Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Personal Information
Certification
Career Enhancing Courses
Languages
References
Timeline
Nontobeko Owami Shoba

Nontobeko Owami Shoba

Summary

Detail-oriented IT Software Developer Cum Laude graduate with a commitment to learning and over 2 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering. Skilled in both manual and automated testing, with hands-on experience in bug tracking and quality assurance practices. I’m comfortable identifying and resolving software issues, ensuring projects are delivered smoothly and on time. I enjoy being part of Agile and Scrum teams, where I can contribute to improving processes and overall product quality. Known for being adaptable and dependable, I work well with cross-functional teams and take pride in maintaining strong standards for software performance and reliability.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Software Quality Assurance Analyst

ILab Quality
11.2024 - Current

Client: Vodacom

  • Provided QA services for Vodacom projects, including test case design, execution, and defect tracking.
  • Gained hands-on-experience Vodacom's framework, which utilizes spring boot and selenium within IntelliJ environment.
  • Accelerated issue resolution through detailed documentation of steps to reproduce reported defects, enabling developers to quickly understand and fix problems encountered during testing phases.
  • Participated actively in Agile Scrum meetings, consistently meeting sprint goals and contributing valuable insights during planning sessions.
  • Boosted customer satisfaction by conducting end-to-end user acceptance testing on all new Vodacom products.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.

Software Quality Engineer

Batsamayi Software Development
06.2023 - 10.2024

Client: LexisNexis

  • Designed, developed, executed, and maintained functional, system and regression test scripts, both manual and automation.
  • Collaborated with software developers, business analysts and stakeholders throughout the software lifecycle to ensure software design and functionality expectations remain aligned.
  • Created test plans with input from peers inclusive of planning for test automation, scalability and performance testing.
  • Assisted with process improvement and compliance to deliver high-quality software products and services successfully and consistently on a timely basis.
  • Performed Automation tests using Cypress and Selenium.
  • Conducted API testing using Postman.
  • Tested the Vulnerabilities of the system (Zap Scan).


Education

Diploma - Information Technology, Software Development

Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
04-2023
  • Predicted Grade: First Class
  • Awarded Merit for 2021 Academic Year
  • Graduate Pass Awarded on Cum Laude
  • GPA: 81%
  • E-Tutoring System, Built using Asp.Net MVC - Final Year Project 2022

Matric -

Umlazi Commercial High School, Durban, South Africa
11-2017

Skills

  • Professional Skills
  • Cooperative
  • Dedicated
  • Dependable
  • Reliable
  • Versatile
  • Responsible
  • Attention to details
  • Technical Skills
  • Manual Software Testing
  • Automation Testing
  • Test Case design
  • Agile Methodology
  • SQL
  • Software development life cycle
  • Net Framework
  • C#
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Tools
  • Cypress
  • Jira
  • PostMan
  • Azure DevOps
  • Selenium
  • Fork & Git
  • OWASP Zap

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth : 2000-06-25
  • ID Number : 0006251123086
  • Gender : Female
  • Ethnicity : African
  • Title : Associate Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Certification

  • Yes4Youth Software Quality Engineer

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification, Amazon Web Services

Career Enhancing Courses

  • ISTQB Certified tester, Udemy
  • Automation Testing Selenium, Udemy


Languages

English
Zulu

References

AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.

Timeline

Associate Software Quality Assurance Analyst - ILab Quality
11.2024 - Current
Software Quality Engineer - Batsamayi Software Development
06.2023 - 10.2024
Nelson Mandela University - Diploma, Information Technology, Software Development
Umlazi Commercial High School - Matric,
Nontobeko Owami Shoba