John Gillespie Email & Phone Number

Pretoria, Gp, Za

South Africa

Duties:Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values Guiding the team on how to get the most of out of self-organisationAssessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organisation and coaching the team to higher levels of maturityGuiding the team to remove impediments Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raisedFacilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolutionAssisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and disseminating informationSupporting and educating the Product Owner with regards to Agile best practices Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possiblePromote efficient and effective delivery using agile practicesImplement agile practices to promote team healthDependency mitigation Using metrics to guide teams and business in decision makingProviding meaningful reports to business stakeholders on project progressEducating business stakeholders on agile processes and project delivery

South Africa

Duties: Facilitate agile ceremoniesUnderstand and communicate key indicators of the teams release healthImprove the workflow of the team by identifying and removing impedimentsEnsure effective change management and capacity management processes are in placeProvide timely and accurate reports for management and other solution governance groupsEffectively manage relationships with IT delivery teams, and facilitate collaboration between those teams as well as internal and external stakeholdersCoaching the team in organizational environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understoodCoaching the team in self-organization and cross-functionality

South Africa

Duties:Writing and maintaining UACWriting and maintaining unit testing and UI automation testing for applications under developmentAnalysis of test requirementsAnalyse product specification documentationSanity and post release checksLogging and tracking of defectsWork with clients to determine project requirementsDocumentationOnboarding new team membersFacilitate training sessions

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Writing of test casesUploading and maintaining test cases on TestRailMaintaining automated testsAnalysis of test requirementsEstimating test effort per storyDefining the test approach for each sprintProcurement of test data Logging change requestDefine the test conductedDefine risks of deploying and also risks of not deployingInsuring correct procedure is followed including sign-off from the stakeholdersDeployment to ProductionSanity and Post Production ChecksCorrespondence with stakeholders when deploying new featuresProviding proof of testingProduction Support

Bachelor Of Science In Information Technology, Information Technology, Pass

Qualification: Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Date Completed: 2016 Institution: CTI Pretoria, Cardiff Metropolitan.

Btec Level 5 Hnd Diploma, Computing And Systems Development (Qcf), Information Technology, Pass

Qualification: BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma, Computing and Systems Development (QCF) Date Completed: 2015 Institution: CTI Pretoria, London.