Alex Fu 20 Anayah Apartments, 54B Trundleys Road, London, SE8 5JG

E-mail: alex_kwok_ching@hotmail.com; Mobile: +44 (0)7766395988 Nationality: British

Personal Profile I am an ISEB Foundation qualified, perceptive, goal orientated individual who exhibits a strong, distinctive, and above all balance of creative and conceptual expertise. I am a confident and pro-active self-starter tester. I operate extremely well under pressure and can work well individually and as part of a team. I have been working in the testing industry since 2006 which include working in demanding financial services sector such as London Clearing House (LCH.Clearnet), BP Oil International Ltd and Trafigura; media giant Associated Newspapers which is part of DMGT (Daily Mail and General Trust); Vodafone, one of the largest Telecommunications network providers in the industry; Asos.com, UK's largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer; and Linklaters LLP, one of the biggest, most successful and elite multination al law firms

Proficiencies

Agile, Agresso (Version 5.5.0 SP3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Asset Control, Atlassian, Atlassian Confluence, AWS, Back Offi ce Testing, Bamboo, Baregrep, Baretail, Batch Files, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Browser Compatibility Testing, C#, Ciphergraph, Clearcase, Cloud, Command Line Interface (CLI), Confluence, Continuous Integration, Coverage Analysis, Cucumber JVM, Cygwin, Daemon, Data Integrity, Defect Management, End of Day (EoD), End-to-End Testing (E2E), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Excel, Fiddler2, FitNesse, Front End Testing, Functional Testing, Git, Git Bash, Gomez, Gradle, HP Quality Centre (QC), HTTP, Integr ation Testing, Intralinks, Java, Jira, J-Meter, JSON, Linux, Load Testing, Log Analysis, Maven, Mercury Quality Centre (QC), Microsoft SQL Server, NetBeans, Non-Functional Testing, Openlink, Oracle Database, Performance Testing, pgAdmin III, Postman, Profit and Loss (P&L), ProgreSQL, Putty, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Regression Testing, Representational State Transfer (ReST), Retrospective, S3, Sanity Testing, Scrum, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Serenity (Thucydides), Server and Client Testing, Shell Scripting, Sonatype Nexus, SpiraTeam, Spread Calculation, Sprint Planning, SQL, SQL Developer, Stash (BitBucket Server), Swagger, SWIFT, System Testing, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Test Automation, TFS Dashboard, Toad, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), VBA, VersionOne, Visual Basic (VB), Visual Basic for Application (VBA), VMWare Player, WinSCP, XML

Employment Experience BJSS Ltd is an established, leading IT consultancy of over 300 technologists delivering IT architecture, project management,

software design, development and testing services to an international client base. Founded in 1993 with offices in London and Leeds, the company continues to experience strong growth thanks to a 100% track record of repeat business from clients in the capital markets, energy trading and retail sectors who have adopted its BJSS Enterprise Agile approach to complex software delivery.

Technical Tester from 25/04/2016 to present (2 months and 16 days)

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

is a British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The group operates a wide variety of banking brands offering personal and business and private banking, insurance and corporate finance through its offices located in Europe, North America and Asia. It owns Citizens Financial Group, the 8th largest bank in the United States, and from 2004 to 2009 it was the second largest shareholder in the Bank of China, itself the world's fifth largest bank by market capitalisation in February 2008.

Digital Innovation Platform (DIP) Security

The aim of this project was to encrypt sensitive customer data stored in the platform, and decryption of the data when required by the application

Involvement • Used Git Bash to trigger test automation and log file inspection

• Wrote shell scripts for Linux Daemons, which created backups and stored them on AWS S3 buckets using AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Performed testing on installation, back-up and restore for Atlassian products including Confluence, Bamboo, Jira, Stash (BitBucket Server) and Sonatype Nexus

• Worked in Agile environment, attended daily scrum, sprint planning and retrospective meetings

• Used J-Meter for Non-Functional, Baselining, Load and Performance Testing

• Created automated Sanity Testing suite using Java with Cucumber JVM in NetBeans, to test services APIs, and the connection to third parties APIs

• Scripted automated tests to verify backend systems and integrations on the API level using Representational State Transfer (ReST)

• Automated sanity pack on test and production environments

• Created use cases and test scenarios in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) form

• Accessed artifacts located in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud using Ciphergraph

• Managed project builds using Maven and Gradle

• Queried ProgresSQL databases using pgAdmin III

• Uploaded codes in Stash (BitBucket Server) using Git

• Executed automated tests and reported results to the team and senior management using Serenity (Thucydides) reports

