Simphiwe Sithole Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Writing and managing testing strategies for BPM Mandates/ BPMcredit referrals/BPM Application scoring, Payments/ Direct DebitsContinuously liaising with stakeholders on the progress of epics Chairing bi-weekly meetings on prioritising workload with the relevant stakeholders Managing interdepartmental relationships for required resources and assistance Gathering and updating test data with the latest updates (TranUnion and Experian) Validating automated test cases are up to date with the latest added feature Introduced the use of a CI tool (Jenkins) Supervised and made sure build pipelines are maintained Making sure test plans align team progress Running Sprint Planning Meetings Running retrospectives after a sprint

Johannesburg

Project 1: Discovery Vitality Position Held: Senior QA Period of Employment: 2017-2018Client: Discovery Health Deliverable: to bring to market in a fast and agile fashion a vitality product that can be used across the global Discovery vitality Markets. Responsibilities:Making recommendations to clients regarding best practice testing strategies. Implementing testing strategies for the web app and mobile app Ensuring seamless portability with SA version of the vitality mobile app and Japanese Sumitomo version(Language) Ensuring the right results are calculated based on the business rules of vitality Pairing with BA’s to formulate the best possible acceptance criteria Testing stories in play(web app: multiple browsers) Testing mobile: Android(Android Studio - manual and automated), iPhone (Xcode - manual and automated ) BlackBerry - manual Updating acceptance criteria where required Exploratory testing of web app, mobile apps: android and ios. Pairing with developers to write automated functional tests Update and maintain automated tests where required or when new features are added. Bugs management - Jira/confluenceDesk checking(reviewing) completed stories with the product owner Running daily standups Running retrospectives after a sprint

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Project 2: Momentum (Domain Driven Design and API design) Position Held: Senior QA Period of Employment: 2014-2017Responsibilities: Client: Momentum Deliverable: Deliver a well-structured API to be consumed and displayed by the various investment portfolios across Momentum. Coaching client staff in the Agile methodologies Making recommendations to clients regarding testing strategies. Testing stories in play using Postman for API tests. Integration testing with the different systems that would consume the API Used artillery for performance tests. Co-writing stories with BA’s and adding missed acceptance criteria where required Write and maintain automated functional tests suites. Review completed (dev and test) stories with the product owner Keeping up with Agile ceremonies Facilitated part of the discovery phase with the client

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Project 4: BLG(Better Life Group) - web and mobile app design Product: Snappy web and Mobile App Position Held: Lead QA Deliverable: a web and mobile app for users to request for pre and post moving services. Coaching client staff in the Agile methodologyMaking recommendations to clients regarding testing strategies.Writing automated functional tests for both web and mobile (Android and iOS) apps Testing stories in play(Web: multiple browsers, mobile: Android, iPhone and BlackBerry)For the web app, we used a testing framework called Nightwatchjs For mobile apps with the exception of blackberry, we used Xamarin to write automated tests. Updating acceptance criteria to include possibly missed scenarios where required Co-writing stories with BA’s Doing a story review once it is ready to be developed(BA, QA and Dev) Making sure all acceptance criteria has been met Making sure the web app is responsive Validating that the developed solution makes logical sense from a user point of view Validating that the developed solution follows the official style guide Advising client on UX best practice methodologiesLogging and updating bugs on Git(we didn't have a bug management tool)Introduced the use of an open source performance testing tool Locust.io Reviewing completed stories with the product owner before they are merged into SIT. Jenkins build pipeline maintenance Running daily stand-ups Running retrospectives after a sprint

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Project 3: Standard Bank (IBR - Internet Banking Refresh ) Position Held: QA(Quality Analyst) Period of Employment: 2014-2017 Products: RCP/Current account/ Overdraft/Payments Responsibilities:Deliverable: to revamp the standard bank web offerings to be competitive with what was current at the time. Part of the task was to empower and embed agile ways of working within the Standard Bank teams. RCP - Revolving credit plan - new applications and cross-selling Current accounts: New to the bank and existing cross-selling overdraft Coaching client staff in the Agile methodologySuggesting and introducing new ways of working the agile way Making recommendations to clients best practice testing strategies. Testing stories in play (Web: multiple browsers(selenium), Mobile: Android, iPhone and BlackBerry) Co-writing stories with BA’s and updating acceptance criteria where required Pairing with developers to write and maintain automated functional tests Peer reviewing (BA, QA and Dev) stories once they are ready to be developed.Advising client on UX best practicesLogging and updating bugs on Jira/confluenceDesk checking (reviewing) completed stories with the product owner before they are merged into SIT(BA, QA, PO and Dev): Validating that web app is responsive Making sure the developed solution makes logical sense from a user point of view Validating that the developed solution follows the official style guide Keeping up with Agile ceremonies(Stand- meeting, Retro) Introduction to CI tool GO CD

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Project 5: NUMSAProduct: Receipting enginePosition held: Lead QADeliverable: A digital means to collect union membership fees from employers and display them in a web app for record-keepingCreating and implementing my testing strategies.Writing and implementing my test cases for the web app(automated)Facilitating the standardisation of processing different batch file formats from different employersPerformance test implementation with locust.ioTesting stories in play(Manual)Updating acceptance criteria where requiredCo-writing stories with BA’sDoing story reviews once they are ready to be developed.Bug management on Mingle (Thoughtworks product) Reviewing completed stories with the teamRunning daily standups

Bryanston

Project: Multiple projects with the same company Period of Employment: 2003 – 2014 Projects and Positions Held: Software Tester uFiling (As Junior and Senior) Matrix HR (As Junior) Statics SA (As Junior) Dept of Home Affairs IRE (As Senior Tester) Dept of Health IRE (As Senior Tester) Dept of Education IRE (As Senior Tester) EBPP Ekurhuleni (As Junior and Senior Tester) EBPP Tshwane (As Senior Tester) EBPP uMhlathuze (As Senior Tester) Position Held: UIF Technical Support Team Leader Responsibilities: Running weekly reports for management Managing staff related issues Resolving complex queries from team members Processing change requests from the call centre by clients Querying SQL database to gather detailed account information Writing basic stored procedures to run reports for management Running batch changes on the database for bulk requests Handling queries on sarsefiling’s offline app. Send through change requests from clients Advise on basic SARS-related queries Assigning bugs and defects to developers on Team Foundation Server Send through a report to management of current and resolved defects and bugs Regression Testing Updating Testing Strategies where required Manual Testing UAT Testing Test Planning/StrategyMicrosoft SQL Server Designing/Updating and executing test cases Test Management of Projects with developer/s Liaise with Business Analysts on possible changes to FS and AC’s.Investigate bugs found in production Training of Call Centre staff on new projects deployed Training Operations for maintenance of the deployed project Training of new staff so they can familiarise themselves with their project/s

Complile Payment ReportsWrite Scrpts to SQL DataBaseUpdate and Maintanance of DatabaseInitiating Automated Jobs on SQL

Assisting Clients with Credit card queries

National Diploma In Interior Design, Interior Design

Matriculated, Grade 12

Activities and Societies: 100m sprinting team

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