Christian Field
Lead Software Tester @Deloitte
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Software Tester @Deloitte
Belfast, GB
Software Testing, and leading the testing effort on an agile scrum engineering team, within Deloitte Ventures. Focussed on product delivery (not project-based consultancy)I am a member of an engineering team distributed between London and Belfast, and I am based primarily in Belfast.I also am involved in discussions between Product Management and Client-facing teams - resolving client technical queries, providing technical explanations etc. I also provide 3rd line support to the Operations team on queries raised in Production, proposed new features or changes to incoming data etcExploratory testing of backend and frontendCloud infrastructure: equally comfortable working with AWS, Azure and GCP backend systemsBackend: Postgres/RedShift/SqlServer/.Net, Python, AWS(Lambda)Frontend: C#, Angular, WebTest strategy & planningBug triage
EDUCATION
University of Oxford
D Phil (PhD), Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Complexes
Belfast Metropolitan College
Software Engineering
The Open University
Re-Enter Programme
University of Bath
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry
ABOUT CHRISTIAN FIELD
I am always looking for unusual and interesting problems to characterise and solve. My focus is on understanding, optimising and defending the core value of the system that I am focussing on.I aim for my work to make a real and tangible difference for the product, the key stakeholders, the team and the company.Leading the QA component of small product-delivery teams - optimising high-quality processes, high standard of testing approach, driving test automation strategy.Exploratory testing across the full tech stack for software products with deep understanding of relevant product context.Examples:A product platform built in python on GCP with Google Earth Engine. Front End testing of Angular UI, underpinned with domain knowledge of geospatial data, satellite imagery, vector geospatial data. 2 different platforms build for the retail sectorTech stack :(AWS with Redshift & Postgres)/(Azure with Cosmos), business logic in C#/.Net Core and frontend (web-angular), with domain knowledge of modelling and theory in the retail sector.Also experienced in deep exploratory testing of high-performance financial trading software, with understanding of related financial trading concepts, financial instruments and processes.(C/C++/Java/C# primarily Linux-based) often using python and bash scripting to support my work.Skilled in investigation & characterization of unexpected software behaviour in all areas of the tech stack. Creation of test plans, use cases. Operating in Agile environment.I have a background in inorganic chemistry research. I see strong parallels between the years I spent doing chemistry research and my current work in testing software: I run experiments on software now; I question, study, model, observe and infer. when I challenge the software under test.
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