I have been working in software delivery for over 20 years mainly in retail and in variety of areas within the SDLC.
Recent years has seen me specialising on testing within an agile setting in retail and more recently in finance.
I take my work seriously and strive to the best at it as I can be. As the expectation of an advocate of test and quality is constantly evolving, then so must I.
From an early age I have always had a keen appreciation for things of quality and of anything that is built and designed well.
I love the opportunity that my job gives me to drive high standards and influence improvement by keeping up the conversation on quality, what that means to us how we implement and improve on it.
I'm as keen to learn as I am to teach.
I feel its a testers responsibility to fully understand, as best they can, an application's behaviour and it's interactions with other systems, otherwise how can it truly be tested effectively?
I regularly get involved in "exploration spikes" so that I can better understand integrated systems and share any significant findings via conversation and documentation so as to benefit the whole team.
It's my responsibility as a test and quality specialist to support and navigate the team as we define, follow, review and improve on a strategy relevant to the development and delivery process.
...and I will get back to you.