Produce requirements specifications for business areas. Mainly specialise in supporting finance teams as an area of expertise. I also have AS400 knowledge which is used for supporting business at head office aswell as book stores. I also have to check third party proposals ensuring that costing is inline with business budgets and that the scope is also inline with what the business desire. This ensures that work is carried out to the business needs.

I also am involved in User Acceptance Testing ensuring that the business has delivered the right solution and results are as expected.

Deliver project work
- Produce appropriate requirements deliverables in planning phase
- Develop understanding of project context, drivers, needs and processes
- Support project team in delivery of project
- Participate in post project review
- Interact with vendors where necessary
- Interpret the needs of the customer
- Translate so they can be understood by IT and the Business
- Conduit between Business and IT
- Follow through the entire development lifecycle. Directly interact with Architects and Designers for High Level Design.
- Create Business and Systems Requirements documents
- Perform on Project Charters
- Review Feasible Solutions Assessments, Design Documents (High Level and Test Design), Test Plans and Test Cases
- Trace requirements at every stage.
- Ensure Visa/MasterCard/FSA Compliance
- Maintain compliance with BSA team controls & governance initiatives, contribute to wider team

I also got involved in the test phase ensuring that the test strategy and plans were written not overlooking given requirements. This enabled the business area to test each area of the functional and business specifications including non-functionl tests such as load and stress tests.

I tested applications using Test Director. This involved manual, document and regression testing. I am aware of the testing standards for HBOS and also have experience of identifying requirements and writing test conditions and scripts and also executing them. I also have had hands on experience within project using SQL.

At this role I also managed a team of testers to complete a project on time. This included motivating the team and setting standards by which we could execute efficiently and effectively. I also was able to take on other work from members who were not present due to their different circumstances.

I also had experience of working for the Central Testing Team in Dean Clough which is Head Office. This was to cover a colleague who was on secondment. I covered the Support Analyst role looking after the organisational aspects of testing within the Retail IT department. I had to arrange testing forums and ensuring that the website was kept up to date with information. I reconstructed the testing website of which was a major project whilst on secondment for 8 weeks.

I had to manage the IT infrastructure at a local company. This involved liaising with third party suppliers and ensuring that all technical issues were resolved. This job was a partnership between the University of Wolverhampton and AE Hawkins Ltd. I had to implement Smart Card technologies and ensure that the IT infrastructure was up to date with current IT developments. I also had to write reports on a regular basis to present to the Managing Director of AE Hawkins Ltd.

I was responsible for supporting students and staff with computer software such as office packages and specialist university software and any other problems they had with the computers. I also had to maintain printers, photocopiers and scanners.

This was my industrial placement year whilst at university. It was here where I learned how to program in Visual Basic 6.0. I developed Commercial Lines software which is back office software used by financial institutions. I also became involved in offering 2nd line support and developing stand-alone software applications for brokers and insurers. For these software applications I had to create business specifications, which detailed the purpose and functionality of these applications.

My time at Misys was extended due to my dedication and hard work. I had the choice of when my contract should end so I decided to leave not long before I retuned back to university to finish my final year.