Phil Adams

Current

• Systems Testing Manager at TUI UK

Past

• Test Coordinator at TUI UK
• Manging Director at ProgTech Consultancy Ltd
• Senior QA Engineer at MRM Worldwide

• Test Project Co-ordinator at iPSL
• Testing Delivery Manager at EDS
• Test Manager at Hitachi Capital (UK) plc
• Senior Test Analyst at Unisys Ltd
• Test Team Leader at Reuters
• Test Team Lead at Rapid Business Systems
• Test Leader at BBC
• Test Control Manager at Unisys

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Phil Adams’s Summary

ISEB / ISTQB Qualified.

Specialising in Software Testing and Test Management, with a wide range of technical experience covering Test Director, WinRunner, QuickTest Pro, SQL, .Net, C# and others.

A strong background in QA and ISO9000 Management Systems.

Phil Adams’s Specialties:

Client/Server database technologies, including SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase.

Automated Test Tools: WinRunner, TestDirector, QuickTest Pro, Empirix eTest

Phil Adams’s Experience

• Systems Testing Manager

  TUI UK

  (Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Managing Testing across TUI UK's Selling (web-fronted) and Business (back-end) Systems, involving a mix of UK-based and off-shore testing. I manage: a team of approximately 12 onshore Test Coordinators and up to 100 testers off-shore; System & Production-acceptance Test Environments; and Test procedures and processes.

• Test Coordinator

  TUI UK

  (Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  March 2008 — January 2009 (11 months)

  Managing Off-shore Testing - coordinating effort between on- and off-shore Development teams and the off-shore Test teams, performing a range of System, Business and Production Acceptance Testing.

• Manging Director

  ProgTech Consultancy Ltd

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)

  Running my own company, providing specialist software testing and test management in sectors such as Finance, Travel and Media

• Senior QA Engineer

  MRM Worldwide

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; IPG; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)

  MRM Worldwide are the UK's 4th largest New Media Marketing organisation. I provided specialist QA and SQL experience for the migration of DELL's EMEA marketing database.

• Test Project Co-ordinator

  iPSL

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)

• Testing Delivery Manager

  EDS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)

  Delivered System Testing of the Office of Fair Trading initiatives for Cheque-clearing on time and to budget despite a challenge time schedule.

• Test Manager

  Hitachi Capital (UK) plc

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)

  Managing the User Acceptance Testing of a significant upgrade to Hitachi Capital's Asset Finance software suite.

• Senior Test Analyst

  Unisys Ltd

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 5 months)

  Senior Test Analyst, HBOS, reporting to HBOS Project Manager.
  
  Developed and rolled-out Test Strategy and Plan, detailing resource and environment requirements.
  
  Collected requirements into TestDirector, designed and created functional test scripts to ensure adequate coverage.
  
  Ran manual and WinRunner tests against the web-based application.
  
  Reported on test progress to the Client and programme management; managed defects; produced Test Completion Reports.

• Test Team Leader

  Reuters

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Services industry)

  March 2002 — May 2002 (3 months)

  Developed Test Plans and Scripts to test the introduction of schema changes to a Reuters Data Enterprise Oracle Database. Responsible for developing Oracle SQL scripts and Oracle Discoverer Reports; test execution; analysing and comparing outputs pre- and post- schema changes, developing an Excel compare tool to facilitate this. Produced intermediate and final Test Reports, completing this short contract to schedule

• Test Team Lead

  Rapid Business Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  I led a team of User Acceptance Testers, guiding them in test methodologies, creating scenarios from requirements and subsequently scripting tests.
  
  I developed a suite automated load and performance tests using Empirix eTest Suite to run on the Travel Booking website under development.

• Test Leader

  BBC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  June 1999 — December 1999 (7 months)

  • Leading two Testers and numerous Users in the renovation, migration and testing of a range of BBC systems including a range of COTS and bespoke systems.
  • Produced Renovation Proposals, Test Plans and UA Test Scripts; assisted Users with UA Testing and recorded results; produced UA Testing Reports for sign-off.

• Test Control Manager

  Unisys

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  June 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 8 months)

  • Managed a ten-strong multi-disciplinary team covering Quality, Test Planning, Issue and Risk Management, Configuration Management and Library for a $35million project for the retail banking sector.
  • Responsible for two planners, co-ordinating planning input from seven test streams.
  • Produced Test Strategies, Plans, Procedures and Processes for the multiple work-stream project, including complete documentation templates in accordance with ISO 9000, PRINCE and Banking Standards.
  • Developed and implemented Quality Audits of all Test documentation.
  • Liaised with Unisys, BSI and Customer Auditors to implement audit recommendations across the Test function.
  • Developed and managed a Recruitment/Skills database to efficiently process staffing issues.

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