Mark Wheeler

Current

• Senior Test Engineer at Saxo Bank

Past

• Test Engineer at Saxo Bank
• System Programmer - Test Analyst at PFA Pension
• Student at Portsmouth University

• Teknisk Assistent at Nokia Mobile Phones
• Technical Assistant & Lotus Notes Developer R5(CLP) at Alfa Laval

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Education

• University of Portsmouth
• University of Portsmouth (NCC)
• Brooklands College

• Rydens

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Industry

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Mark Wheeler’s Summary

I am currently working at Saxo Bank as a consultant from Raft Consultancy. Prior to my current position I worked as a Test Engineer for Saxo Bank and PFA, I had completed my BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with the University of Portsmouth. Before this I was a Lotus Notes Developer and Administrator with IBM certifications. In all this accounted for over 12 years IT experience.

My background has been a mixture of various areas in computing and it is in these areas that I have obtained my analytical sense as well as the ability to work across disciplines, and this creates the basis for my understanding of the functionality of different systems. These attributes I like to combine with a good deal of creativity/ ingenuity as I have experienced that the combination gives the best result.

During my daily work it has been my professional competence, ability to work independently, creativity and my constructive approach to the problems, which I have noticed that my colleagues appreciate. This combined with teamwork, flexibility and the skill to communicate has allowed me to reach my goals.

Mark Wheeler’s Specialties:

Test of Windows Software (Manual and automated test). Test planning, estimation, execution and Reporting.
Test Tools: Mercury, Visual Studio Team System Test Edition. Experienced with both agile development (Scrum) and the waterfall.
ISEB Foundation Certificate in software Testing

Mark Wheeler’s Experience

• Senior Test Engineer

  Saxo Bank

  (Privately Held; Investment Banking industry)

  September 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Test Engineer

  Saxo Bank

  (Privately Held; Investment Banking industry)

  March 2009 — July 2009 (5 months)

  * Projects conducted in the use of Agile development methods (SCRUM)
  * Preparation and execution of functional tests
  * Participate in decision groups regarding overall processes
  * Conducted Exploratory testing and Calculation testing
  * Experience in Visual Studio development environment
  * Worked on project in St Petersburg with Russian developers.
  * Business knowledge gained in areas of the financial industry in electronic trading, common trading rules and financial instruments (ACI course also taken in FX, Repo's & Options)

• System Programmer - Test Analyst

  PFA Pension

  (Privately Held; Insurance industry)

  September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)

  • Experience in analyzing the Customer Requirements and deriving the Test Scenarios/Conditions based on the Requirements.
  • Designing the manual test cases from test scenarios
  • Generating the test data.
  • Manual test execution and regression testing, Functional Integration testing, System integration testing and Smoke Testing.
  • Well acquainted with Testing Life Cycle, Concepts and Methodologies like Integration testing Regression testing, System testing, and Acceptance testing.
  • Experience in designing different types of system test cases based on the User requirements.
  • Experience in preparation of weekly status reports at the design phase.
  • Expertise in various types of Black box testing.
  • Expertise in Executing the Test cases and raising the defects using the Defect Management Tools (Quality Center 9.2).

• Student

  Portsmouth University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  March 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 10 months)

  BSc Computer Science (Grade: Class 2)
  
  Dissertation An Object-Oriented approach to developing a solution to a problem theme. The artefact was a “Project Event Manager” software tool.
  It was developed using SSM in the development of the requirements, UML (OOD), MySQL, HTML and PHP5 in the design, evaluation tools from HCI (High-Fidelity Prototyping, Hierarchical Task Analysis and Cognitive Walkthrough) and Black Box testing techniques used in testing.
  
  Topics covered include: Advanced Systems Development, Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), Unified Modelling Language (UML), Human Computer Interaction Design (HCI), Database Design and Management, Information Management, E-Commerce

• Teknisk Assistent

  Nokia Mobile Phones

  (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 5 months)

• Technical Assistant & Lotus Notes Developer R5(CLP)

  Alfa Laval

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Program Development industry)

  October 1999 — October 2004 (5 years 1 month)

  • Developed various Time Registration Systems utilizing Formula, Lotus Script, JavaScript, HTML.
  • Help to Implement an intranet search profile system.
  • Worked individually with users to identify application requirements and specifications and to provide post implementation support and training.
  • Implemented news pages, a discussion forum, a bulletin board and site search functionality.
  • Implemented methods for uploading and viewing Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat documents.

Mark Wheeler’s Education

• University of Portsmouth

  BSc (Hons) , Computer Science , 2005 — 2007

  Grade: Class 2

  Activities and Societies:

  (See experience)

• University of Portsmouth (NCC)

  International Advanced Diploma , Computer Studies (2nd Year BSc). , 2004 — 2005

  Major in Internet Systems
  
  Topics covered include: Business System Analysis, Business Systems Design, Enterprise Networking, Database design and development, Internet and intranet Security, Internet System Administration, Advance C++, Main Project (Thesis).

  Activities and Societies:

  Requirements, Design and Implementation of a “Time Registration System” tool. The software was implemented at Alfa Laval

• Brooklands College

  C&G757 , Computer Studies , 1984 — 1985

  Activities and Societies:

  • Computers – Theory and Equipment.
  • Related Mathematics and statistics.
  • Introduction to information processing.

• Rydens

  1975 — 1981

Additional Information

Mark Wheeler’s Interests:

Hobbies and Interests: Building and upgrading computers for friends and family, motor sport, particularly Formula One. Keeping fit, cycling. (Sjælland Rundt, Denmark & Vatternrundan, Sverige)

Mark Wheeler’s Groups:

•    Software Testing - ISTQB/ISEB
•    Software Testing Club - the online software testing community
•    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
•    SCRUM Denmark
•    Agile Thinkers
•    Software Test Forum - Nordisk
•    Bug Hunting Party
•    Quality Network

Mark Wheeler’s Honors:

2008 ISEB Foundation Certified Software Tester
2003 Domino R5 Application Architecture (CLP)
2003 Domino R5 Application Security and Workflow
2002 Domino R5 Application Development (CLS)
2002 Domino R5 LotusScript
2002 Domino R5 Application Development Fast Track – Andersen.
1995 HTML Programming - Computer College
1992 Autolisp Programming – Computer College

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