1. NICK BRAYBROOK
SUMMARY
A passionate Scrum Master/Agile Coach, with over 10 years’ experience in both agile (Lean, Kanban,
TDD/BDD, Scrum) and traditional software development environments across various industries
including insurance, retail and media.
Thrives working with individuals and teams helping to build an environment where they feel inspired,
motivated and empowered to try new ideas, not fear failure, and learn from their experiences. Belief
in agile/lean principles and how they can be used to foster continuous improvement and learning.
Strives for continual self-development.
Firstclasscommunication skills,both written and verbal,adept at buildingrelationships atall levelsof
the business and 3rd party stakeholders. Working to tight deadlines is the norm and therefore
comfortable handlingmultiplepriorities;planningand organisingeffectively to help ensure the work is
delivered on time.
EMPLOYMENT
AGILE SCRUM MASTER
SEPTEMBER 2016 – PRESENT RS COMPONENTS PLC CORBY
AGILE COACH
APRIL 2016 – SEPTEMBER 2016 AGILITY IN MIND LTD DEVIZES
SCRUM MASTER / AGILE PROJECT MANAGER / AGILE COACH
JULY 2014 – APRIL 2016 BGL GROUP PETERBOROUGH CAMBS
 Coach/ScrumMaster to two separateteams. One workingon BAU commercial changeand the other
working on a large new brand partner launch. (10-12 people in each team)
 Responsible for cultivating an environment for the teams to be creative, grow and become self-
organising
 Coachingthe teams in best practices acrossvariousagiledisciplines includingLean,Kanban,Scrum
and BDD
 Championed the idea for communities and societies within the company to ensure cross team
learning and best practice
 Positively influence key stakeholders to co-ordinate the delivery schedules and facilitate
communication as appropriate – make sure we’re doing the right things at the right time.
 Identify bottlenecks, potential bottlenecks and other impediments in the delivery of features.
Engage with the team, 3rd parties or stakeholders to find rapid solutions
 Protect the team from any unnecessary outside distractions
 Collaborate with the team to create and set short term delivery goals
 Facilitate getting the work done via collaboration, discussion and decision-making. Drive a
continuous improvement philosophy
 Identify waste and work with the wider team to eliminate it

2.  Assistwith internal and external communication and reporting, improve transparency and the flow
of information using appropriate medium
 Facilitateagileceremonies such as project kick-offs,daily stand-ups,user story writingworkshops,
showcases, demos and retrospectives
 Facilitate problem solving in such situations where work is not progressing across the board
TEST MANAGER
MARCH 2011 – JULY 2014 BGL PETERBOROUGH CAMBS
 Heavily involved in transformation of QA team to more agile way of working, helping to integrate
them into cross-function teams working closer than ever before with Business Analysts and
Developers to work more collaboratively resulting in improved speed to market for group change
 Input into overall group test policy and strategy and subsequent updates
 Designed and implemented company strategy for compatibility testing;
o Workingwith E-Commerce teams to understand usage and demand from customers resulting
in combined MI which is used to drive adoption of new/different devices and browsers for
development and testing
 Sponsored project work to build a securemobiledevelopment and test environment to allowteams
to be ableto test againstjourneys in testenvironments usingreal devices as well as emulatingtools
such as Browserstack/Sauce Labs
 Line management responsibility for 8 testers working in distributed cross -function delivery teams
 Worked with development team to design and implement framework for capturing
requirements/automating acceptance tests using Spec Flow and Selenium Webdriver
 Acted as Testing/Quality AssuranceSME for numerous large projects includingrecentmigration of
onlinejourneys to a new platform. Communicating progress and reporting to project managers as
well as working with testers on the teams to ensure that deliverables were being delivered right
first time
 Runningmonthly Test Community sessions –Encouragingthe team to shareideas,experiences and
to help improve the overall approach to quality as well as establishing the right culture to thrive
TEST TEAM LEAD
MAY 2007 – MARCH 2011 ITIM
 Designing and Implementing Itim Test Strategy
 Designing and Implementing formal Test procedures and documentation (Test Plans, Test Report,
Defect Reporting and Tracking etc.)
 Responsible for day to day running of the Test team
 Responsible for hiring new members of staff
 Planning and Assignment of work to team members
 Monitoring progress of testing activities and reporting back to Project Managers
 Writing Functional/system Test scripts
 Producing Test Plan/Summary and Defect reports
 Testing of EPOS stand-alone system
 Testing of end-to-end retail solution (Inc. POS, Catalogue, Merchandising, Fraud Analysis,
Management reporting etc.)
SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE / TEST ANALYST
MAY 2002 – APRIL 2007 EMAP PLC
FIRST LINE SUPPORT ANALYST
NOVEMBER 2000 – APRIL 2002 BALFOUR BEATTY RAIL MAINTENANCE LTD

3. IT SUPPORT TECHNICIAN / TECHNICAL ANALYST
JUNE 1998 – OCTOBER 2000 CLOSE CONSUMER FINANCE