Jason Paul Tel: h - 01702 714 168 m - 07733 401 427Email: jasonpaul1969@yahoo.co.uk

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jason-paul-67614319

Profile:

Accomplished – IT Test Manager with extensive change the bank expertise. A highly motivated individual who performs well in pressurised environments. Experienced at building strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders and negotiates conflicting viewpoints. An Agile test co-ordinator both holistically and at the detailed data level. A delivery focused person with strong attention to detail.

Key Skills:

o Expert Test Manager who provides Test Strategies and adaptable Test Plans.o Experienced taking organisation forward through implementing new target operating models and critical projects. o Proficient working with a variety of methodologies and adapting execution plans. o Extensive project management expertise leading large data migrations and processes re-engineering.o Ability to resolve problems and create timely fit for purpose solutions especially when data is provided late.o Expert mentor of employees from various cultures and backgrounds some of who have then been promoted. o Comfortable talking on my feet leading workshops and facilitating post implementation reviews. o Effective at leading and developing people through a collaborative style. o Expertise with software development methodology like AGILE, TDD, BDD, V-Model, Waterfall, RUP and RAD.

Core Competencies:Strategy & Planning, Champion of Relationship Management, Delivery focused person who ensures projects are delivered successfully. Able to remove organizational obstacles and factor in capacity strategically or through efficient processes.

Management Qualifications Training- Project Planning - Prince 2 - Qualified - Mercury Quality Centre ALM. - SIT/UAT Co-ordination - CIMA - Certificate in Management Accounting. - JIRA, BOXI & MS Projects.- Project Delivery, TOM - ISEB/ISTQB - Qualified. - Credit Derivatives, AML. ITSM. - Systems Development - Six Sigma - Yellow Belt. - Advanced Project Management.- Process Improvement - College - Exams - Lean Processing, SAP Hana, Qlikview.

Career - Contracting roles

August 2015 – Present FDM Consulting IT - QA Test ManagerLloyds Banking Group Leading test activities across two major projects under the IT - Resilience Programme for Global Financial Markets.

Project 1- Murex Functional Evolution. Created a new test strategy document with senior management approval. Rolled out my monthly test plan to streamline development processes into a more transparent and controlled framework. Introduced additional BA testing capacity. Providea central QA - TM function with independent sight on all ‘CR’ changes allowing PM’s to sign-off changes with more confidence.

Project 2 - Viable Disaster Recovery. Responsible for managing Disaster Recovery test execution. Formulated the master sequence of events derived from detailed run books. Prepare, monitor and control dress rehearsals and weekend failover events. Manage cross business stakeholder expectations. Provide weekend support and a defect/issues hub. Centrally co-ordinate IT/Business test scripts in HP-ALM.

March 2015 – May Brickendon Consulting IT - Programme Test ManagerHSBC - Test Strategy role

Working onsite for HSBC Trade Reporting - IT Function. Provided advice on improving test strategy and helped overhaul processes to create an efficient test delivery function. Built in SLA’s and cohesive handover of test artefacts between teams overcoming barriers. Advised team leads how to resolve issues and implemented new defect management procedures.

October - 2014 – February Resource Solutions IT - Test ManagerDeutsche Bank – FED Regulatory role

Joined a pressurised Treasury Change Management team building a new data warehouse, whilst working on FED 5G reporting. Interviewed feed owners on current state items. Provided solutions, analysis and exception handling reports. Help created a new process to complete the FED 5G report from 54 EUDA’s, whilst building the desired automated solution within SAP-HANA. Trained the offshore team. Planned and managed parts of the first major dry run. Managed defects and triaged remediation.

June 2013 – Oct 2014

After nearly five successful years managing the Regional Control QA - Testing Team at UBS, several roles were made redundant due to major restructuring. So after twenty years continuous work I decided to take a career break and look after my young boys and get them prepared for school. In this time I also set up my limited company and studied some professional certificates.

Career - Full-Time roles

Sept 2008 - June 2013 UBS Associate Director – QA Release ManagerBusiness and IT Test Manager role

Led the EMEA - QA Quarterly Releases involving extensive project and test planning. Applied a framework of governance rules ensuring compliance and integrity of UBS systems. Re-engineered a tired test processes, improved test calls and led process workshops. Conducted extensive testing activities (SIT, UAT, OAT) on projects across Asset Class, Finance, OPS and Reg. Managed Credit, Market and Operational Risks issues within the QA function and provided solutions to projects managers. Responsible for signing-off testing on critical projects affecting; Banking Products, SWAPS, Dodd Frank, OTC-CCP, Settlement & Clearing, P&L Reconciliations and Regulatory Requirements. Implemented IFRS changes across the bank, set up a new Liquidity & Funding reporting team. Presented a slide deck of release changes to an audience of over thirty people prior to implementation.

Job Responsibilities

o Responsible for leading the Quarterly Testing - Releases Cycles.o Manage the Q&A framework and sign-off process across a portfolio of technical projects. o Create manual Test Cases, Test Scripts and advise the team how to create Test Cases with valid Test Approaches.o Oversaw changes for banking products such as: FX Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Forwards and Structured Trades o Created test plans and smoke tests to capture early sight of code changes and defects.o Managed a team of four Test Analysts who in time moved on successfully within UBS.o Created a test metrics dashboard highlighting progress against target for senior management discussion.o Created a sunrise testing model across the regions.o Continually consulted with project stakeholders to ensure underlying data aligned with the existing architecture.o Expertise navigating finance MI data warehouses and complex systems under Waterfall/Agile methodologies.o Conducted pre-flight SIT system checks to ensure the UAT environment was up to date and useable for testing. o Brokered IT involvement at every stage of the software development life-cycle.o Managed Functional and Non-Functional testing and created suitable test plans.o Tracked, validated and communicated salient points on UAT testing and project progress. o Clearly defined responsibilities and ownership of key test items together with defect and issues as they arose.

