Joseph Thambi

13+ years of extensive experience in Information Technology with in-depth knowledge of business processes in Investments & Finance, and Telecommunications. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing Life Cycle, concepts, and methods of testing. Experienced in Agile methodology, working with Scrums and Sprints.

Proficient in UFT (Unified Functional Testing) with VBScript for legacy application automation and regression suites. Skilled in Selenium WebDriver for functional and regression automation testing, building robust frameworks with JavaScript. Hands-on expertise with Playwright for end-to-end web automation testing, including cross-browser validation, parallel execution, and CI/CD integration.

Worked with Quality Centre 11.5/9.0 ALM for Test Management, Test Plans, Test Lab, and Defect Management; also experienced with Team Foundation Server (TFS). Skilled in Quality Manager, Clear Quest, and Microsoft Test Manager. Broad background in QA methodologies, defining and implementing testing strategies, scenarios, procedures, QC & UAT.

Led testing teams, test plans, test strategies, test procedures, and test management activities.

Senior Manual/Automation Test Analyst - Old Mutual CPT - Pinelands Cape Town

(2023-09)

Personal Finance Operations Project and Correspondence. The product calculation process ensures that the system has calculated the premium and commissions correctly as per system requirement. The calculation is based on things like age, education, industry, pay-out amount, inflation, products chosen etc.

Also ensures that the premium generated matches the expected premium amount, ensuring CAPI and SACI premium projections for the OMP and GL Migration products. For Savings and Investment products, ensures that EAC projections and adviser remuneration, and replacement product details projections are calculated as per product business requirements.

• Executed manual test scripts for functional verification, Product quotes, applications process and interface flow as per the business rules
• Automations support for analyse the model points data and product gaps, ensuring the underwritings and re-insurance fulfilment for OMP products
• Worked on manual transactions process for sales and issue the policy, policy endorsements transactions, batch run process for payments
• Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status
• Documents all problems and assists in their resolution
• Reporting to Management for daily status
• Analyse requirements and identify test cases for automation
• Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts
• Build and manage test frameworks
• Execute automated test suites and debug failures
• Log and track defects, collaborate with developers
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Generate reports and document results
• Update and maintain scripts as applications evolve

Senior Manual and Automation Test Analyst - Old Mutual CPT - Pinelands Cape Town

(2020-06 - 2023-08)

Money Management Project CMoS. The purpose of the Money Solution is to provide a standardized stream between various OM business systems on the one hand, and the various money channels on the other hand. The CMoS solution serves a wide variety of money needs, ranging from straightforward instructions to a bank or payroll to collect an amount from the bank account or the employer payroll of an OM client to specialized collections and disbursement needs that require sophisticated interventions or real-time interactions with complex channels to execute the money instruction as well as the matching process required for Push Payments, Stop Orders, Debit Orders, and Disbursements.

GL Migration project also started from YM to CMOS.

• Automation Framework from scratch and Test Automation script writing
• Test Script preparation, Integrations testing executions
• Scope and create functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment and presenting all work output in an accurate, well documented and professional manner to eventually be signed-off post execution and analysis of test results
• Initially clarifying the scope of the work at a high level and then to get into the detail by problem solving, understanding issues and driving out answers to issues
• High attention to detail to identify potential risk areas by knowing the business very well and have a thorough understanding of the drivers of business value
• Work closely with the business, prod and other business teams to clarify testing requirements and outputs
• Thoroughly understand the business processes and re-engineer test processes where required, in order to gain operational and cost efficiencies
• Participate in reviews of requirement specifications, to ensure sufficient testing scenarios are created to provide the coverage required and to eliminate defects early on
• Ensuring appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications are being used throughout every piece of testing
• Generate testing reports based on the testing progress during a sprint and presenting it to external stakeholders
• Effectively communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences to mitigate business risk
• Liaise with an external organisation to co-ordinate collaborative testing occur

Lead Senior Technical Test Analyst - TFG Head Office

(2018-10 - 2020-05)

Senior Technical Test Analyst - Old Mutual CPT

(2015-02 - 2018-09)

Software Test Analyst/Team Lead - MTN Gallo Manor JNB

(2012-09 - 2015-01)

Specialist Software Testing - MTN JNB

(2010-09 - 2012-08)

Tester - Telkom PTA

(2009-01 - 2010-08)

Bookkeeper Accounting fem - TAG Africa ING

(2006-07 - 2008-11)

Matric - Don Bosco Tamil Nadu High School (1995)

B.Com - Commerce - Osmania University - India (2000)

Diploma - Computer Applications - Vijayawada Computers India (2001)

Diploma - .Net & ASP.Net - BSS Computers Chennai India (2010)