Hi, I’m Patrick Neeson. I’m a QA leader with over 20 years of experience delivering enterprise software across fintech, insurance and e-commerce. I’m based in Strabane and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to build reliable systems. I specialize in test strategy, automation, and quality governance within Agile environments. I’ve led QA teams, owned release readiness and production governance, and mentor engineers to raise the bar on quality while keeping delivery fast.

Patrick Neeson

Hi, I’m Patrick Neeson. I’m a QA leader with over 20 years of experience delivering enterprise software across fintech, insurance and e-commerce. I’m based in Strabane and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to build reliable systems. I specialize in test strategy, automation, and quality governance within Agile environments. I’ve led QA teams, owned release readiness and production governance, and mentor engineers to raise the bar on quality while keeping delivery fast.

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Hi, I’m Patrick Neeson. I’m a QA leader with over 20 years of experience delivering enterprise software across fintech, insurance and e-commerce. I’m based in Strabane and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to build reliable systems.

I specialize in test strategy, automation, and quality governance within Agile environments. I’ve led QA teams, owned release readiness and production governance, and mentor engineers to raise the bar on quality while keeping delivery fast.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Senior Test Engineer II at Payroc WorldAccess Ltd
January 1, 2021 - Present
Responsible for production change approval and release sign-off for platform deployments. Provides release readiness assessments and go-live recommendations. Tracks quality metrics including defect trends and release risk; analyzes requirements and designs comprehensive test plans. Performs UI, API, exploratory and accessibility testing; reviews pull requests and analyzes unit, integration and contract test coverage. Creates and maintains mock services using Mountebank and manages complex integration test data. Deploys infrastructure with Ansible, GitHub and Azure DevOps, and runs services within Docker containers. Mentors engineers, contributes to test standards and quality practices, and participates in technical interviewing and onboarding. Uses AI-assisted tools to generate and review test artefacts.
Configuration / Software Engineering Specialist at Pramerica Systems Ireland / Tata Consultancy Services
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
Implemented automation validating thousands of generated policy documents and improved data validation coverage for insurance ETL workflows. Developed and tested ETL workflows using Informatica PowerCenter; created SQL validation queries for Oracle databases; built automation framework using Selenium, Java, Apache PDFBox and TestNG; configured functionality on the FAST insurance administration platform; acted as Quality Champion promoting BDD/TDD practices; maintained automated regression suites; conducted end-to-end system testing.
Senior Software Developer at Apcon NI Ltd
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2018
Delivered custom enterprise applications supporting business operations; improved reliability through strong unit testing and QA validation.
QA Team Lead - E-Commerce Platforms at Pramerica Systems Ireland
June 3, 2013 - April 30, 2014
Led QA delivery across 9 enterprise web and mobile applications; managed 14 QA engineers across distributed teams; defined QA strategy and testing plans; coordinated testing with development, UAT and release teams; conducted defect triage and prioritisation; led team meetings and performance reviews.

Education

BTEC National Diploma - Computing at Omagh College of Further Education
September 4, 1995 - June 30, 1997
BTEC First Diploma - IT Applications at Omagh College of Further Education
September 5, 1994 - June 30, 1995

Qualifications

ISTQB Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026
ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026
ISEB Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026
ICAgile Certified Professional
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026
IBM Certified Solution Developer - Integration Bus v10
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026
Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026
Microsoft Certified Professional
January 11, 2030 - April 21, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Wholesale & Distribution, Media & Entertainment, Other