Creation of test strategies, plans, conditions, cases, scripts, automated scripts, entry and exit criteria, execution reports, daily execution logs, defect reports, test execution matrices within the areas of component, integration, sub-system and system and usage of functional, non-functional, combinatorial and fuzz techniques.
Conducted reviews of system engineering documentation, requirements (High-level system and derived), use cases, technical designs, test, integration and defect documentation.

Release Management
Co-ordination of release and testing schedule, compilation of software packages in multiple languages, distribution of normal and bespoke releases to customers.
Create and Maintenance of release scripts and programs.

Software Technologies (In no particular order)
Programming/Scripting languages – C, C++, Java, DOS, UNIX, Visual Basic, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, OpenGL, Python
Software packages – Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, WAMP
Testing software – HP Quality Centre, QuickTest Pro, LoadRunner, soapUI, SOAtest, DEFENSICS, PICT
Misc software – Wireshark, Microsoft Office, VMware

Knowledge of ITIL practices

Career Summary
2011-Current – Lockheed Martin – Integration & Test Engineer Senior
Functional End-to-End and UAT testing with multiple customers and suppliers.

2008-2011 – EADS – Cassidian Systems – Test and Verification Engineer
£300mil+ Large Scale Integration project involving over 250 people on command and control, telephony, mobilisation, data and backup systems.

Roles include:
2009-2011 – Interfaces Test Team Lead
All activities being performed on as Interfaces Test Team Lead were above my official role within the company.

Interface testing involves a functional and combinatorial approach on all inter-vendor component interfaces, using test tools such as soapUI, SOAtest, PICT, QTP & Wireshark.
Levels of testing include component, sub-system, integration and functional testing on message (I.e. web services) and file based interfaces.

• Identified Interface testing approach, strategy, requirements and dependencies.
• Formed & lead a team of up to 15 people to perform all preparation, execution and reporting activities.
• Provide test & project management schedules and plans for all interface testing, reporting weekly on performance, risks, issues and perform impact assessments on change requests.
• Performed technical analysis and reviews on over 50 bespoke interfaces and 150 standard (COTS) interfaces.
• Mentored team on the approach, techniques and tools to be used for interface testing.
• Provide technical, integration and test procedure support to internal suppliers, test team and project.

2008-2011- Quality Center Administrator
All activities being performed as Quality Center Administrator were above my official role within the company.
Manage and administer 4 separate quality centre projects as well as backups and debug projects.
• Provide key support on DOORS/Quality Center synchronisation to allow metrics for the project to be captured and reported to stockholders.
• Create/Plan all test management activities in Quality Center.
• Create templates for importing test scripts, defects and requirements.
• Create automated workflow scripts using VBScript to improve efficiency of Quality Center and reduce time required to perform activities by the test team.
• Create SQL reports for project execution reports.
• Provide technical support and mentoring to peers on all Quality Center.
• Perform maintenance, backups debugging on Quality Center issues.

2008-2009 – Test Engineer on Mobile Data Terminal Delivery
Component, integration, functional and non-functional (Performance & Security) testing of hardware, software, and connectivity of mobile data terminal solution.
• Received company gold award for delivering key milestone to customer on time and budget after project setbacks and technical issues.
• Creation, execution and reporting of test scripts and defects.
• Creation of exit reports and testing documentation.
Addition achievements above role:
• Technical review of design documentation.
• Suggest and perform improvements to processes and testing activities.
• Analyse requirements and designs for creation of test conditions and test cases.
• Witness testing & assurance of supplier test materials.
• Provided integration support and technical skills to solve project issues.

2006-2008 – SONY UK LTD – TIMMS DIVISION – TEST AND RELEASE ENGINEER
TiMMS – Printed Circuit Boards, Factory & Warehouse Management system.
A modular based software suite allowing the design, creation of PCB designs, real time monitoring of PCB machinery & warehouse supplies as well as fault reporting.

