Sanele Ngcobo

Experience

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  SQS Group

  Oct 2008 - May 2009

  Functional testing of User Help Manuals in the areas of language translation, navigation and comparative equivalence across base and translated file sets.Functional testing of web embedded Flash gaming software.Use of test management tool Testlink to record test case scripts, their executions and the executions’ results.Utilizing Derivco's Defect Tracking System to log, view and report defectsUtilizing in House built Test and Query Tracker (TAQT) for viewing tests, recording defects and viewing defects. Using Web Debugging Proxy to test the performance of web embedded Flash gaming software. Show less

  • Load and Performance tester :contracted to (A & O )

    Dec 2008 - May 2009

  • Load and Performance Tester

    Nov 2008 - Nov 2008

  • Functional tester - Consultant : Derivco

    Sept 2007 - Nov 2008

  • Load and performance tester :Bupa (Client of SQS-SA)

    Oct 2008 - Oct 2008
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  JSE Limited

  Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  System Test Analyst :Contracted by SQS-SA

  Creating System Testing Requirements from functional Specification Document Reviewing of system testing requirementsCreating Sanity test scenariosUnderstanding of trading business rules Running daily trading operational processesCreating system testing test cases and scenarios in Quality CenterCreating system integration test cases and scenarios in Quality CenterCreating system regression test packs

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  SBV

  Jun 2010 - Jan 2012

  Test analyst

  As a consultant from SQS-SA one of the projects that I learnt a tremendous amount of experience was working at the Johannesburg stock exchangeWorking as a team and having to proved that the training and experience I had attained was ready for a major cooperate environment, my duties included.Testing the statistics reports for tradesTesting Trade information and reports Testing trading software and customer back end systems

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  Derivco

  Jan 2012 - Mar 2015

  Automation Test engineer

  Analyze test cases Create Automated test cases for system testing and regression testingCreate SQL scripts to verify data through automation testing processMaintenance of automated test scripts Technical testing

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  MultiChoice

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2015

  Automation/Technical Test Analyst : Contracted by external company

  Clarity: Customer and call center management system Created manual test cases for sprint related work Updated regression tests Maintained and updated API tests written in C# built on Nunit framework Created Oracle and sql queries for data testingTech: C#, Nunit, Selenium, Oracle, SVN

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  Rand Merchant Bank

  Oct 2015 - Aug 2018

  Senior Technical Basel Testing Lead

  Technical Testing for Market Risk reporting Basel Reporting.Analyze data and processesTest changes to Production environment Test process flows with Control-MTest data flows with InformaticaTest data integrity via Multiple databases System testing of multiple web solutions to the banking environment.Offer solutions to other teams into their testing processes.Enhance automated tests to suited changing applicationsPlan testing strategies with management to ensure testing processes are covered in all the implementation of projects. Show less

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  Nedbank

  Oct 2018 - Dec 2019

  Created automated Api tests using Karate Dsl on an e-cash systemsPaired with developers to develop automated tests Nedbank - Branch LocatorLed test team to test strategy for branch locator Created automated tests to scan through branch data via APIs Lead QA for this project testing Analysed process flows and user journeys Created manual test cases Created automated API tests using Karate DSL Ran bug resolution meetings on daily basisCreated test reports and progress updates Provide test reports and recommendation on quality of the productUse postman and other API functional testing toolsCreate Selenium automation frameworksTech : Java, Postman, Karate, Selenium

  • QA Engineer - AVO

    Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

  • QA Engineer : Branch Locator

    Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

  • QA Test Engineer -Nedbank - Stokvel USSD

    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
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  Equal Experts

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

  QA Engineer: contracted to Kobo

  Client: KoboCreated automated tests with Karate & PostmanCreated video tutorials for API test automation

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  Equal Experts

  Jun 2020 - now

  Springer Nature (London) -QA engineerJan 2022 - PresentLead Functional testing activities within the SNAPPEE team.Create automated tests where neededPair with developers during development and automated testsDemo new working software QA engineer testing flagship web applicationsCreating test cases for system testingRegression testing across multiple browsersWriting automated tests using Javascript and cypressCreated performance tests with Gatling Snr technical testing consultant ,mentorthat does all kinds of testing has delivered and impressed across the board from application quality standards ,technical testing ,test automation ,functional testing ,integration layer test automation and performance testing

  • QA Engineer: contracted to SpringerNature

    Apr 2022 - now

  • QA Engineer :contracted to John Lewis

    Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Technical Test Consultant : contracted to OLD Mutual

    Jun 2020 - Mar 2021