1. Curriculum Vitae
Alan Martin Leigh
Mobile: 0786 0648616
Leigh864@btinternet.com
Experience Summary
Test Specific
ISEB Test Foundation
Waterfall, V-Model, Agile
Conditions, scripting, prioritising, executing, reporting
Writing Test Plans
Writing End of Test Reports
Defects, evidence gathering, raising, following up and re-testing
Unit Testing, Initial Acceptance, System Testing, End to End, UAT, Live Proving
Areas
Banking
Insurance
Retail
Telephony (Inbound and outbound, IVR, DTMF, Mobile phones)
ATM, POS and card testing
Internet, Intranet
Payments and Faster Payments
ETL (Initial Load and Delta testing)
Real time and batch testing, lifecycle testing, data mining (SQL)
Operating Systems
IBM Mainframe
Unix midrange
Windows
Tandem Base24, TACL
Applications
HP Quality Centre
Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Edge, HTML, XML
MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project Planner, Visio)
Lotus Notes
Visual Studio / SAS Studio / Oracle VM Virtual Box
TOAD SQL on Oracle 10g
iliad simulator for Faster Payments transaction creation and execution
Technical Skills / Programming
COBOL
Easytrieve
SAS
Java
C# .net
Unix Shell Scripting
DB2 SQL
MS SQL Server, MS T-SQL
Oracle PL/SQL
IBM JCL
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2. Career Summary
Capita O2, Test Analyst, New IVR Self Service and Natural Language
April 2016 – January 2017
• Production of test conditions and test scripts based upon Requirements
• Liaising with Business Analysts/Designers and feeding back issues/questions found
during scripting and execution
• Test execution, progress, defect raising/retesting
• Live proving
Co-Operative Bank, UAT Test Analyst, Faster Payments, Internet, Loan Redress
July2014 - December 2015
• Production of test conditions and test scripts based upon Requirements
• Test execution, progress, defect raising/retesting and Test Closure reporting
• Testing of Faster Payments, Internet, Mainframe, Customer Loan Redress Project
• Raising defects and issues on behalf of the Business
• Checking Accounts and Letters against a lifecycle of events (7 day cycle for redress)
• Technical Support to other Testers, including documenting and training on Mainframe
• Wrote a set of Easytrieve programs to check Mainframe ETL "Loan Redress" extract
files and daily Delta files to speed up our test analysis of the data produced
LTSB Halifax, System Test Analyst/Test Lead (Banking team / Telephony IVR team / ATM
team)
July 2012 - June 2014
• Production of test conditions and test scripts based upon Requirements
• Test execution, progress, defect raising/retesting and Test Closure reporting
• Testing of Banking Apps, including Telephony and Branch apps
• Testing of New Internet based Colleague Banking system - Multi-Channel, MCA
• Raising defects and also issues for the Business
• Attending Scope, Walkthrough and Planning meetings
• Prioritising Scripts for test (including for other testers) and checking scope covered
• Communicating with Stakeholders and other departments
• Project Implementation Support
Co-Operative Bank, UAT Test Analyst, Faster Payments, Internet, Payments Hub ETL
Feb 2011 to June 2012
• Production of test conditions and test scripts based upon Requirements
• Test execution, progress, defect and Test Closure reporting
• Testing of Faster Payments, Internet Banking and Mainframe Apps
• Checking of letters produced against matrix of codes and templates
• Raising defects and also issues for the Business
• Technical Support to other Testers, from MS Excel to Mainframe FILEAID or testing
of Windows Apps
• Project Implementation Support
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3. Barclays Bank, System Test Analyst, ATM, Tandem, Base24, TACL
Oct 2010 – Feb 2011
• System Testing new Direct Current Conversion feature when using ATM and then
reconciling downstream systems with posted amounts and failed transactions and
upstream system with exchange rates in use for end to end checks.
