Experience

Jun 2020 – Present · Cambridgeshire, England, UK

AVEVA total tenure ~13 yrs 10 mos.

Sep 2012 – Present · Greater Cambridge Area

Automated & manual QA Engineer for the Web Team:

• Writing, reviewing and executing manual and automated tests.
• Using Playwright MCP to write tests.
• Writing ADO pipeline deployments in YAML.
• C# automation framework to test web tools using Selenium / Chrome WebDriver.
• C# automation framework to test the REST API (based on OData).
• TestComplete framework to test the desktop tool and its web integration.
• Manual testing on IE11, Edge, Chrome (Windows 10), tablets and phones (Android, Apple).
• Manual testing of desktop tools.
• Deploying web servers using DSC.
• Debugging with IIS Manager, SQL Management Studio and SQL profiling.
• Developing test plans / strategies; producing and signing off release packages.

Tools: TFS, TeamCity, Visual Studio, JMeter, C#, Python, Selenium WebDriver, SQL Server 2008R2/2016, SQLite, BDD, Agile (Kanban/Scrum), Copilot (Claude, GPT) in VS2026.

Feb 2003 – Aug 2012 · Greater Cambridge Area

QA Systems/Tools Engineer for Parasolid (the 3D solid modelling component used in CAD). Wrote bespoke tools (C++, C#, SQL Server, VBA) to track defects/documents, run automated tests, and build/ship software across platforms. Manually tested components and tracked bugs across versions.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · Enfield, England, UK

Software house for legal accounting / case management. VB developer for complex dynamic legal accounting reports; rewrote the reporting engine into Crystal Reports and Data-Dynamics Active Reports using Visual Basic 6.0.

1999 – 2001 · Computing consultancy for the electricity industry

Specified, designed, coded (VB and Access VBA), trained users and implemented inter-linked tools: Configuration Management, Test Tracking, Problem Management and Resource Management.

1998 – 1999

For Professor M. J. Damzen, Nonlinear Optics sub-group, Photonics Group. Two projects (Defence Research Agency [DERA] and US Air Force) doing analysis and numerical modelling in C++/FORTRAN. Tutored and mentored students; presented at international conferences.

1994 – 1998

Novel laser resonator designs with Professor M. J. Damzen; numerical models in FORTRAN/C++ and experimental builds.

1991 – 1994 · Grade 2:1

1984 – 1991

4 A-levels: Physics (B), Maths (B), Chemistry (B), Biology (B). 9 GCSEs including Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, English Language & Literature, Music, History and French (all A).