Joe was a key part of our test team for one of our largest and most complex programmes of work.

In the initial phases of the programme Joe brought structure and order. Crucially, he did this in a flexible and balanced way – he is able to work pragmatically with the unknown / unknowable whilst bringing shape, reason and logic to the rest of the scope.

In the later phases of work Joe’s execution skills came to the fore. In particular, Joe’s planning capability is excellent – we were always clear on what we were supposed to be doing on any given day.

Joe is meticulous and highly logical / rational. He was a real asset to our team.

I have hugely valued Joe’s part in my team’s activity over the last 6 months; he has a mature approach well beyond his years and I have no doubt that he helped to make us a more successful team.

Joe:
– Led the QA activities on his own with very little support from me – on our large scale project this is great.
– Is good at putting metrics and dashboard on his own; good analytical thinking
– Seems to have built relationship both internally and externally with relative ease, which demonstrates a good team player strength
– Brought concepts of risk based assessment for requirements and translated those within testing phases, which is fantastic

The project Joe was assigned to isn’t straightforward – with a new vendor to the function engaged at fixed price with the end client it is hard to balance. Joe has done a decent job in trying to balance it through by engaging offshore teams with clear set of instructions.

I worked closely with Joe in the User Integration Testing team. We quickly built up a excellent working relationship being the first members of the team.

Joe’s planning and organisation skills were first class when managing the customer test team and he was always good at problem solving in a timely manner that occurred onsite. Joe’s methodical approach to the test team and the external suppliers, testing participants ensured the end to end testing ran smoothly in the test lab.

I would highly recommend Joe as he has proved he can lead/mentor a team and would be a very valuable asset to any employer for future test roles.

Joseph is highly skilled and a very efficient person. He is capable of delivering high quality stuff with excellent standards of details and documentation.

During our time together Joe helped in a variety of different projects. He was quick to jump in and out of projects and pick up the knowledge required and deliver results within one or two days. This made Joe a very respected and highly valuable member of the team. He is truly a manager’s favourite.

Joe has stepped up many times into Test Lead/Test Managers role where he managed the planning/testing/reporting and execution all by himself and earned high regard for his work.

Joe will go out of his comfort zone to get the things done and once he is assigned something, he takes complete ownership of his work. He is also great in helping other and providing assistance wherever necessary. He is an excellent team player.

I really enjoyed my time working with Joe and would love to work with him in future.

Whilst working with Joseph I found him to be a very capable Team lead who had put together the test team and then went on to mentor and manage it. His ability to clearly articulate and lead the test strategy made him an invaluable asset within the project.
I found Joseph was professional in his manner, adaptable to any environment and developed a good understanding of the applications and processes that he had to work with.

His communication skills have allowed him to develop good working relationships with both clients and colleagues. I was always impressed by both Josephs attitude and performance and it has been a great pleasure to work with him.

I worked with Joe when he was in the London 2012 web testing team, undertaking functional and informal security testing of pre-live and live London 2012 sites. The test reports he produced were critical in providing security assurance that the websites were functionally correct and met basic security standards.

I felt Joe found his ideal role when the organisation moved to the Games Operations phase, directly supporting the running of the Olympic Games on a 24/7 basis. Joe was managing the mobile and web infrastructure, and can best be described as a solid operations analyst, owning issues and driving them forward, and if required, handing them over to the subsequent shift analyst. This involved dealing with internal and external suppliers in often stressful situations, and I believe he handled the pressure well. I would have no problems recommending Joe or working alongside him again.

I worked with Joe for several months for the MOD, as part of the test team on an infrastructure project.

I was particularly impressed by Joe’s technical skills, his ability to get things done, to seek out answers and work proactively with the client & other suppliers in a challenging environment.

Joe would be an asset to any test team and it was a pleasure to work with him.

Joe joined my team in April 2014. He brought with him experience and resources from his previous projects which he used to improve the testing process in this project. He was eager to put into place clear, defined processes which aided the testing effort and ensured that he followed up actions promptly.

Joe is well-liked by the business and project teams and built up a rapport with all he worked with. It was a pleasure working with Joe, and he made my job a lot easier on more than one occasion.

