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