Lwazi Radebe

QA Lead and Project Coordinator with 2+ years of experience owning the full software quality lifecycle. Stepped up to stabilise and lead Enbaya's QA function after the QA manager, development manager, and senior tester departed — operating solo under direct C-suite oversight before rebuilding the team through hands-on mentorship. Introduced process improvements that reduced defect rates, accelerated resolution times, and strengthened communication between development and business.

Growing expertise in test automation using Python and Playwright.

QA Engineer at Enbaya Prepaid Meters (2024-02 – Present)

Own end-to-end QA across 20+ concurrent projects — from requirements to production sign-off. Report directly to CEO and CFO; maintained full quality continuity after three senior team members departed.

• Own end-to-end QA across 20+ concurrent projects — from requirements to production sign-off.
• Report directly to CEO and CFO; maintained full quality continuity after three senior team members departed.
• Coordinate projects: investigate issues, design and execute test suites, and present findings to stakeholders.
• Resolve critical production incidents with root-cause analysis and fix coordination under pressure.
• Reduced defect backlog by systematically closing outstanding tickets, including pre-employment issues.
• Lowered overall bug rates by establishing structured release quality standards.
• Introduced AI-assisted test case generation to improve coverage and eliminate blind spots.
• Eliminated requirements misalignment through direct stakeholder communication and formal UAT.
• Provisioned QA team with direct Jenkins access, enabling testing at any hour without developer dependency.
• Established release documentation standards (How-To guides) that reduced post-deployment support queries.
• Onboarded and mentored junior tester from zero experience to independent execution; provide daily guidance.
• Contributed to strategic planning and technical specification reviews with senior leadership.

Business Intelligence Intern at Sanlam (2022-06 – 2023-05)

Cleaned and restructured external datasets for PowerBI dashboards. Built and presented interactive dashboards for business insights.

• Cleaned and restructured external datasets for PowerBI dashboards.
• Built and presented interactive dashboards for business insights.
• Performed data mapping across multiple sources to ensure accuracy.

Learnership Participant – Data & Software Development at Umuzi (2021-01 – 2022-05)

Completed 15-month learnership in IT System Development (Python, SQL, HTML/CSS, Jupyter Notebook). Applied skills in data wrangling, cleaning, visualisation and web scraping on real-world projects.

• Completed 15-month learnership in IT System Development (Python, SQL, HTML/CSS, Jupyter Notebook).
• Applied skills in data wrangling, cleaning, visualisation and web scraping on real-world projects.

National Certificate in Information Technology (System Development) – Umuzi (2021 – 2022)

National Senior Certificate – Primrose High School (2014 – 2018)