Description

Highly accomplished Test Manager and Digital Transformation Specialist with over 20 years of experience in leading large-scale QA and testing initiatives across Financial Services, Wealth & Banking, Payments, Insurance, IT Software, Digital Media, and Telecom. Proven expertise in Digital Transformation, Test Automation, and DevOps implementation, delivering 40-60% efficiency improvements in testing processes. Skilled in managing onsite-offshore teams of up to 60 members, driving Agile, Waterfall, and V-Model methodologies, and ensuring seamless CI/CD integration.

Key strengths include:

• Digital Transformation Leadership: Spearheaded multiple cloud migration, API modernisation, and legacy system modernisation projects, reducing manual testing by 60% and improving test coverage by 45%.

• Test Automation & DevOps: Designed and implemented automation frameworks for API, SIT, UAT, and E2E testing, integrating with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and AWS.

• Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Collaborated with C-level executives, business users, and third-party vendors to deliver high-quality testing solutions and ensure on-time project delivery.

• Agile & Shift-Left Practices: Championed BDD/TDD methodologies, reducing testing cycles by 40% and improving defect detection rates.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km)

Albany Beck Consultancy
Senior Test Manager
August 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
London, United Kingdom
Client: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Project: CLT Integration Program - RBC Wealth Management / Brewin Dolphin Merger
- Leading test strategy and execution for the Client Lifecycle Transformation (CLT) program as part of the RBC and Brewin Dolphin integration. Responsible for ensuring seamless platform integration, regulatory compliance, and data integrity across multiple systems and business functions.
Key Contributions:
• Spearheaded end-to-end testing of CRM integrations (Salesforce and Client Engage) with Avaloq core banking system, supporting unified client lifecycle management.
• Led complex data migration testing involving two legacy databases and over 200,000 client records, achieving >99.8% data accuracy post-migration.
• Directed QA and UAT cycles across Agile delivery squads, managing planning, execution, and defect resolution using qTest and JIRA.
• Delivered successful testing of financial planning tools, including Conquest and Iress Xplan, ensuring functionality for Relationship Managers and fee structure compliance.
• Implemented iCap-based automation, improving regression efficiency by 35% and accelerating release cycles.
• Actively collaborated with business stakeholders, developers, and program leads to ensure alignment across testing and delivery milestones.
• Maintained full audit trail and traceability for regulatory assurance and internal governance.
EXPLEO
Technical Principal Consultant – Quality Engineering(QE)
TECH
April 2023 - May 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
Client: TSYS, Atlanta, USA (Payments)
Automated RESTful API testing and CI/CD processes, improving cloud migration efficiency by 40% and reducing manual testing hours by 60% in Mainframes Modernization with TSYS.
Built Jenkins pipelines to streamline the CI/CT process, enabling seamless UAT testing and reducing deployment time by 45%, ensuring smooth client handover.
Crafted a comprehensive test strategy for Digital Platform encompassing API, UAT, and E2E test coverage, leading to a 40% reduction in production issues and seamless CI/CD integration using Agile principles.
Implemented an automation framework for microservices API functional and UAT testing, incorporating contract testing; increased test coverage by 45% and reduced defect leakage by 40% for Digital Platform.
Technologies: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, RestAssured, BDD, Postman, Jenkins, Jira, SoapUI, Azure DevOps, X-Ray, Zephyr, Git, API, microservices, Mainframe, Python

Client: Beazley Insurance, London, UK (Insurance)
Established industry-leading standards and best practices for test automation scripts and CI/CD DevOps, accelerating deployment cycles by 40% and reducing defects in web and mobile applications by 30%.
Technologies: Tosca, Playwright, Leapwork, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, WebDriverIO, RestAssured, BDD, TDD, Postman, Jenkins, Jira, SoapUI, AzureDevOps, X-Ray, Zephyr, PowerBI, Confluence, Git, API, Web, Mobile, microservices

Client: Lloyds of London, London, UK (Insurance)
As Programme Test Manager; defined comprehensive standards, patterns, and best practices for test automation and CI/CD DevOps, improving test efficiency by 40% and detailed in the Executive test strategy for program-level consistency.
Test Management Test Planning Leadership UAT DevOps Agile Methodologies Team Leadership Amazon Web Services (AWS) Stakeholder Management Organization Skills Vendor Management Programme Test Management E2E Testing
Smart Consulting
Programme Test Automation Consultant – Test and Governance (Automation and DevOps)
E-COMMERCE
December 2022 - Today (3 years and 6 months)
London, United Kingdom
Proposed new test strategy and team structure; established organisational metrics to report API, SIT, UAT, and E2E testing health, increasing transparency and decision-making efficiency by 25%.
Provided new and modern automation solutions with DevOps implementation for continuous testing and release to the client for better integrated testing environments and strategy, moving to a more agile, responsive, and cloud-first integrated testing strategy for API (microservices) in AWS SOA architecture, Web and Mobile applications.
Defined and standardised test & release management protocols, including Defect, Release, Incident and CR Management, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment errors and a 25% increase in release efficiency.

Skills: Programme Test Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management, Organization Skills, Communication, E2E, UAT, Functional, Automation and DevOps Skills
Test Management Méthode agile QA testing BDD DevOps UAT