Nigel Howard - QA Analyst, PayFast

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Work Background

PayFastQA Analyst

May. 2022Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaAnalyze, Write & Execute Test Case Scenarios for Tickets in the Sprint Defect Reporting & Artifact Collecting Follow existing Test Strategies, Processes and Best Practice Workflows Create, Update and Maintain Test Data for Positive and Negative Testing - Review Test Cases and Scenarios created by other Members in the QA/BA Team - Participate in Daily Stand Up Meetings, Sprint Planning Sessions, Refinement Sessions, Retrospective Meetings and Backlog Grooming Sessions - Work closely with the Team to maximize overall Investigations, Testing Impact and Effectiveness - Regression Testing and Release Testing - Create a Knowledge Base (Confluence Documents) - General IT Support Queries - Training Colleagues - Test Data Requests for 3rd Parties & Testing Support for 3rd Parties

PayFastTechnical Operations Team Lead

May. 2021 - May. 2022South Africa

Gsolutions2nd Tier Support Engineer

Nov. 2020 - Apr. 2021

LRMGTechnical Development Lead / Product Owner

Jan. 2020 - Aug. 2020• Scope technical solutions with the team and where required • Support the development function, ensuring developers are equipped to deliver on client expectations across an array of web development and mobile app solutions. • Support an outsourced capacity of developers. • Work with relevant stakeholders to unpack requirements. Brief various team members on the functional and technical requirements via specification documents and/or wireframes. • Work with Project Managers and cross-functional teams to scope, plan and prioritise development sprints and product backlogs. • Act as the liaison between stakeholders and the production team ensuring expectations are translated and met. • Manage escalations and assist the team in mitigating impediments impacting completion of a sprint. • Produce technical documentation and attend discussions with relevant IT stakeholders ensuring adherence to client’s IT governance requirements. • Present/demo project progress to various stakeholders at key project milestones. • Meet regularly with stakeholders to discuss the status of the project while managing major decisions and or escalations through project action logs. • Test and evaluate the development progress at the end of each sprint ensuring delivery goals and client expectations are met. • Produce supporting documentation in the form of UAT and user guides.

LightSail EducationQA Engineer

Jun. 2019 - Dec. 2019Cape Town Area, South AfricaMaking sure the QA Queue within Jira has been attended to. Should there be anything that is erroneous, then I will send it back to the developer with my findings, which would include screenshots, videos or even dev debugging items (eg Charles network logger). Completing Regression & Sanity testing. This is pre- as well as post deployment.

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