Danny Wilson is a senior QC analyst with over 13 years of experience testing software at Allstate NI. He leads testing for the online marketing team and is responsible for web and mobile testing. Danny has extensive experience using testing tools like HPQC, Interwoven TeamSite, and KDA. He creates comprehensive test plans, performs cross-browser and mobile testing, logs any defects found, and ensures new features don't break existing functionality through regression testing.
1. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Name: Danny Wilson
34 Leitrim Street
Belfast
BT6 9BJ
Mobile: 07876 453779
Email: miles100121@googlemail.com
Position: QC Analyst
Testing Experience: 13 years
Career Summary:
Danny is a QC Analyst with a career spanning over 13 years at Allstate NI, thus gaining
valuable knowledge and experience within testing and the software development life cycle.
Danny has the ability to lead and work with all team members including senior management
and has received numerous high-five and Applause awards.
For the past 5 years Danny has been the senior tester in the Online Marketing Team,
responsible for the company’s web and mobile testing. He has good experience using
Interwoven Teamsite and Keynote Device Anywhere.
2. Education
1994-1996 Jordanstown University, Northern Ireland
HND Transport & Distribution
1987-1994 Bangor Grammar School
A Levels: Business Studies; Maths; French
GCSE: 8 including Maths & English
Professional Qualifications and Certifications
2002 Principles of Software Testing (Provided by B.I.C Systems)
2001 Allstate Structured Testing Course (Provided by Spherion Technology Architects)
3. Professional Experience
Organisation: Allstate Northern Ireland
Position: QC Analyst
Date of employment: 2001 - Present
Allstate Northern Ireland, the new name for Northbrook Technology, was established in Belfast in
1998 and provides software development services and business process outsourcing solutions in
support of its U.S. parent's global operations.
Allstate NI plays a strategic role in developing, transforming and maintaining the various technology
platforms used within Allstate, to support it in its day to day business, looking after the different
systems that you might expect one of the world's largest insurance giants to run.
2010 – Present Senior QC Analyst (Online Marketing)
Technology used: HPQC, Interwoven TeamSite, KDA, Mobile/Tablet, Excel
Responsibilities:
• Review functional requirements of new projects with project lead and development
team.
• Create testplans to cover all requirements and upload them into HPQC.
• Create testpages through Interwoven TeamSite and publish them to the test
environment.
• Test the pages cross-browser on desktop; and also on Mobile/Tablet using KDA (Keynote
Device Anywhere).
• Run the tests in HPQC Test Lab, log any defects and assign to the Development team.
Once fixed, perform retest.
• Assign out the Regression test suite to team members locally and offshore to ensure no
other functionality has been affected.
• Test the weekend deployment of the code into Production environment.
• Update the Regression test suite with any new functionality as a result of the latest
projects.
• Key projects – Allstate.com Redesign project; MiAllstate Redesign project; Mobile
Responsive Enhancement project; Teamsite server upgrade.
4. 2007 – 2010 Teamsite Administrator (Web Content Management)
Technology used: HPQC, Interwoven TeamSite, HPSM
Responsibilities:
• Respond to tickets entered through HPSM (Service Manager).
• Add project teams to Teamsite by creating branches for them in the application.
• Add users to the Teamsite database.
• Provide oncall support for ticket requests.
2001 – 2007 QC Tester (Claims Technology Services)
Technology used: Mainframe, Visual Source Safe, Toolbox, File Aid
Responsibilities:
• Review functional requirements of new projects.
• Create testplans to cover all requirements.
• Take claims on the Mainframe database.
• Defect/Incident management tracking.