Claire Hurst

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ABOUT CLAIRE HURST

I have worked in a testing environment for 15 years, initially training as a Business Analyst, but was allocated to mainly testing work which I found I favoured and therefore pursued a career down this path.I am experienced in the whole testing lifecycle and on V-model, Waterfall and (multiple variants of) Agile processes.I have limited experience on automation, but have used TestComplete, the Thoughtworks tool Twist (including JAVA scripting), and writing spec files in RSpec and Cucumber. Specialities: Scrum masterLeadershipCoachingRecruitmentLearning and developmentManual testingWeb based applicationsDesktop applicationsBack office systemsSQL Mobile Phone Applications and websitesI am also a STEM Ambassador encouraging young people into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics industries due to the shortage we are seeing in this country, and also to address the more worrying factor of even lower numbers for women taking up these roles. My role as an Ambassador is to plug any educational gap that may occur in the curriculum for teachers and to assist with Enterprise projects or career fairs to raise awareness.