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Rob Addis
Tools Experience :hammer_and_wrench:
Communication
MS Teams
Zoom
Discord
Slack
Syntaxes
Gerkin
Cucumber
Project Management
Test Case Management
Jira
Confliuence
MS TFS / MTM
Xray
Test Strategy
Confluence
Sharepoint
Google Drive
General
Trello (Task Management)
Coggle (mind mapping)
Confluence (Wiki)
Basics/Office
Extended MS Office Suite
Google Online Office Suite
MS Visio
Operating Systems
Windows
Android
Mac/iOS
Automation
UI
C#
Selenium Webdriver
Python
Robot Framework
Selenium Library
Appium Library
Cypress
Javascript/Typescript
Cypress Cloud
Devices
AWS Device Farm
Saucelabs Real Device Cloud
Android Studio
Selenium Grid
API
Postman
Javascript
SoapUI
xml
Performance
Front End
SiteSpeed
Back-end
jMeter
AWS Distributed Load Testing
Version/Delivery Control
Perforce
Git Hub
Test Flight
MS App Centre
MS Azure
Outsystems
Gitlab
Database & Queries
SQL
MongoDB
Powershell
UX
Zeplin
Figma
Other
General Test Data
perlclip
Analytics/Optimization
Datadog
Firebase
Marketing
Adobe Campaign
Pure 360
Presentation/Collaboration
Miro
Jamboard
IDE
VS Code (Base & Proffesional)
Jetlabs Pycharm
Containerization
Docker
:scales: Methods
Func Testing
Regression Testing
Smoke Testing
User Acceptance Testing
Feature Testing
Accessibility Testing
Exploratory
Non Func Testing
Basic Security Conscientiousness
XSS Injection
Error Disclosure
Tokenization
Credential Fuzzing
API Response Times
Basic Engineering Conscientiousness
Compliance
EU PSD2
Flash Pattern
ATOL certification
FCA Compliance
and much, much more!
Automation
Regression Testing
Smoke Testing
API Testing
Volume Checks
Test Data Creation
Test Writing
Heuristic Testing Model
Context Aware
Traditional Testing methods
Mnemonics
Project Management
TDD
BDD
Syntaxes
Gerkin
Cucumber
Project management
Agile
Waterfall
Kanban
Product Types Tested
Web
Native Mobile Apps
SOAP/REST API
DB/Migration
Cordova Web Apps
Games (PC/Console)
Test Tooling
Other
A/B testing
Analytics
:mortar_board: Coaching/Mentorship
Gave Talks
Merge Process & Branching for Automation
The Bug Reporting Seive
Interviewing
Introduced "Testing Kata" (Dice Game) in interview process
Dozens of Interviews Carried Out (with several hires made)
TM Tester Monthly Catchup Call
Defined Proceess
Defined Agenda
Outcomes defined from meeting
Implemented Testers Brown Bag Calls
Getting Started with API Testing
QA Dept Trial of Xray
Open Format for all testers
Weekly/Bi-Weekly Coaching Calls
Very positive
Challenge back where applicable
Defined Granular Outcomes
Results
Person A- Promoted from Seconded Role to Permanent Tester
Person B - Improved Automation understanding, before moving on to more senior role
Person D - Promoted from first testing role to Test Lead
Person C from no automation experience to instructing junior testers routinely and gaining confidence
Person E - Increased confidence as a tester, secured a promotion to mid-level tester immediately following redundancy
Person F - Senior QA who is learning to pickup automation and increase understanding of it
Defined New Onboarding Process
Rolled Out to recruitment of 3 Staff
Advocate for Testers Wellbeing
Will speak to managers (inline with procedures) to raise concerns
Keen to ensure I am approachable & available and open to dialogue
Personality :thinking_face:
Enthusiastic
Goal Orientated
Seeks feedback
Communicative
Somewhat chatty
Able to articulate technically complex solutions in a jargon free fashion
Assertive
Able to constructively give feedback
Happy to ask questions in quiet meetings
Open
Forms opinions quickly
Happy to offer opinion early
Eager to hear opinions of others
Make myself available for others
Curious
Always in a state of ongoing review
constantly looking to upskill
Happy to try new things
Determined
Lost 80lbs in Last 8 months!
