Melvin Joy

ISTQB-certified Senior Test Analyst with 4+ years on HMRC's Customs Declaration Service (CDS) at Atos, operating under active SC Security Clearance. Having progressed through multiple CDS components — from SASS (Registration, GNC SME, and DIS) through to Risk, Case, Data & Reporting, and Exports — I have built one of the broadest knowledge bases on the project. Proactively grew into a recognised SME, converting two years of manual tests into 70% automation using Selenium, Java and BDD/Cucumber, substantially reducing cost and testing effort.

Founder of the Imposter Free Lab, a weekly community initiative for collaborative learning in programming, automation, and AI.

Senior Test Analyst - Atos

(2022-05)

HMRC Customs Declaration Service (CDS)

• Initially joined CDS as part of the SASS team, conducting Registration & Subscription testing for traders onboarding into the CDS system
• Grew into GNC (GVMS Notification Component) SME — run the full automation regression pack and designed test coverage for the main GNC feature
• Responsible for DIS (Declaration Information Service) testing — execute and maintain the DIS automation regression pack, ensuring accurate declaration data is surfaced to traders
• Execute & maintain Pega automation suites, triggering CDS risk rules and validating system responses
• Test case lifecycle — how cases are created and progressed when risk controls fire
• Test data ingestion pipelines via AWS S3 and data warehousing; event-driven testing with Apache Kafka
• EPPID file and schema validation; Teleport SSH, Linux CLI and SQL querying for data verification
• Converted 2 years of manual tests into 70% automation using Selenium & Java framework with BDD/Cucumber, managed via IntelliJ & GitLab
• API testing with Postman; end-to-end system integration testing
• Defect management via Jira & Confluence; full test script authoring and maintenance
• Mentored graduates and new team members in testing practices and automation frameworks
• Trained on CDS Exports testing and assigned to the Exports team, expanding coverage across the full CDS trade lifecycle
• Selected by management to support the upcoming Automated Export System (AES) project — a large-scale programme assigned based on trust, proven expertise and cross-component knowledge built across CDS
• HMRC August Star of the Month — delivering across multiple projects whilst supporting colleagues
• Nominated Atos Employee of the Month for delivery under tight timescales
• Identified by management as deputy-level resource for reporting and client-facing responsibilities

Digital Marketing Executive - Impress Video

(2021-02 - 2022-05)

• Website usability testing alongside developers to improve the user experience
• SEO optimisation and social media management — grew monthly site audience to 400+

Clerical Administrator - NHS Royal Derby Hospitals

(2016-09 - 2020-12)

• Records management using supply chain software to distribute patient files across hospital departments

BSc (Hons) - Information Systems & Computer Science - Nottingham Trent University (2015 - 2019)