Abongile Sithole

I am a passionate Software Tester, experienced in the Agile environment - working closely with Developers, Business Analysts and Product Owners. I’m capable of working independently and as a part of a team and I’m able to accept responsibilities. My passion for software testing drives my commitment to ensuring high quality and reliable software products.

I thrive on the challenge of finding bugs and take pride in delivering software that meets the highest standards of quality. I seek an opportunity as a Test Analyst at your organization to advance my skills, work on exciting projects, solve complex challenges, and succeed in my area of expertise.

Intermediate Test Analyst at Inspired Testing (Pty) Ltd (2022-04 – 2026-03)

Client: Quilter – Client Reports (2025-06 to 2025-12). Available immediately.

• Participating in daily stand-ups, ensuring alignment with Developers, Business Analysts and the wider delivery team.
• Reviewing and analyzing both business and system requirements to ensure clear test coverage and design detailed positive and negative test cases within JIRA.
• Executing test cases, recording results, and logging defects with clear supporting evidence.
• Escalating issues where necessary to minimize delivery risk.
• Verify and re-testing after bug fixes.
• Formally closing defects once the issue is resolved.
• Conducting regression testing to protect existing functionality.

Intermediate Test Analyst at Inspired Testing (Pty) Ltd (2022-04 – 2026-03)

Cient: Shoprite – Point of Sale System (Money Market) (2024-10 to 2025-05).

• Develop and execute software test plans to identify software problems.
• Participating in daily stand-ups.
• Requesting change request document from a Business Analyst & analyze business requirement.
• Design and execute test cases.
• Testing using ALM Quality Center.
• Logging defects where applicable and escalating issues.
• Create test summary reports.
• Peer review on test plans and test summary reports.

Intermediate Test Analyst at Inspired Testing (Pty) Ltd (2022-04 – 2026-03)

Client: Old Mutual – 2pot system (2024-07 to 2024-09).

• Analyze business requirements.
• Design and execute test cases.
• Testing using Jira.
• Logging defects where applicable and escalating issues.

Intermediate Test Analyst at Inspired Testing (Pty) Ltd (2022-04 – 2026-03)

Client: Hogan Lovells (2022-06 to 2024-05).

• Develop and execute software test plans to identify software problems.
• Participating in daily standups.
• Analyze business requirements.
• Design and execute test cases.
• Logging defects where applicable and escalating issues.
• Investigate release documentation of project versions for analysis.
• Training and mentoring Junior Testers and Interns.
• Testing using Azure DevOps.
• Peer review presentations and/or demo.
• Complete training courses online for continuous development and upskilling.

Junior Test Analyst at Curo Fund Services (Pty) Ltd (2019-03 – 2022-03)

• Participating in daily standups, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Develop and execute software test plans to identify software problems and their causes.
• Execute all levels of testing including functional, integration end-to-end and regression testing.
• Develop and implement quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines and procedure for software solutions.
• Execute tests and log defects, evaluate the results and document problems found.
• Testing using Jira and Spira software testing tools.
• Assist with mentoring trainees/Interns and providing exposure.

Intern to Junior Test Analyst at EOH (2016-09 – 2019-02)

Client: Curo Fund Services

• Develop and execute software test plans to identify software problems and their causes.
• Execute all levels of testing including functional, integration end-to-end and regression testing.
• Develop and implement quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines and procedure for software solutions.
• Execute tests and log defects, evaluate the results and document problems found.
• Testing using HP Quality Center and Spira Test tools.

BTech in Information Technology – Cape Peninsula University of Technology (2017)

ND in Information Technology – Cape Peninsula University of Technology (2015)

National Senior Certificate – Kulani High School (2010)