• Created and maintained documents and knowledge transfer using both Intralinks and Confluence

• Sent HTTP requests endpoints, and analysed responses using Postman

• Handled requests and responses in JSON format

• Created and maintained tasks in Jira to reflect progress

• Scheduled automation tests to be executed daily in Bamboo to monitor environment and master branch status

• Worked closely with developer to create automated tests that would increase their efficiency in verification as they developed

• Presented in "Show and tell" bi-weekly meetings to inform of the team what had been achieved

Technical Tester from 04/04/2016 to 21/04/2016 (17 days)

Linklaters LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1838 and is a member of the Magic Circle of elite British law firms. In 2015, Linklaters was the world's fourth highest -grossing law firm, and the most profitable member of the Magic Circle. In the UK, the firm has top-tier rankings across many practice areas, including corporate/M&A, capital markets, banking and finance. Linklaters counts more FTSE 100 companies among its clients than any other law firm. In the 2012 Global Elite Brand Index, Linklaters was named the third strongest global law firm brand.

Email Management This project delivered cloud based NetDocuments Email solution. The objective of this project was to develop an app that can be installed on tablets and smartphones which allowed users to file, search and retrieve emails from the NetDocuments cloud

Involvement • Created test scenarios in Behaviour Driven Development based on provided documents

Technical Tester from 04/01/2015 to 31/01/2016 (1 year and 27 days)

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

Living Consisted of development of three iOS banking applications (apps): ManageMoney, HomeMove and Spendorama. These apps help the client's customers to take control of their finances; through the process of buying their first home and learn more about their spending, respectively.

Involvement • Created use cases and test scenarios in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) form

• Used Ciphergraph to create a secure connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud

• Created a test automation framework in Java using Cucumber JVM and NetBeans, to test services API, located in AWS

• Managed projects build using Maven and Gradle

• Scripted SQL in pgAdmin III to query ProgreSQL in AWS

• Created tests and maintained the testing framework in Stash (BitBucket Server) using Git located in AWS

• Executed automated tests and reported results in Serenity (Thucydides) reports

• Created and maintained documentation for the application under test on Intralinks

• Peer reviewed user scenarios written by members of the team

• Communicated with endpoints, documented by Swagger, using Postman

• Handled requests and responses in JSON format

• Created, updated and closed defects using Jira

• Started and monitored automaton tests progress in Bamboo

• Presented to product owner and working governance group of testing strategy and progress

• Performed manual functional, regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Automation Tester from 29/10/2013 to 31/12/2014 (1 year, 2 months and 2 days)

Trafigura Ltd is one of the world's leading independent commodity trading and logistics houses. Their business is advancing trade for a growing array of customers and counterparties around the world. The company directly employs over 8,000 people through a network of 167 offices in 58 countries. They source, store, blend and deliver essential raw materials and commodities.

Titan This project aimed to improve the business processes and the IT systems of the Refined Metals business. The system’s core functions were to facilitate fast and simple deal entry, to store these details in a trade repository, and generate trade supporting documentation such as Deal Tickets and Legal Contracts using document generation tool thereby reducing the manual duplication of trade details.

Involvement • Created and maintained automated test scripts in FitNesse for use in regression and integration testing streams

• Executed automation regression suites and reported impediments, progress and results to interested parties

• Raised and tracked Fixture and story requests for FitNesse, and system defects using VersionOne

• Analysed environment issues and defects using Putty, WinSCP and SQL Developer on appropriate servers

• Maintenance of documentations on document repository such as Confluence

• Manual testing, including spread calculation and verification base on business requirements and documentations

• Designed and wrote automation test scripts based on acceptance criteria defined by the business

• Performed manual functional, regression and integration testing

• Liaised with project managers, business analysts and developers on different teams

• Mentored and trained test team members and conducted knowledge transfer sessions

• Co-ordinated testing with onshore and offshore teams

Technical Tester from 01/06/2011 to 28/10/2013 (2 years, 4 months and 27 days)

BP Oil International Ltd operates as a financial services company. It deals with forwards and contracts for BP plc. The company was incorporated in 1936 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. BP Oil International Ltd operates as a subsidiary of BP plc.

Timely, Connected, Trusted (TCT)

TCT enabled straight through processing of trades in business “real time”, producing timely and accurate exposure reporting and automated settlement pricing through a single pricing engine. It eliminated manual data management and reconciliation, enabling a single trusted data store of transactional information used by front offi ce, risk, control and compliance. It transformed BP Global Oil into a connected organisation that is value -adding through front, middle and back.

