Dono Greeff ♬
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Timmy Antonio
I had the pleasure of working alongside Donovan whilst he was QA Manager at Clearbank. I have rarely found a manager that understands and supports products as Donovan. Also a very cool and clam person to deal with and I recommend and wish him great successes and achievements to follow.
Clovia Allen
I had the pleasure of working with Dono and feel he is an amazing leader who goes above and beyond to help other people learn and grow! He excels at bridging the gap between the business, development and testing teams, making collaboration seamless. His commitment to project success and client satisfaction is truly commendable. His willingness to share knowledge and provide guidance has not only elevated the skills of a QA team but has also fostered a culture of continuous improvement. His extensive knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices has consistently elevated organizations in quality standards. Dono possesses a unique blend of technical expertise, leadership acumen, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. I highly recommend Dono and feel he would be a strong asset to any organization who has the honor of hiring him.
Timmy Antonio
I had the pleasure of working alongside Donovan whilst he was QA Manager at Clearbank. I have rarely found a manager that understands and supports products as Donovan. Also a very cool and clam person to deal with and I recommend and wish him great successes and achievements to follow.
Clovia Allen
I had the pleasure of working with Dono and feel he is an amazing leader who goes above and beyond to help other people learn and grow! He excels at bridging the gap between the business, development and testing teams, making collaboration seamless. His commitment to project success and client satisfaction is truly commendable. His willingness to share knowledge and provide guidance has not only elevated the skills of a QA team but has also fostered a culture of continuous improvement. His extensive knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices has consistently elevated organizations in quality standards. Dono possesses a unique blend of technical expertise, leadership acumen, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. I highly recommend Dono and feel he would be a strong asset to any organization who has the honor of hiring him.
Timmy Antonio
I had the pleasure of working alongside Donovan whilst he was QA Manager at Clearbank. I have rarely found a manager that understands and supports products as Donovan. Also a very cool and clam person to deal with and I recommend and wish him great successes and achievements to follow.
Clovia Allen
I had the pleasure of working with Dono and feel he is an amazing leader who goes above and beyond to help other people learn and grow! He excels at bridging the gap between the business, development and testing teams, making collaboration seamless. His commitment to project success and client satisfaction is truly commendable. His willingness to share knowledge and provide guidance has not only elevated the skills of a QA team but has also fostered a culture of continuous improvement. His extensive knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices has consistently elevated organizations in quality standards. Dono possesses a unique blend of technical expertise, leadership acumen, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. I highly recommend Dono and feel he would be a strong asset to any organization who has the honor of hiring him.
Timmy Antonio
I had the pleasure of working alongside Donovan whilst he was QA Manager at Clearbank. I have rarely found a manager that understands and supports products as Donovan. Also a very cool and clam person to deal with and I recommend and wish him great successes and achievements to follow.
Clovia Allen
I had the pleasure of working with Dono and feel he is an amazing leader who goes above and beyond to help other people learn and grow! He excels at bridging the gap between the business, development and testing teams, making collaboration seamless. His commitment to project success and client satisfaction is truly commendable. His willingness to share knowledge and provide guidance has not only elevated the skills of a QA team but has also fostered a culture of continuous improvement. His extensive knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices has consistently elevated organizations in quality standards. Dono possesses a unique blend of technical expertise, leadership acumen, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. I highly recommend Dono and feel he would be a strong asset to any organization who has the honor of hiring him.
Credentials
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ISEB
-Apr, 2009- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Harri
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United States
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Software Development
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400 - 500 Employee
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Director of QA
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Jan 2023 - Present
I have joined Harri to help the team with their Quality strategy, in order to deliver the highest quality product to our customers. I have joined Harri to help the team with their Quality strategy, in order to deliver the highest quality product to our customers.
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GAN
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United States
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Gambling Facilities and Casinos
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200 - 300 Employee
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Director of QA and Release management
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Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
In addition to continuing the Quality Assurance journey and improvements in GAN I am also responsible for how we get our software released to live. Bringing in a strategic vision to the team along with an implementation plan built by us as a collective group.
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Head Of QA
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Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Managing a large QA team and function at GAN to transform and improve the efficiency of software delivery through driving QA as a first class citizen in the SDLC. We plan to achieve this by adopting a Shift left/ATDD approach to how we develop software.
