Oyanda Tabang Kona

I am qualified QA tester who has worked on across multiple industries such as finance, payment platforms and fleet management I have worked in both Waterfall and Agile environment and form an integral part of any testing team. I would like to complete further studies including User Experience and eventually move into a User Research Designer.

Software tester - Yoco Technologies

(2020-02)

Reporting to: QA LEAD. Team size 5 including 1 BA, 1 QA, 1 Tech lead and 2 Software testers. Business partners: Developers. Tools: Clubhouse, Segments and Notion. Testing type: regression testing, mobile testing, user acceptance testing, functional testing. Platform: mobile and web.

• Analyzing business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Analyze and define testcases according to the test requirement.
• Perfoming manual testing for testing functionality and GUI of the application
• Provide testing feedback to the development team during stand-up.
• Executing and documenting testcases

Software tester - iOCO

(2018-10 - 2020-01)

Reporting to: Project Manager. Team size: Five people including Business Analyst, Software tester, Project Manager and two Developers. Business partners: Developers and business stakeholders. Tools: Team Foundation Server (TFS).

• Analyzing the system requirement specification
• Perform system testing, regression, functional and regression testing of the application.
• Document defects that are found during the testing phase and reporting them to the software developers in order to be resolved.
• Attend walkthroughs and daily scrum meetings with business analyst, project manager and developers.
• Siigning off project after completion of testing.

Software tester - Mix Telematics

(2017-06 - 2018-09)

Reporting to: Test Manager. Team size: 8 UAT Software Testers. Business Partners: Product Owners, Software developers. Tools: Jira. Testing type: regression and integration test, stress, and load testing as well user acceptance testing. Platforms: Mobile applications: Android & iOS.

• Perform manual front end functional testing.
• Create & execute test cases in Jira
• Log, re-test bugs Jira and provide feedback to the development team.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Project Managers to gain better understanding of system for test scenarios to be tested.
• Develop software test specification, test reports and validation protocols for unit, integration and performance testing.

Software tester - Prodigy Finance

(2016-05 - 2017-05)

Reporting to: Development Manager. Team size: Six people including: Product owner, 2 Software testers and 3 Developers. Tools: Jira Zephry, Semaphore. Testing type: System, smoke, integration, regression and usability. Environment: Agile.

• Deployment to testing environment & production.
• Performed manual testing to test functionality and GUI of the application.
• Performed thorough testing of the application with bug reporting and tracking until they are closed using Jira.
• Attended daily scrum meetings and collaborated with developers.
• Test Case: Planning, compiling, recording, review, testing and retesting
• Compiled user stories for features to be tested.

Software tester - Dynamic visual technologies

(2015-01 - 2016-04)

Reporting to: QA Competency Lead. Team size: 5 QA Interns. Tools: Testlink, Jira, and Trello, Selenium IDE. Testing type: retesting, confirmation, exploratory. Environment: Agile.

• Participating in project phases.
• Collaborate with development engineering team.
• Present Testing topic
• Participate in requirement review and understand feature development.
• Preform different kinds of testing.
• Documenting and monitoring software defects and resolution using a bug tracker
• Perform test analysis, design, implementation, and execution.
• Validate logged bugs.
• Setting up of testing equipment and environment

Casual - Cape Union Mart

(2010-11 - 2013-07)

Lab assistant - Nelson Mandela University

(2010-02 - 2012-11)

Student Assistant End User Computing - Nelson Mandela University

(2010-02 - 2012-11)

Data Capturer (temporary)

(2010-01 - 2014-01)

Retail Associate Flexible full time - Edgards

(2005-01 - 2008-01)

B. TECH - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - Cape Peninsula University (2016)

NATIONAL DIPLOMA - I.T (SUPPORT SERVICES) - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (2012)

Matric Certificate - Cowan High School (2002)