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I am a quality-driven test professional and a proven leader with over 20+ years of industry experience across diverse testing roles, including Test Architect, Lead Test Engineer, Senior Developer in Test, and Automation Test Consultant. I have a track record of delivering high-quality software by combining strong manual testing with robust automation, performance testing, and data quality validation across public sector, financial services, and enterprise platforms. I thrive in collaborative, agile environments and mentor teams to adopt modern QA practices, from BDD/Gherkin-driven testing to CI/CD-enabled automation frameworks. My specialties include API and UI testing, cloud-based test automation on AWS, and building scalable frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, Karate API, and JMeter. I enjoy partnering with developers, product owners, and operations teams to ship reliable systems with confidence.…I am a quality-driven test professional and a proven leader with over 20+ years of industry experience across diverse testing roles, including Test Architect, Lead Test Engineer, Senior Developer in Test, and Automation Test Consultant. I have a track record of delivering high-quality software by combining strong manual testing with robust automation, performance testing, and data quality validation across public sector, financial services, and enterprise platforms. I thrive in collaborative, agile environments and mentor teams to adopt modern QA practices, from BDD/Gherkin-driven testing to CI/CD-enabled automation frameworks. My specialties include API and UI testing, cloud-based test automation on AWS, and building scalable frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, Karate API, and JMeter. I enjoy partnering with developers, product owners, and operations teams to ship reliable systems with confidence.

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I am a quality-driven test professional and a proven leader with over 20+ years of industry experience across diverse testing roles, including Test Architect, Lead Test Engineer, Senior Developer in Test, and Automation Test Consultant. I have a track record of delivering high-quality software by combining strong manual testing with robust automation, performance testing, and data quality validation across public sector, financial services, and enterprise platforms. I thrive in collaborative, agile environments and mentor teams to adopt modern QA practices, from BDD/Gherkin-driven testing to CI/CD-enabled automation frameworks. My specialties include API and UI testing, cloud-based test automation on AWS, and building scalable frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, Karate API, and JMeter. I enjoy partnering with developers, product owners, and operations teams to ship reliable systems with confidence.…I am a quality-driven test professional and a proven leader with over 20+ years of industry experience across diverse testing roles, including Test Architect, Lead Test Engineer, Senior Developer in Test, and Automation Test Consultant. I have a track record of delivering high-quality software by combining strong manual testing with robust automation, performance testing, and data quality validation across public sector, financial services, and enterprise platforms. I thrive in collaborative, agile environments and mentor teams to adopt modern QA practices, from BDD/Gherkin-driven testing to CI/CD-enabled automation frameworks. My specialties include API and UI testing, cloud-based test automation on AWS, and building scalable frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, Karate API, and JMeter. I enjoy partnering with developers, product owners, and operations teams to ship reliable systems with confidence.

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I am a quality-driven test professional and a proven leader with over 20+ years of industry experience across diverse testing roles, including Test Architect, Lead Test Engineer, Senior Developer in Test, and Automation Test Consultant. I have a track record of delivering high-quality software by combining strong manual testing with robust automation, performance testing, and data quality validation across public sector, financial services, and enterprise platforms.

I thrive in collaborative, agile environments and mentor teams to adopt modern QA practices, from BDD/Gherkin-driven testing to CI/CD-enabled automation frameworks. My specialties include API and UI testing, cloud-based test automation on AWS, and building scalable frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, Karate API, and JMeter. I enjoy partnering with developers, product owners, and operations teams to ship reliable systems with confidence.

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Work Experience

Lead Test Engineer at Defra

September 1, 2024 - Present

QA leadership and test assurance across multiple streams for the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program; led design and execution of System and SIT testing; built and maintained End-to-End regression framework using Playwright (Node.js/TypeScript); integrated Axe-Core for automated WCAG accessibility checks; developed API testing via Postman; integrated CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps; promoted modern QA practices and shift-left testing; supported Scrum ceremonies and cross-team coordination.

Senior Developer in Test / Test Architect at Home Office

November 1, 2015 - August 31, 2024

Led E2E Functional and Non-Functional Test planning and assurance across multiple streams; defined Test Strategy for System and SIT; reviewed assets; scoped SIT scenarios; enhanced API and UI test automation frameworks (Bespoke Java API framework, Cypress); introduced automated accessibility testing; built CI/CD pipelines with Drone; mentored team of Senior Test Engineers; created dashboards to monitor quality metrics.

Developer in Test at Houses of Parliament

January 1, 2014 - October 31, 2015

Led end-to-end testing of the Data. Parliament platform; developed Core Ingest API REST test suites (SoapUI Pro); implemented Selenium-based UI regression tests with Page Object Pattern; applied BDD (SpecFlow) for UAT automation; planned and executed performance tests; managed incident resolution and defect triage.

Automation Test Consultant at Crown Agents

April 1, 2012 - December 31, 2013

Designed and implemented automation for government programs; built Java-based automation framework using Apache HTTP Client; created data simulators and stubs; integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins); contributed to testing in ERP-like environments; performed performance testing and automation maintenance.

Automation Test Consultant at RBI

September 1, 2010 - January 31, 2012

Developed bespoke Java API test framework; automated tests using JUnit; led SIT across multiple banking applications; collaborated with dev teams to improve data generation and testability.

Senior Test Analyst at Creativity Software

November 1, 2009 - August 31, 2010

Led testing across multiple platforms; developed automation within the Virtuoso/HTTP client framework; implemented manual and automated test strategies; managed defects and incident triage; contributed to test planning and reporting.

QA Tester at I-BetX

October 1, 2008 - August 31, 2009

Led functional and performance testing; automation using Watir; designed and executed load tests with JMeter; participated in test planning and reporting cycles.

Automation Tester / Test Analyst at Logica CMG

October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2008

Led automation and performance testing across multiple projects; built Vugen scripts for performance testing; managed incidents and test assets; contributed to test strategy and estimation.

Test Engineer at Wipro InfoTech

October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005

Functional and performance testing; test strategy development; manual testing and automation using QTP; regression suites; defect management and reporting.