Jean Taylor

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About Jean Taylor

Experienced Test Lead and consultant with over twenty years of experience delivering widely varying projects across Retail Banking, Pensions, Investment, General Insurance and the Public sectors. Natural leader, motivator and team player who has a proven track record of achieving tight deadlines, whilst ensuring quality of coverage and attention to detail. Test Lead with years of success leading and coaching test teams across multiple sectors, setting standards for deliverables, establishing efficient processes, building test frameworks and driving a team to investigate and resolve issues to ensure targets and deadlines are consistently met. Highly focused Test Analyst with the ability to derive test conditions and scripts from technical and business documents as well as writing excellent test strategies, test plans, accurate estimates, daily status reports and test completion reports. Agile experienced, representing at PI Planning, daily stand-ups, sprint-planning, retro and other ceremonies. Focused on “shifting left” utilising in-sprint testing and automation where possible. Extensive knowledge of Financial Services, Retail Banking, General Insurance, Investments and Life and Pensions. Public sector experience within National Records of Scotland. Logical, systematic and thorough. Excellent negotiation, prioritisation, problem solving, communicating and influencing skills. With business analysis experience, understands the business and technical perspectives thus able to identify gaps/problems from business requirements and functional specifications. Particularly skilled at the written word enabling concise, easy to read, meaningful documentation, reporting and communication for both colleagues and senior management. Experienced in defect management and usage of Quality Centre and JIRA/Zephyr. Accredited with ISEB Software Testing Foundation and Intermediate Certificates as well as ISEB Foundation in Business Analysis, ISEB Modelling Business Processes, ISEB Requirements Gathering and ISEB Business Analysis Essentials certificates. Comfortable working in a global delivery structure, collaborating effectively with both onshore and offshore colleagues. Accomplished in Web and Digital testing (including tablets, handsets, cross-browser and operating systems), as well as mainframe backend user systems and database migration. Excellent people skills. Builds good relationships and fits in with team and company culture. Experienced in working with and managing external supplier expectations for successful collaboration.