I have worked with Joseph since the beginning of the new year on the Ministry Of Defence account as part of a strategic partnership. The first thing that I noticed was the level of the interpersonal skills he shows while interacting with the client. Joe has clearly shown himself as someone who can communicate at both a personal and technical level when discussing certain aspects of the assurance work we are performing.Additionally to this, Joe has had to engage with 3rd party suppliers on behalf of the MOD. I have been able to see first-hand Joe being able to discuss issues/concerns with these suppliers and MOD and being able to manage expectations from both sides of the fence to ensure continuity between client and supplier.

I worked very closely with Joe on the Insurance project. He joined the project at a very tricky time – we were part way through a design phase with very tight timescales, working with a new supplier who was still getting to know the requirements whilst also trying to adapt to wholesale changes to the project governance process which were being rolled-out across the organisation.

In addition he was replacing a QA Lead who had only just started to get up to speed before being moved off the project, and so there was a real need for someone to take control and a big expectation on Joe to hit the ground running.

Joe did exactly this. He took full ownership of the QA function, quickly building working relationships within the team whilst also demonstrating leadership qualities which resulted in him rapidly becoming a trusted expert on the project. Specifically he added value by managing:

The quality of project artefacts and development work – Joe took the time to really understand the complex requirements so that he was able to assess risks, priorities and later defects to ensure that efforts were concentrated in the right place throughout the project.

The use of best practice techniques – Joe showed excelled influencing skills to roll-out new processes (risk assessment workshops, QA status reports etc), always demonstrating the value that they added in order to justify the resource investment required.

The QA element of the project plan – Joe took ownership of planning out the QA cycles down to individual task level, as well as managing the offshore QA resource to ensure that they were tracking to this plan.

Overall Joe had an extremely positive impact on the project – he managed to find a really good balance between ensuring that correct process was followed whilst also being pragmatic, working collaboratively with people and listening to different perspectives in order to ensure that the project could meet both time and quality measures.

He also went beyond his job description on a number of occasions to help the project keep moving (specifically when the project manager was away he took the lead in daily meetings), and this was a real measure of his character and attitude towards supporting the team.

I worked with Joe on two projects and he was consistently thorough, diligent and professional. He demonstrated extensive knowledge, excellent reasoning and a welcomed level of pragmatism.

Joe was recently involved in coordinating a product launch for Royal Mail which encompassed and required multi-channel IT requirements. It was immediately apparent he had the ability to make the most complex IT scenario simple for the audience to understand. Very organised, enthusiastic and extremely efficient, Joe prepared and confidently led workshops, walkthroughs and conference calls required to demonstrate the new IT solutions and reporting suites which he had owned and developed with our IT and platform suppliers.
He skilfully and calmly deployed the User Acceptance Testing ensuring clarity on the evaluating required (including creating and supplying communications, scheduling, scenarios and data), and was a constant, reliable source to run through issues identified; which he then subsequently ensured were resolved to ensure sign off completed to time.

Joe quickly gains the belief and respect of the audience, and tackles the complicated issues extremely well – even when it means engaging people with the difficult messages which sometimes have to be relayed. He interacts well at all levels of authority, and it is clear is used to dealing with pressurised situations with a calm approach. He is able to think outside of the box to find the common sense commercial compromise to the problems faced, and is extremely well organised.

Without reservation, I would highly recommend Joe to be considered by any company who have a desire to create or improve their IT solutions; and if the opportunity arose for me to utilise him in the future, I would have no hesitation in doing so. A true gentleman and a real godsend!

UAT can always be very emotive, with business stakeholders always assuming that their area is more important than others. Joe managed these relationships very well and always remained professional, leading conference calls effectively and sensibly ensuring that all aspects of the testing were covered.

Another example of Joe’s ability to quickly understand the task in hand was during the script-writing phase. Joe had to quickly understand processes where things are sometimes very, very complex. These scripts enabled my team to robustly test the system and allowed me to quickly and easily share these scripts for further testing, again helping us deliver an excellent end product.

I’d like to thank Joe for being a very valuable member of the project team.