Ashiel Ramroop

• QA Lead for multiple projects running concurrently within the global organization. QA Lead for the Cloud Compute/Migration project, where we migrated 133 applications from on-premise servers to AWS and Azure landing zones. This included 221 environment instances, i.e., Production, Development, and Testing.

Test lead across multiple projects.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the QA delivery for each application under Cloud Migration and Cloud Transformation.
• Working closely with the cloud architect and project manager during the migration cutover.
• Coordination of all UAT for all applications under test.
• Lead testing on all applications during AWS EC2 instance migration.
• Assuming all test lead responsibilities on multiple projects.
• QA Change Control Management, i.e., leading the weekly change control process and QA activities, ensuring multiple project/application change requests are approved and submitted for the weekly CAB meeting.
• Co-ordination of QA change management across the global landscape at Brambles.
• Mentoring, guiding, and performance appraisals for QA team members.

During my 12 years of employment with Expleo Group, I have been in a position of leadership for many client projects. An extensive list of clients can be viewed on my LinkedIn profile.

Key Overall Responsibilities:

• Management of the Expleo team at the client site, i.e., consultant performance, promotional reviews, consultant feedback, consultant mentoring, and quarterly consultant reviews.
• Weekly reporting to Expleo management via email updates, Skype meetings, and telephonic updates.
• Monitoring the team's performance to ensure any escalations are caught and resolved prior to being raised to the client.
• Team planning and work allocation, i.e., communicate new resource requests to the delivery manager, and resource allocation on the client site. Resource planning with the test manager, screening candidates, and reviewing skill sets.
• Liaise and report on the project status.
• Coordinate testing of the application under test by controlling and monitoring test preparation, test execution, reporting, planning, defect management, and sign-off.
• Managing the team in Dublin, i.e., Annual Leave, Sick Leave, etc.
• Communicates new resource requests to the delivery manager, resource allocation.
• Team lead and test lead for the offshore team, i.e. Managing the team in both South Africa and Ireland, specifically regarding annual leave, sick leave, etc.
• Document assessment and reviewing, i.e. Business requirements document, functional requirements specification document, technical specification documents, use case.
• Creating all major testing documentation, i.e., Test Policy, Test Strategy, Test Approach.
• Guiding the team on industry standards and best practices.