Godley Zulu
Software Quality Engineer
Johannesburg
Summary
Software quality professional with strong expertise in ensuring high standards and delivering impactful results. Skilled in test automation, bug tracking, and debugging applications. Known for effective team collaboration and adaptability to changing requirements. Reliable and focused on achieving consistent, high-quality outcomes.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Quality Engineer
SA Taxi
01.2023 - Current
- Designed and implemented automated test scripts to enhance software quality assurance processes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve software defects efficiently.
- Conducted comprehensive testing for software releases, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
- Developed and maintained test plans, test cases, and documentation for various projects.
- Led root cause analysis meetings to drive continuous improvement in testing methodologies.
- Enhanced user experience with effective communication between cross-functional teams.
- Ensured compliance with regulatory standards through diligent documentation of test results and procedures.
Senior Test Analyst
Nedbank
11.2019 - 10.2022
- Adapting to Nedbank's New ways of working (nWoW).
- Participate in the following squad ceremonies (Daily stand ups, sprint planning, Backlog refinement, Retrospective and stakeholder Demo sessions).
- Capturing and updating testing tasks on Jira.
- Collaborate with the squad Product Owner, Automation team and UI team to ensure that the proposed changes are aligned with business and requirements. Story sizing and estimations to ensure that sprint goals are met.
- Supporting production releases by testing the changes in production on web and app platforms.
- Discuss regression scenarios with the automation team to ensure that all existing web and app functionality is fully automated.
- Test Data Management: Creating and distributing test profiles for testing. Facilitating and ensuring that performance testing is done when required. Preparing test data using API's on Postman and SOUPUI.
- Collaborated with the offshore Development team from India to discuss requirements.
- Attended demo sessions to demonstrate the new system changes being introduced.
- Exposure to test automation as part of Nedbank transformation.
- Test Lead experience in the Investment Online Squad.
- Led comprehensive test strategies to ensure software quality and compliance with banking regulations.
- Developed and executed detailed test plans for various banking applications, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Mentored junior analysts in testing methodologies, improving team performance and knowledge sharing.
- Optimized resource allocation by accurately estimating required testing effort for each project phase.
Test Analyst
Nedbank
11.2016 - 01.2019
- Participate in the following Investments squad ceremonies (Daily stand ups and Defect tracking, sprint planning, Backlog refinement & Retrospective).
- Accountable for test reports. Updating automation scripts for the NIP tool in order to execute the automated Investments functionality on the Nedbank Terminal Emulator (NTE).
- Training external vendor contractors.
- Regression defect tracking and reporting.
- Using RQM for reporting and traceability.
- Review defects identified to ensure prioritisation.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project delivery.
- Conducted thorough regression testing, ensuring system stability post-release.
- Consistently met tight deadlines while maintaining high-quality standards.
Senior Tester
Nedbank
11.2014 - 01.2016
- Training external vendor contracts.
- Regression defect tracking and reporting.
- Reviewing business requirements.
- Preparing test plans.
- Preparing and running automation scripts on the NIP automation tool.
Systems Administrator
Nedbank
11.2009 - 01.2014
- Overseeing production releases. Attending to technical user issues.
- Monitoring system performance.
- Troubleshooting, supporting, problem solving and Analysis for users.
- Managed onboarding and offboarding of employees.
- Enabled smooth transitions during hardware and software upgrades, minimizing disruptions to endusers.
- Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues.
- Led troubleshooting efforts for network issues, reducing downtime through swift resolutions.
- Developed and maintained documentation for systems and processes to streamline operations.
- Mentored junior staff on best practices in system management and troubleshooting techniques.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate new technologies, improving operational efficiency.
- Managed user access rights to maintain a high level of information security while ensuring appropriate levels of accessibility for authorized personnel.
Education
National Senior Certificate -
Athlone Boys High School
Johannesburg01-2008
Skills
- Confluence
- Test case design
- Manual testing
- Test automation frameworks
- Functional testing
- SoapUI
- Postman
- Selenium webdriver
- Javascript
- User acceptance testing
- Azure DevOps
- JIRA management
Accomplishments
Served as QA Lead for investment features on the Nedbank Money app, enhancing product quality, reducing defects, and streamlining testing processes to support faster, reliable releases.
Timeline
Software Quality Engineer
SA Taxi
01.2023 - Current
Senior Test Analyst
Nedbank
11.2019 - 10.2022
Test Analyst
Nedbank
11.2016 - 01.2019
Senior Tester
Nedbank
11.2014 - 01.2016
Systems Administrator
Nedbank
11.2009 - 01.2014
National Senior Certificate -
Athlone Boys High School