Quality and Release Manager

Led release readiness reviews, defect triage, and go/no-go decisions with stakeholders. Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, product owners, and DevOps engineers in Agile/Scrum environments to plan test cases for user stories and features on betway applications. Facilitated weekly change management meetings as the change manager, ensuring delivery and deployment alignments. Spearhead the implementation of test automation framework for both APIs and UI level testing using POM and facade design, reducing regression testing time by 80% and increasing test coverage to 90%. Monitor Azure dashboard to ensure failing tests are investigated and fixed. Track QA progress ensuring adherence to established processes and methods. Monitor the defect life cycle of all identified concerns to ensure closure of critical defects. Mentor QA engineers in testing procedures and automated test best practices.

Drove QA with a team of seven senior quality assurance engineers, successfully automating over 80 percent of regression test cases and significantly enhancing testing efficiency. Oversaw recruitment and manage the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the QA team. Held periodic 1-on-1 sessions to ensure strong control over team performance. Facilitated weekly change management meetings as the change manager, ensuring delivery and deployment alignments. Managed change requests with a detailed logging and approval system. Built Page object model test automation framework using selenium and appium with java. Automated APIs and coordinated integration with Jenkins in collaboration with the devops team. Architected and implemented a scalable performance testing strategy for a high-load fintech platform, enabling it to handle 10x user growth. Setup the QA processes for both manual and automated testing ensuring seamless synergy and production of test outputs for each stage of the SDLC. Manual testing of SOAP APIs for payment gateway integrations.

Managed the QA process for the Trade portal project, communicating with stakeholders across multiple African countries to ensure the application requirements were met. Coordinated defect management to ensure all critical defects are closed before go-live. Executed API testing using postman for various enhancements on Finacle.

Drafted test cases to manually test web and mobile apps. Improved defect detection rate through frequent exploratory testing. Collaborated with the development team to trace the backend logic and identify the root cause of issues. Built a Data-driven framework for UI automation of the Health Management system. Conducted Vulnerability scanning using burp suite, maltego and nmap thereby significantly improving app security.

Drafted test cases to manually test mobile and web applications. Executed load testing of APIs using Jmeter.

Designed websites using wordpress. Coordinated requirement gathering sessions with clients.