keith cumming

project manager

About

* Dedicated and professional test manager who is constantly seeking to improve quality output in the delivery of software enhancements. * Gained a strong reputation for effective leadership skills and quality control * Able to offer solutions to problems effectively and drive successful outcomes. * Highly reliable and dedicated to the task at hand. * Strong team player and able to offer support and a willingness to get involved in test activities outside of the usual managers role. * Strong motivator and supported to team members. * Highly driven, keen to improve, reliable and honest. * Delivered £millions worth of change effectively and with high quality

Country

united kingdom

City

edinburgh

Industry

financial services

Skill

testing, regression testing, test management, user acceptance testing, defect tracking, qtp, functional testing, sql, test strategy, test planning, test execution, project planning, requirements analysis, quality center, automation, release management, system testing, requirements gathering, agile methodologies, sdlc, atlassian jira, business analysis, tasktop sync, selenium, xml, data analysis, microsoft sql server

Experience

senior administrator

friends provident

2007-1 - 2008-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Peformed Investment Administration Services

global head of test management and strategy

fnz group

2014-9 - 2015-12 · 1 yr 4 mos

project test manager

fnz group

2011-9 - 2014-9 · 3 yrs 1 mo

* Responsible for the safe delivery of enhancements to the Standard Life Wrap Platform including regulatory & propositional change. I currently manage a team of 6 testers and work closely with the project management and development teams. * I am also in a client facing role meaning daily meetings with Standard Life and provide support to the Standard Life functional test team (which includes On & Off Shore Test resources) * Activities include * Test Project Approach & Planning * Test Project Estimating * Test Project Reporting - Reporting on test execution stats, defects, resourcing etc * Resource Management * Client facing responsibilities * Defect Management - Including analysis, triaging & reporting * Help drive the creation of automated testing using Selenium & QTP

test analyst and bau test lead

fnz group

2009-2 - 2011-9 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Initially I was employed by FNZ as a test analyst to performed defect testing & regression testing of the FNZ Platforms which included Standard Life, JP Morgan, HSBC & Friends Life. During this period I was appointed lead analyst with some management responsibilities including resource management, defect management, environment management and some client facing responsibilities.