James Brighton

Experience

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  Next Group PLC

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2010

  Stockroom Assistant

  Worked as part of the delivery team in order to ensure all stock is tagged, size cubed and stored in the correct place, on time and to Company standard.

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  William Hill

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2013

  Customer Service Assistant 2.5

  Worked up to the rank of a level 2.5 CSA at William Hill while still at university, roles included opening and closing branches, money management, and taking and paying out bets.

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  FDM Group

  Sept 2014 - Oct 2016

  Graduate Trainee

  Former FDM trainee, trained in the technical pathway for Testing.FDM Group is a professional services provider with a focus on IT, as well as a leading IT graduate employer. Using a tailored blend of specialist training and skills development, FDM transforms high-calibre graduates into professional IT and business Consultants through their unique Graduate Programme. FDM’s Graduate Programme tailors training around your skill set, offering an individual learning pathway with either a business or technical focus. Training pathways include Project/Business Analysis, Business Test Analysis, Data and Operational Analysis, Software Testing, Software Development, Production Support and MX.3 Production Support.Following training, graduates will be prepared for exciting roles as FDM Consultants representing FDM on client sites across the UK, and internationally if they wish. Show less

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  Sky

  Nov 2014 - Oct 2015

  Test Analyst

  I worked on multiple projects within BSkyB as part of the Business Intelligence department.I started as the UAT Tester for the department and my responsibilities were:• Making sure release has been deployed completely• Setting up release test environment for batch runs • Monitoring batch runs, testing release stories as well as regression of full system• Informing stakeholders of the status during release testing and providing with extracts• Understanding testing processes and procedures that have had changes due to code releaseAfter a couple month on the UAT environment I moved on to Functional Testing were a gained more responsibilities:• Meeting expectations for data accuracy and including this in the test coverage. • Preparing the environment ready for testing from acceptance criteria • Designing and maintaining test plans, test conditions, test specifications, test scripts and testing procedures.• Various test execution (Internal Validation, System Integration & End to End), recording of test results and test progress reporting.• Logging/tracking defects and producing defect reports (JIRA)• Utilising test tools to automate testing effort like Exordium (in house tool used on a Fittnesse Platform) & Netezza• Work effectively with Business Analysts,Test Manager, Developers & Stakeholders to meet deliverable deadlines for various Projects.• Developing relationship with internal operating groupsTechnical skills and technologies used:• Knowledge of defect management tools (JIRA)• Improving/change related test approaches and test plans• Creating Automated Regression Suites • Testing complex data movements and reporting applications• Testing Data Warehouse solutions• Testing BI solutions• Different Types of testing: System Testing, Functional Testing, E2E Testing, UAT Testing & System Integration Testing. Show less

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  Betfair

  Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

  Test Analyst

  At Betfair, I worked in a scrum team which had two week scrums in which to meet our points total. During my time at Betfair I worked on a number of different small projects in which all incorporated in to our final project. While at Betfair I:• Design and documents test cases, execution of test cases, recording test results, defects tracking and performing test coverage analysis.• Review and obtains approvals from relevant stakeholders.• Review outputs from testing including test cases, scenarios, results, and reports.• Communicate and provide continuous updates to Product Owner or Test Manager on status andprogress of work.• Provide usage data for automated scripts.• Perform regression tests• Perform functional testsTechnical skills and technologies used:• Oracle SQL Developer - to access database and test new procedures• Amazon Redshift• Fitnesse - creating automated test scripts• Mediationzone - used for integration testing, ingesting new files in to our system• Rally - bug tracking and managing backlog Show less

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  Sky Sports Digital Media

  Apr 2016 - Sept 2016

  Test Analyst

  As Sky Technology is ever growing up in Leeds I had the opportunity to join the growing team.The first major the project I worked on was a new Feeds project. This was integrating a new feed and how we process the data and how we use these on skysports.com and sportinglife.com. For testing purposes, I had to do full end-to-end testing, integration testing and regression testing created with Fitnesse.Due to working at such a big company as Sky. We had to be in constant communication with other teams as our changes were affecting many different projects.Technical skills and technologies used:• JIRA - for bug defect management and managing backlog• Fitnesse to create integration testing for APIs• IntelliJ and Gauge to create automated web tests• Jenkins used to release code for testing and running regression test packs• SQL to query SQL developer database• Cloudfoundary/Nimbus - platform in which our the feeds ingest project was being built on• Git for source code management• Confluence for documentation. Show less

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  Ten10 Group

  Nov 2016 - Jun 2017

  Senior Test Analyst

  Ten10 delivers software testing using the best people, the best processes and the best technology, enabling organisations to embrace innovation and technological change with absolute confidence.As the UK’s leading software testing company, Ten10 offer a broad range of services to fit the needs and timescales of the clients. Every Ten10 service is delivered with absolute rigour, by talented people working with the best technology.As a Senior Test Analyst, I am sent to clients to help create, execute and improve test cases and practices to the high standards set by Ten10. Show less

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  Hotels.com

  Jul 2017 - Jun 2020

  Software Engineer in Test

  Responsibilities• Define, develop, document and maintain a repository of test plans, cases and scripts.• Develop and review test requirements with input from product owners and developers.• Develop automated and manual testing procedures.• Execute test scripts.• Document test results noting discrepancies between actual and expected results.• Report defects and interact with developers to ensure these are understood.• Contribute to ongoing improvement of quality assurance standards and procedures.• work with extremely large data sets in a Data Warehousing, ETL and Business Intelligence environment.Technical Skills:• Test execution using manual methods and automated testing tools• Knowledge of defect management tools (JIRA)• Testing complex DATA movements• Testing Data Warehouse solutions• Unix Shell Scripting• Create and maintain automation scripts for data quality using shell script• Knowledge of working with DB2 database and Hadoop Show less

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  Expedia Group

  Jun 2020 - now

  Program Manager