Benjamin Lewis

Empowering Teams & Driving Project Frameworks to Deliver High-Quality Products.

Professional Agile facilitator committed to driving team success and delivering high-value projects. Proven track record in guiding teams through Agile transformations and optimising workflows to enhance productivity. Known for having a strong focus on collaboration and adaptability to evolving project needs, ensuring consistent achievement of goals.

• SASM, SAFe 6.0, 07/01/24
• CAPM, PMI, 07/01/24
• Financial Analysis, 365 Careers, 01/01/25

• User story refinement, collaborating with the whole team to understand & define acceptance criteria for each story.
• Creating a high-level plan, test strategy, & regularly updating it.
• Enabling in-built testing by writing test cases with the product owner & the team for each story, utilising automation where possible.
• Continually testing and integrating new batches into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Exploring as a team where the product is facing challenges aside from what the automated test data is showing & brainstorming solutions.
• Keeping a clear record of where the bugs are within the feature & tracking this within the stack or user stories.
• Allowing regression testing before the sprint review & demo to show results to relevant stakeholders.
• Demonstrating the new product features to the stakeholders.
• Forming a retrospective for further refinements and summarising the sprint test results and lessons learned at the feature's release.

• Facilitated PI planning with stakeholders to define business needs, create wireframes, and align deliverables with strategic goals.
• Authored project charters, risk/budget plans, and DevOps designs to clarify scope and resource allocation.
• Drove 30% improvement in delivery metrics by implementing Agile/Scrum, optimising sprint planning, and hosting iterative demos.
• Shielded teams from scope creep, reducing errors by 15% through Lean principles and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) coaching.
• Orchestrated end-to-end testing (unit, integration, UAT) using Jira/X-Ray, enabling remote teams to track progress in real time.
• Reduced post-release defects by 20% via rigorous test automation and CI/CD pipeline visualisation (Miro).
• Maintained SDLC artifacts (PI Board, Kanban board, stakeholder registers, closure reports) to ensure audit compliance.

• Mr. Victor Kawelenga, Digital Banking Leader & Portfolio Manager, kawelengav@gmail.com, 0829735486, Kawelenga Victor | LinkedIn
• Mrs. Michelle Phipson, Head of Business Development & Strategy, michellep@cando.co.za, 0842220607, Michelle Phipson | LinkedIn