Information Technology Automation Test

Location:

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Posted:

April 16, 2025

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CURRICULUM VITAE

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: GEORGE POOE

Nationality: South African

Gender: Male

Race: Black

Current Location: 16 Garden Lane Brompton Bend, Parklands Cape Town

Driver’s license Code 8/B

Languages: English, Afrikaans, North Sotho, and Zulu

Credit backlisting: None

Criminal Offences: None

Contacts: 082-***-****

E-mail **********@*****.***

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Course: National Diploma in Information Technology (Support services)

Institute: Tshwane University of Technology

Course: B Sc (Hons) in Business Information Technology

Institute: University of Greenwich (United Kingdom)

Course: International Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies (IT)

Institute: CTI

Course: International Diploma in Computer Studies (IT)

Institute: CTI

Course: Networking/Subnetting/Perl/Servers

Institute: Sintrex Integration Services (Skills Development Programme)

Course: ISTQB Foundation Level

Institute: SASTQB

Course: ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Level

Institute: SASTQB

Automation Test Tools that I have experience with

•TestComplete(VBscript)

•LoadComplete(I did a Proof of Concept for Capitec Bank)

•SoapUI

•MIMIC Simulation Environment (for Device and Network simulation)

•Selenium(java)

•LoadUI

•GNS3(for Device and Network simulation)

•Postman

•Eggplant

•UFT

•Cypress (JavaScript)

•Robot Framework

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Company: Teya Group

Period: September 2022 to date

Position Held: Principal QA Engineer

Company: Universal Health Group

Period: Feb 2021 to Sep 2022

Position Held: Technical Test Specialist/Lead

Company: Clicks Group

Period: May 2019 to Jan 2021

Position Held: Technical Test Team Lead

Company: Achievement Awards Group

Period: April 2017 to April 2019

Position Held: QA Team Lead

Company: Shoprite Group of Companies

Period: January 2017 to March 2017

Position Held: Acting Automation Test Lead

Company: Shoprite Group of Companies

Period: June 2016 to March 2017

Position Held: Automation Banking Test Analyst

Company: Capitec Bank

Period: September 2015 to May 2016

Position Held: Automation Test Analyst

Company: Sintrex Integration Services

Period: July 2014 to August 2015

Position Held: Test Analyst

Company: Pick ‘n Pay

Period: November 2007 to January 2014

Position Held: Floor Salesperson

RELEVANT SKILLS AT COMPANIES

Teya Group: September 2022 – June 2023

Responsible for task allocation and management of test analysts' deliverables based on sprint planning.

Enhance quality and testing efficiency through the implementation of automation techniques.

Drive the execution of the testing strategy and ensure its successful implementation.

Provide training or recommendations on testing tools and methodologies to test analysts.

Establish, maintain, and enforce quality assurance benchmarks.

Conduct system integration testing.

Determine appropriate test metrics and measurements for both deliverables and the Testing team.

Analyze and generate comprehensive test requirements and scenarios that align with acceptance criteria of user stories.

Create and maintain test environments for efficient testing and evaluation during sprint cycles, continually evolving test plans.

Develop and maintain a repository of test plans, incorporating deliverables and reporting timelines.

Communicate test results and status to relevant stakeholders.

Manage and foster the growth of the testing team.

Track and report software defects.

Establish, maintain, and implement test automation processes.

Mentor and guide test analysts.

Develop a test plan for each deliverable.

Universal Health Group: Feb 2021- September 2022

My duties include the following:

•Lead the Test Maturity initiative by implementing the TMMI Framework.

•Lead the Test automation initiative and implement it in the company.

•Be the voice and enabler of Test Automation.

•Implement and manage Test Management Tools

•Write Test Cases

•Write Test Plans

•Champion the Test Policy and Test Strategy

•Write Test Reports

•Execute manual Test Cases.

Clicks Group: May 2019- Jan 2021

My duties include the following:

• Be a hands-on contributing member of the Quality Assurance leadership team to foster continuous quality practices, adoption of best practices, risk management and cost reduction across the enterprise

• Providing technical leadership in facilitating the adoption of a continuous testing and DevOps culture across the organization and specifically in the QA department. Provide the vision and technical leadership to develop and evolve next generation automation frameworks and testing harnesses across the enterprise and be seen as a thought leader in the testing community

• Be a vocal champion and enabler of Automation, Agile testing practices, Lean Software Development

• Facilitating the testing leadership team to implement quality engineering processes and standards across the enterprise

• Provide technical leadership for establishing automation enablers including test data creation / mocking

• Assisting with the setting up and configuration of build and test environments

Achievement Awards Group: 2017- April 2019

My duties include the following:

Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.

Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.

Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.

Lead and mentor QA team members.

Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated

Shoprite Group of Companies June 2016 -March 2017

My duties include the following:

Define and lead the definition of a global testing vision and strategy, including process roadmaps, policies, procedures and standards for the Testing Domain

Define the end to end test framework, associated processes and standards in support of business transformation programs and all project types

Manage and coordinate the Testing Domain, community of interest, process improvement and standardization

Define and maintain domain governance model

Devise and execute an effective domain communications plan to raise awareness of initiatives and promote cultural adoption of best practice

Provide consulting support and education to staff to promote effective implementation of best practice(Automation Forum)

Serve as 1st line support for the team. Test defects raised by internal and external clients to validate defects.

Create defects with appropriate replication steps in the internal change control system.

Review functional and design stories to ensure full understanding of individual deliverable's at the start of each sprint.

Develop, document and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation etc.

Plan and execute regular regression cycles for software releases. Record results in testing software and ensure that defects are logged and communicated.

Identify areas that can be automated

Ensure that release notes are up to date for each story / task completed in a sprint.

Participate in story time with the business analyst and technical lead / architect in refining the product backlog and high level estimations.

Working collaboratively as part of an Agile development team:

Deliver according to the Definition of Done requirement.

Collaborating with the Development Project Manager, Product Owner, Architects, Developers and Business Analysts as required.

Support the development process by assisting with the QA estimation to deliver a story in a sprint.

Participate in planning meetings.

Participate in Sprint Planning Development Cycles every 2 weeks.

Participate in the Daily Standup meetings

Do POC's for automation test tools

API Testing

java scripting(TestComplete)

SQL back end testing

Certification Testing

Capitec Bank: September 2015 to May 2016

My duties include the following:

vb scripting using an Automation Tool called TestComplete

Responsible for the developing and executing automated test scripts.

Responsible for maintaining and extending the existing automation suite of test tools.

Identify test automation needs and develop automated scripts / test cases to cover gaps according to test automation plan.

Assist QA Manager in developing test automation plans.

Development of tools and utilities required to assist the testing team.

Preservation of the test ware.

Converting current manual test case base to automated tests.

Study and adhere to quality assurance (QA) practices of the Technology Department to ensure that new product and software releases meet documentation / signoff requirements as well as stakeholder expectations.

Identify constraints that may and do reduce work output and plan for the rectification of these constraints. Inform relevant stakeholders of constraints that cannot be rectified independently within a reasonable period of time.

Identify and rectify any causes of delays / failure to successfully complete testing requirements.

Investigate and share opportunities to improve testing productivity, processes and procedures with QA Team.

Liaise with internal and external development parties.

Definition and preparation of test data.

Creation of the test cases and scripts to be used in test automation.

Test-script configuration management and test execution following agreed requirements and acceptance criteria.

Logging outcomes and verifying test execution.

Logging and managing defects.

Reporting on test outcomes and providing execution statistics.

Reporting of testing progress and status

Sintrex Integration Services: July 2014 to August 2015

My duties include the following:

Manual Testing

Automation Testing(Selenium, LoadUI and SoapUI)

Simulate Networks (MIMIC Simulation Environment and GNS3)

Create specification and supporting documents.

Review Software requirements

Preparation/maintenance of software test plans

Preparation test Reports

Managing the MIMIC Simulation Environment

Test Case Development

Please see Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXl4PkV1na0

PICK ‘N PAY: November 2007 to January 2014

My duties include the following:

Identify Customer’s Needs, explaining about products, pricing function and Product advisor. Assist in Overseeing the administration and maintenance of computer stations and software for company training programs and the Learning Studio, Interacts with internal clients on all levels to help resolve related issues and provide answers in a timely manner, Identify and report information to company management, and Ensures that company assets are maintained responsibly.

REFERENCES

•Ms Ntombi Mbatha (Audio Visual Manager)

Company - Pick ‘n Pay

011-***-**** (cell number)072-***-****

•Mr.Vijen Pillay

Audio Visual Manager

Pick ‘n Pay

011 628 000(cell number)/082*******

•Dr. Liz Bacon

Head of School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.

The University of Greenwich

+44 (0-20-833*-****