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Thato Qhusheka

Cape Town

Summary

Seasoned QA Engineer with almost a decade experience on Banking and Gaming Industry. I specialise in end-to-end automation for both legacy and modern system as well as API (SOAP & REST) using the POM pattern. I have a sharp eye for details and work well with Developers and Business Analysts to insure better product performance and great user experience.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Enginee

Voss
Cape Town, Western Cape
09.2020 - Current

I have been with Voss Solutions for six years and have been entrusted with the responsibilities below.

  • Liaising with Product Owners and Developers to achieve the best quality in our product.
  • Transforming requirements into a test strategy.
  • Creating test cases and test scripts.
  • Testing and automating the below UC apps.

1. Microsoft Apps (Teams, Azure).

2. Webex applications.

3. Zoom.

  • Testing Cisco Unified Communications Manager core capabilities and deployment models.
  • Enhancing the in-house API test framework.
  • Monitoring and improving our QA Nightly builds (QA Pipelines).

QA Engineer

iLAB (Pty) Ltd
06.2019 - 08.2020
  • Design and implementation of a Test Automation Framework using Java, Gradle, TestNG, and Jenkins.
  • Research and offer IT solutions in software testing.
  • Responsible for coding test scripts and CI/CD orchestration.
  • Analysis and Planning Test Automation Framework.
  • Responsible for feature and regression testing at ABSA Bank in the Forex Trading Team.
  • Extended the Robot Framework testing for the ABSA Forex Trading Team.
  • Tested the mobile app functionality for ABSA Forex trading.

QA Engineer

Digital Outsource Services
03.2018 - 05.2019
  • Developed, updated and maintained test automation framework C#, MS Build, NUnit & TeamCity.
  • Performed Load & API Testing.
  • Conducted training and tech session to improve team's technically capability.
  • Collaborated with team to define business requirements for testing framework development.
  • Creating cypress automation scripts for both Front End and back end
  • Responsible for test scripts coding and CI/CD orchestration.

Software Automation Consultant

SQIM
10.2017 - 02.2018
  • Automated business processes using MS Work Certify.
  • Collaborated with team to define business requirements for testing framework development.
  • Performed manual testing.

SQA Engineer

Viamedia
01.2017 - 09.2017
  • Performed API testing.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
  • Developed both Web and Mobile Testing Framework using RobotFramework.

SQA Engineer

DVT
06.2016 - 12.2016
  • Developed automation scripts using Company Framework using java.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 2 weeks and well-organized sprints.
  • Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.

Software Tester Intern

Coega Development Corporation
03.2015 - 05.2016
  • Performed manual testing.
  • Developed unit tests in C#.
  • Wrote SQL queries.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - IT: Software Development

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Skills

Front-end Test Automation

  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Cypress
  • Playwright
  • Cucumber for BDD Framework
  • Appium for mobile automation
  • Robot Framework

API testing and automation

  • Rest assured
  • Karate
  • Postman and Swagger
  • JMeter for load testing

CI/CD

  • Jenkins
  • TeamCity
  • Azure DevOps

Personal Information

Title: SQA Engineer

Websites, Portfolios and Profiles

www.linkedin.com/in/thatoqhusheka

Timeline

QA Enginee

Voss
09.2020 - Current

QA Engineer

iLAB (Pty) Ltd
06.2019 - 08.2020

QA Engineer

Digital Outsource Services
03.2018 - 05.2019

Software Automation Consultant

SQIM
10.2017 - 02.2018

SQA Engineer

Viamedia
01.2017 - 09.2017

SQA Engineer

DVT
06.2016 - 12.2016

Software Tester Intern

Coega Development Corporation
03.2015 - 05.2016

Bachelor's Degree - IT: Software Development

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Thato Qhusheka