steve franklin

* Responsibilities This short term contract was as a UAT Manager testing fifteen Drupal websites. * Created master and detailed UAT test plans from the functional specification. * Conducted implementation planning and UAT preparation sessions with clients. * Conducted UAT workshops, guided testing efforts and engaged stakeholders to complete tasks. * Prepared training manuals and user guides. * Performed system training and provided support to users. * Prepared all test data for UAT and set up online testing through BrowserStack. * Provided environment support, resolving any connectivity issues and providing a single point of contact for UAT. * Raised and managed defects through a Clarify database, as well as maintaining the defect log for our team.

* This short term contact was for a Data Migration/Gigya/Mulesoft implementation. Responsibilities * Creation of Test Strategy and Test Plans. * Run testing for Gigya replacement of in house identity management system Testing of new Mulesoft API orchestration layer for key Fairfax mastheads including SMH, The Age, Canberra Times as well as forty regional papers. * Co-ordinated regression testing for mastheads on the mobile platforms. * Testing of data migration from in house CRM to Gigya. * Responsible for developing and rolling out test processes and procedures.

* This role was working on a Life Insurance comparison service project. Responsibilities * Senior Test Analyst working on the Australian implemenation of a UK Life Insurance comparison engine incorporating a sophisticated decision/underwriting rules engine. * Testing the output of underwriting premium product. Responsible for Australian testing and internationalisation testing of the project. * Working in Groovy/Grails and IntelliJ IDE. * Developing automated test suite in Selenium Web Driver/IntelliJ/Java. * Responsible for developing and rolling out test processes and procedures. * Reporting directly to head office London.

* This short contact was to assist with Business Readiness Testing. Responsibilities * Senior Test Lead for a portfolio of eight projects, authoring test plans and strategies and co-ordinating the test effort for each of them within Australia and offshore resources. * Responsible for Business Readiness testing overall. * Responsible for test tracking, reporting, status updates etc. * Reporting directly to the project manager. * Review of system enhancement requirements, objectives and test cases if not included in initial analysis. * Authored and managed project test strategies including the estimation of resources and requirements. * Reviewed business process requirements and/or impact analysis to identify testing requirements.

* Created master and detailed test plans from the functional specification * Liaised with various stakeholders in the project to produce the documentation * Data Analysis and Migration – Analysis of the data requirements of a new system, mapping of data across from old to new system. Design and planning of data migration * Created and administered a test director environment containing detailed scripts and other relevant test documentation * Created test strategy for system and system integration testing * Discussed client requirements and raised, monitored and managed system improvements and change requests * Led two junior test analysts in the testing of the systems * Authored detailed plans for System integration, Regression, Performance, Implementation as well as a separate comprehensive back-out plan in the event of failure * Authored individual test scripts for all of the above * Management of all test resources during all phases of testing * and * Management of all test ware through Mercury suite (Test director/WinRunner).

* Analysed the method of transforming existing data into a format compatible with the new environment and the execution of loading this data into other database structures * Full Agile scrum environment * Authored necessary change and support documentation * Lead role in team of analysts * Review of system enhancement requirements, objectives and test cases if not included in initial analysis * Authored and managed project test strategies including the estimation of resources and requirements * Authored system & integration test plans. Organised, prioritised and executed regression testing * Reviewed business requirements and/or impact analysis to identify testing requirements * Tracking & daily communication of progress to program manager and other AMP senior managers

* Reviewed existing migration tools and provided recommendations for improving performance of the migration process * Authored necessary change and support documentation * Lead role in team of analysts * Review of system enhancement requirements, objectives and test cases if not included in initial analysis * Authored and managed data migration and project test strategies including the estimation of resources and requirements * Authored system & integration test plans. Organised, prioritised and executed regression testing * Reviewed business requirements and/or impact analysis to identify testing requirements * Tracking & daily communication of progress to program manager and other AMP senior managers * Identification of the potential business/implementation risks and follow through of issues through to implementation * and * Managed resources required to complete UAT testing in Melbourne and communicated system changes to offshore development company for immediate fix and re-deployment.

* Gathered and developed functional requirements * Used information gathered from the stakeholders to produce various documents including use-case specifications, software requirements specifications, business glossaries and business process maps * Ensured business analysis documents were compliant with standards and best practices * Prepared and delivered presentations to stakeholders to inform them of project progress and convey upcoming activities. * Authored test strategy/plans for System Integration phase of testing * Planned for and prepared all files for testing

* Created master and detailed test plans from the functional specification * Liaised with various stakeholders in the project to produce the documentation * Data Analysis and Migration – Analysis of the data requirements of a new system, mapping of data across from old to new system. Design and planning of data migration * Created and administered a test director environment containing detailed scripts and other relevant test documentation * Created test strategy for system and system integration testing * Discussed client requirements and raised, monitored and managed system improvements and change requests * Led two junior test analysts in the testing of the systems * Authored detailed plans for System integration, Regression, Performance, Implementation as well as a separate comprehensive back-out plan in the event of failure * Authored individual test scripts for all of the above * Management of all test resources during all phases of testing * and * Management of all test ware through Mercury suite (Test director/WinRunner).

* Responsibilities * Authored project test documentation * Authored detailed plans for System integration, Regression, Performance, Implementation as well as a separate comprehensive back-out plan in the event of failure * Authored individual test scripts for all of the above * Implementation walkthroughs to business representatives up to director level * Management of all defects and development issues with offshore development team * Tracking & daily communication of testing progress to program manager and other managers * and * Estimating of test resources and testing requirements.

* Created master and detailed test plans from the functional specification * Conducted implementation planning and preparation sessions with clients. Represented IBM in weekly progress and status meetings * Tested emerging technologies, including IP products, cable telephony, GSM, Multinet, ISDN, and all other telephony services both terrestrial and satellite * Performed ad hoc training and ongoing support to junior test analysts in the team * Prepared all test data for upcoming test releases including the manipulation of CDR (call data records) in Unix to meet the testing matrix requirements * Provided environment support for the Silicon Graphics Origin machines, resolving any connectivity issues and providing a single point of contact for job provisioning * and * Raised and managed faults through a Clarify database, as well as maintaining the defect log for our team.

* TAFE NSW – IDM Project Sept 2017 till Jul 2018 Senior Test Analyst Responsibilities System Testing, System Integration and Data Migration Testing. * End-to-End Testing of entire IDM migration from DoE to TAFE NSW * Migration testing of IDM system from DoE to TAFE NSW data * Migration testing and integration of active Directory * System testing of IDM tactical connectors and messenger layer tiers. * Integration testing of PING Federate implementation single sign on. * LDIF creation and testing at the connector level. * Integration/Migration testing of large number of Jboss applications from DoE to TAFE * Defect management activity in QC and Jira. * Integration Testing of EBS4, SAPHR, Staff Portal, DOIS, TPL, AMU,EMU, SMU etc

* Created master and detailed test plans from functional specification * Management of test activity and reporting * Reviewed business requirements and/or impact analysis to identify testing requirements * Identified and communicated defects detected during testing to the development team * Document control of all test plans, estimates, product and allocated functional specifications and other related documentation * and * Estimating of test resources and testing requirements.

Completion of the HSC