Simon Longman

Experience

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  Glemnet Ltd - Cloud Communications Solutions

  May 2008 - Dec 2009

  Operations Advisor

  Working in the operations department of a business to business telecoms company. Responsibilities included:• Answering calls and logging faults• Taking ownership of faults and seeing them through to completion• Taking ownership of orders and seeing them through to completion • Data entry• Filling, faxing and letting writing• Dealing with first line broadband, IT and telecoms support• Answering customers enquiries• Helping to organise the engineers work calendar• Other general office ad hoc duties Show less

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  Red Bee Media

  Dec 2009 - Nov 2013

  Working for the ITV Player team in the Media Distribution Services Department. Responsibilities included:• Ingesting and time code logging media content• Editing media• Quality checking media• Liaising with the client via phone and email• Liaising with internal mangers via phone, email and face to face• Prioritising work load so that TX and deadline critical work was completed first• Ensuring standards were kept high by being vigilant and thorough• Other general ad hoc duties Show less

  • Test Analyst

    Oct 2012 - Nov 2013

  • Media Management Operator

    Dec 2009 - Oct 2012
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  Worldpay

  Dec 2013 - now

  Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for Worldpay Alternative Payments. Working with Kanban and Scrum methodologies towards monthly releases.Working on the monthly release cycle, owning of the Release test environment and being responsible for the deployments, via Jenkins, and ensuring all manual configurations have been applied to the release environment server.Coordinating the smoke, regression and rollback testing for the releases with the Release Manager and Automation Test Lead and ensuring all bugs raised have been attended to.Attending weekly sizing meetings for new projects and managing the weekly QA team meeting. Attending Sprint Demo's to ensure all QA activities have been executed satisfactorily.Being a point of contact for newer members of the team to assist them with any queries or help they require for both the onshore and offshore QAs.Taking on the Test Lead’s tasks when they are out of the office. Show less I’m a Quality Assurance Analyst for WorldPay Alternative Payments. Working as part of an onshore QA team carrying out Static, Functionality, System, Integration and Regression testing on the Alternative Payment systems used by both the company and our merchants.Working closely with the Developers, Architects, Business Analysts, Project Managers and any other key stake holders for the successful completion of projects in an Agile approach. I also collaborate with our offshore QA team which is based in India. Show less

  • Senior Software Development Manager

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Software Development Manager

    Jul 2021 - Apr 2023

  • Test Lead

    Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Senior Test Analyst

    Apr 2019 - Sept 2020

  • QA Analyst

    Jul 2016 - Apr 2019

  • Senior QA Analyst, Alternative Payments

    Feb 2015 - Jul 2016

  • QA Analyst, Alternative Payments

    Dec 2013 - Feb 2015