About Dave Prescott:
As a highly experienced QA and Test Manager, I have over 17 years’ experience successfully delivering full Life-cycle Management across a diverse range of initiatives, using both Waterfall, Agile and Risk Based methodologies. This has including cloud migrations (AWS, Azure); SAP S4/HANA; adoption of Agile (Scrum, Kanban, CI, BDD, TDD) and Digital Transformations to GDS and WCAG accessibility standards, across multiple industry sectors:
- Banking (Nationwide – Savings migration to SAP ERP, GDPR)
- Public Sector (HMRC, DWP, ONS, DEFRA – GDS, WCAG, GDPR, SAS)
- Pharmaceuticals (GSK, Abbotts - SAP ERP and GxP)
- Retail (Shop Direct – eCommerce, Oracle Fusion)
- Telecoms (BT, Concert and AT&T – Networks, OSS)
- eCommerce (Ascential.com – SAP Cloud / S4 Hana, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS).
Experience
- E2E Change delivery, QA and Test Management:
- Devise and successfully implement Test Strategies
- Strong Stakeholder Management
- Digital Transformations and execution in line with GDS standards
- ST; SIT; UAT; OAT; API.
- Test Automation (Selenium, JMeter, Restassured and SoapUI)
- Operational Acceptance Test (OAT)
- Cutover planning and implementation
- NFT (Performance, Load, Stress, Security, Usability, Recovery)
- Business Continuity Planning (BCP) including Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Quality Assurance – Sonarqube (static code review), Standards (GDS and GxP, Accessibility compliance to WCAG 2.1 using Sortsite and various assistive technology (Jaws, Dragon, Text to Speech)
- AGILE (Scrum Master, Kanban, CI/DevOps, TDD, BDD, JIRA, Maven, Selenium, Jenkins, Cucumber)
- Lifecycle Management (using JIRA, HP ALM and IBM Rational Suite)
I have strong senior programme and change management experience up to Board level, responsible for teams from 5 to 50, both on and offshore. I adopt a dynamic and people centred approach with a QA delivery outlook that focuses on removing complexity/variation and achieves simple workable solutions.
Education
Education
BA (Hons) Law - June 1996. John Moores University
Skills
Agile, ISEB / ISTQB, Waterfall, Risk Based Testing, DevOps CI Testing (Selenium, Jenkins, Cucumber, Sortsite, Maven), API Testing (SoapUI and Ready API), BDD and TDD, Prince 2, HP ALM, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Cloud Testing (AWS and Azure), Dynamics365 Testing, TMMi, ITIL, Lean Sigma6, IBM Rational Suite, Network Architecture, Unix and Oracle/SQL
I have SC to 2026 sponsored by Capgemini/HMRC
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