Nigel Smith

Experience

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  Telkom SA

  Jan 1990 - Apr 1997

  Client Services Engineer

  Telephone, PABX and Public Phone maintenance and installation.

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  Marconi

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2005

  Test mananger

  Managed test teams in-house and off-shore, testing numerous Trunk Optical Transmission technologies/products.

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  Citrix Systems

  Sept 2006 - Mar 2009

  Test/Dev Manager

  Mananged a team of Test and Development Engineers, tasked with developing test automation tools for performance testing Citrix products.

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  Centrix Software Ltd

  Mar 2009 - Nov 2012

  Test & Customer Support Manager

  Manage team of Test Engineers and Customer Support function. Hands-on testing as well as Test Strategy and Project Management.

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  Prudential Assurance

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2014

  GHO IT Test Manager

  Managed a team of Test professionals responsible for the quality implementation of Head Office IT solutions.Interface with Business Unit stake holders.

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  DataSift

  Feb 2014 - Nov 2015

  Test Manager

  Over the last 22 months I have built an 8 strong team of highly skilled Software Developers in Test from the ground up. As a team we have implemented processes and procedures to intergrate with the 40 strong development team, taking on responsibility for Component, Integration, End to End and Performance testing of the platforms and components under development. In this time we have successfully tested a number of PYLON™ releases. PYLON™ is our new Privacy First platform installed in Facebook’s Datacentres to surface Topic data from Facebook user interactions. Show less

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  Opus 2 International

  Dec 2015 - Jun 2017

  Test Manager
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  Just Group plc

  Jul 2017 - Mar 2021

  Test Manager
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  Legal & General

  Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

  Snr Test Manager
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  EY

  Aug 2021 - now

  Manager - Technology Consulting