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New Zealand (8:17 AM)
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Joined on February 7, 2009
$50 USD / Hour
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I have over ten years experience in software testing, technical writing and consulting across a wide range of IT/ICT projects and industry. Telephone/email referees are available on offer of suitable work. My work experience (until now) has been on site, working at a senior level for organisations across Australia and New Zealand, and I have been placed in those roles by various established and respected IT recruiters and consultancy's. Thus I have no 'freelancer' reputation as yet. However I can assure you I have numerous professional referees in locations such as NZ, Australia and the US. Should you decide to offer suitable project work, I am happy for that offer to be based on reference checks from the above Languages: English, written and spoken (Native Language) Commercial Experience as a Technical Writer: BI project for multiple systems/clients Data Migration documentation (document ETL process for BI data warehouse to meet Prince II Gating requirements) Technical Specifications for developers (working in Agile framework) End user training documentation Marketing documentation Recruitment documentation (specialise in marketing to hard to find candidate skill sets) IT editorial (articles produced on a regular basis for monthly industry email 'zine' Diagrams, mind maps, data/process flows etc Commercial experience as a Test Analyst/Software Tester, QA Test Analyst: Writing test scripts, test planning, test execution, test management, test estimation, test metrics, test documentation/reporting, test entry/exit, risk analysis, technical testing, system testing, integration testing, usability testing, UAT testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, security testing, data migration testing, web testing (browser, performance, ecommerce), regression testing, defect management, test approach, test scope, test tool analysis and selection etc Test Automation (VBScript, C# Script for Test Complete) Test/Project Methodology: Agile/Scrum, V-Model, SDLCC, Waterfall, Prince II, ITIL Industry experience: Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Government(Local, State, National, Education, Housing), Training, Utilities, Software Development, Marketing Projects include: Mobile device development, e commerce, BI (Business Intelligence), ERP deploy, customisation and integration, legacy systems (mainframe) migration to .NET, database migration, data warehouse ETL, infrastructure relocation. Projects for desktop, browser and mobile devices, developed using a range of technologies and tools from ERP solutions, to .NET, to embedded development, to legacy development such as COBOL, LINC etc Related skills: Business Analysis, IT Training, HR (Recruitment, Interview, Candidate selection, review resume etc) Other tools/software: JIRA, HP Quality Centre, Test Complete, Bugzilla, Scrum Desk, Silk Central, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP/Vista/2000/9x, Windows Server,, SQL Server (2005 and 2008) iOS, Microsoft Office (2003,2007, 2010). Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Visio. Virtualisation (windows, VMware, virtual box). Visual Studio Express 2012, Oracle Oats (Oracle application test suite), VBA for Excel Media: Adobe Captivate, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, Cyberlink PowerDirector, Video convert and conpress (codecs, containers, resolution, etc): From/To:avi, vob, asf, mpeg, xvid,divx, H.264, MP4, AVI, MPEG-2, AAC, MKV, flv etc), Audio Convert/compress from/to: Lossy/Lossless/Uncompressed: Flac, Mp3, Wav, aiff, kar, raw, wma, vorbis, pcm, 3gp, m4a, m4r, ogg, vox, ra, aac. Image Convert/compress, edit: Raw (Nikon Raw), bmp, jpeg, gif (incl animated gif), png, exif, tiff, raw, work with various layer/raster/mask/vector formats within various graphic tools. Adobe Audition, Audacity, Garageband, Scratch, VLC, Media Coder, Any Video Converter, various open source media conversion/edit tools. WordPress, OpenCart, html, CSS.
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