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I am a software quality enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in testing and delivering robust software across health and wellbeing, retail, banking, and government domains. I thrive on building strong QA practices, crafting test strategies, and mentoring teams to achieve high-quality releases.
I bring hands-on experience with Dynamics 365, cloud platforms, automation, data testing, and stakeholder collaboration, always aiming to improve processes and customer outcomes.
Language
English
Fluent
Work Experience
Test Consultant (Evolve) at Amber Labs
August 1, 2024 - PresentDeveloped and implemented test strategies, plans, and frameworks aligned with project requirements. Led a QA team of 4 including test engineers and automation specialists. Collaborated with business analysts and developers to understand requirements. Implemented and oversaw an automation framework using Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, and Maven, with CI/CD integration in Jenkins and GitHub. Defined and executed test cases, test scripts, and data for functional validation across Evolve's Dynamics 365 CE migration. Oversaw system, integration, regression, and UAT testing; established Jira-based defect management and dashboards; managed test environments.
Test Consultant (DARTS) at Amber Labs
August 1, 2024 - PresentDeveloped comprehensive test strategies and standardized testing processes for multiple projects, including Digital Audio Recording, Transcription and Storage. Led and mentored testing teams to deliver high-quality results, performed functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing, and coordinated with stakeholders. Created Jira dashboards, defect management processes, and test environments; participated in Azure-based deployment testing and data center moves.
Infrastructure / Network Test Lead at Secure Cloud
April 1, 2023 - June 1, 2024Key member of the infrastructure testing team for UK SECRET REL framework (Data Center and inter-governmental information exchange). Led a 2-person QA testing team, prepared Test Plans, templates, and evidence, and coordinated with clients. Managed defect tracking in Jira, wrote SQL queries for data integrity checks, and reported progress to senior management; interacted with Stakeholders, SMEs, PMOs, Solution Architects, and Clients.
Agile Automation Test Lead at Claritas Solutions Limited
January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023Migration project involving over 150 applications (Desktop and Web). Prepared Test Plans and Estimates, identified automation fit, prepared initial automation use cases, and defined automation approach using T-Plan, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
Senior Test Engineer at Airbus Defence and Space (MOD)
April 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023Participated in reviewing requirements, prepared Test Strategy, Plan, and Estimates. Created automation scripts using Python (Behave, Pytest), managed Jira dashboards, Kanban, and Defect Management. Involved in Data Center testing, emulator and hardware device testing, and stakeholder demonstrations.
Functional Test Automation Specialist (Automation Test Lead) at Accenture (UK) Limited
November 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022Bank of England RTGS program involvement: prepared estimates, identified scope, implemented test strategy, identified scenarios, created test data and test cases, automated smoke and API tests using Selenium WebDriver 3, Karate, Cucumber, Gradle, JUnit5, Postman, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. Supported UAT/OAT and reporting dashboards via Jira and Power BI.
Functional Test Automation Specialist (Automation Test Lead) at Accenture (UK) Limited
October 1, 2020 - March 31, 2021RTGS platform automation and API testing across cloud environment (Azure). Built automated smoke and API tests, along with CI/CD integration; collaborated with stakeholders to ensure resilience and interoperability.
Senior UAT Test Analyst at Healthcare at Home
November 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations 10.0.6 and Dynamics 365 CE 9.1 migration from CRM 4.0 and Sage. Conducted SIT/UAT, REST API testing, data validation, defect triage, and Go/No-Go readiness. Organized UAT resources and reporting.
Test Lead at Capita PLC
January 1, 2018 - October 31, 2019CRM 8.2 migration from CRM 2011 to Dynamics 365. Automated smoke and regression tests, performance testing, and data migration. Led ETL testing, REST API testing, UAT, and OAT; developed automation infrastructure and Power BI dashboards.
Senior Test Analyst at Capita PLC
March 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017PIP Assessment Services for DWP on CRM 2011 to 8.2 migration. Automated testing, REST API validation, ETL testing, UAT and OAT, and data migration verification; produced testing dashboards and exit reports.
Data Conversion Specialist at BPP University
January 1, 2016 - March 31, 2016CAB and BarSAS ETL job in Talend to upload CAB/BarSAS files to Salesforce and Noah (Data Warehouse). Built SQL scripts and mapping documents; conducted unit, functional, and UAT testing.
Data Conversion Specialist at BPP University
December 1, 2015 - January 31, 2016WLMoodle project: migrate MSSQL data to MySQL, create Talend jobs to extract data from ICAEW and load into MySQL-based Moodle databases; performed unit, functional, and UAT testing.
Data Conversion Specialist at BPP University
August 1, 2015 - November 30, 2015Moodle_CareerHub: extract data from Moodle, Athena, and Banner; transform and load to Amazon S3; develop Talend jobs and SQL scripts; perform unit, functional, and UAT testing.
Test Analyst at FA Solutions Limited
March 1, 2013 - May 31, 2015FCrew/Qantas Airlines project: ETL test preparation, data quality validation, SQL validation, system, regression, and UAT testing; defect logging and triage.
Test Analyst at FA Solutions Limited
August 1, 2012 - February 28, 2013Hotix: Hospitality domain testing including manual and automation (QTP), defining test cases and executing Sanity, Functionality, Retesting, and Regression tests.
Test Analyst at FA Solutions Limited
January 1, 2012 - July 31, 2012Life First: Insurance domain; preparing test cases, executing Sanity, Functionality, Retesting, and Regression tests; automation script enhancement.
Test Analyst at FA Solutions Limited
September 1, 2011 - January 31, 2012E-Banking System: Banking domain; test case preparation, REST API testing, and automation scripting; system and regression testing.
Education
ISTQB Foundation Level at BCS
January 1, 2013 - December 8, 2025Oracle Certification Program – 1Z0-051 at Oracle Certification Program
January 1, 2016 - December 8, 2025Master in Hospitality Management (M.H.M) at University of Angers, France
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2000B.H.M.C.T at Osmania University, India
January 1, 1996 - January 1, 1999Qualifications
ISTQB Foundation Level
January 1, 2013 - December 8, 2025Oracle Certification Program – 1Z0-051
January 1, 2016 - December 8, 2025Industry Experience
Healthcare, Government, Financial Services, Professional Services, Software & Internet
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