Co-Operative Bank, UAT Test Analyst, Faster Payments, Internet, 2FA, BTP, IBM
September 2008 – July 2010
• Production of test conditions and test scripts based upon Requirements
• Test execution, progress, defect and Test Closure reporting
• Testing of Faster Payments, Internet Banking and Mainframe Call Centre Apps
• Raising defects and also issues for the Business
• Technical Support to other Testers, from MS Excel to Mainframe FILEAID or testing
of Windows Apps
• Project Implementation Support
Lloyds/TSB, Manchester, Systems Test Analyst, Telephony Systems, IVR, EDGE
Jan 2007 – July 2008
• Production of test conditions and test scripts based upon functional designs
• Test execution, progress, defect and Test Closure reporting
• Testing of IVR and Edge Call centre application changes and Mobile Balance Alerts
Littlewoods Retail, Liverpool
System & UAT Test Analyst, Unix, Oracle PL/SQL, TOAD, SQL, ETL, XML
April 2005 – Dec 2006
 Training/Support of Junior Analysts that were new to Project
 Test Preparation/Planning/Scripting on Test Director
 Test execution and reporting using Quality Centre and QC Admin functions
 System Testing of ETL from GUS to Littlewoods, Supported and corrected Unix Shell
scripts overnight to continue ETL batch run during testing. Interpreted PL/SQL to
understand current system for scripting
 UAT Testing on site with SME's, helping to write/run scripts, find data, executing
 Produced Test Execution document to help other testers executing on the UNIX box
 Data Mining and data checking using SQL, Oracle 10g and TOAD UI
Royal Bank of Scotland, London/Edinburgh
Test Engineer, IBM Mainframe, Unix, Base24, Tandem, Oracle, SQL
May 2004 – Feb 2005
 Producing Test Plans, Conditions and Scripts
 Set up PVCS tool to manage defects for project and documented it
 Test execution, as well as raising and management of defects using PVCS
 Producing Completion and test status reports
 System testing of Informatica ETL extracts and data loads, TOAD, Oracle SQL
 System testing of ATM, POS changes, ISO transactions, Switch simulator,
Barclays Bank, Knutsford, UAT/Systems Tester, Internet, IBM Mainframe, DB2 SQL
Sept 2003 – May 2004
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4.  Open Plan savings product – UAT scripting and confirming with Business SME
 Voucher processing project – IAT/GST planning, preparation, scripting, execution.
Lloyds/TSB Group PLC, London, Systems Tester, Card Services, IBM M/frame,
DB2/SQL, Base24, Tandem
May 2002 – June 2003
 Online Card Services applications
 Overnight card production mainframe batch suites
 Card testing on ATM’s
Barclays Bank, Knutsford, Systems Tester, Test Director, Winrunner
July 2000 – March 2002
 Private Banking Internet project - Internet real time, Oracle SQL
 Openplan accounts project - IBM Batch, JCL, DB2 SQL
 Branch bank application and some Winrunner
 Call centre GUI applications and Outbound Dialler project (SQL Server)
Lloyds/TSB Group PLC, London, Card Services, IBM Mainframe, Tandem
December 1999 – June 2000
• ATM/POS System Testing of Y2K changes, DB2 SQL, Call Centre Apps
Lloyds/TSB Group PLC, Manchester, IBM Mainframe, DB2 SQL
August 1998 – November 1999
• System Testing of new IVR Telephony system for inbound calls to call centre
Alliance and Leicester, Bootle, IBM Mainframe
January 1998 - August 1998
• System Testing of Y2K changes to MI System
Barclays Bank PLC, Knutsford, Analyst/Programmer, IBM Mainframe, IBM OS/2
November 1996 - January 1998
• Systems Analysis and Testing of new ASI/17 Clearing Differences system and post
imp support, also worked on Clearing Accounts (COBOL)
• DB2 SQL and Oracle SQL
Co-Operative Insurance Society Ltd, Systems Analyst, IBM Mainframe, DB2 SQL
October 1990 - October 1996
• Systems Analyst talking to Business Users, writing Specifications and testing
delivered software for Life Insurance and Company Accounting Ledgers (Walker GL)
Trinity Computers Ltd, April 1987 - September 1990, Unix
• COBOL Analyst/Programmer on Stock and Accounting Systems
Thinking Software Ltd., Manchester, July 1985 - March 1987, Unix
• COBOL Junior Programmer/Programmer on Stock and Accounting Systems
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5. Education
6 'O' levels
'A' level Mathematics
BTEC OND Computer Studies, Pass with Distinction
Open University MSc module “Java for Networked Applications”, Pass with Distinction
Computeach C# Programming Fundamentals, Pass with Distinction
ISEB Testing Foundation Certificate
MS SQL Server 2012 with T-SQL refresher course
SAS for beginners
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6. Education
6 'O' levels
'A' level Mathematics
BTEC OND Computer Studies, Pass with Distinction
Open University MSc module “Java for Networked Applications”, Pass with Distinction
Computeach C# Programming Fundamentals, Pass with Distinction
ISEB Testing Foundation Certificate
MS SQL Server 2012 with T-SQL refresher course
SAS for beginners
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