Andy Kerr

Current

• Test Manager at Barrie & Hibbert

Past

• Systems Tester at Student Loans Company
• Test Manager at Scottish widows
• Senior Test Analyst at Standard Life Bank

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Education

• Heriot-Watt University

Recommended

6 people have recommended Andy

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Andy Kerr’s Experience

• Test Manager

  Barrie & Hibbert

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Working as Test Manager at this small company which specialises in financial stochastic modelling. Some spectacularly complex mathematics, but a really nice company to work for and nice bunch of people.

• Systems Tester

  Student Loans Company

  (Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)

  Working on a document scanning solution which will deliver paper-free application processing.

• Test Manager

  Scottish widows

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Managing three system testing workstreams on a large pensions project. Liaising with testers, developers and third-party suppliers, managing defects, reporting MI to senior management. Also liaising with business stakeholders to determine the system's business-readiness and working with them to identify workarounds where necessary. I was also responsible for facilitating UAT and Performance testing, and booking Penetration Testing for implementations.

• Senior Test Analyst

  Standard Life Bank

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2007 (9 years )

  Testing, Analysis, Test Co-ordination and Test Management in testing team for Banking system. Liaising with developers, Project Managers, Analysts and Business Stakeholders. Took lead testing role in several implementations and also some time spent in first-line systems support. Worked with inhouse and third-party suppliers, onshore and offshore. Visited India to embed test strategy and facilitate workshops to give greater understanding of business processes for developers.

Andy Kerr’s Education

• Heriot-Watt University

  1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Andy Kerr’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Andy Kerr’s Interests:

IT Testing, making fine art prints, photography and selling my photos online, building websites, hillwalking, pottery, reading non-fiction books.

Andy Kerr’s Groups:

•    Heriot-Watt Alumni (Official)
•    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
•    UK Permanent and Contract Test Managers and Test Leads

Andy Kerr’s Contact Settings

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