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David Lydon

David Lydon

IT Professional
Daingean

Summary

Professional Summary Dedicated QA Analyst bringing 23 years of experience and diligence to handling the needs of large and complex products. Solid history in manual testing. Seeking to apply expertise to growth-oriented dynamic position. Demonstrated success in white and black box testing. Read requirements and create test plans and test cases. Identify use cases. Comprehensive understanding of full software development life-cycle. Customer-focused, contributing to Company success by improving team efficiency and productivity. Skilled at effective negotiations and upselling techniques. Utilises excellent organizational skills to enhance efficiency and assist teams to achieve outstanding results. Detail-oriented IT Tester, adept at making critical decisions and delivering projects in a timely and cost-effective manner with expertise in analysis and quantitative problem-solving skills, dedicated to company growth and improvements. Knowledgeable IT professional offering practical and communicative and administration skills. Reliable and collaborative team member, looking for opportunity to develop skills further.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Project Lead

TCS
Letterkenny
01.2020 - Current

N.B. Many of the skills Here Overlap with Senior Test Role as this is due to Company Reorganization


  • Focus on Continual improvement to both self and process
  • Plans test strategy for one or more areas of a product
  • Responsible for developing test data to test system
  • Responsible for setting up test environment for system test phase
  • Identifies software problems, determine steps to reproduce them
  • Make entries into a problem tracking database
  • Understands customer/system requirements
  • Reviews functional and design specifications
  • Analyses complex software problems and proposes workarounds.
  • Responsible for optimising the testing and for automation tool potential
  • Identifies conflicting tasks/goals and prioritize based on project needs
  • Contributes to schedules and estimations
  • Implement Agile testing methodologies

System Administrator

Pramerica
Letterkenny
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Provided effective resolutions to issues and escalated problems in several environments with knowledgeable support and quality service
  • Generated reports outlining performance, costs and down-time issues
  • Consulted users to determine areas in need of improvement
  • Improved job-tasks and mentored junior team members on best practices and standards
  • Promoted continuous improvement for IT governance processes
  • Took ownership of environments and kept a flexible schedule to provide 24hr service by resolving after-hours and weekend emergencies in a timely manner
  • Liaised with a variety of stakeholders to exceed expectations of service, ensuring goals and objectives were being successfully met

Senior QA Test Analyst

Pramerica
Letterkenny
01.2004 - 01.2017
  • Work with and Mentor junior testers
  • Plans test strategy for products
  • Responsible for developing test data to test system
  • Identifies software problems, determine steps to reproduce them
  • Make entries into a problem tracking database
  • Understands customer/system requirements
  • Reviews functional and design specifications
  • Gives feedback on documents undergoing review
  • Create and Run Peer ro Peer testing system and Documention
  • Analyses the testing for automation tool potential
  • Liase with Automation team
  • Identifies conflicting tasks/goals and prioritize based on project needs
  • Create to schedules and estimations
  • Implement Agile testing methodologies

Test Analyst

Pramerica
Letterkenny
01.2001 - 01.2003
  • Help Senior Tester create Plans test strategy for product
  • Explore test data to test system
  • Use test environment for system test phase
  • Learn to Identify software problems, determine steps to reproduce them
  • Make entries into a problem tracking database
  • Read and explore customer/system requirements
  • Create functional and design specifications
  • Gives feedback on documents undergoing review
  • Take part in Peer to Peer testing

COBOL Programmer

Data Dimensions
Castlebar
01.1998 - 01.2001
  • Entry-level professionals who are responsible for designing and implementing computer software that meets the needs of internal and external clients.
  • MainFrame Cobol Programming.
  • System Documentation Creation and Documentation.
  • Initially Part of Y2K Effort
  • Utilized Several different technologies

Education

National Certificate - Business Studies

College Marketing And Design , Dublin
09.1986 - 09.1988

Certificate - Business Administration

FAS, CastleBar
03.1991 - 02.1992

Professional Qualification - IT

City And Guilds, Remote Based In England
09.1994 - 04.1997

Skills

Plans test strategy for one or more areas of a productundefined

Timeline

Project Lead - TCS
01.2020 - Current
System Administrator - Pramerica
01.2018 - 01.2020
Senior QA Test Analyst - Pramerica
01.2004 - 01.2017
Test Analyst - Pramerica
01.2001 - 01.2003
COBOL Programmer - Data Dimensions
01.1998 - 01.2001
City And Guilds - Professional Qualification, IT
09.1994 - 04.1997
FAS - Certificate, Business Administration
03.1991 - 02.1992
College Marketing And Design - National Certificate, Business Studies
09.1986 - 09.1988

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