Neo Khunou
Birchleigh North
Summary
Dynamic Test Manager with a proven track record at Rand Mutual Assurance, specializing in enterprise-wide testing strategies and resource management. Expert in Selenium automation and team leadership, successfully implemented standardized testing frameworks, enhancing quality delivery and operational efficiency across multiple product streams. Passionate about driving excellence in software testing and quality assurance.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Manager (Testing Centre of Excellence)
Rand Mutual Assurance
Parktown
05.2023 - Current
- Setting up Testing Centre of Excellence for RMA enterprise, across four product streams of Rand Mutual Life, COID, VAPS and Pricing Engine
- Reporting to Group CIO on Quality Delivery and Testing Competency.
- Responsible for the formulation of Enterprise-wide testing strategy, master test plan, testing stages and testing types
- Managing and monitoring all centralised and testing initiative for functional testing, load & performance testing, penetration testing, user acceptance testing, pre-production testing and production testing
- Programme managing all testing projects, programmes and testing resources across the enterprise
- Managing the resource pool allocation of test analysts, test engineers, test leads to the test projects and programmes across the RMA Group
- Managing onsite-offshore resources for complex projects, including transition management, demand management, resource planning and identification
- Implementing the standardisation of Azure test plans for manual test case management across the development teams allocated to four streams
- Implementing Postman for API and Web services integration testing
- Migrating Test Automation capabilities from HP UFT to Selenium Web-driver
- Implementing test environment management for End-to-End testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing, Integration testing and regression testing
Quality Assurance & Test Team Leader
MineRP
Centurion
06.2012 - 04.2023
- Work closely with Product Analyst Director to contribute and implement objectives for QACOE within the Software Engineering test practices
- Work within software engineering department, with HOD and Program managers to test desktop & web applications, web services, data migration tools, data porting tools, configuration tools and platform technology upgrades that form part of our MineRP ERP application suite
- Gathering, documenting, analysing stakeholder test requirements
- Implemented Regression, Agile and Release test approaches within the Software Engineering department
- Implemented Microsoft Test Manger tool for test case, test execution, test reporting management within the Software Engineering department
- Evaluating test automation tools, to contribute to the Enterprise Automation strategy and promote the use of test automation within the Testing Team
- Implementing Robotic Process Automation for Test Automation across 6 development teams using Microsoft Power Automate
- Migrating manual testing from Microsoft Test Manager to Azure Test Plans for the entire testing team
- Established, improved, implemented QA best practises, test procedures, processes, standards, tools to align with product development and release management
- Lead a team of test analysts test our applications across the multi agile development teams and SDLC phases
- Guide the testing processes for new feature development, maintenance and patch releases
- Contribute to infrastructure capacity planning, software tools licensing, data management systems and test environment management
- Manage MineRP ERP solution major release testing cycle and grant approval for major release certification
- Documenting testing processes, procedures, test cases, test certificate and test summary reports
- Reviewing test plans, test cases, activities, deliverables, cycles
- Adopting test documentation standards, creating reusable templates
- Assist in evaluating test automation tools and frameworks
- Assist in the reviewing, development of Test Analyst, Test Automation Engineer job specifications
- Responsible for the recruitment and continuous development of testing team
Snr Analyst / Developer
Gijima
Samrand
06.2010 - 06.2012
- Assigned to the development of Mining Enterprise Systems for Sibanye Platinum, Impala Platinum, Gold Fields
- Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop well-organized project plans based on clear specifications
- Analysis of user, business, systems requirements, and solutions design for software development
- Developed system new features, enhancements, and maintenance requests for release
- Conducted source code management, version control and configuration management for own projects, products and releases
- Maintained database scripting and system data
- Packaged, deployed, and implemented software solutions to QA environment for testing
- Assisting implementation team to deploy mining integration systems to client sites
- Conducted user acceptance testing and training for end-users
- Provided implementation support for new client sites nationally
- Documented user, system and release documentation
Software Developer
Gijima
Samrand
06.2007 - 06.2012
- Assigned to the development of mining services management system, mining planning system, sampling, survey and stope observations systems
