and regression testing of AP, iExpenses, AR and GL.
• Implementation of the self service web based iExpenses add-on and workflow for 33,000 employees. Integrating internally with HRMS and Accounts Payables for supplier and AP invoice creation. Bespoke interfaces integrated the separate PSE payroll system and Bottomline Technologies WebSeries for BACS payments.
• Integration of iProcurement with 8 external supplier websites. Provides end-to-end integration of requisition from external websites, purchase order transmission and invoice receipt via XML messaging.
• Unification of BACS transmission payment method for Payroll payments and Payables invoices interfacing to Bottomline Technologies WebSeries software via SFTP. The solution pays over 33,000 employees and 1,000 suppliers.
• Regression, CR and patch testing.
• Implementation of self service requisitions, unifying financial and procurement processes to raise requisitions and purchase orders.
• Implementation of Product Lifecycle Management, Order Management (iStore, Inventory) and Order Capture modules.
• Bespoke messaging interface between Primavera P3e and Oracle Projects module to maintain data synchronisation 5,000 projects at stages of the lifecycle.
• Implemented for iExpenses, iProcurement, Oracle Projects.
• Upgrade of Citrix and Web application to P6, including data migration.
• Multiple web enhancements developed using Agile methodology.
• Test lead of various Confidential solutions developed by IBM on the websphere platform, testing in conjunction with IBM travel and transport division in Famborough.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in system, integration and regression testing of Confidential ’s new webshop based on Blue Martini architecture developed by a third party supplier (EDSConchango). Duties involved test planning all the stages of the project, writing test scripts, executing tests, presenting to the user group and co-ordinating UAT using the Agile methodology .
• I worked closely with business analysts to ensure that requirements were unambiguous and testable.
• My secondary role in the above two projects was to ensure that Confidential ’s newly acquired automated test tool (TestPlan /TestWeb by Original Software) were utilised to their full potential.