Declan Lever

A First Class computer scientist with industry experience. With business, coding, testing and electronics skills from creating functional fighter jet cockpit components for flight simulators amongst other projects.

Interests: cooking, gardening and psychology.

Decision Engine Analyst at Tandem bank │ December 2021 - February 2023 │ Manchester 

Provenir │ JavaScript │ Postman │ Jira │ xPath │ Agile │ Python │ Json │ XML │ Slack

• Responsible for Motor Finance’s Decision Engine; making over 90% of changes

• Designing and implementing architectural changes

• Developing rule sets and maintaining API calls to institutions like TransUnion

• Revolving BAU incidents

• Creation of custom testing tools within Provenir and testing changes before going live

• Mentoring new staff, guiding them through Tandem's products and offering project assistance

• Testing changes within Provenir and producing documentation

Junior Test Analyst at Oplo (became Tandem) │ October 2021 - December 2021 │ Blackpool

TDD │ BDD │ Selenium │ NodeJS │ Postman │ JUnit │ Json │ AWS │ MongoDB │ SQL

• Creating test plans, producing testing outcomes and notifying developers of bugs found

• Maintenance of automated testing scripts

• Documenting steps to repeat visual and backend bugs

• Ensuring updates to Aryza’s Sentinel have not impacted business operations

• Identifying the priority level of bugs found

• Performing regression testing

Liverpool Hope

Degree in Computer Science: 1st Class