Gontse M.

Project worked on: Home Loans

• Provide functional workflows, test data, and support to QA testing
• Support UAT, including obtaining official sign-off approval on releases ready for UAT and production
• Champion agility and improvement in test process
• Facilitate group meetings and conducts information gathering sessions with groups across development offshore teams
• Along with Agile teams, develop and manage test strategies that will include approaches for test data, regression testing and automation methodologies to ensure higher quality delivery
• Possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment that supports production and maintenance level changes
• Work with Scrum teams to complete root cause analysis and corrective action plans to ensure higher quality test coverage throughout the development and UAT development life cycles
• Advise and assist QA Manager on status, risks, and their resolutions as they relate to testing and quality assurance
• Assisting in the overseeing of various QA systems projects
• Data Migration
• Drive and contribute to the Manual and Automation test strategy, scripts, and framework focusing on test architecture, re-usability, stability, performance, scalability, and related Quality/team metrics
• Provide hands-on test support when necessary to verify front-end and back-end changes
• Collaborate with Test Data Lead to identify test data requirements for assigned projects
• Managing aspects of Quality Assurance including strategy, approach, test planning, implementing test automation, and executing manual tests
• Leading, mentoring and coaching junior staff
• Partnering with other IT Discipline leads to ensure successful completion of end project goal
• Documents, tracks, and verifies defects fixes in assigned applications
• Attend regular project meetings to provide a QA perspective

Project worked on: Business Banking

• Co-ordinates work on multiple phases of a project
• Involved in hands-on testing activities.
• Supports and works with QA Analysts.
• Works on quality assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools and establishes plans for projects with on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Responsible for a certain test area and conditions as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Ensures compliance with testing best practices and standards.
• Scopes and creates quality assurance plans, data, procedures, and scripts.
• Scopes out and creates test coverage, designing specifications and defining conditions for given requirements.
• Maintain the integrity of the test environment.
• Maintain the status of the project, direct and monitor the work of junior team members.
• Interpret, review and report test activities and results in accordance with project plans.
• Identify test issues, reporting risks and defining regression tests for current and future projects and logs these as best practices and learning points.
• Understand business end-to-end processes and participate in production verification and validation.
• Contribute to management reporting including appropriate test metrics on planning, defects, and execution.
• Co-ordinating User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Deputises for Lead as required.
• Creating integration test report
• Creating daily manual test run and automated test reports
• Maintain and run automation regression packs
• Creating and managing test manual scripts.