Curriculum Vitae
Isabel Evans
Biography
Isabel Evans has nearly 20 years experience in the IT industry, mainly in quality management, testing, training and documentation. She has helped organisations in development of procedures, standards and methods to aid testing of software during development and maintenance projects. She has managed test groups, and performed testing design and development for acceptance and system testing of packages and bespoke systems. She has also provided Quality Assurance Support, Release Management, and Customer Support for IT organisations. Isabel provides services in Testing, Test Management, Training and Quality Consultancy. She has worked with clients in the financial, communications and software sectors. She has worked independently since 1993, initially trading as Isabel Evans - Common Sense Quality. In 1997 she founded her own company, IE Testing Consultancy Ltd. Isabel is the author and an accredited tutor for an ISEB accredited Foundation Certificate in Software Testing course.
As well as presenting seminars and training courses to clients, Isabel has spoken on software quality, testing and test management at conferences in the UK and Europe, including EuroSTAR, Quality Forum, BCS SIGIST and the Year 2000 and EURO Summit. She regularly attends conferences, courses and meetings in her interest areas. Isabel has been a member of various working parties for the Quality Forum, including the Testing Metrics Forum and the Customer Satisfaction Measurement working party. She is a member of the BCS SIGIST Test Standards Working Party, currently developing the non-functional testing standard.
She taught in a UK Middle School for 4 years, working with children of a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities. She has also trained adults, in quality management, project management, testing and documentation skills. Isabel read for her degree and postgraduate qualification as a mature student, and before that worked as a lab technician, a cook and as a programmer/tester.
Area of Expertise
Software Testing: Development of procedures, standards and methods to aid testing of software during development and maintenance projects, which may be based on the national and international standards. Test group management and consultancy. Testing design and development for acceptance and system testing of packages and bespoke systems. On going development in management, control and design of test in legacy and new technology areas by project and by involvement in interest groups.
Quality Management: Design, initiation and implementation of quality programmes, including company wide quality improvement initiatives, Quality Management Systems compliant with the international standard ISO9000. Design and development of standards associated with a Quality Management System. Independent review or quality audit of projects, plus work with groups and individuals on attitudes to quality improvement. Within IE Testing Consultancy Ltd, Isabel uses the Business Excellence Model to provide self-assessment measures for the company.
Training: Development and presentation of lectures, seminars, group and individual work. Courses designed, developed and presented include Quality Management, Walkthrough/review, Software Testing, Project Management. Author of an ISEB Accredited training course "Foundation Certificate in Software Testing" and ISEB accredited tutor for the "Foundation Certificate in Software Testing" course. With Software Futures Ltd, helped to develop a UML testing course.
Recent projects as an independent
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2000 - 2001 Data Migration: Isabel advised, managed and trained in the areas of migration testing, implementation planning and controls for a major multi-stage migration. This included writing and implementing the testing and implementation strategies, reviews and audits, skills transfer, management, metrics and controls.
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1998 - 1999 Training provision and quality improvement consultancy in a variety of organisations, including the ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, Testing Basics training, Aid with quality improvement programmes.
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1998 Services consolidation programme: Isabel was the test and quality consultant to the project manager, providing quality and process improvement information, as well as devising the overall test strategy for a multi-project programme.
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1998 Software maintenance team: Isabel provided a series of half day workshops covering quality management, estimation, risk assessment and project management fundamentals for a group of team leaders, analysts and programmers working in software maintenance.
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1998 Data migration: Isabel was part of the customer team for a data migration where IBM was a software supplier. She planned and co-ordinated the migration dress rehearsals and live run. She also provided consultancy to the user test team on acceptance test criteria for the new system. She liased with audit and compliance as well as with the internal and external suppliers and customers.
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1997 Data Migration: Isabel was the test manager and provided test designs. She also worked on implementation planning and control for the migration dress rehearsals and live run. She liased with audit and compliance as well as with the internal and external suppliers and customers.
Recent clients include IBM (UK) Ltd, Innate Management Systems Ltd, Ingenuity Unlimited, Recognition Systems Ltd, AT&T Istel, Spirax Sarco Ltd, Armature, Crisp Computing. During this period, Isabel co-developed the Test Assessment Programme (TAP) with Richard Warden of Software Futures Ltd. This is a test process maturity measurement based on CMM.
Career history before working independently