Lisa Overall
Chester-le-Street, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Overall is a Senior Test Engineer with three decades of experience delivering quality assurance, governance, and risk-led decision making across large, complex programmes. She currently oversees testing across multiple active projects at DWP Digital and has a proven track record building fit-for-purpose cloud OAT teams and standards that reduced rework and sped delivery. Known for mentoring and capability building, she blends emotionally intelligent stakeholder engagement with practical test management to create cultures of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. Lisa keeps her technical skills current—attending major industry conferences and expanding into automation, shift-left/shift-right practices and AI-driven testing insights. Her background ranges from hands-on C programming and test analysis to leading teams through cloud replatforms and critical public-sector services, demonstrating both technical depth and delivery focus. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic strategist who turns testing governance into tangible, audit-ready outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Polam HallBTEC Higher National Diploma Computer Studies, BTEC Higher National Diploma Computer Studies at Sunderland UniversityCity and Builds C Programming course, City and Builds C Programming course at Gateshead College
French
Github Skills (15)
instrumentation9
llvm8
dataflow7
emulation7
decoder7
mininet7
sieve7
docker6
networking6
ruby5
lifting5
container5
verilog3
java3
bgp1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
trailofbits/sholva
Dec 2022 - Oct 2023
An experimental Tiny86 decoder and verifier for SIEVE
Contributions:44 reviews, 31 PRs, 60 pushes in 10 months
verifierdecodersieve
trailofbits/sv_circuit
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023
Compile processor circuit to ZK-statement
Contributions:12 reviews, 16 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 months
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