I am a Jersey based ISTQB Advanced Test Manager and Professional Scrum Master Certified Test Manager, with 20+ years of experience working across a spectrum of industries, from start-ups to large corporate clients and across a variety of development methodologies, specialising in Agile, Digital, UAT and System Migrations.
With a proven track record of delivering successful change initiatives; application, web and system migration projects across multiple platforms and industries to the highest standard, a keen eye for
detail and a passion for hands-on and hands-off analysis and management of projects.
I am a motivated self-starter and excellent communicator, comfortable acting as the conduit between technical and nontechnical staff with clarity and confidence, bringing great experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams.
Name: Gary Brooks |
Email: [email protected] |
Company: | Clarivate |
From: | 03/10/2022 |
To: | 13/10/2023 |
Responsibilities: | Engaged to help turnaround much delayed migration project from a legacy AMS platform to a customised Argos instance Deliverables: Re-develop overall test planning to revised go-live. Plan new approach for technical migration rehearsals. Review existing test coverage and identify gaps due to previously over aggressive launch dates. Review and re-build SIT, UAT and End-to-End testing to ensure full coverage of requirements, functional areas and business work stream processes including Finance, Operations and Legal. I collaborated closely with the Project Manager to re-plan the overall programme delivery schedule and to re-engage with stakeholders/workstreams and worked as part of a global delivery team to ensure prompt delivery of remediated defects and functional/technical stories |
Company: | ITV |
From: | 12/10/2020 |
To: | 30/09/2022 |
Responsibilities: | UAT Lead for the legacy PlanetV Advertising Sales platform, then Senior QA for the new in-house developed platform Deliverables: Worked with internal teams to deliver robust and effective UAT on a platform feature basis, acceptance and regression test execution and scripting including ad trace analysis. Reporting in place of Test Manager as required Authoring high level user stories for a greenfield platform, reviewing designs and working with the Product team to refine requirements. Developing functional tests and matching Gherkin to drive Cypress automated tests Workflows included accounting & billing, content service and delivery, customer experience, order management and audience refinement |
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