Achievements at UBS:

o Improved test efficiency by 40%.o Advised the Regulatory Team on project Mercury a critical legal entity initiative for UBS. o Implemented IFRS 13 Fair Value Hierarchy and IFRS 7 Reclassification of Financial Assets. o Root caused defects and managed the retesting of them. o Scoped & delivered a FSA Liquidity & Funding project.

Led the delivery and created the requirements for a new set of Liquidity and Funding weekly reports for the FSA. o Created testing tools to monitor instrument and trade data ensuring UBS and its systems were not put at risk.o Liaised with Middle & Front-Office on OTC-CCP project elements to reduce counterparty risk. o Coached a team of analyst from different backgrounds helping them to produce test cases and scripts.o Wrote test automation scripts ensuring coding worked using black box techniques.

Career:

March 2006 - Aug 2008 HSBC – Global Banking & Markets Client System – Project ManagerDatabase Manager & Test Lead

Managed the Investment Banks - Global Client Profitability System. This combined day to day BAU activities and project management. The BAU work comprised; coordinating over 100 site submissions into our database cube which calculated critical KPI’s; RWA’s, CRR’s, Income, Profit Margin for our Client Relationship Mangers. Bonuses were paid on the output of our system so attention to detail was paramount.

The HCR system was on old infrastructure and in need of fresh functional and none functional changes. I documented a new functional specification to incorporate Group Credit - BASEL II numbers (at the time). I arranged several NFT test events and challenged IT to increase; capacity, load, batch processing and reporting elements of the system. When I left several major implementation went live after 2 years of planning and testing by my team.

Achievements at HSBC:

o Created a functional specification document for the adoption of Basel II attributes.o Implemented new profitability calculations for each for reporting accurate KPI’s.o Managed the Head Office Client Reporting team in the UK and our offshore hub in Hyderabad.o Designed functional requirement documentation for IT to build a new Credit Risk interface file. To accurately report CRR’s

and RWA’s. The new interface was implemented on March 1st 2008. o Re-engineered system administration processes and handed them off-shore.o Managed the on-going training queries and procedural improvements.o Increased infrastructure and performance off the HCR system.

Career – Continued

June 1997 - March 2006 RBS & NatWest Group Change Management & MI Reporting roles

Joined NatWest - Group Tax in 1997 on contract where I produced the corporation tax returns for NatWest property disposals.I also built a calculation tool to accurately estimate future expected tax charges on proposed property sales. I was soon referred by my manager into a permanent position in Corporate Banking & Financial Markets, (CBFM).

The role was within the Payment Trade Banking Services directors’ office where I collated month-end MI for five businesses areas. The MI consisted of cost, income, project reports, and the business area executive pack. I learnt to manage the financial submission process and improved it using several macro templates. The numbers had to be accurate, provided with commentary, delivered against tight deadlines with extensive variance calculations such as Flash vs. Actual. This work involved detailed cross divisional discussions where I built up authentic relationships.

When RBS took over NatWest in 2000, I moved into the operational side of the business as a SME my focus was directed into helping the merger of NatWest and RBS. I worked on many business change projects and introduced Lean Processing.

One large transformational project I led was to migrate NatWest customer and product data onto new RBS infrastructure.This involved non-functional testing of the expanded RBS systems, dummy statement runs, parallel test and ticking back mountains of statements manually.

I also led a major FX & Payment Operations migration project.

The project lasted two years and encompassed travelling throughout the UK into various Operational business areas to understand their daily Settlement and Clearing processes. The mission was to create a Central Accounting and Control Unit in London for RBS - Manufacturing division. I worked on location mapping out current state processes across a suite of system and through my LEAN training improve said processes as I lifted and shift them into the new unit in London. Each Phase covered a batch of Operational product accounts; FX currencies, Documentary Credits, Bonds & Guarantees, Daily P&L, Nostro and many internal suspense accounts.

Through efficiently re-engineering I successfully helped my manager create a new greed field team in London of 28 staff and received several internal rewards for doing so.

Achievements at NatWest & RBS:

o Responsible for an Operations Transformational Programme, project from concept to completion. This involved migrating over 2500 Payment and Trade Accounts from UK business areas, to the Central Accounting and Control Unit in London.

o Production of daily P&L reconciliations and a monthly business pack to senior finance managers.o Faced-off to region staff at various levels and pushed through barriers to archive the desired goal.o Set up Lean account reconciliation procedures, reducing operational risks and coaching new staff members.o Reporting monthly ‘Flash’ Actual’s for CBFM Board with full variance commentaries.o Rolled out user acceptance testing of SAP when required and coached staff to use SAP.o Moved roles every couple of years and gained extensive insights within; Finance, Change Management and Operations

Early Career:July 1996 - June 1997 WorldCom Telecommunication Dealer Team Analyst Sept 1994 - June 1996 Care & Mobility Ltd Purchase Ledger Supervisor Sept 1988 - January 1992 Matthems West & Co Chartered Accountants Senior Assistant

Systems: GCRS, SAP Hana, Sun &, Sage Accounting Systems, Business Objects XI, MS Office & MS Projects, Service MgmtVisibility, Mercury Quality Centre, HP-ALM 11, JIRA, Murex 3.1, Rational Team Concert, Rational Clear Quest,

Interests: Keeping up with business news and current affairs. I am an advanced scuba diver.

Keeping fit in the gym, playing rugby and squash. Volunteering for events at work Coaching mini rugby on a Sunday morning.