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Cape Town, Wc, Za

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

As QC Lead, I ensure that all production deliverables and solutions are functionally tested and fit for purpose before release. This includes:* Ensuring testing plans are developed, executed and reported for all deliverables and solutions meant for release into production.* Managing day-to-day expectations and ensuring successful testing of wearable firmware, algorithms, cloud microservices, web- and mobile apps, and full end-to-end solutions.* Maintaining and enhancing the regression test suite.* Interacting with project managers and other team leads to plan for project deliverables and the required QA timelines.* Reporting to the Director of QA on QC activities, HR issues, and QA concerns.* Continuously evaluating and implementing new tools to improve on the current QC processes.* Managing the QC team, including peer reviews, career development, mentoring, and other HR-related issues.

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

South Africa

As a Senior QA Test Analyst, in addition to all the tasks of the Quality Control Specialist role, I was also responsible for:* Taking initiative to advance our team's efficiency and effectiveness within the broader business context.* Guided our team with regard to industry norms and progress in technical tools and ways of work.* QA responsibility of wearable firmware.* QA responsibility of a 2-year project with Samsung that comprised of interacting with their QA Team and successfully passing external QA cycles.* Spending time mentoring junior and mid-level specialists, ensuring that the reach of my experience and expertise extended beyond myself.

Stellenbosch, South Africa

As a Quality Control Specialist, I worked with the Development team to define the tests required to ensure deliverables meet quality criteria as set out in the specifications. These tasks included:* Developing test cases to verify production pipeline output compliance with the company's quality criteria.* Executing a variety of testing activities and reporting on the findings.* Continuously performing exploratory testing to identify gaps in specifications and risks to deliverable quality.* Executing QA processes in a repeatable, efficient and consistent manner.* Eliciting, investigating and collating feedback from internal testing users on product output usability, believability and experiences.* Escalating defects to applicable developers and monitoring the resolution thereof.* Performing QA tasks as it relates to release management to the testing, staging and production environments.

Noorder-Paarl Area, South Africa

As a Quality Control Specialist in the wine industry, I was responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining all quality-related systems as well as being responsible for all Health & Safety aspects of the cellar. These included implementing and maintaining industry standards to obtain accreditations such as WIETA, IPW, HACCP, BSCI and FSSC 22 000.

Honours, Wine Biotechnology

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Molecular Biology And Biotechnology

Matriculated | 5 Distinctions