Will Yates
STSM CICS And AI Architect at IBM
Twyford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Yates is a seasoned IBM software engineer and architect with 9 years of focused experience in CICS, hybrid cloud and AI architecture, and over a decade leading testing and quality initiatives for CICS Transaction Server. He has a strong track record of transforming testing practices—shifting teams from waterfall to agile testing quadrants, creating customer-aligned in-production test teams, and driving efficient system test strategies across UK, India and China. Comfortable at both technical and strategic levels, Will blends deep CICS expertise with test management, STLC, and a pragmatic approach to delivering reliable mainframe services in cloud contexts. A 1st Class Computer Science graduate integrated with IBM UK, he pairs rigorous engineering foundations with a history of innovation in test planning and software patents. He is based in Twyford, England, and is known for improving quality outcomes by aligning test efforts closely with customer and service teams.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science Integrated with IBM UK, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science Integrated with IBM UK, 1st Class at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hobbit1983/extensions
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Extensions to the Galasa framework
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
galasaextensions
hobbit1983/integratedtests
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Galasa Integration tests
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
galasatestingintegration-tests
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