Paul Baker

Head of Ai and Quality @Barclays

London, GB
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WORK HISTORY

Mar 2026 — Present

Head of Ai and Quality @Barclays

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London, GB

Driving AI-first Strategy Implementation for Payments, as well as, leading edge quality organisation

EDUCATION

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University of Oxford

MSc, Software Engineering

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BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

ISEB Practitioner (ISTQB) Cerification, Testing

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BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Fellow

SKILLS

Defect TrackingDesign SimulationJiraMobile ApplicationsUser Acceptance TestingContinuous ImprovementUmlCmmiAgile MethodologiesRequirements ManagementSoftware Quality AssuranceDefect ManagementRequirements AnalysisCloud ComputingRegression TestingSystems EngineeringGsmAgile Project ManagementAndroidCross-Functional Team LeadershipMobile DevicesEmbedded SoftwareQuality AssuranceTest ManagementIntegrationDesignsProgram ManagementSystem ArchitectureTestingTest AutomationSoftware DevelopmentScrumQA EngineeringTest PlanningSoftware DesignAnalysisSystem TestingWirelessDistributed SystemsSoftware Engineering

ABOUT PAUL BAKER

Software Development, AI, Test & Quality Engineering Professional with over 30 year’s industrial experience in companies such as Chase (international Consumer Bank), Visa, Motorola, Philips, & SimplyHealth. Proficient at helping organisations transform both their capability and culture, as well as, providing vision and direction for organisational change & improvement. Expertise in Agile transformation, as well as, the effective and automated implementation of Quality engineering into Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines. Recognised as an industry leader and visionary in the area of test and quality engineering with personal achievements including: international keynotes, Fellow of the British Computer Society, 18 patents, 1 trademark, twenty-two refereed journal/conference publications and co-author of a UML book. My large breadth and depth of experience has enabled me to provide thought leadership and team development with a hands-on approach. I am a proficient software engineering practitioner who develops software and services in my spare time. My demonstrated enthusiasm, initiative, networking, innovation, and team/people management skills have led to increased recognition and responsibilities. Strong personal capabilities, creativity, analytically, adaptability, thought leadership, achievements, hands-on can do attitude, and enthusiasm have enabled successful transformation of organisations. Other achievements include: the initiation and execution of strategies for a number of international software standards and consortium, open source software tools to support the deployment of advance software engineering practices (using cloud services, CI/CD), and inter-company collaborations.Directed and managed groups of varied specialties including: programme management, quality & test, engineering related AI transformation, IT delivery, operations, performance and security engineering, release & change management, quality assurance, service transition and business readiness, and innovation leadership.

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