Senior Consultant - SQA Engineer s

Responsible for the overall quality and testing architecture of our products that our department produces. We use a range of innovative front-end and back-end tools & technology to drive robust, well-engineered practices through to delivery, giving the business that sought after confidence.
• Develop and Implement Test Automation Frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, API)
• JavaScript
• Dynamics 365
• Gameplay Automation
• CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
• BDD

Working in a Feature Team at Client Site to do automation testing on various projects. Build and refine Automation Framework. Mentor junior testing team members. Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (Fully Automated). Plan, analyze, develop, and execute test scenarios. Gather test data and prepare test environment. Develop strategic plans for testing efforts. Provide technical leadership and support the creation of complex tests.
• Develop and Implement Test Automation Frameworks (Cypress, API, Performance)
• Insurance Claims Testing (UI Automation)
• Investment Components Testing (UI Automation)
• Online Quote Creation Testing (UI Automation)
• CI/CD (GitLab, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
• JIRA with Xray (Xray Certified)
• JavaScript, Cucumber BDD

Working in a Test SA Delivery Team jointly with a European Company to do End-To-End Testing on a massive project. Establish metrics, mentor team members. Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated). Plan, analyze, develop, and execute test scenarios. Gather test data and prepare test environment. Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
• Test Automation Frameworks (Cypress, Test Café)
• SDLC | CI/CD | Agile
• Cucumber BDD | Gherkin
• Linux
• JIRA with Xray (Xray certified)
• E2E Testing
• Salesforce | Amplience | Content Management System
• Mobile Device Testing

Working in a Customer Value Management Team as part of a bigger Customer Insights Team. Develop, and execute integrated digital marketing campaigns and strategies with the aim of acquiring and retaining customers. Attend briefing sessions with stakeholders/clients and provide technical inputs on upcoming campaigns. Receiving, analyzing, and implementing marketing campaign briefs. Running end-to-end digital campaigns.
• Robotics Process Automation | RPA | BluePrism
• SAS | SQL Server | Power BI
• Building flowcharts and rules on IBM UNICA
• Campaign design and publishing on Engage
• Adobe Campaigns
• Data mining and extraction on SQL Server/Oracle
• Testing relating to new release

Working in a Digital Team at Standard Bank. Leading Testing Team of 4 members.
As a Senior Test Engineer, you should be able to advise Test Strategy, review test plan, traceability matrix and ensure usage of tools for optimization. You should be able to ensure the availability test environment, design test and defect reporting formats and manage the team.
You should update project related data as required in applicable systems and ensure timely reporting and response to stakeholders.
• USSD Testing
• Messaging Testing using SoapUI
• Internet Banking Testing | Automation
• Standardbank.co.za main public website Testing
• Logging bugs and working closely with Dev to fix and trace them on JIRA

Working in a Feature Team at Standard Bank based Corporate and Investment Banking division to assist in delivering quality products to the Product Owners.
Test Engineer participate and give feedback on any activities where QA practices and risks are to be considered from the writing of user stories, pre-development testing notes, execute QA testing activities in accordance to processes and quality guidelines to identify defects / quality concerns in projects.
• Testing SWIFT Messages.
• Testing SWIFT Standards 2018.
• Using Selenium to run test scripts
• Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) queries using SQL
• Logging bugs and working closely with Dev to fix and trace them on JIRA
• Inject, validate, and confirm routing rules for SWIFT Messages on AMH

Working at Standard Bank in the Account Migration Project (Legacy to SAP).
Test Analyst participate and give feedback on any activities where QA practices and risks are to be considered from the writing of test cases, execute QA testing activities in accordance to processes and quality guidelines to identify defects / quality concerns in projects. Provide sign-off.
• SAP
• Testing Self-Service Channels (ATM, POS, Mobile Banking App, TVT)
• Testing Cards
• Using Mainframe for Card Processing System
• Test data requirements are provided during grooming session and is prepared such that it should be ready in time for the developers.
• Desk checks with BA’s, Developer’s, Infrastructure and UX’s team should be adhered too and should not hesitate to raise any issues.

Working at Citi Bank to support Electronic Banking Services and Channels. Provide Subject Matter Expertise, guidance on defined TTS Channel products in Africa.
• Provide Technical consulting expertise to internal and external Citi EBS clients
• Deliver on agreed Africa EBS goals and MIS
• Provision of high quality onsite and remote EB technical, training, integration and consulting support
• Escalation, tracking, management, and resolution of advances EB queries
• Assist and provide guidance on deal solutions, cross sell, migrations, large and complex implementation
• Demonstrate ability to support and assist on rollout of regional/global products
• Ensure compliance usage

Working at Standard Bank to assist all end users to perform troubleshoot on all procedures and provide updates on trouble tickers to resolve all issues effectively, prepare documents and provide IT support.
• Continuous maintenance & troubleshooting of failing or malfunctioning banking systems in the Bank Test and Support Environment.
• Daily Functionality Health Checks: IBM Broker, IBM Data Power, IBM Message Queue,
• Incident Management: Escalate Incidents at risk of breaching Service Level Agreement to the Incident Process Coordinator. Liaise with third-party vendors
• Data Mining on SAM (Software Asset Management) implementation project-Flexera
• Reporting in meetings to Head of Test Environment on Applications Functionality
• In-house Training: Software Configuration Management, Software Review Testing, VelociQ, ITIL, Lean, Agile, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), SQL, XML, HTML, Web Services, SDLC.