Rob Villars
Senior Qe Team Leader Quality, Automation & Continuous Improvement @Lloyds Banking Group
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Qe Team Leader Quality, Automation & Continuous Improvement @Lloyds Banking Group
Senior Quality Engineering leader driving excellence across software delivery through robust testing strategies, smart automation, and modern engineering practices. • Combines good technical quality expertise with strong people leadership, coaching engineers, accelerating skills development, supporting colleagues through life\'s challenges and championing continuous learning. • Provides clear direction as a line manager, supporting performance, career growth, and an inclusive, high performing team culture. Removing admin when ever possible. • Promotor and director of the adoption of AI across teams as a learning rep and as a AI convert I am using AI to enhance testing and analysis, directing AI driven improvements, and encouraging the team to confidently integrate AI into day to day engineering workflows. Plus tell others of their successes and deciding when AI may not be the best tool to use. • Ensures effective planning, stakeholder alignment, communication, and risk management to enable teams to deliver reliable, efficient, high quality outcomes at pace.
EDUCATION
University of Gloucestershire
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Business Information Technology with Financial Services Management
SKILLS
ABOUT ROB VILLARS
Test Management and Quality Engineer Chapter Lead professional. Summary of specialist domain knowledge:• Establishing and managing test automation for new or existing test teams. • Mortgage services. • Payment and ATM Card processing. • Retail and Corporate Banking services. Electronic, Mobile and Digital Banking services.Summary of experience: • Quality Engineer Chapter Lead, I am skilled in test automation and manual test skills. Plus I am experienced in mentoring others to complete similar quality engineering tasks, ideally learning from my experience, copying the skills I have learnt work well and avoiding the mistakes I have learnt not to make again. • Test Management from support with business case through to Smoke Test, System Test, Integration Test, UAT and implementation support. Summary of technical and professional expertise:• Test Planning: test estimation, test strategies, test plans, test suites, test cases, test scripts, requirements analysis, risk based analysis & use of matrices.• Test Management: defect management, incident management, bug reporting, test reporting / dashboards & leading / mentoring testers.• Methodologies: V-Model, Waterfall & Agile.• Test Phases / Test Types: unit, system, UAT, performance, integration, and functional, non-functional, risk based, security, regression, disaster recovery & live production. • Test Automation / Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio & Microsoft Visual Studio Code, using Selenium C#. GitHub. Currently I can execute existing scripts, update/reuse existing scripts. While I have this year learnt to write automated test scripts using Selenium C# Scripts and even used a couple successfully to detect defects. My personal development will remain focused on this area in 2021. • HP QCr HP ALM & HP QTP/UFT, Confluence/Jira. • MasterCard(MAS)/EAPS, Simulator/VTS 3 and Iliad/VersaTest ISO8583 Simulators/MQ WebSphere/Barnes Test Tools/ ICC Solutions.
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