- Analysed requirements and designed, developed, and implemented software applications for multiple mining applications
- Collaborated on all stages of systems development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production releases
- Assisted in planning of development and user acceptance testing and system testing efforts
- Debugged and troubleshot production incidents for clients, solving technical issues quickly and accurately
- Built databases and table structures following architecture methodology for applications
- Maintained database scripts, T-SQL scripts and system data
- Provided demonstrations for new software features to clients
- Created user and system documentation
- Performed build management & deployment testing
IT Consultant Jnr
ALS
Sandton
02.2006 - 06.2007
- Project: Mintek SAP R3 Implementation
- Role, Jnr SAP Consultant
- Performed system documentation, business process verification and systems administration
- Project: DSTV Mobile Pilot
- Role, Data Analyst
- Performed data management, analysis & design
- Develop statistical analysis & reporting tool for client
- Project: Trans Africa Projects
- Role, IT Support Engineer
- IT service management & desktop support
- Email & network support
- SAP R3 Support
Computer Science Tutor
University Of Johannesburg
Soweto
01.2005 - 11.2005
- Reviewed computer science class material with students to support discovery of correct answers to problems
- Conducted tutorial services for students to provide academic support in C++ object-oriented programming and Oracle relational database management systems in database design, implementation and querying data
- Backed up lecturer instruction by discussing concepts and creating custom practice questions
- Assisted students with creating software applications assignments, from requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing, packaging and writing documentation
Education
Masters of Business Administration - Marketing
University of East London
United Kingdom01.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Mathematical Statistics
University of Johannesburg
Soweto01.2007
Matric - Mathematics, Physical Science, Biology, South Sotho, English, Afrikaans
Morris Isaacson High School
Soweto01.2000
Skills
- Governance Frameworks
- Regulation & Standards
- TOGAF
- COBIT
- BABOK
- ISO 9001
- ISO 27001
- EU GDPR
- Strategic Management
- Operations Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Team leadership & management
- Software Test management
- Process management
- Project management
- Business Analysis & Design
- Microsoft Office 365
- Internet & Email
- Microsoft Teams
- Skype
- Share-point
- One Drive
- Azure DevOps
- Team Foundation Server
- Microsoft Test Manager
- Microsoft Test Explorer
- Azure Test Plans
- Test-rail
- C#
- Java
- T-SQL
- Microsoft Unit Testing Framework
- Appium Automation
- Selenium Automation
- Cucumber
- Microsoft Power Automate
- RPA
- BDD / ATDD
- Microsoft Visual Studio IDE
- Tortoise SVN
- Git / Git Hub
- Azure Repos
- Postman
- Notepad
- Fiddler
- Microsoft SQL Sever
- JMeter
- Azure
- VM ware
- Windows 95 to 11
- Windows server 2008 to 2019
- SQL Server 2005 to 2019
- MS Access 2007 to 2019
- LINQPad 5 to 7
Certification
- ISQTB Advanced Agile Technical Tester, 2022, Udemy, On-line
- ISTQB Advanced Test Automation Engineer, 2020, Impimpi Technologies, Pretoria
- ISTQB Agile Foundation, 2018, ILab Quality, Sandton
- ISTQB Foundation, 2018, ILab Quality, Sandton
- Business Analysis Programme, 2012, Faculty Training Institute, Fourways
- TOGAF 9.1 Foundation & Practitioner, 2012, Faculty Training Institute, Fourways
- Azure DevOps Fundamentals, 2020, Udemy, Online training
- Appium UI Automation, 2020, Udemy, Online training
- Microsoft C# .Net, 2020, Pluralsight, Online
- Agile Bootcamp, 2010, The Agile Academy, Centurion
- Microsoft Transact SQL, 2021, LGIT Smart Solutions, Suninghill
- ISO 27001 Information Security Awareness, 2021, Udemy, Online
- ISO 9001 Quality Management System, 2021, Udemy, Online
- COBIT 2019 Foundation, 2021, Udemy, Online
Skills
TOGAF, COBIT, BABOK, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, EU GDPR, Strategic Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Team leadership & management, Software Test management, Process management, Project management, Business Analysis & Design, Microsoft Office 365, Internet & Email, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Share-point, One Drive
Accomplishments
- Received a service excellence award for implement UAT process within the RMA.
- Implemented real-time dashboard for UAT reporting.
- Successfully onboarding & training 40 business users for UAT.
Timeline
Test Manager (Testing Centre of Excellence)
Rand Mutual Assurance
05.2023 - Current
Quality Assurance & Test Team Leader
MineRP
06.2012 - 04.2023
Snr Analyst / Developer
Gijima
06.2010 - 06.2012
Software Developer
Gijima
06.2007 - 06.2012
IT Consultant Jnr
ALS
02.2006 - 06.2007
Computer Science Tutor
University Of Johannesburg
01.2005 - 11.2005
Masters of Business Administration - Marketing
University of East London
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Mathematical Statistics
University of Johannesburg
Matric - Mathematics, Physical Science, Biology, South Sotho, English, Afrikaans
Morris Isaacson High School
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