Work Habits
Always advocating for testers to be in dev/complex conversations
Testing Begins at refinement
Always advocating for new test tooling, where needed
:trophy: Projects & Achievements
Travel Counsellors (2012)
QA Test Analyst
First API Test Suite
Integrated into API build process by dev team
myTC App Delivered
Well Received (reviewed at 4.9 for iOS & 4.8 for Android) Mar 2020
Development then brought in-house, app changed to native app
App Developed in
collaboration with Apadmi
Worked on Site at Apadmi
Project Management
Switch over to MS Azure
Active Switch to Agile Scrum (from
loose
"waterfall")
Personnel
Trained TC's now Lead Tester from scratch
Assisted in onboarding whole teams of developers
Queens Awards
2014 - Enterprise
2020 - Enterprise
Other Areas
BA experience on several projects and initiatives at both epic and feature levels
Business Development experience in introducing new franchisees to our tech
Was present at several businesss conventions as presence from IT development team
Brief terms of Application support
Sony (2011)
FPQA Tester
Games Credited on:
Playstation Home
Motorstorm Apocalypse
Motorstorm RC
Little Big Planet Vita
...and many other titles
When Vikings attack!
Specialisations
Made a 3D Testing specialist
Flash pattern trained
On-site At Dev Studios
Worked on site at double eleven games
Realtime Worlds (2010)
QA Tester
Titles worked on
APB
Unreleased Title (Project myWorld)
Experience - First testing Job!
Thinkmoney (2020)
Senior QA Analyst
Projects
PSD2 Compliance, Delivery as QA Lead
And many other process improvements
Creation of a Document Portal
Promotion
Was promoted from Professional QA Analyst to Senior QA Analyst
Was Thinkmoney's first Senior QA
App
iOS app review score improved from 1.3 to 4.7
Android app review score improved from 1.8 to 4.3
Process Improvements
Regression down from 36 hours to 0.5 - 3.0 hours
Implemented a non-work task QA board & Catchup meeting to review contents
Regularly coached the other testers
Implemented Brown-bag testers meetings
Think Heroes
A think hero award in May 2021 (as voted for by colleagues)
CDL (2022)
Senior QA Engineer
QA Community
Helped Drive changes behind reform to the QA Community of Practice
Initiator & Supporter of company-wide Cypress Dashboard trial & licensing adoption. Leading to the saving of months of pipeline time across the company!
Main driver behind updating of recruitment procedure to incorporate technical assessment
AWS & Push to full cloud
Present for the conclusion of the push to go to cloud
Lead Tester on delivery of multi-tenancy project (which our cloud-only future relied on)
AWS Cloud Certificated (Jan 2024)
IHP Stream Work
Oversaw and drove the decreasing pipeline Cypress Tests run time from 32mins to sub 3minutes
Recognise
(Aug 2023) Silver Badge - Aspire: Recognised for contribution in achievement in our team's "PDI" project flawlessly attaining AWS FTR status
(May 2023) Silver Badge - Aspire: Recognised for outstanding contribution to QA for driving company wide adoption of Cypress Dashboard
(sept 2023) Silver Badge - Driving Results: Contribution towards CDL 2023 Hackathon project has since been penned in to be productionised
(Dec 2023) Silver Badge - Aspire: Contribution to team work (xRTE & Other System improvements)
(April 2024) Silver Badge - Driving Results: Recognised for efforts in improving PDI (product) quality
(June 2024) Silver Badge - Driving Results: For work in implementing design tokens in PDI
(Sept 2024) Silver Badge - Driving Results: For work in implementing multi-part asset upload.
Personal Development :construction_worker:
Meetups
Outside
NWTG (Liverpool)
Manchester Testers meetup
Have been on a panelist at QA meetups
Got fellow developers to come along!
Online
Rok Calls
QABC
Conventions
Test Bash 2016
Test Bash 2017
Info sec Convention (Leeds 2017)
Testing, Agile, DevOps and Low code Showcase: Methods and Tools - 2023
Resources
Online
Blogs
Satisfice
Developsense
Videos
Countless Youtube videos (mostly around CDT/RST)
Followed
Michael Bolton
Ministry of Testing
James Bach
Recent Books
Lessons Learned in software testing
Thinking Fast & Thinking Slow
Decisive: How to make better decisions
Stop Starting & Start Finishing
Courses
AWS
AWS Security Awareness Training (Apr 2021)
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Mar 2021)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Jan 2024)
Udemy
OWASP Top 10
OWASP 2017
OWASP 2021
Udemy Understanding APIS (2021)
Udemy Robot Framework
Course 1
Course 2
Lynda
Agile Product Owner Foundations
Pluralsight
Creating Automated Browser Tests with Selenium in C# (
University of Bolton
2:1 BSc Hons - Games Design (July 2009)
HND Games Design (July 2008)
Hayward Secondary School
Several GSCEs (July 2000)
James Bach
April 2022 - Rapid Software Testing: Applied (3 Day Online Course)
CDL Internal Training Courses
Effective 121s (Jul 2024)
Active Listening (Juk 2024)
Motivating & Developing your Team (Sep 2024)
Honest Conversations (Nov 2024)
Asking the right questions (Jul 2024)
Using GROW to grow your team (Jul 2024
Health & Wellbeing
Currently On a health & weightloss journey (over 100lbs lost so far)!
Largely managed to overcome social anxiety