Dawie Greyling
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Credentials
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ISTQB Foundation Syllabus 2018
South African Software Testing Qualifications Board (SASTQB)May, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Just Plain Agile
House of Test ConsultingMar, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
ICAgile Certified Professional
DVTMar, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Presentation and Negotiation Skills
StratExecOct, 2010- Nov, 2024 -
Quality Technitian
Statistical Quality Management InstituteOct, 2008- Nov, 2024 -
Introduction to Capability Maturity Model Integration
Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE)Jun, 2008- Nov, 2024 -
EFSET 63 Advanced (CEFR C1)
EF Education First
Experience
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Inspired Testing
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Principal Consultant
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Mar 2021 - Present
JOB DESCRIPTION • Facilitate discussions with the client to elaborate on the areas of proposed improvements • Define the problem concisely and hypothesize the proposed solution • Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis to drive the proposed solution • Consolidate the findings from the analysis and present solutions to the client • Develop and present a plan to implement the recommended changes • Take responsibility for the delivery of the proposed solution/strategy • Support the business development activities of the firm such as innovation and development and production of thought papers/pieces. • Creating new strategies for sustainable long-term growth. • Ensuring that customer feedback drive solution generation as well as the product development process. • Instrumental role in the research, product strategy and development efforts of new products and services. You will require, • Analytical skills: The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data, to assess problems and structure solutions and to present information at a range of levels. • People skills: Consulting is a client-focused industry and a lot of your time will be spent dealing with management in order to better understand the issues they’re facing. You need to be able to build relationships, be persuasive when necessary and know when to defer. • Time management: Strategy consultants work to tight deadlines and missing them is not an option. • Flexibility: Even once you’re an expert, there will be plenty more for you to learn. You need to always be aware of your own performance, finding ways to improve. • Testing knowledge and experience • Ability to be self-directed and be an independent contributor to the team. Personality and Interpersonal Skills • Ability to structure and manage intensive workloads • A worthy team player, dedicated to contributing toward the outcome desired by the team Show less
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Mama Money
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Lead Quality Assurance Tester
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Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Quality from the start – get involved in the user story definition process and write test scenarios upfront. Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensure test effort is taken into consideration. Work close with developers to ensure that quality is considered, and they are creating the right kind of tests. Work with product owners to ensure they sign off work items during the UAT phase. Support - Assist with resolution and reproduction of user software problems. Develop automated test within sprints as well as conversion of current manual tests. Ensure that bugs are treated with importance and try to limit the amount that make it live. Drive Quality within the team and ensure definition of done is followed Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices. Lead and mentor QA team members Complete annual team reviews Resolving conflicts between individual team members and different teams Coordinate and plan testing activities between Front and Back End Teams. Manage Team members Cape Town Show less
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JUMO
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Quality Engineer
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Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Assisting Business Analysts with Specification creation. Evaluating the outcome of each test cycle. Implementation of Agile test Methodology. Supervision of test analysts and workload management (as and when required) to complete testing deliverable for maintenance, compliance and projects. Provide strategic direction, undertake test planning, scope the testing required, estimate the effort and duration of testing, and determine resource and environment requirements. Ensure that test deliverable produced are delivered on time, created according to the standard defined in the test method, and are written to be re usable and audit-able. Identifying the Target Test Items to be evaluated by the test effort. Defining the appropriate tests required and any associated Test Data. Gathering and managing the Test Data Communicating with the development team on progress and impediments. Show less
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DirectAxis
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Test Analyst
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Nov 2014 - Jul 2017
Assisting Business Analysts with Specification creation. Evaluating the outcome of each test cycle. Implementation of Agile test Methodology. Supervision of test analysts and workload management (as and when required) to complete testing deliverable for maintenance, compliance and projects. Provide strategic direction, undertake test planning, scope the testing required, estimate the effort and duration of testing, and determine resource and environment requirements. Ensure that test deliverable produced are delivered on time, created according to the standard defined in the test method, and are written to be re usable and audit-able. Identifying the Target Test Items to be evaluated by the test effort. Defining the appropriate tests required and any associated Test Data. Gathering and managing the Test Data Communicating with the development team on progress and impediments. Show less
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Saab
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Sweden
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Quality Engineer / Business Analyst
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Jan 2008 - Oct 2014
To provide a quality assurance service to Project teams during the design, development and manufacturing of SAAB software and hardware products. Assistance to the Project Manager in the planning phase of projects with information gathering, planning and documentation. Liaise with suppliers and customers on requirement monitoring and quality related matters. To plan and communicate all requirements to external laboratories for the testing of designed and developed equipment. Conducting cost/benefit analysis on all improvements and communicating back to the Project team. Perform Physical and Functional Configuration audits as required by the allocated projects/programmes. Translation and simplification of requirements for the team. Managing the test team and ensuring quality throughout the Development Life Cycle of the project. Generate/assist with Test cases for front and back end testing on software. Manage requirements and performance throughout the Development Life Cycle. Development and Improvement of procedures for production and other functionalities. Liaise with external Laboratories for testing/qualification of designed/developed product. Generate of Qualification/Validation reports for software and hardware products (DO178). Root cause analysis of problems and assist with improvement plans and programmes. Assist with change and impact control, problem solving, process improvement and other as required. ISO9001 implementation, maintenance and Auditing. Process management, review and implementation for all areas of the organisation. Show less
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Accsys a division of Nutun Transact
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Support Consultant and Quality Engineering Lead
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Dec 2005 - Jan 2008
Assuring all software updates are of satisfactory standards. Software testing and verification. Acting as mediator between client and development team. Giving telephonic support to software users. Handling on site support and installations. Writing and updating of all software manuals and documentation. Highest hours booked on Time & Attendance Support 2 Years running Design of new SQL based time calculation for new Payroll software Zero clients complaints for 2 Years Assuring all software updates are of satisfactory standards. Software testing and verification. Acting as mediator between client and development team. Giving telephonic support to software users. Handling on site support and installations. Writing and updating of all software manuals and documentation. Highest hours booked on Time & Attendance Support 2 Years running Design of new SQL based time calculation for new Payroll software Zero clients complaints for 2 Years
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Education
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2015 - 2016
Faculty Training Institute
Advanced Business Analysis Program Incorporating the National Certificate in Business Analysis, Business Analysis -
2009 - 2010
Statistical Quality Management Institute
City and Guilds of London Institute (Completed with Credit), Quality Engineering -
2008 - 2008
Statistical Quality Management Institute
Certified Quality Technician, Quality Control Technology/Technician -
2003 - 2008
North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
BSc in IT, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services -
1998 - 2002
Hoer Volkskool Heidelberg
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