Toby Richards

Initial 2 projects: Integration of AML Sanction Screening Tool from 3rd party Finastra into Cembra’s compliance workflow and ensure financial balance sheet and reconciliations. Management of testing of a major application and network migration to new server topology including new firewalls

Wrote the Customer's Test Plan and approach against the overall Program Test Plan for all the banks compliance banking applications, SIT testing, Business E2E UAT testing, Provided the knowledge for the creation and delivery of CCO SIT test cases and supported the CCO Italy Business Testers with test management tools and test case techniques, Provided the framework to track the progress of test execution across all test levels and Provided the framework to manage deviations along with risks and issues.

Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz, Bucher Industries, Migros Global IT and ETSI BABS: Manage testing of a Swiss-wide emergency data and voice communications network: SIT and UAT. Bucher: UAT digital transformational network global rollout. Migros: E2E and testing of Digital Transformation Operational Readiness (OAT) ready for handover Managed testing from the Romanian near-shore Service centre team. Test Automation Feasibility Study R&D mobile comms Tests with ETSI. Due diligence officer with RUAG.

Senior Test Manager on Application and Program Portfolio level. Working and leading teams spread worldwide. Expert in leading multiple application testing within System, System Integration and UAT. Extensive Business Testing co-ordination.

Until end of 2014 Test Manager on multiple concurrent projects 2012 - Worked as a Project Manager within Global Testing Transformation for the Americas. 2007-12 - Application and Portfolio Test Management

Defined, planned and executed E2E tests on Reuters FX trading desktop application and data network. Testing included System Integration Testing, UAT, Functional, Smoke, Regression and Resilience Testing. Ensured that the BT MPLS network over 2 data centre sites were fully resilient to replicate BCP/ DR goals. Test n/w mgt systems, Mentoring and training of junior testers. Day to day coordination. Reporting to snr mgt. Co-ord with Reuters news and data feeds. Work with offshore in BKK

Managed a Proof of Concept BCP/DR test Plan. Applied Project lifecycle methodology to overall plan including the setting of a baseline and milestone to be reviewed by Project Manager. Chairing meetings to review project strategy and monitoring progress within overall program. Responsible for high level and low-level test strategies. Ownership of Program Risk and Issue log. Co-ordination and recording of program concerns and escalating to all stakeholders.

· Administered all change management project and program plans continually updating them and presenting them to Project Managers, Project and Executive Sponsors and Executive Committees. · Responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the Projects’ Change Control and Issue and Risk Logs. · Ensured that all Program / Project Managers’ monthly and ad-hoc reports were tracked, filed and delivered to agreed standards and formats and that all complied to agreed version control.

Test Project Planning and Execution on sw and network test projects. IP delivery, BCP / DR projects and migration of proprietary communications protocol to IP delivery. Executed complete Systems Integration, E2E and Functional tests. QA work and CMM

Corporate Strategy Accountancy HR French Business Law 1 year in France (6 months University of Angers and 6 months work placement Cegelec (Alsthom) Paris