Software-savvy quality assurance professional committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release. Plans test schedules and strategies according to project scope and delivery dates and monitors and tracks bug resolutions. Reviews software documentation to verify technical accuracy and completeness and to mitigate risks.
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LEAH KAHIGA
Summary
Overview
10
years of professional experience
5
Certification
Work History
Co-operative Bank of Kenya, NAIROBI
Senior Quality Assurance Test Analyst
2021.10 - Current (2 years & 11 months)
Job overview
- Working with the business analysts to document the technical and operational requirements for 51 peripheral systems that would interface with the new Core Banking system.
- Developing the test strategy and plans, as well as training the team in the testing methodology, so that they can modify the functional and integration testing procedures for project testing.
- Document Traceability Matrix, which was used to validate that all requirements had been met by checking the test cases and test results.
- Controlling new requirements during the implementation and execution phases of the projects,
- Testing web services using SoapUI and Postman and reporting bugs to the developer and solution architect for resolution.
- Use SQL scripts to check the database-level accuracy and integrity of the data.
- For each deployment, conduct unit testing in collaboration with the developers and vendors.
- Co-ordination and Execution of User Acceptance and System Integration Tests on Finacle and all related systems that involved 200 technical and Business testers.
- Finding and recording bugs providing information on how to duplicate them, and working with developers to find solutions
- Execute automated test cases through TestNG as part of regression testing
- Collaborating with the automation engineers in creating test scripts by providing test data and steps
- Communication of test results and test progress to all stakeholders, with an emphasis on risks noted and action required for quick problem resolution.
- Carrying out post implementation support by tracking and validating issues raised in production are resolved within SLA and with quality.
Co-operative Bank of Kenya, NAIROBI
Quality Assurance Analyst
2018.05 - 2021.10 (3 years & 5 months)
Job overview
- Executing manual, Smoke, and Regression testing on Mobile and Web applications I have handled as the test lead in the projects delivered
- Carrying out API testing using Postman and SOAP UI and providing feedback to the solution architects for issue resolution
- Developing a test plan and test strategy that has been adapted every project assigned by clearly outlining the scope of testing, resources required, estimation, testing schedules, test environments, and risks that will be encountered
- Documenting both functional and non -functional test cases against the business requirements document and having review sessions with Business and Solution architects to validate
- Identifying, analyzing, and documenting defects using Jira and Microsoft test server defect tracking systems
- Support Agile processes and practices such as Sprint planning and Retrospectives on projects delivered through agile
- Daily communication of the testing progress highlighting the risk areas and support required from the project stakeholders
- Recognizing when test automation and performance testing are appropriate, planning the effort, and working with the performance engineer on the preparation of the test scripts and testing using JMeter
- Carrying out post-deployment checks once a system has been deployed to production to ensure any defect raised is resolved
- Training of Business testers and new test leads assigned under my supervision.
- Quarterly Update of quality assurance manuals with updated standards
- Task allocation to 8 testers in my department that i was managing and training as a Quality Assurance Lead.
- Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
bank of Kenya, NAIROBI
Co-operative, Systems administrator
2013.01 - 2018.01 (5 years)
Job overview
- Responsible for ensuring 99.99% uptime for the bank's critical infrastructure
- Research and experiment on tools and platforms, carry out POCs for various platforms before adoption
- Interacting and collaborating with branch personnel, network and security engineers, vendors, compliance and management during the creation and maintenance of a system
- Creating control features to ensure systems effectively meet the bank's quality standards
- Engaging in quality control procedures to ensure that systems are efficient and operational
- Developing a cost-efficient system for projects by performing a cost-benefit analysis
- Troubleshooting network and systems issues when they occur
- Executed the Start of Day and End of Day procedures at the branch level
- Participating in gathering requirements, workshops and systems procurement activities, where I evaluate various vendor systems.
Education
Kabarak University Nakuru
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science and Engineering
11.2012
University Overview
Skills
- Manual testing of mobile, web and desktop applications
- System integration an User acceptance testing
- Test planning, Test Analysis, Test Management and Test execution
- Defect and Bug tracking
- Agile testing
- API testing
- Automation using cypress and selenium
- Great analytical skills
- Attention to details
- Project management
- Communication
- Great Collaboration skills
Certification
- March 2023: Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- October 2022: AT*SQA Test Automation
- July 2022: AT*SQA DevOps Testing
- June 2022: Automation using selenium
- May 2022: Certified ISTQB Test Analyst Advanced Level (CTAL-TA) 2021
- June 2019: ISTQB Testing foundation level
Tools
Tools
Microsoft office suite for presentation and documentation
Jira and Microsoft Team Manager for test case management and defect management
Soap UI and Postman for API testing
SQL developer , workbench and postgresql
J-meter
Eclipse and Visual Studio IDE
GitHub and Jenkins
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Successfully created a B2B integration site using industry-standard APIs, which that has been used to integrate with 300 institutions for payments, increasing deposits, and commissions in the bank.
- Successfully upgraded the company's mobile application both android and IOS version been used by 600,000 customers.
- Delivered cash deposit machines to 60 merchants and the bank network effectively, increasing deposits by 98% between 2020 and 2021.
- Successfully reviewed and delivered 101 web services that have been used to integrate 51 of the peripheral systems in the new Finacle Core Banking System as the Core Banking Quality Assurance Analyst.
- Analyzed and tracked over 1000 bugs raised from Unit testing to User acceptance testing for closure by respective stakeholders.
- Coordination and execution of the testing activities in each project Milestone from planning to build by supporting 200 testers involved in the testing phase.
- Documented and Reviewed 5000 test cases for the 51 peripheral systems that were used in the user acceptance testing.
- Successful integration to Finacle of Card System that is a mission critical system in the bank which supports the ATM,E-commerce, Point of Sale and Merchant Payments as the Test lead which has an uptime of 99.8% since deployment.
Timeline
Senior Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Co-operative Bank of Kenya
2021.10 - Current (2 years & 11 months)
Quality Assurance Analyst
Co-operative Bank of Kenya
2018.05 - 2021.10 (3 years & 5 months)
Co-operative, Systems administrator
bank of Kenya
2013.01 - 2018.01 (5 years)
Kabarak University
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science and Engineering
- March 2023: Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- October 2022: AT*SQA Test Automation
- July 2022: AT*SQA DevOps Testing
- June 2022: Automation using selenium
- May 2022: Certified ISTQB Test Analyst Advanced Level (CTAL-TA) 2021
- June 2019: ISTQB Testing foundation level
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