Involvement • Tested within Enterprise Agile framework, formally scoping and defining tests conditions and test cases from stories with business analysts to validate new defects, functionalities and coverage

• Automated tests using bespoke test automation framework called RedBox, prior to promotion into continuous integration regression pack

• Performed Server & Client Testing

• Analysed errors in log files produced by various sub-systems using Baretail

• Queried against Oracle databases to validate results using SQL Developer

• Validated XML messages sent and received by various systems against technical specifications

• Performed end-to-end and integration tests on features prior to handover for acceptance

• Worked closely with Developers and Business Analysts to understand and resolve defects on business areas

• Validated Profit & Loss (P&L) calculations and attribution

• Validated End of Day processing

• Validated shipment and related parcel and In Transit functionalities

• Managed and closed defects prior to handover to acceptance phases

• Entered trades for testing using Openlink and Front Office Trading Application (Next Generation Deal Entry)

• Used VMWare player to build local environment and database for test automation

• Used Baregrep to search and locate specific test(s)

• Used Fiddler2 to capture HTTP and HTTPS traffics between sub-systems

• Used Cygwin to send command to control and configure tests and environments

• Used WinSCP to log into different servers to inspect log files for error and configuration of sub-systems

• Managed defects using Jira

• Maintained and updated reference data using Asset Control

• Used Clearcase as version control of automation test scripts

ASOS.com is the UK's largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer. With over 19,400 branded and own label products

available and 1000 new lines added each week, asos.com is rapidly becoming the market leader in the UK online fashion world. Asos.com attracts over 4.5 million unique visitors a month and has over 1.88 million registered users.

Quality Assurance Architect from 01/09/2010 to 31/05/2011 (8 months and 30 days)

Checkout.Re-Skin This project focused on re-skinning all of the ASOS secure pages to match those of new designs supplied by the business, as well as verification of minor texts and functionalities changes.

Involvement • Created and executed tests for new functionalities and UI changes, and raised defects in HP Quality Centre

• Developed automated scripts using Selenium IDE for a an online tool called “Gomez” to perform UI designs comparison, and browser compatibility testing

Test Automation The purpose of this project was to setup an automated regression test pack. The automated test pack covered all major functionalities identified by the business and the test team.

Involvement • Created and executed automated scripts in QTP written in Visual Basic (VB), to test both front and back end of the website

• Examined raw data in Microsoft SQL Server database using SQL queries with Toad

• Assisted in designing and developing tools, using Selenium RC in C#, which allowed users to perform browser compatibility testing

Quality Assurance Analyst from 06/03/2009 to 31/08/2010 (1 year, 5 months and 25 days)

Hierarchy This project introduced a revised product Hierarchy into Asos.com Back Office system. This involved redefining the structure of the product definition, changing the descriptions, definitions and values contained in the fields in different areas.

Involvement • Reviewed requirements and Conditions of Acceptance (CoA) set by the business analyst, and ensured they were testable

• Liaised with architect and developers to perform back-end data process testing

• Wrote functional test scripts to cover different business scenarios for both the front end and back office. Test scripts were also written to account for database checks to ensure data integrity

• Wrote parameterised SQL queries to improve test execution efficiency

• Created parameterised test templates within Mercury Quality Centre (QC)

• Maintained the traceability of test results to the original requirements using QC

• Peer reviewed test scripts

• Performed manual regression testing, and system testing

• Developed a QC to Team Foundation Server (TFS) defect exporting tool, which allowed testers to quickly sync defects logged on QC to TFS. This tool was approved by senior test management and was rolled out to different teams

PayPal The aim of the ASOS PayPal Integration Project was to offer PayPal as a payment method for UK and International Customers. On selecting the PayPal payment option a customer must sign in and pay for the order on the PayPal website and once completed they would be navigated to the ASOS order confirmation page

Involvement • Performed Integration testing for ASOS back office and PayPal systems

ASOS Premier ASOS Premier was an annual subscription programme that allows a customer to have unlimited free next day or nominated delivery; 1 free pick up collection for every order made; and to have free return, all for a flat fee, ensuring Asos.com is the best of breed in offering delivery and returns services

Involvement • Was the sole tester for this project

• Reported to the test manager the progress of testing, such as the number of test cases

created, executed, defects raised, and the outstanding defect at the end of each day

• Assisted finance testing: Tested scenarios which were supplied by the finance department, captured the raw data generated from these scenarios from the database, and sent them to the finance team for verification

• Defined defect life cycle process for tester and developers

• Managed defects using Mercury Quality Centre

• Maintained TFS Dashboard

Refining Improvement The objective of this project was to enable customer to easily find the products that they are interested in purchasing

Involvement • Created a batch files to aid business analysts and the development team to automatically update host files, which allowed users to quickly switch between testing environments

• Performed functional and regression testing

Testing

Circle Ltd is a leading independent IT recruitment consultancy and specialist Software Testing Solutions provider to leading Finance, Retail, Mobile and blue chip organisations.

