Keersten Kenny
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Rupali Vishnoi
I had the privilege to work with Keersten for 3 years under an offshore partnership model. She is a highly skilled Test Manager, with exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching and motivation. Professional in her dealings and focused on results. She is outstanding at offshore test management, always willing to jump in and help her offshore team as needed so we all achieve excellence together. She recently upskilled to add Quality Management/Lead Auditor skills to her CV and I wish her well – she is a manager to be counted on.
Kenneth Pennington (He/Him/His)
I had the pleasure of working with Keersten for 3.5 years. Her energy, creative thought, and positive influence are the foundations of her success. For 2 years, alongside her Test Management role, she led the UK Women Empowered group as a founding director and a mentor to the global program launch. She has developed a reputation for her ability to develop test strategies covering entire software development/test lifecycles to ensure full unit, system, functional, integration, usability, risk based, automation, regression test coverage with clear success criteria. She is also experienced in advising a range of test techniques with her on/offshore teams, including boundary analysis, pairwise, combinatorial and event driven methods to provide extended coverage and identify most critical defects rapidly. As an experienced test manager, she was leveraged to rapidly appraise innovative technology environments including IoT, Big Data, AI, SDN, MongoDB and the accompanying test requirements, while establishing superior defect management frameworks. As I got to know more about and of her abilities, I observed her competence in building strong relationships with key stakeholders and diverse teams enabling her to explain complex testing needs/techniques to offshore teams in an understandable way that facilitated the creation of unambiguous test models and automation scripts. Keersten is a joy to have on a team and her energy and influence will benefit any organization and group.
Rupali Vishnoi
I had the privilege to work with Keersten for 3 years under an offshore partnership model. She is a highly skilled Test Manager, with exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching and motivation. Professional in her dealings and focused on results. She is outstanding at offshore test management, always willing to jump in and help her offshore team as needed so we all achieve excellence together. She recently upskilled to add Quality Management/Lead Auditor skills to her CV and I wish her well – she is a manager to be counted on.
Kenneth Pennington (He/Him/His)
I had the pleasure of working with Keersten for 3.5 years. Her energy, creative thought, and positive influence are the foundations of her success. For 2 years, alongside her Test Management role, she led the UK Women Empowered group as a founding director and a mentor to the global program launch. She has developed a reputation for her ability to develop test strategies covering entire software development/test lifecycles to ensure full unit, system, functional, integration, usability, risk based, automation, regression test coverage with clear success criteria. She is also experienced in advising a range of test techniques with her on/offshore teams, including boundary analysis, pairwise, combinatorial and event driven methods to provide extended coverage and identify most critical defects rapidly. As an experienced test manager, she was leveraged to rapidly appraise innovative technology environments including IoT, Big Data, AI, SDN, MongoDB and the accompanying test requirements, while establishing superior defect management frameworks. As I got to know more about and of her abilities, I observed her competence in building strong relationships with key stakeholders and diverse teams enabling her to explain complex testing needs/techniques to offshore teams in an understandable way that facilitated the creation of unambiguous test models and automation scripts. Keersten is a joy to have on a team and her energy and influence will benefit any organization and group.
Rupali Vishnoi
I had the privilege to work with Keersten for 3 years under an offshore partnership model. She is a highly skilled Test Manager, with exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching and motivation. Professional in her dealings and focused on results. She is outstanding at offshore test management, always willing to jump in and help her offshore team as needed so we all achieve excellence together. She recently upskilled to add Quality Management/Lead Auditor skills to her CV and I wish her well – she is a manager to be counted on.
Kenneth Pennington (He/Him/His)
I had the pleasure of working with Keersten for 3.5 years. Her energy, creative thought, and positive influence are the foundations of her success. For 2 years, alongside her Test Management role, she led the UK Women Empowered group as a founding director and a mentor to the global program launch. She has developed a reputation for her ability to develop test strategies covering entire software development/test lifecycles to ensure full unit, system, functional, integration, usability, risk based, automation, regression test coverage with clear success criteria. She is also experienced in advising a range of test techniques with her on/offshore teams, including boundary analysis, pairwise, combinatorial and event driven methods to provide extended coverage and identify most critical defects rapidly. As an experienced test manager, she was leveraged to rapidly appraise innovative technology environments including IoT, Big Data, AI, SDN, MongoDB and the accompanying test requirements, while establishing superior defect management frameworks. As I got to know more about and of her abilities, I observed her competence in building strong relationships with key stakeholders and diverse teams enabling her to explain complex testing needs/techniques to offshore teams in an understandable way that facilitated the creation of unambiguous test models and automation scripts. Keersten is a joy to have on a team and her energy and influence will benefit any organization and group.
Rupali Vishnoi
I had the privilege to work with Keersten for 3 years under an offshore partnership model. She is a highly skilled Test Manager, with exceptional expertise in leadership, coaching and motivation. Professional in her dealings and focused on results. She is outstanding at offshore test management, always willing to jump in and help her offshore team as needed so we all achieve excellence together. She recently upskilled to add Quality Management/Lead Auditor skills to her CV and I wish her well – she is a manager to be counted on.
Kenneth Pennington (He/Him/His)
I had the pleasure of working with Keersten for 3.5 years. Her energy, creative thought, and positive influence are the foundations of her success. For 2 years, alongside her Test Management role, she led the UK Women Empowered group as a founding director and a mentor to the global program launch. She has developed a reputation for her ability to develop test strategies covering entire software development/test lifecycles to ensure full unit, system, functional, integration, usability, risk based, automation, regression test coverage with clear success criteria. She is also experienced in advising a range of test techniques with her on/offshore teams, including boundary analysis, pairwise, combinatorial and event driven methods to provide extended coverage and identify most critical defects rapidly. As an experienced test manager, she was leveraged to rapidly appraise innovative technology environments including IoT, Big Data, AI, SDN, MongoDB and the accompanying test requirements, while establishing superior defect management frameworks. As I got to know more about and of her abilities, I observed her competence in building strong relationships with key stakeholders and diverse teams enabling her to explain complex testing needs/techniques to offshore teams in an understandable way that facilitated the creation of unambiguous test models and automation scripts. Keersten is a joy to have on a team and her energy and influence will benefit any organization and group.
Credentials
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ISO9001:2015 Lead Auditor
BSIMar, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum AllianceOct, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Advanced Level Test Analyst Course, ISTQB BCS Certified Tester
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardJan, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Foundations of Agile Software Development using Scrum
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Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, British Computer Society, ISEB Accredited
The British Computer SocietyJan, 1999- Nov, 2024 -
Bachelor of Applied Science, Medical Radiation Technology, Radiotherapy
University of Sydney
Experience
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SITA
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Switzerland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Test and Quality Manager
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Mar 2014 - Present
I am currently engaged to lead onshore/offshore/nearshore test teams through various strategic test approaches, using robust risk mitigation techniques and DevOps methodologies. Also very excited to be leading testing on brand new prototype innovations for the Airline Industry - think BigData, AI, MongoDB, IoT. SITA's portfolios and products are underpinned by a managed Quality Framework and ISO9001:2015 Certification which I also Lead, this includes running global internal and external audit programs. Technologies / Trained In: ADO, Octane, Lead Auditor, ScrumAlliance Certified ScrumMaster, Sharepoint, Atlassian and leadership of Automation test teams using Selenium Javascript/TestNG/Python and custom Frameworks.
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Education
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University of Sydney
Bachelor of Applied Science, Medical Radiation Technology, Radiotherapy