The Helpcentre team looks after BSkyB’s Help and Support area on Sky.com. Moving away from a more traditional deployment into Production using OpenCMS the Helpcentre team have moved to Continuous Deployment into the Cloud using TeamCity and Heroku. Regardless of the task, the tools and technologies used are the driving force behind the success of Helpcentre. The team works using both the Kanban and Scrum agile methodologies and pair programming is used heavily. A developer/tester has to work in a pair on every story in development.

My main responsibilities included are:

• Development of the Helpcentre website using Ruby and a Sinatra framework

• Development of the Helpcentre website using Haml, CSS and JavaScript

• Writing BDD tests using Cucumber and Watir

• Adding Rake targets to the tests for testing different environments

• Writing screen shot tests to check the look and feel of the screens

• Setting up and maintenance of the Continuous Deployment mechanism on TeamCity to Heroku

• Maintenance of Tests on the Continuous Integration builds on Hudson

• Setting up and maintenance of Virtual Machines for the tests to be run on

• Writing cross browser tests integrated with Sauce Labs

• Support for the team on overnight releases using the OpenCMS release mechanism

Working as a part of QA Team, I have gained experience on the daily and futures markets, commodities and options through spread betting and direct market access platforms that are based on Java 2 Enterprise technology.

My responsibilities include Sanity, Smoke, Regression and Integration testing front-end, middleware and backend systems of spread betting web sites of IG Index. Using agile methodologies, my day-to-day activities include testing a variety of websites, application forms and API web services.

My main responsibilities included are:

• Working with the BA to create and understand User Stories

• Executing test scripts within 2 week sprints running in parallel with UAT releases

• Working closely with the developers when raising defects

• Test Support for overnight releases into production

• Reporting test progress to key stakeholders and management