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Gelato
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Norway
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Internet Marketplace Platforms
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head of Software Delivery
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Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
At Gelato I started out as the Head of QA but very quickly found and agreed with the CTO and VP of Product that there were some big gaps in engineering leadership. I was given the opportunity to take on these extra challenges to help build a world class engineering team. There were a lot of startup processes and technical debt throughout the engineering teams which was starting to highlight some inefficiencies and problems. Working with the teams we have adopted very strong ATDD… Show more At Gelato I started out as the Head of QA but very quickly found and agreed with the CTO and VP of Product that there were some big gaps in engineering leadership. I was given the opportunity to take on these extra challenges to help build a world class engineering team. There were a lot of startup processes and technical debt throughout the engineering teams which was starting to highlight some inefficiencies and problems. Working with the teams we have adopted very strong ATDD processes where our teams are ensuring a high quality bar before the first line of code is written. We also see that this approach has dramatically helped to speed up the delivery of new features along with improving our accuracy of estimation for delivery dates etc. • Implemented an efficient shift left approach with ATDD principles and automation first. • Improved the agile ways of working throughout the engineering team. • Helped to massively reduce regression testing cycles. • Implemented Gated processes for delivery, whilst speeding up delivery times within the cycle. • Brought in static code analysis with security at the forefront. • Introduced and conducted comprehensive performance and load testing activities to prove readiness for peak traffic. Working with teams to resolve any issues blocking performance capabilities. • Helped to build out our engineering teams as required, ensuring our common goals are achieved. • Help to run the Architecture and QA guilds, ensuring we have focus on key problems to be solved. • Line management of several engineers in multiple disciplines. • Partner management with our outsourced partners. • Regular communication between other business functions and engineering.
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Head Of QA
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Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Responsible for the Quality Assurance function at Gelato. Helping to instill processes and tools that will build quality into the product at the very beginning. All of this whilst also speeding up the delivery of software to ensure we are the fastest to market in our sector. I also get to manage a fantastic geo-located team on many different projects, showcasing the success that can be had from working with remote outsourced engineering teams. I also get to code again! :D
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ClearBank
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United Kingdom
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Banking
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300 - 400 Employee
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Head Of QA
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May 2018 - Jun 2019
The opportunity at ClearBank is to rebuild a QA team and function that had been failing within the development life cycle. The blank slate and opportunity to be really effective with change meant I was able to build in a shift left attitude straight away. • Expanded automation coverage across all levels in the triangle • Implemented agile ways of working within the development hub • Reduced the UAT cycle time from 2 months to 1 week, and further reducing to days • Reduced the… Show more The opportunity at ClearBank is to rebuild a QA team and function that had been failing within the development life cycle. The blank slate and opportunity to be really effective with change meant I was able to build in a shift left attitude straight away. • Expanded automation coverage across all levels in the triangle • Implemented agile ways of working within the development hub • Reduced the UAT cycle time from 2 months to 1 week, and further reducing to days • Reduced the Software delivery time from 2 months to weekly releases. This included the capability to reduce this time even further. • Implemented Gated processes for software delivery, whilst speeding up delivery times within the cycle. Meaning better confidence for every release. • Embedded TDD within all the scrum teams (14 in total) • Improved quality exponentially. First release saw 1119 bugs in regression and UAT, latest big release saw under 100. • Key in implementing release trains, delivering small and risk averse releases. Now we are seeing under 10 bugs in regression and UAT combined • Proven production capabilities to handle load before customers come on board. Allows a streamlined and confident customer onboarding process • Built the team from 6 to 20 members working to a common goal. Show less The opportunity at ClearBank is to rebuild a QA team and function that had been failing within the development life cycle. The blank slate and opportunity to be really effective with change meant I was able to build in a shift left attitude straight away. • Expanded automation coverage across all levels in the triangle • Implemented agile ways of working within the development hub • Reduced the UAT cycle time from 2 months to 1 week, and further reducing to days • Reduced the… Show more The opportunity at ClearBank is to rebuild a QA team and function that had been failing within the development life cycle. The blank slate and opportunity to be really effective with change meant I was able to build in a shift left attitude straight away. • Expanded automation coverage across all levels in the triangle • Implemented agile ways of working within the development hub • Reduced the UAT cycle time from 2 months to 1 week, and further reducing to days • Reduced the Software delivery time from 2 months to weekly releases. This included the capability to reduce this time even further. • Implemented Gated processes for software delivery, whilst speeding up delivery times within the cycle. Meaning better confidence for every release. • Embedded TDD within all the scrum teams (14 in total) • Improved quality exponentially. First release saw 1119 bugs in regression and UAT, latest big release saw under 100. • Key in implementing release trains, delivering small and risk averse releases. Now we are seeing under 10 bugs in regression and UAT combined • Proven production capabilities to handle load before customers come on board. Allows a streamlined and confident customer onboarding process • Built the team from 6 to 20 members working to a common goal. Show less
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Earthport
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London, United Kingdom
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Head of QA
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Nov 2017 - May 2018
