Scott Frudd

Test Practice Manager @Bluecurrent Australia & New Zealand

Wellington, NZ

Test Manager and Testing Practice Lead with 25 years of experience delivering high-quality testing solutions across government, finance, telecommunications, and utilities industries. With 18 years in management and leadership roles, I bring proven expertise in defining test strategies, building and leading high-performing teams, and driving efficiencies through innovative testing practices. ISTQB Advanced Level certified, I am skilled in managing complex testing programmes, risk profiling, and enabling transformation through meticulous planning and execution. Recognised for strong communication at all organisational levels, I excel at aligning testing objectives with business strategies, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainable long-term success. My industry experience spans data migration, data warehousing, application platform migrations, infrastructure and hardware integration testing, and large-scale compliance projects, positioning me as a trusted leader for critical initiatives requiring quality, reliability, and delivery certainty.Responsibilities• Leading and evolving the Testing Practice within Bluecurrent to encompass alignment with the business and PMO• Setting up organisational Test Policy and Strategies as well as templating all project test activities• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 20 test engineers and QA professionals• Coordinate test automation efforts and adoption of modern testing tools• Drive process improvements and innovation in testing methodologiesKey Achievements• Established enhanced automation capability by setting up a test framework and establishing the process behind the manual vs automation• Implemented Agile-friendly test processes including BDD, shift-left and continuous testing• Costed and managed the build and data refresh of new test environments• Upgrade to Zephyr Scale from Enterprise• Performed PoC on AI driven Test enhancements including requirement analysis, test case development and automation