kamil nowicki

Kamil is working on large programme aiming to replace and improve existing legacy system. The estate comprise of multiple connected applications of various complexity. Kamil is involved in writing automated tests predominantly with use of soapUI also utilising Hermes, and Selenium. Use of Oracle Service Bus, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and programming languages such as Java, Groovy, SQL is part of the role.

Responsibility for processing takings from all venues on site, collecting data from three main systems in use and creation of reports for Head Office, overlooking cash training of team on site, financial auditing within the resort, overlooking a team of 12 people within the cashiers office, responsibility for dealing with customer queries as well as being responsible for the on site vault.

Due to quality of work and ability to learn and adopt quickly Kamil was asked to work on one of the largest project to date. The project involved integration of more than five different systems as well as involvement of 27 other countries and consisted of few thousand man-hours of effort. Within short period of time Kamil was asked to take on lead role to drive the project further. The tasks included: attending System Design Reviews Board; liaising with customer in regards to test documentation; being first point of contact for Project, E2E and PVT for managers as well as Functional Lead or Leads of other integrating systems; teaching and mentoring new resources; and maintaining test documentation such as OPM12s. His involvement in System, Integration, PVT and E2E test stages allowed Kamil to gain great understanding of the system being developed and his input acknowledged when knowledge transfer sessions for Live Services was undertaken.

* As part of his degree Kamil have gained vast experience in web programming that was put into practice when iCrave4 online store was designed and developed. * The online service offered many functionalities to the users and was a success. * Kamil was involved in maintaining the site, processing orders, stock research and purchase and all admin tasks related to running a business as well as customer management. * Upon starting full time employment company was closed down.

As part of his 10 week placement at the West Sussex County Council where in partnership with CAPITA Kamil worked on a project aiming to establish how Social Care Records can be better managed. Project involved working closely with Corelogic provider of Framework-i and aims to develop solution allowing SharePoint support of the DMS. During his research Kamil identified incorrect use of Oracle DB wherby replacing incorrect datatype in the table would resolve the underlying issues and result in no need of using SharePoint to support another system. Kamil was awarded an First honours for his dissertation.

Kamil worked on various projects within SAP domain, his work involved Business Blueprint and Functional Specification review, test design based on documentation as well as test execution. Kamil was involved in system, integration and performance testing. Worked with SAP PI, SAP ETMP, WebMethods, SQL databases, Unix Transfers and JMS. His natural curiosity and attention to details lead to highest number of valid defects being raised many of which were live issues. During this period Kamil was recognised as high performer and achiever giving him highest performance marking during performance review.

* SME Overlooking project delivered as a Test Lead, interacting with external and internal customers. Providing support, reporting and advice on functionality of the system. * Attending workshops with the customer in order to establish requirements for further development. * Liaising with other interfacing systems in order to ensure data accuracy, consistency as well as as reporting on system performance. * Identifying system problems, designing solutions, drafting solution documentation, blueprints, functional specifications and working with developers to deliver agreed solutions. * Responsible for recruitment of SAP Test flexible resources.

Programming for the web (82% - A) - Introduction to marketing (70% - A) - Business information systems (87% - A) - Project management (91% - A) - Dynamic and data driven systems (86% - A) - Analysing and improving web design and performance (89% - A) - Developing real systems for customers (76% - A) - Networked world systems and architectures (77% - A) - Developing an information strategy (77% - A) - Personalising the commercial web experience (86% - A) Average grade upon completion of the degree 77,45% Activities and Societies: Student Ambassador - assisting with open days