I joined Earthport as Head of QA to help transform the QA function into a driving force within the development lifecycle. I have already started to shift the testing strategy left in the cycle and employ an automation first strategy. • Delivered a Shift left model to testing. Improved development cycle time by 100% • Improved quality of releases. Consistently seeing less production issues on every release • Addressed the bug backlog improving the product for… Show more I joined Earthport as Head of QA to help transform the QA function into a driving force within the development lifecycle. I have already started to shift the testing strategy left in the cycle and employ an automation first strategy. • Delivered a Shift left model to testing. Improved development cycle time by 100% • Improved quality of releases. Consistently seeing less production issues on every release • Addressed the bug backlog improving the product for customers • Increased automation coverage, run time and stability. • Implemented reliable quality gating to ensure better releases. • Managed a fully remote team in Belarus Show less I joined Earthport as Head of QA to help transform the QA function into a driving force within the development lifecycle. I have already started to shift the testing strategy left in the cycle and employ an automation first strategy. • Delivered a Shift left model to testing. Improved development cycle time by 100% • Improved quality of releases. Consistently seeing less production issues on every release • Addressed the bug backlog improving the product for… Show more I joined Earthport as Head of QA to help transform the QA function into a driving force within the development lifecycle. I have already started to shift the testing strategy left in the cycle and employ an automation first strategy. • Delivered a Shift left model to testing. Improved development cycle time by 100% • Improved quality of releases. Consistently seeing less production issues on every release • Addressed the bug backlog improving the product for customers • Increased automation coverage, run time and stability. • Implemented reliable quality gating to ensure better releases. • Managed a fully remote team in Belarus Show less
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Currencycloud
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Head of QA
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Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
After around 3 months the existing QA manager moved on, allowing me to step up and take on responsibilities that were left with this vacancy. This was acknowledged by the business by promoting me to Head of QA. With this I was charged with owning the QA function, defining and improving our strategies within the business. • Delivered a reliable automated testing pipeline for every release. This was a change from accepting failed tests to ensuring all tests pass before deployment to… Show more After around 3 months the existing QA manager moved on, allowing me to step up and take on responsibilities that were left with this vacancy. This was acknowledged by the business by promoting me to Head of QA. With this I was charged with owning the QA function, defining and improving our strategies within the business. • Delivered a reliable automated testing pipeline for every release. This was a change from accepting failed tests to ensuring all tests pass before deployment to production. • Built a strong QA team delivering an automation first approach • Implemented performance testing to manage capacity and scalability with data • Key in transitioning the platform from On-Premise architecture to the Cloud in AWS • Vastly improved quality of the platform. From several production issues per release to 1 production issues in an entire year of multiple releases a week. • Implemented continuous inspection on our code • Reduced development cycle times from the teams • Managed an offshore consultancy team in the Ukraine with great success.
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Senior QA Engineer
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Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
I started out at Currencycloud as a Senior QA engineer. I took the role as I saw an exciting opportunity to help re-shape the QA function within the company. There were a lot of bad practices in play that needed solutions suggested and implemented. Part of this was to work towards revitalising our automation suites which were built with Cucumber.
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Venntro Media Group
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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QA Engineer
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Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
• Owned the automation suite implementing parallel running of the tests • Reduced automation run times from 8 hours to 2hours. • Improved the stability of the automation tests against the UI. Far less false positives • Helped lead and mentor the QA team with the QA manager • Prioritised backlogs for the scrum and QA team • Implemented the Continuous integration tooling with Jenkins • Owned the automation suite implementing parallel running of the tests • Reduced automation run times from 8 hours to 2hours. • Improved the stability of the automation tests against the UI. Far less false positives • Helped lead and mentor the QA team with the QA manager • Prioritised backlogs for the scrum and QA team • Implemented the Continuous integration tooling with Jenkins
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Photobox
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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QA engineer/Test Automation
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Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
• Built automated testing solutions for 2 start-ups within the incubator • Key contributor and maintainer of the Continuous Integration tools • Ensured we delivered high quality software to production • Involved in product design and engineering • Implemented automated mobile GUI testing from scratch with Appium, Genymotion and xCode. • Built automation testing frameworks from scratch • Built automated testing solutions for 2 start-ups within the incubator • Key contributor and maintainer of the Continuous Integration tools • Ensured we delivered high quality software to production • Involved in product design and engineering • Implemented automated mobile GUI testing from scratch with Appium, Genymotion and xCode. • Built automation testing frameworks from scratch
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MICROS Systems Inc
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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QA engineer
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Mar 2011 - Sep 2013
• Started in a V-Model development life cycle • In the pilot team to introduce scrum to the development team • Key contributor to the automation framework, built from scratch • Built up test plans and scripts and then executed them • Helped to introduce Gherkin with Cucumber, Capybara and Ruby-on-Rails. • Started in a V-Model development life cycle • In the pilot team to introduce scrum to the development team • Key contributor to the automation framework, built from scratch • Built up test plans and scripts and then executed them • Helped to introduce Gherkin with Cucumber, Capybara and Ruby-on-Rails.
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MICROS Systems UK Limited
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Helpdesk Analyst
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Oct 2009 - Apr 2011
Resolve issues from the customer based regarding the IT systems. Resolve issues from the customer based regarding the IT systems.
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Education
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1998 - 2001
Fish Hoek High School
National Dimploma in: English, Afrikaans, Math, Science, Electrical, Accounting, Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
1995 - 1998
Fish Hoek Middle school; Sun Valley Primary
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1997 - 2001
Fish Hoek High School
National Diploma, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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