Nigel Saba Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Oversee the qualification and release of projects/coordinated software releases:• Provide project updates, priorities, and direction to QA team.• Communicate status updates and qualification progress to management.• Triage issues by using available log data to assess risk and mitigate unnecessary churn and scope creep during a release.• Create targeted regression plans for software releases.• Coordinate and manage Alpha testing.• Create software release notes to update marketing/support/management.• Monitor reports for released software to detect issues in the field.Contribute individually to qualification tasks:• Pose questions during product planning to help define scope.• Develop test plans and test suites for large and small projects/software releases, covering integration between multiple software applications. • Create issues in Jira to track defects found during testing.• Verify and close issues relating to newly developed features, and new/old defects.• Perform duties as SCRUM master• Manage recruitment of co-op and full-time team members

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Part of the engineering team, Software Test Engineer Team Lead coordinates with managers, team leads and product owners to effectively translate product/marketing requirements into testing requirements. • Oversee the release process through the planning of test scope, managing of testing resources and deadlines, contribution and review of testing, and deployment oversight.• Provide team with direction, prioritizing testing tasks, and remove roadblocks.• Verify and close issues relating to newly developed features, and new/old defects.• Develop test plans and test suites for large and small projects/software releases covering integration between multiple software applications and/or systems. • Coordinate with product owners and scrum teams to ensure features are tested in a timely manner. • Manage co-op recruitment, training, and performance.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"Bringing mindfulness and flexibility to product quality"

Canada

Waterloo, Ontario

A part of the Engineering Services department, which is responsible for developing the test automation infrastructure and test suites for all aspects of the system including a custom on-screen display, media playback, database sub-system, web portal configuration utility, custom RAID content management system and more.My personal responsibilities included:• Developing test suites for new features/functionality across all areas of the product suite (embedded software, ETL hosts, mobile devices, web front and back-end)• Writing automated tests in Python using specialized test automation APIs• Enhancing or extending test framework to enable automated testing of various parts of the Kaleidescape system• Designing/executing large-scale playback/performance tests• Reporting and tracking defects

Guelph, Canada

In my short time at Innosphere SDG Ltd, I was part of the QA team which was responsible for designing and executing test coverage for new features on both the desktop and web portal application for the BNA Fixed Asset Depreciation Software project. As a Software Quality Analyst, some of my responsibilities included:• Creating and executing test coverage for new features• Managing deadlines during agile sprints• Defect management