Roles include:
Test Engineer
• Co-ordinate testing of new developments and formal releases
• Create test documentation for new developments and releases.
• Create automation scripts for regression testing in Quality Center and QuickTest Pro
• Black box test all new developments and formal releases
• Smoke/Sanity test new builds before release to customers and development teams
• Manage nightly regression tests and co-ordinate with the development team for fixes
Release Engineer
• Decreased the compilation time of automated builds by 61% and manual builds by 80%
• Perform and manage all release activities such as formal and nightly builds and packaging
• Co-ordinate with the development team on issues which disrupt the success of the nightly builds
• Co-ordinate feature freezes with development teams and development manager
• Add new developments and modules to the build cycle
• Perform maintenance, creation and optimization of release/packaging scripts and all release/support programs
Addition achievements above role:
• CVS Administrator – managed CVS and project source code. Providing administrative support, enhancing all support programs and scripts using C++, Java and MS-DOS scripting. Managed branch creation, access and code merging.
• Website/FTP Administrator – release new software versions via website and FTP as well as debugging issues with company website.
• Hardware/Integration engineer – Built test environment to different specifications for testing, built and managed two servers, provided hardware support to entire project team.

To get the basics out-of-the-way with you’ve mostly likely guessed I’m Craig Morgan, I come from a smallish town (Llanelli) in the best country in the world (Wales!) and I’m in my mid 20′s

I’ve always been interested in a huge range of subjects or learning new things, but over the past 6 months I have gone through a remarkable change that has allowed me to really study myself, get to the core of who I am, what values I want my life to represent, who I am as a person and my new great outlook on life!

This site represents one of my goals in life, not just to create an online profile, but to teach, to pass on things I’ve learnt, my realisations, thoughts and of course questions to you.

I’ve been lucky enough to find all this out rather early in my life, but there are still millions, if not billions of people all stuck in the same routine, getting the same problems and not knowing how to solve them. All you need to do is look inside yourself and ask the right questions to find out who you are!

After asking questions to myself I’ve begun to find out who I truly am, the linchpin, a mensan, a scanner.
The journeys not over yet but I’ve got motivation and excitement on my side so the only thing I need to do is sit back and ride this roller coaster called LIFE & live it to its fullest!

Linchpin

I’m someone who doesn’t like job specs, isn’t going to sit there and follow a manual on how to do the task at hand, in all honesty that bores me!
If I see something that needs completing to help me do my job I’ll do it, I’ll find new ways to do it more efficiently, quicker, and for the benefits of whatever project I’m working on.
I thrive on challenges, always looking for the next one which will improve my skills and abilities. If given an objective I’ll find my own way there, I’ll create the path without needing my hand held all the way to the end.
I do things as gifts to others, always there when needed, that small bit of input, few lines of code or out of the box thinking, I’ve always got the time. It helps me create connections, to be a key part of any system or project.
I’m not just a replaceable cog that you could hire any monkey to do…I’m a linchpin!

For more information on life as a linchpin I suggest you read the insightful book: Linchpin by Seth Godin.

Mensan

A childhood dream, always wondering whether I was good enough to join that elite 98 percentile. It’s given me hope that whatever I put my mind to I can achieve, it’s set me rolling down that hill looking for challenges to knock down in life. From the moment I became a member of Mensa I knew nothing was going to be the same again and I look forward to the next challenge in life!

Scanner

Always knowing since I was young that I enjoyed too many things to just pick one which I’d do for the rest of my life.
I enjoyed the challenge of trying new things, learning everything I can and implementing it. Recently I found out that there’s a name for this personality type, a Scanner, or what I prefer, A Renaissance Man.
Originally I thought this would be an issue in my life, something I should hide from others in case I couldn’t get a job or career I wanted, although finding out that Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, Leonardo da Vinci and many more historical figures were also renaissance men just makes me excited that I’m one too!
It allow me to think from different perspectives, be enthusiastic about new experiences & challenges in life. Just because I don’t want to stick with one subject doesn’t mean I’m not good in a normal career, most companies don’t know how to handle a scanner, they don’t realise, especially with my other talents (above), how best to use my abilities, they stifle people like me into doing a standard job spec which will only hold back my creativity, kill my motivation & force me to find more exciting things to do to push myself. The moment companies realise a scanner potential they have a new weapon in their arsenal for any project!

For more information on the Scanner personality you can read the following interesting articles:

http://talentdevelop.com/articles/AYAS.html

http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/857/1/Turning-Too-Many-Interests-Into-A-Great-Life/Page1.html