Noel is a seasoned Testing Manager with extensive experience in the financial services sector. In his current role as a Solution Testing Coordinator/Testing Manager, Noel excels in orchestrating comprehensive end-to-end test solutions. He is adept at coordinating and managing testing processes and defects, ensuring seamless communication with the client’s software delivery leadership team. His responsibilities include reporting on overall testing progress, identifying and raising dependencies, risks, and issues, and actively contributing to the development of solutions, strategies, and mitigations.
Noel’s diverse background includes experience in order entry analysis, manual billing, and queue management for end-to-end systems within the communications industry.
From 2013 to 2018, Noel was based in the United States, where he served as the Onshore Testing Lead for a major project. In this role, he led an offshore team of 10-15 members and acted as the primary liaison between the offshore testing team and the client’s Project Management Office (PMO). His responsibilities included discussing testing strategies, managing releases, and overseeing capacity management.
In addition to his financial services expertise, Noel has a strong background in quality engineering within the telecommunications sector. He served as the Test Manager for a North American telecom client, where he was responsible for testing the end-to-end order-to-cash process (CRM to Billing) and managing trouble tickets. He led a software testing team, developing and implementing project and test management activities, functional and automation test strategies, and overall testing approaches.
Noel holds several certifications, including:
ISTQB-Certified Tester Foundation Level
ITIL v4 Service Management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Associate
TOSCA Automation Specialist Level 1 and Level 2
IBM Rational Functional Tester
With his comprehensive experience and industry-recognized certifications, Noel brings a high level of expertise and professionalism to every project he undertakes.