Thembisile Sontlaka
Software Engineer
City of Johannesburg
Summary
A Software Engineer who is passionate about continuous learning. With over a year of hands-on work experience, complemented by a rigorous academic program at WeThinkCode_, that simulated real-world work environments. I aim to leverage my skills in technology to contribute meaningfully to software development projects.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Software Engineer Intern
Vodacom
04.2023 - Current
- Contributed in developing an application powered by LLM technology using Python.
- I used the LangChain framework, which allowed for easy integration of components that we needed such as LLM's, vector stores, embedding models and retrievers.
- I built an interactive web interface to demo the LLM application using Gradio.
- I transitioned to the QAE squad where I worked as a QA for teams, utilising our QA processes.
- I ran manual, automated, performance, regression, end-to-end testing on different environments.
- For each sprint, I created test plans on Confluence. I also created and tracked Test Cases, and logged Defects on Jira.
- I used our framework written in Python to create and run automated test, using the Cucumber BDD approach.
- Used Git as our version control and GitLab as our host.
- Automated API testing, Web testing and Mobile testing. I used tools such as Selenium (Web) and Appium (Mobile).
- Worked on rolling out the mobile automation on our framework for different teams to work on.
- Participated in weekly demo sessions to showcase code and other contributions made.
Technical Mentor
WeThinkCode_
09.2022 - 12.2022
- Assisted mentees on understanding erros, how to debug and troubleshoot problems.
- Conducted weekly retrospectives to understand where mentees felt were their strengths and weakness and how they would approve.
- Ran weekly workshops to explain concepts.
- Set daily designated hours to provide assistance and to view team dynamics and encourage knowledge sharing and code pairing amongst mentees.
- Conducted pecha kuchas, to build mentees confidence when it comes to presentation skills.
Education
NQF Level 5 Information Technology: Systems Development -
WeThinkCode_
09.2021 - 12 2022
Programme in Enterprise and Technology Management -
North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
05.2023 - 12 2023
NQF Level 5 Business Management -
Regent Business School
01.2020 - 12 2020
National Senior Certificate - undefined
Athlone Girls High School
01.2014 - 12 2018
Skills
Python (Programming Language)
Test Automation
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
Cucumber
Selenium
Appium
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Git
Java
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Javascript
HTMl
CSS
React
Agile
SQL
JQuery
Maven
Docker
Test Planning
Test Design
Certification
Graph Developer - Associate - Apollo GraphQL, 158c57df-b272-4fc0-9718-a9dd6082c526
Timeline
Programme in Enterprise and Technology Management -
North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
05.2023 - 12 2023
Software Engineer Intern
Vodacom
04.2023 - Current
Technical Mentor
WeThinkCode_
09.2022 - 12.2022
NQF Level 5 Information Technology: Systems Development -
WeThinkCode_
09.2021 - 12 2022
NQF Level 5 Business Management -
Regent Business School
01.2020 - 12 2020
National Senior Certificate - undefined
Athlone Girls High School
01.2014 - 12 2018