Rob Cooper's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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I'm about to start work with HSBC under their Securities Services team. This will involve a collaboration with their back-office team and the current test team to provide automated test coverage. Prioritising tests and areas that cause the most hassle as well as reducing the time taken for regression testing. I previously worked as a QA for Hymans Robertson. I executed and maintained a mixture of Manual and Automated tests, using C# and Jasmine (Protractor) for the latter. Additional experience with Fitnium (a test harness using a mixture of FitNesse and Selenium) while I worked with BSkyB. Before Hymans I was the lead tester for the Capital Modelling team within Barrie & Hibbert (A Moody's Analytics Company), and used Rally to track the progress of our User Stories, Test Cases and Defects. I maintained and helped build a number of Automated Test harnesses with the help of a developer, using C# mainly, however VB was also required for some projects. I've also had experience with QC (Quality Center) and FogBugz. Achievements: PRMIA Associate Professional Risk Management certificate Professional Scrum Master (foundation level) ISTQB Foundation.Quality Analyst (Contractor) @ Hymans is an independent pension’s consultancy, who provide Risk Management, Pension’s Investment Advice and Benefit Communications. I was a QA on their Guided Outcomes project, aimed at providing Employers with expected likelihood of hitting target retirement incomes, for each of their employees. I created and maintained a number of different automated test harnesses, using C# and Jasmine (Protractor) for the latter. This involved working closely with BAs, Tech Leads and the Project Manager in order to prioritise feature level tests and to understand where the test harnesses could provide the most benefit. Along with this, I utilised SQL for DB queries and created views for reporting purposes (which were also used as part of the automated testing process). I used Microsoft's TFS to track User Stories and defects, as well as storing test plans. From July 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 6 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomQuality Assurance Engineer @ Quality Assurance Engineer for Moody's Analytics (previously Barrie & Hibbert). I worked on a number of products which provided clients with the ability to price complex liabilities via proxy fittings and our new ECC product (Economic Capital Calculator). This has given me a lot of exposure to workflow applications (WPF) and .Net Applications. I helped to build the current test team, involved in interviews and occasionally mentioning new employees. From a technical point of view, I helped to maintain existing Test Automation test harnesses (in C# and VB). Along with this I worked with a number of teams to help improve their processes and make them more Agile. From January 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 7 months) Test Analyst @ Test Analyst for B & H (who deal with financial risk assessment). Testing their existing application/product and the new products they have created to work with their current systems. Mostly manual testing, however I helped the resident Test Automation expert with the test automation framework (utilising C#). Along with this, I used SQL for generic databases queries. From July 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 7 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomUser Acceptance Tester @ Reviewing business requirements and creating test scenarios HP Q.C Defect management Working with the Business and Functional test team to create automated regression tests (using Fitnium and VBsedit). These were then executed nightly to provide ongoing confidence in the system. Along with Test Automation, I manually executed User Acceptance tests using end to end scenarios From October 2008 to July 2011 (2 years 10 months) Business Customer Advisor @ Dealing with Business to Business sales and providing technical assistance or general customer services work. From April 2007 to October 2008 (1 year 7 months) Rob Cooper is skilled in: Regression Testing, Test Automation, User Acceptance Testing, Testing, Manual Testing, Test Cases, Quality Assurance, Scrum, Selenium, Test Management, C#, Cycling, .NET, Performance Testing, Running