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Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town, South Africa

We have developed and now maintain South Africa’s most trusted News and Media mobile Apps. Our team believes in valuable, frequent releases that provides benefit to our end users.I lead a team of testers to ensure that high quality Mobile Apps are delivered to our audience.• Developing QA strategy & leading the Fundamental Test Process across multiple Apps.• Ensuring that QA is factored into all relevant areas of the SDLC.• Co-ordination of all testing related activities… Show more We have developed and now maintain South Africa’s most trusted News and Media mobile Apps. Our team believes in valuable, frequent releases that provides benefit to our end users.I lead a team of testers to ensure that high quality Mobile Apps are delivered to our audience.• Developing QA strategy & leading the Fundamental Test Process across multiple Apps.• Ensuring that QA is factored into all relevant areas of the SDLC.• Co-ordination of all testing related activities (Planning to Reporting)• Use of Test and Data management tools for tracking and reporting.• Ensuring smart, accurate and effective testing approach and coverage.• Management of physical testing devices. • Resource management and team allocation.• Defect management (Logging, prioritizing, triages) • Data driven decision making.• Stakeholder management and reporting (Metrics and status updates)• Closure/ Sign-off reporting. Show less

Cape Town, South Africa

I consulted across multiple project teams simultaneously and had supported the release of many in-house built and custom configured systems at client Woolworths IT.• Creating QA strategies and leading the Fundamental Test Process across several teams & systems.• Ensuring that QA is factored into all relevant areas of the SDLC• Involvement and co-ordination of multiple Test Levels (SIT, FT, NFT and UAT)• Involved during Due Diligence of potential system… Show more I consulted across multiple project teams simultaneously and had supported the release of many in-house built and custom configured systems at client Woolworths IT.• Creating QA strategies and leading the Fundamental Test Process across several teams & systems.• Ensuring that QA is factored into all relevant areas of the SDLC• Involvement and co-ordination of multiple Test Levels (SIT, FT, NFT and UAT)• Involved during Due Diligence of potential system implementations.• Assessing, raising and tracking Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies and Mitigation.• Assessing and managing resources skill sets, knowledge and allocation.• Test tool and Data management.• Managing performance testing of systems.• Defect management (Logging, prioritizing, triages)• Stakeholder management and reporting (Metrics and status updates)• Closure/ Sign-off reporting. Show less

Cape Town, South Africa

I ensured accurate data migration and testing during MetLife’s switch over from a legacy Insurance & Financial system. • Gathering and documenting business information.• Identifying and extracting test requirements from documentation.• Liaising with Business Analysts or Stakeholders to clarify business information.• Incident management and reporting. • Data migration activities.• Reporting (Status and closure with metrics)

Durban, South Africa

I consulted across several companies, industries and project teams and had contributed to many in-house built and custom configured system releases.• Validation of business requirements.• Liaising with Business Analysts or Stakeholders to clarify requirements.• Produce a test plan (including risk identification, risk analysis and risk mitigation strategies)• Authoring manual test cases with traceability to requirements. • Execution of manual test cases.• Incident… Show more I consulted across several companies, industries and project teams and had contributed to many in-house built and custom configured system releases.• Validation of business requirements.• Liaising with Business Analysts or Stakeholders to clarify requirements.• Produce a test plan (including risk identification, risk analysis and risk mitigation strategies)• Authoring manual test cases with traceability to requirements. • Execution of manual test cases.• Incident management and reporting.• Driving UAT sessions involving stakeholders and obtaining sign-off.• Involvement in Implementation activities.• Creating training manuals. • Presenting training sessions.• Providing final test reports including metrics. Show less

Product Management

Advanced Level Test Manager

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