Paul Ballard

Director of Test Engineering

Dotmatics

May 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)

Interim Quality Manager

BigPay Challenge Banking

Jan 2020 - May 2023 (3 years 5 months)

Quality Assurance Manager

BoilerJuice

Nov 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 2 months)

BoilerJuice are a heating oil marketplace backed by the private equity firm Livingbridge. Boilerjuice had no QA function and struggled with development/release process to get quality deliverables to their large customer base. I was contracted in to provide guidance and deliver a sustainable QA practice across all areas of the development team in an agile environment. I successfully lead and transformed the quality over the development team, covering development best practises, automation testing, test approach, continuous integration, release process, story writing, sprint planning, retrospectives, detailed living documentation and load testing. Contract achievements: Provided a quick win testing suite utilising Katalon within 2 weeks of

Test Manager

Volkswagen Group UK Ltd

Jun 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Managed and delivered the testing of a large scale transformation and migration project. Utilised and developed SOAP UI and Selenium data driven automation suite to cover a business rules framework for both positive and negative scenarios. Planned and executed the testing of ETL of 12 million customer base in line with GDPR requirement. While assisting with business analyst duties where support required.

Test Manager

Accenture

Jun 2016 - Jun 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Test Lead experience delivering large test plans and scope delivery for Large Pensions project - Experience of Major Business and IT transformations, working with both IT and Business stakeholders to ensure testing approaches and scope are covered and accepted by all parties. - Designed and created automation suites using TestComplete automating over 90% of a functional area - Managed User Acceptance testing scope and execution with stakeholder management and reporting - Managed and trained business users in test approaches, best practise and effective defect recording/tracking - Managing 3rd party suppliers to provide prioritised delivery based on business impact analysis Specialities: • Senior Stakeholder Management • Offshore Test Serv

Test Lead

Accenture

May 2015 - Jun 2016 (1 year 2 months)

Test Lead experience delivering large test plans and scope delivery for Tier 1 Telecommunications clients - Experience of Major Business and IT transformations, working with both IT and Business stakeholders to ensure testing approaches and scope are covered and accepted by all parties. - In Depth knowledge of Oracle - BSS & OSS E2E integration - End to End test experience from initial planning phase to completion of project delivery. Specialities: • Senior Stakeholder Management • Offshore Test Service Management • Telecommunications

Test Lead

Accenture

Mar 2014 - May 2015 (1 year 3 months)

Working within testing team for a project with a telecommunication company to deliver an oracle stack for order management. Managing a team of 8 people across two deliveries.

Test Lead

Accenture

Aug 2013 - Mar 2014 (8 months)

Work package test lead for a large oracle stack

UAT Technician

Cambridge Assessment

Jan 2013

Programmer

Accenture

Jul 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 3 months)

Working within testing team for a project with a telecommunication company to deliver an oracle stack for order management.

IT Assistant

Hugh Symons

Sep 2010 - Jun 2011 (10 months)

Worked on decommissioning and auditing computers around the office. Other responsibilities included installing computers, hardware components, installing cabling and working with scripts.

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