I have been working for Rubric Consulting since September 2014 to date. Rubric has placed me in various clients as mentioned below.

• Attend scrum meetings• Participate in retrospective session• Review and analyze the project requirements• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.• Plan, organize and lead the testing kick-off meeting• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.• Collect the queries related to the requirements and get them resolved by the business person• Communicate with the client or on site/ offshore team members, as required• Write test plan and closure reports

• Review and analyze the project requirements• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.• Plan, organize and lead the testing kick-off meeting• Design the required test strategy in line with the scope and organization standards• Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.• Estimate the test effort and team (size, skills, attitude and schedule)• Create the test schedule (tasks, dependencies and assigned team members)• Communicate with the client or on site/ offshore team members, as required• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.)• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.• Communicate with the client or on site/ offshore team members, as required• Review the test cases and test data generated by the Testers and get them to address the review comments• Track the new/ updated requirements in the project and modify testing artifacts accordingly• Track the assigned tasks with respect to the software test plan and the project schedule• Review defect reports and assign valid defects to the relevant developer/ development manager• Ensure the resolved defects are re-tested• Update the software test plan, as required• Review the status reports of the Testers• Write test closure report

• Implement end to end QA process and test strategies• Facilitate execution of test cases in an effective and efficient manner• Prepare comprehensive test plans• Extract test scenarios and test cases covering all aspects of the business and technical specifications• Ensure system testing, integration testing, business/user acceptance testing has been completed• Build and maintain a repository of regression testing• Work closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business Owners, Quality Assurance and Developers to co-ordinate test activities.• Enhancement of all Systems Quality Assurance testing processes and procedures• Conduct defects meeting with project team members• Assistance with the user acceptance testing.

• Facilitate execution of test cases in an effective and efficient manner• Extract test scenarios and test cases covering all aspects of the business and technical specifications• Ensure system testing, integration testing, business/user acceptance testing has been completed• Build and maintain a repository of regression testing• Work closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business Owners, Quality Assurance and Developers to co-ordinate test activities.• Enhancement of all Systems Quality Assurance testing processes and procedures• Assistance with the user acceptance testing.

I have worked as a Test Analyst for STS for 6 years. STS has placed me at FNB Contact Centre, Rand Merchant Bank, FNB HR and Wesbank.

• Participate in Functional and Technical Design sessions• Quality assurance of business and functional requirements specification.• Designing test plan.• Extraction of test requirements from a functional/business/technical specification.• Analysis and development of test scenarios.• Design test cases according to best practice.• Test analysis and design utilizing the following and other techniques: boundary analysis, decision table etc• Adhere to test case version control mechanism.• Conducting review sessions of test requirements, test scenario’s and test cases.• Execution of test cases in accordance with the test plan.• Logging and maintaining of defects.• Adherence to the defect management process.• Quality assurance of training material or associated documentation.• Assistance with the user acceptance testing.• Liaise with project team members.• Functional, Regression, integration and usability testing.• Provide efficient reporting/feedback to project manager and team members.• Maintain relationships with Developers, Business Analysts and System Analysts.

• Work with the Development Teams throughout the systems development lifecycle to understand the system solution.• Review Business Functionality Specifications.• Responsible for, and manage the quality assurance (testing) process within assigned projects.• Develop and execute test plans.• Identify test scenarios.• Setting Up of Test Data• Develop and execute test cases.• Review test requirements, test scenarios and test cases.• Document results of test cases/plans and work with Business Analysts and Developers to resolve defects.• Creating and managing implementation plans.• Manage production issues/defects.• Provide efficient reporting/feedback.• Responsible for system/functional and integration testing.• Responsible for controlling test environment.

Paracon gave me foundation into my testing career by placing me at Standard Bank as a Jnr Tester. Since then I have never looked back. I have grown into testing.

• Requirements analysis and extractions from the Functional & Technical System Specifications • Test case design• Building the Test Lab• Preparation of Test Data• Manual execution of Test Cases• Log/Maintain Defects on Mercury Test Director• Track all logged defects regularly• Report daily progress and monitor resolutions.