Viv Richards
Director & Lead QA Consultant at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolViv Richards is a Director and Lead QA Consultant with over 12 years of hands-on experience and 14 years of industry practice in testing web and mobile applications, currently leading quality efforts through her consultancy and roles with UK government departments. She builds test automation suites and bespoke frameworks from scratch, pairing pragmatic tool choices with scalable processes to improve delivery and reduce risk. A seasoned trainer and international keynote speaker, Viv has delivered workshops and presentations across the UK, Europe, and the USA and has produced online courses and sponsored writing for the testing community. She founded and ran SwanseaCon for five years, demonstrating community leadership and a talent for bringing global professionals together to learn and network. Her background as a software engineer and scrum master gives her a rare blend of development empathy and QA rigour, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams. Outside work she volunteers as a STEM ambassador and CodeClub instructor, fostering the next generation of technologists.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE's, GCSE's at Dynevor Comprehensive SchoolGNVQ Information Technology, GNVQ Information Technology at Swansea College
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Github Skills (38)
selenium-webdriver10
visual-testing10
testing9
selenium9
selenium-ide9
webextension8
test-automation8
playback8
webdriver8
automation7
drupal-module6
windows-nt6
vbnet6
php6
content-type6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/platform-example-api-cucumber-tests
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 1 month
hmrc/webdriver-factory
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:19 reviews, 19 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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