Simon Leach

Confident and self-motivated senior software tester with 18 years' experience working in busy testing teams. Full development life cycle experience from early concept through to development, testing, implementation, release and support.

Experience with LEAN & Agile test environments. Good communications skills, both written and spoken. Excellent interpersonal skills, coaching and mentoring.

Software Tester/Automation Testing at Onbuy (2021-04 – 2026-06)

• Reported to the test team and project stake holders on daily progress
• Write test plans, test strategies and planed project resources
• Raised detailed defects and liaised with developers
• Mentored and trained junior testers
• Liaise between the product owner, business analyst and the project team
• API and Web Testing (Postman, Browser Stack, Screaming Frog)
• SQL Tests/Queries

Senior Test Lead/Scrum Master/Automation Testing at Headforwards (2013-02 – 2021-03)

• Coordinated cross site test teams from UK/Japan
• Reported to the test team and project stake holders on daily progress
• Wrote test plans, test strategy's and planed project resources
• Raised detailed defects and liaised with developers
• Mentored and trained junior testers including personnel development
• Run daily stand-ups with project team
• Liaise between the product owner, business analyst and the project team
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings with team members
• Automation testing using Cypress/JS

Senior Test Lead at Sophos Ltd (2008-04 – 2012-12)

• Responsible for planning the testing of applications within a fast paced environment
• Personally wrote, reviewed and executed test scripts
• Accurately tracked manual and automated test execution progress to ensure on time delivery
• Instrumental in planning and building the test environment
• Created and maintained test plans and test reports
• Proactively investigated issues and defects with developers
• Logged and tracked / defect reviews with stakeholders
• Reported to the test team and project stakeholders on daily progress
• Continual contribution to improvements of the test process
• Coordinated cross site test teams from UK/US/Canada/Germany
• Helped plan Beta testing / Release testing
• Mentored and trained junior testers including personnel development

Test Lead/Tester at RM (Research Machines) (2004-05 – 2008-04)

• Wrote and executed test scripts using Mercury Quality Centre
• Wrote test plans, test strategy's and planed project resources
• Tracked progress through validation, field trial and product release this includes post release defect monitoring
• Coordinated test teams in India and UK via email, Skype and vid-con

ISEB Foundation Course

Electrical and Electronic Craft Studies – City & Guilds

Communications in Technical English

Basic Engineering Competences

Microsoft Word & Excel Intermediate