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I am a senior QA professional specializing in complex, high-impact systems across fintech (finance/insurance), telco, sports data, e-commerce, and public sector. I combine hands-on technical delivery with analytical judgment and architectural awareness to design risk-driven QA strategies and embed quality across the SDLC. I am a quality-first advocate within agile product teams, committed to continuous improvement and mentoring fellow QAs. I support safe, practical AI use to accelerate testing and QA, and I lead efforts in AI/ML QA across product life cycles. I hold ISTQB certification with UK Security Clearance (SC) and am pursuing ITIL and advanced ISTQB certifications.…I am a senior QA professional specializing in complex, high-impact systems across fintech (finance/insurance), telco, sports data, e-commerce, and public sector. I combine hands-on technical delivery with analytical judgment and architectural awareness to design risk-driven QA strategies and embed quality across the SDLC. I am a quality-first advocate within agile product teams, committed to continuous improvement and mentoring fellow QAs. I support safe, practical AI use to accelerate testing and QA, and I lead efforts in AI/ML QA across product life cycles. I hold ISTQB certification with UK Security Clearance (SC) and am pursuing ITIL and advanced ISTQB certifications.

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I am a senior QA professional specializing in complex, high-impact systems across fintech (finance/insurance), telco, sports data, e-commerce, and public sector. I combine hands-on technical delivery with analytical judgment and architectural awareness to design risk-driven QA strategies and embed quality across the SDLC. I am a quality-first advocate within agile product teams, committed to continuous improvement and mentoring fellow QAs. I support safe, practical AI use to accelerate testing and QA, and I lead efforts in AI/ML QA across product life cycles. I hold ISTQB certification with UK Security Clearance (SC) and am pursuing ITIL and advanced ISTQB certifications.…I am a senior QA professional specializing in complex, high-impact systems across fintech (finance/insurance), telco, sports data, e-commerce, and public sector. I combine hands-on technical delivery with analytical judgment and architectural awareness to design risk-driven QA strategies and embed quality across the SDLC. I am a quality-first advocate within agile product teams, committed to continuous improvement and mentoring fellow QAs. I support safe, practical AI use to accelerate testing and QA, and I lead efforts in AI/ML QA across product life cycles. I hold ISTQB certification with UK Security Clearance (SC) and am pursuing ITIL and advanced ISTQB certifications.

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I am a senior QA professional specializing in complex, high-impact systems across fintech (finance/insurance), telco, sports data, e-commerce, and public sector. I combine hands-on technical delivery with analytical judgment and architectural awareness to design risk-driven QA strategies and embed quality across the SDLC.

I am a quality-first advocate within agile product teams, committed to continuous improvement and mentoring fellow QAs. I support safe, practical AI use to accelerate testing and QA, and I lead efforts in AI/ML QA across product life cycles. I hold ISTQB certification with UK Security Clearance (SC) and am pursuing ITIL and advanced ISTQB certifications.

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Work Experience

QA & Test Analyst - Contract at ReadyTech

August 1, 2025 - March 1, 2026

End-To-End QA ownership for a high-risk national SaaS platform, executing hands-on regression testing across multi-environment releases and coordinating findings with support, remote delivery teams, and automated test suites. Led automation framework modernisation, migrating test scope into a Katalon Studio framework and leveraging AI-assisted execution and feedback loops. Oversaw release governance, including exit reporting and go/no-go decisions, influencing senior stakeholders on delivery cadence and QA strategy.

Test Analyst – Contract (Two Renewals) at Royal Mail Group

December 1, 2024 - August 1, 2025

Full-Lifecycle E2E & Mobile Testing across SIT/UAT, including defect triage, resolution, and validation under tight daily delivery timelines. Performed system, data, and dependency risk assessment across releases. Migrated test cases and data into Zephyr to improve cross-team visibility and wrote API scripts for test-data preparation and creation.

QA Engineer II at Kraken Technologies – Octopus Energy Group

January 1, 2024 - December 1, 2024

Owned QA function in a new business area, establishing QA lifecycle, strategy, quality gates, and regulatory requirements. Delivered API testing (REST and GraphQL) using Postman and Datadog; led debugging via Sentry/log analysis; overhauled QA ways of working (DoR/DoD, backlog refinement, documentation). Acted as primary QA liaison with stakeholders and external test partners.

QA Analyst Engineer at UnderwriteMe – Pacific Life Re – Pacific Life

May 1, 2020 - December 1, 2023

AI/ML QA leadership within an MLOps scrum team, driving QA for an AI-driven insurance product from inception through MVP and production release. Embedded shift-left practices, defined acceptance criteria, managed feature sign-off, and oversaw multi-tenant deployments across staging/production. Defined and executed manual, automated, API, performance, E2E, and contract testing strategies; analyzed model accuracy and system behaviour using Grafana/Prometheus/AWS metrics.

IT Consultant/ Test Analyst / QA Engineer at FDM Group / Genius Sports / Spektrix

September 1, 2015 - November 1, 2019

Delivered QA across banking and public health clients, contributing to global QA infrastructure and transitioning to sole test analyst on R&D initiatives. Implemented automation, release & test management, and supported production releases with load testing, rollback, and logging contingencies. Drove BDD/TDD adoption, JIRA management, and cross-team testing across algorithmic trading, sportsbook, and ticketing platforms.