Quality Assurance Analyst from 19/01/2009 to 05/03/2009 (1 month and 14 days)

ASOS.com

Site Redesign The objective of this project was to improve the customer experience of the Asos.com website by updating the look and feel of the site and implementing a new site navigation menu

Involvement • Created test scripts, executed tests and managed defects using SpiraTeam

• Performed regression testing

Tescom Ltd is an international professional services firm providing software quality assurance and testing expertise, with over 500

professionals around the globe. Tescom is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Test Analyst from 28/07/2008 to 27/10/2008 (2 months and 29 days)

Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL)

is the management company for five major newspapers - Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, London Metro, Irish Mail on Sunday and the advertising publication Loot. ANL is also responsible for Harmsworth Quays, the London Docklands plant at which it produces all London, South of England and South Wales editions of the Titles. The media giant had revenue of £955 million and operating profit of £99 million in 2006.

Project Columbus The aim of this project was to customise an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) off-the-shelf system called Agresso to suit the requirement of ANL. Agresso is a highly flexible, integrated business information system that offers a complete solution for finance, project accounting, logistics, human resources and payroll for medium to large organisations.

Involvement • Performed system testing on Agresso, an Enterprice Resource Planing (ERP) system

• Developed a tool using VBA in MS Excel as a test management tool, which had the functionalities such as test script management; defect management; as well as generation of useful reports which were customised specifically to display the information and statistics needed by the senior management

• Worked closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and internal user satisfaction

• Travelled to different client’s sites, assisted business users in their User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and coordinated their testing with the test team based in head office

• Provided training and mentoring to new testers and users

Test Analyst from 26/11/2007 to 27/06/2008 (7 months and 1 day)

LCH.Clearnet is the leading independent central counterparty group in Europe, serving major international exchanges and platforms, equity, exchange-traded derivatives, energy, interbank interest rate swaps markets and the majority of the Euro-denominated and sterling bond and repo markets.

SWORD was a book entry transfer system providing facilities for the transfer of title of Warrants. SWORD users include LCH.Clearnet, London Metal Exchange (LME), Warehouse Agents, Account Holders, Financing Banks and Depository

Involvement • Performed functional, integration and regression testing

• Managed defects using Mercury Quality Centre

webMAX was a browser-based user interface and is used by SIS (SegaInterSettle) clients to settle transactions in securities and securities-related products in real time. Transmitted orders were immediately confirmed by SIS via status intimations. Furthermore, webMAX allowed clients to directly query the SECOM database.

Involvement • Ensured the SWIFT messages were sent and received in the correct format between LCH and webMAX gateway

• Liaised with testing teams in different companies and co-ordinated testing

Associate Test Consultant from 01/08/2006 to 31/08/2007 (1 year and 30 days)

Vodafone UK is part of the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about £86 billion.

Involvement • Performed functional and regression testing on handsets across different mobile platform

• Used Mercury Quality Centre for defect management

• Used Excel and VBA and developed an “Automated Defects Report” based on Vodafone requirements for defect reporting. This resulted in a unified, automated report which the client did not previously have, hence shortened the processing time when raising defect reports

• Used Excel and VBA and developed “Testing Control Station” which allowed testers to monitor their assigned tasks and their status extracted from the intranet. This was also integrated with “Automated Report Template” for instant defects reporting, saving time and money across the device testing area

Education and Qualifications

Institute Information System Examination Board

Qualification ISEB Foundation Qualification

Result Pass (85%)

Date May-07

Institute UK I.T. Training

Qualification European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

Result Pass

Date March 2006 - June 2006

Institute University of London, King’s College London

Qualification MSc Digital Signal Processing

Result Pass with Merit (71%)

Date September 2004 – November 2005

Institute University of Bath

Qualification BEng (Hons) Electronics & Electrical Engineering (Computing, Electronics and Communications)

Result Upper Second-Class Honour, 2:1 (67%)

Date September 2001 – June 2004