Steveland Daniels
Quality Assurance Automation Lead @Downing
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WORK HISTORY
Quality Assurance Automation Lead @Downing
Cardiff, GB
Company Impact Implementing a priority/impact strategy for release: New features allowed for manual processes to be automated within the application, reducing manual input from the business Introducing a different way of improving quality through developer testing and planning that allowed a directive from the C-Suite to be developed, tested, and released within days. This resulted in an increase of income generated by the business and higher visibility of the department to the C-Suite. Through process improvements, stakeholder sentiment has increased quarter on quarter.Strategy & Leadership Creating processes to improve delivery and releases constantly. Enabling the developers to integrate software quality and tests within their workflow. Reduced the number of defects reported by customers Defined and set QA Objectives to drive business improvements through measurable outcomes. Introduced PR checks by QA Engineers to ensure that developers have adequate tests at the appropriate levels.Quality Management & Compliance Ensured that quality documentation and processes were in line with ISO27001Process Improvement Revamped the issue reporting framework to reduce Solution Leads\' investigation time and enable QA Engineers to be aware of issues earlier. Migrated legacy Selenium to Playwright automation. Reduced release times through automation and regression efforts. Strengthen shift-left testing, working with developers to embed quality early in the development cycle.Customer Focus & Issue Resolution Implemented a Production Issues Reporting Framework, improving response times and issue visibility. Data Analysis & Reporting Define and track QA metrics to measure software quality and testing effectiveness. Team Development & Management Line manages QA engineers Expanded the headcount, scaling the team to meet growing business needs. Encourage a DevOps culture, integrating automation at relevant testing stages.
EDUCATION
Kingston University
Aerospace Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT STEVELAND DANIELS
A QA Engineer that is always striving to bring awareness of quality to teams and organisations. Whether that\'s attitudes, documentation to code. I\'m always striving to get the best product out there. Keen on building teams and educating about Quality. Looking for QA Manager / Head of QA roles.Have a keen interest in:Cyber Security, Virtual reality (Always thinking about how people can learn skills/techniques via the format of immersion)Focus and interest are:Application SecurityDigital Forensics (including learning more about using tools such as Autopsy, Splunk)Authentication / Cryptography Experience includes:Supervision and leading of test team members through several software releases.Leading multiple project streamsMentoring/Development of QA personnelImproving and defining Quality Assurance policies and procedures. Industries: Media, Finance, Insurance, Hosting/Cloud, Energy, Digital Transformation, Cyber SecurityInterests: Virtual Reality - Technology, CodingSewing/Dressmaking
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