James Virdee

United Kingdom

@jobs62

Lead QA Engineer & Line Manager

Personal Information

jobs@virdee.net
+44-07738012419
Hemel Hempstead

Badges

Problem Solving
CPP
Java
Sql
C language

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Work Experience

  • Automation Test Lead / Lead QA Engineer / Line Manager

    Whitbread•  September 2018 - July 2021•  London

    Automation Test Lead and line manager for the Premier Inn and Business Booker (B2B) £1.4 billion revenue websites.

  • QA Delivery Lead / Test Lead

    Channel 4•  May 2013 - September 2018•  London

    Recruited into Channel 4 to drive forward a more technically focussed QA improvement initiative and harmonise the overall team focus towards quality deliverables.

  • Senior Technology Architect

    Symbian / Nokia / Accenture•  December 2003 - October 2012•  London

    Technology Architect for a 70 person strong team of on/off-shore and outsourced engineers in the test, test tooling and test automation domains.

  • Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer

    Zergo / Baltimore Technologies / AEP Systems•  August 1998 - August 2003•  Hemel Hempstead

    Held a broad security cleared engineering role with responsibilities in product design, development, QA and release management for cross platform e-Security products and toolkits.

Education

  • University of Kent at Canterbury

    BSc. (Hons) Computer Science•  September 1995 - July 1998

Skills

JIRA
BrowserStack
AWS
Selenium
REST-assured
Postman
Cucumber-JVM
Gherkin
Jenkins
Bamboo
Maven
IntelliJ
Fiddler
Charles Proxy
Git
Subversion
JUnit
Robotium
Perfecto
Gerrit
Acra
STB-Tester
Suite.st
BBC Wraith
BDD
C++
Java