Versatile, agile, ISEB-certified Software Test Engineer with 9+ years experience in software testing using modern technologies across a wide range of market sectors. Solid understanding of testing and software development methodologies (both waterfall and iterative), test documentation (test strategies, planning, metrics/reports/dashboards, use cases/user stories) and requirements analysis, coupled with experience in test automation (Selenium/Ruby/Watir/SoapUI/LISA), web services, web applications and content management systems.

A reliable, self-motivated and diligent character, able to work effectively within teams or independently, with an excellent communication and interpersonal skillset, a genuine passion for testing and a positive and proactive demeanour.

Specialties: System and Acceptance Testing (incl. Exploratory, Non-Functional, Installation/Deployment & Regression), Requirements Analysis, Agile Delivery, Web Applications, Client/Server Technologies.

Common Tools / Technologies: Ruby, Selenium WebDriver, Watir, Cucumber, API's / Web Services, SQL (Oracle/MS/MySQL), Atlassian Stack (JIRA / Confluence / Stash / BitBucket), RubyMine / Eclipse, Git, VMWare / AWS (EC2), BurpSuite / Wireshark, Ready! API (SoapUI / LoadUI), HTML5 / CSS, XML / XSLT, Excel, and usual scripting (GroovyScript / JavaScript / CLI (Mac / Linux / Windows)).

If you'd like to know more, or would just like to connect, please do. Please not: I am not seeking a new role, so I may ignore/reject recruitment messages.

Thanks for reading, and best wishes.