1. Curriculum Vitae
James D Wilson B.Eng (Hons)
89 Montreal Avenue, Bristol - Tel : 07814 500 589
Email: Jim_wilson99@yahoo.com
Personal profile
I am an enthusiastic, self-driven individual with strong interpersonal skills. I am vastly experienced in the
Financial services sector, specifically within Quality Assurance and Testing. I am ISEB/ISTQB qualified, and
have extensive experience of both System and Business Testing. I am a highly competent Test lead and Test
analyst. I regard Stakeholder management as a key strength
Personal details
Nationality: British Date of birth: 16th
July 1971 Marital status: Married Clean driving license: Yes
Relevant education and qualifications
2010: ISEB/ISTQB Testing Intermediate: Achieved Intermediate qualification
2007 : ISEB Testing Foundation: Achieved ISEB foundation qualification
2006 : FAST : Achieved qualification as a FAST Approved Software manager
2005 : Six Sigma ‘Yellow belt’
2003: ITIL foundation certificate,
1992 - 1996: University of Central England, Birmingham. Bachelor of Engineering degree
1987 - 1991: North Devon Technical College, Barnstaple, North Devon.
1982 - 1987: Braunton Comprehensive School, Braunton, North Devon.
Testing skill set
I have over nine years’ experience of Testing throughout the change lifecycle, including; Component,
Integration, Functional, User Acceptance and Performance - Proficient in Test Director, Quality Centre and
ALM - Extensive testing in Pension, Insurance and Investment products - Business Test lead on large banking
retail programme- SQL, Query Analyzer experience - Web based testing to include Portals, schema validation
and xml injection - Environment management - Risk Management - System and UAT test analyst - Test
Estimation - Report writing to include MTP & EOTR - Cross Browser Testing - Defect Analysis – Regression
testing, Post Live Support
Employment history
February 2013 to present – Lloyds Banking Group - Quality Assurance SME -Test lead:
• Manage the Testing resource through the Life cycle of test window and SDLC ensuring performance is
in line with agreed plans and monitored at all times
• Leading a team of 11 test analysts (offshore partner resource) on the flagship web based/portal pension
Insurance project for 2015
• Hands on test execution on Web based/Portal project. Tasks include; Calculations testing, Schema
validation and Underwriting policy tests on eC Platform
• Work closely and collaboratively with Project Managers, Release Management, Development team and
Business stakeholders
• Ensure Project deliverables , milestones and testing stages are communicated to Partner resource and
managed accordingly
• Own Risk log ensuring all Risks are raised by Offshore delivery teams and subsequently highlighted,
managed and owned
• Manage the Offshore relationship for Testing Environment provision
• Quality check and review detailed documentation provided by Off shore provider
• Produce/Review platform deliverables in scope to support change within agreed timescale
• Engage at Initiation stage of project ensuring Testing have early sight of project requirements
• Review and approve Test Estimates

2. 2012 May to February 2013 - Lloyds Banking Group - Business Test lead
• Help define the Test strategy and approach for Business Testing
• Communicated Test strategy to Business stakeholders ensuring buy in to Test approach
• Ownership of Business Test plan, ensuring agreed Test approach and time lines for each project.
• Ownership of Business Testing throughout the end to end process
• Presentation of End of Test report to Business Stakeholders
• Defining Business Testing to be carried out confirming scope and ensuring resource in place
• Business Test ownership of number of projects across multiple workstreams
• Translating Business Requirements and detailed scope (where available) into clear Business Tests
• Coordinated, engaged with and managed Business Test resource, ensuring they bought into approach
and kept to Test window milestone dates
• Holistic view across programme of projects ensuring that any hot spots and resource peaks were
communicated to the Test programme manager
• Chairing Business Test planning workshops
• Attending and contributing to Risk based workshop
• Defined and created a Post Live Support Warranty process to be used across the whole Programme.
Close working relationship and dialogue with QA functional test teams.
• Reviewing QA Master Test plans and agreeing Exit criteria from Functional Testing through to
Business Testing
• Provided Test support to pilot and proof of concept projects
2007 (Apr) to May 2012 – Lloyds Banking Group – Test Analyst/Environment co-ordinator
• Designed test plans and test cases from Detailed Design Specifications and Use Cases
• Executed test scripts, recording evidence in Quality Centre and raising defects where appropriate
• Ensuring that there is full Requirements traceability and the end user is delivered software as expected
• Risk assessment when establishing test coverage. Chair Risk based workshops with all stakeholders
• Create Master Test plan, kept all stakeholders fully abreast of testing progress
• Full Management of Test plans to ensure successful delivery
• Implementing Test cases within the defined polices, processes and practices
• Coordinate provision of all system environments across Insurance platform for each quarterly Systems
release
• Chaired weekly Data gathering meetings throughout a Release.
• Translate Requirements, Design and Use Case documentation in to documentation that is clear to
understand for business and non technical people.
• Identifying and implementing process improvements in the Testing life cycle
• Supporting Business Acceptance Testing/UAT in technical issues with regard Environment builds
• Using Query analyzer and SQL server manager to manipulate and seek data
• Attendance of regular defect panels, and ownership taken of all defects I raise
• On site Beta testing on System release dates.
• Use of Quick Test Professional as a script capture tool to run mainframe batches
• Fully proficient in Quality centre (Test Director).
Further historical employment
2006 - 2007: HBOS - Senior IT specialist within IT Asset management
2001 - 2006 : AXA Tech/Getronics - Senior Change management/Project co-ordinator analyst
2000 - 2001: AXA Sunlife, Bristol. - IT support (second level) administrator.
1996 - 1999: BT/BT Cellnet, Bristol. – Technical sales team leader
1988 - 1992: CJ Bonner Electrical Engineers Ltd, Barnstaple, North Devon. - Apprentice
Hobbies and interests
Past times include; Youth football coaching, Surfing , Cycling, Golf, Basketball and an avid reader. Further to
this I am socially confident and outgoing, I am learning to play guitar and enjoy attending live music events
Referees
Pete Quin – Lloyds Banking Group
Tel: 07968 479740
email : petequin@lloydsbanking.com

3. Richard Potter – Steria Group
Tel: 07966 825 223
Email: Richard.Potter@steria.co.uk