Experience

Envel

• United States
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• QA Architect

  • Jun 2021 - Present



Appdeate

• South Africa
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  We believe the world needs a new way of thinking. By challenging assumptions and embracing technology we disrupt the industries we work in. We believe the world needs a new way of thinking. By challenging assumptions and embracing technology we disrupt the industries we work in.



Fund Social Good

• South Africa
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  We exist to build great people who do extraordinary things in Africa. Our Vision: An Africa free of trauma, corruption, violence and inequality. Our Mission: To create partnerships with businesses for the creation and investment in social enterprises in Africa that care for and protect our people, address income inequality and care for and protect our environment We exist to build great people who do extraordinary things in Africa. Our Vision: An Africa free of trauma, corruption, violence and inequality. Our Mission: To create partnerships with businesses for the creation and investment in social enterprises in Africa that care for and protect our people, address income inequality and care for and protect our environment



Union Swiss

• South Africa
• Cosmetics
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Test Lead

  • Sep 2018 - May 2021



Ipreo

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Manager of Software Test Engineering

  • Jun 2016 - Nov 2019

  • Direct management and leadership of agile testing teams, including test planning and execution for manual, exploratory, scripted, and automated testing. • Provide guidance to teams on testing automation strategies & tools—both from an architectural & effective design patterns perspective. • Implement and track software development metrics related to code quality, coverage, and release readiness reporting. • Lead widely distributed teams (onshore and offshore) towards integrated product testing goals. • Drive the agile quality vision and goals. • Partner with Development Managers and Product Manager counterparts, to ensure that best practices are used to deliver quality products to production. • Raise risks and remove impediments. • Grow, develop and mentor test engineers in Agile testing best practices • Lead scalability and performance testing strategies. • Setting and implementing a vision of what “good” Agile testing looks like for an Agile organization. • Manage both off-shore and on-shore resources and coordinate efforts with members of the product teams. Show less



SunGard - now part of FIS

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• QA Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach

  • Oct 2009 - May 2016

  • Responsible for overall development of an open-source focused innovative team of testers capable of continuously improving efficiency and effectiveness of test activities within the Development Phase and on Client Site. • Focused on Coaching and Mentoring teams through to Agile methodologies with a focus on improving Agile Maturity in Process, including Whole Team Test Approach and Automation focus based on the Agile Testing Automation Pyramid. • Planning, co-ordination and general management of Functional and Non-Functional testing across multiple enterprise wide applications • Ensuring our QA teams apply best practices guidelines for both Manual and Automated efforts that ensure we maximize re-use and shorten feedback cycles. • Responsible for overall Quality improvement by showing year on year reduction in defect leakage metrics. • Establish other relevant metrics to assist in planning and controlling test activities • Liaising between offshore team in SA, Paris, Frankfurt, India, UK and the US to manage expectations between all stakeholders. • Identification, review and selection of appropriate testing tools and processes • Managing the test schedules across multiple projects • Identification and analysis of risks and development of contingencies • Responsible for test team management including performance reviews, interviews, training suggestions and general well being of team members • Responsible for providing overall support by mentoring, coaching and training team members. • Liaising and developing relationships with various external parties to support the QA business (including the setup of local skills incubators) Show less



SQS Group

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Automation Team Lead

  • Aug 2006 - Sep 2009

  • Onshore (Zurich) team lead for the offshore regression suite outsourcing project based in Switzerland. • Responsible for the handover and management of the regression suite within allocated test cycles per release. • Planning and co-ordination of user acceptance, sanity, shakedown and integration testing • Manage 12 offsite and onsite resources who are involved with executing and automating the regression suite and other functional testing projects. • Development of an automation test framework • Responsible for defect management, including liaising with developers and functional area owners to prevent bottlenecks • Work closely with functional area owners and technical members of the organization to ensure correctness of processes and environments for testing. • Generate daily statistics to team members and client during test cycles. • Weekly progress reports and defect resolution summaries to various members of management and staff of the organization during test cycles. • Coordinating communications and connectivity between onshore client and offshore team • Task/effort estimations for testing (including automation) effort of new projects • Impact analysis assessments • Identification and selection of appropriate testing tools • Creation and implementation of operational procedures • Managing test scheduling, execution and scripting in accordance with SLA’s • Analysis of risks, develop contingencies and plan accordingly • Produce test related documentation (test plans, test matrices, test scripts, defect logs, etc) • Creation of end of cycle review reports and statistics for management • Reporting to senior management progress on the outsourcing project as well as client management including the status of release testing. • Analysis of resourcing needs for new projects and resource assignments • Approval of leave, performance reviews, training suggestions and general well being of the consultant • Mentoring and coaching Show less



2Cana Solutions

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Oracle Developer

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

  Responsible for developing new and maintaining custom PL/SQL reports for a major Health Insurance company in South Africa. Responsible for developing new and maintaining custom PL/SQL reports for a major Health Insurance company in South Africa.



PM Consulting

• Durban Area, South Africa

• VB Developer

  • Dec 2003 - Dec 2005

  Full end to end Software Development role that included: 1. Requirements gathering 2. Design of the system 3. Coding and Testing 4. Implementation and Training 5. Maintenance and Support Applications developed in VB, Crystal Reports, mySQL and Access. Over 20 different applications developeing over a 2 year period, these included POS systems, Car Sales and Dealership apps, Stock management systems, Shipping and Freight related apps and Office Management apps. Full end to end Software Development role that included: 1. Requirements gathering 2. Design of the system 3. Coding and Testing 4. Implementation and Training 5. Maintenance and Support Applications developed in VB, Crystal Reports, mySQL and Access. Over 20 different applications developeing over a 2 year period, these included POS systems, Car Sales and Dealership apps, Stock management systems, Shipping and Freight related apps and Office Management apps.