Paul Hammond
Data Hub Programme Test Manager @SMBC Group
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WORK HISTORY
Data Hub Programme Test Manager @SMBC Group
EDUCATION
City St George’s, University of London
Postgraduate Diploma, Business Systems Analysis & Design
University of Bristol
BSc, Mathematics and Statistics
SKILLS
ABOUT PAUL HAMMOND
Head of Test / Programme Test Manager / Test Architect with 26 years’ testing and QA experience• Track record of setting up and running a Managed Test Service, UAT Test Practice, and UAT Centre of Excellence. Extensive experience of driving and refining the testing model/framework in both small and large organisations• Full-lifecycle delivery experience and accountability on complex SI / transition / transformation / migration programmes, incl. splitting Northern Rock into 2 companies and merger with BBG; SAP upgrades and re-platforms; separation of Sainsbury’s Bank from LBG and creation of a new bank; replacement of mobile app, set-up of new banking platform and migration to GCP at Atom Bank • Broad experience in financial services – investment banking, asset management; corporate banking; insurance; and retail banking. Plus good experience in utilities• Specific focus on regulatory programmes and risk, incl. CAD, Basel 2, Solvency 2, MiFID and MiFID 2• Extensive experience of leading teams of up to 10 Test Managers, 40 Test Analysts and 80 UAT Testers, including offshore and nearshore testers (“global delivery”), both internal and suppliers• Skilled at Agile and DevOps transformation, TDD, BDD, Cloud, CI/CD• Good experience of administering tools, incl. Azure DevOps, TFS, Jira, Zephyr, ALM, Rational• Widespread experience of managing non-functional testing, automated testing & performance testing• Strong stakeholder communication skills; quick-learning, adaptable, organised, enthusiastic and affable
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