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Dorothy Ali

Birmingham

Summary

Agile Test Manager with over 11 years' experience Experience in leading a team up to 10 test engineers based onsite and offshore 9 years' experience in Fintech Financial Services

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work history

Test Manager/ Lead

BJSS Birmingham
07.2021 - Current
  • Worked as a Test Manager for a leading aircraft engines provider who required Azure virtual desktops to monitor and store data related to aircraft engines journeys and hardware details
  • Lead a team of 3 developers and 10 end-users (data scientists) on offshore and client location
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Analyze detailed software specifications and project requirements to develop testing strategies that reduce the risk of system outages and identify system defects
  • Oversee the administration of testing scripts to ensure the product complied with the standards and requirements on each stage of testing (including unit, integration, capacity, user acceptance and release)
  • Generate and submit detailed testing report and the SCRUM team and clients, and assisting the developers in removal of defects
  • Showcase the product to clients and trained end users on usage of the product
  • Run the weekly SCRUM calls with clients and SCRUM team
  • Outline
  • Worked for a government-based project who required a serverless web application using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, as a Test lead in a team of 10 members and directly engaged with multiple sub-product teams
  • Active participation from designing phase to work with shift left testing approach
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Created automated test frameworks with JavaScript, NodeJS, WebDriverIO and Mocha for serverless on demand AWS services
  • Automated web-based browser testing using Appium
  • Incorporated automated tests with Jenkins to establish CI/CD and performed local testing, system testing and SIT
  • Performed performance testing using Gatling and k6
  • Performed accessibility testing and led Beta users during this test phase
  • Showcased the product among the various teams of 100+ members
  • Produced testing guides and training materials
  • Worked alongside dev team and contributed to development of the web app which helped achieving sprint goals on time

Lead SDET

Capital, Europe, Nottingham Wipro Ltd
01.2016 - 07.2021
  • Outline
  • Played a test lead role in the (AWS)Cloud Services Quality Engineering team at Capital One and led 2 cross functional teams of 4 testers
  • Actively worked as a part of an agile feature team to deliver new features to the Capital One Acquisition Cloud Services (AWS)
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Led the STLC for onboarding a new credit card partner, planned and managed testing in various phases
  • Ensured Services Test Engineers across the enterprise are best equipped to release valuable features to our customers to the highest level of quality at pace
  • Acted as the first point of call in all testing related queries within the team
  • Created test approaches/strategies for all new features
  • Maintained and enhanced ATDD test suites written in Java and cucumber framework and added the tests in Jenkins for CI/CD
  • Contributed towards an automated API testing project written in Java and cucumber framework to ensure the highest quality of the orchestration tier
  • Planning and carrying out manual integration testing as required
  • Working collaboratively with various stakeholders to refine upcoming features and contributing towards the design of both the back-end architecture, and front-end UI designs
  • Coached and mentored new onboarded Test Engineers

Software Quality Engineer

India Wipro Ltd
Bangalore
08.2014 - 01.2016
  • Worked at offshore agile team to onboard a new partner to integrate with Capital One On-Prem Acquisition systems
  • Ensured seamless collaboration and test execution with testing team at partner's site
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Tested web-based customer facing products
  • Created and executed the overall QA vision, defining quality matrices and target for assessment, measurement and continuous improvement of QA and testing effectiveness
  • Mentored team members
  • Proactively led, coordinated and assigned tasking resources, scheduling, priorities and deliverables for a team of quality assurance and testing personnel across multiple programs
  • Documented and implemented processes, procedures and responsibilities for achieving a quality management system
  • Planned, coordinated and tested products automation of On-premises systems using Ruby cucumber framework
  • Contributed to a newly built First Agile team of the company at client location
  • Drove continuous improvement in Quality Engineering program, based on the principles of Agile, DevOps, automation and ATDD/BDD
  • Tracked and communicated outcomes for comparison, improvements and/ or trends over time
  • Worked on Version One project management tool
  • Mainly worked on RAID, Web and Mobile testing, ETL, Teradata, UNIX, Oracle SQL Developer
  • Key Achievements:
  • Credit checker product was nominated for UK Customer Satisfaction award in 2015 and I represented the testing team in Award ceremony

Project Engineer (Test Analyst

Chennai India Wipro Ltd
05.2012 - 08.2014
  • Worked offshore for a client and contributed in business change testing based on Waterfall working principle
  • Responsibilities include:
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining end-to-end test suits and regression pack for on-prem systems and developments and execution of test scripts
  • Identified Quality process gaps or inefficiencies in workflows and drive efforts to close this gap via documentation, process, training and tools
  • Analyzed business requirements and prepared Test plan and Test Cases and maintained quality assurance standards and procedures through SDLC
  • Managed requirement and Reported defect in HP Application Lifecycle Management
  • Manually tested every module of the application as per new builds received from the development team
  • Analyzed the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Biotechnology

Amity University
2012

Skills

  • Core Skills
  • Tech stack for functional testing: JavaScript, NodeJS, Ruby, BDD, Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Mocha
  • Tech stack for non-functional testing: JMeter, SoapUI,Postman, Gatling, k6
  • CI/CD tech stack: Jenkins, GitHub
  • Cloud services tech stack: AWS, Microsoft Azure
  • Proficient in Agile, SCRUM and Coaching
  • Specialized experience in REST API, Web application, cloud services testing, ETL, SQL, UNIX and Teradata
  • 9 years' experience in FinTech

Interests

Watching movies and series on Netflix Watching documentaries, Ted Talks and YouTube Videos Food and cooking

Timeline

Test Manager/ Lead

BJSS Birmingham
07.2021 - Current

Lead SDET

Capital, Europe, Nottingham Wipro Ltd
01.2016 - 07.2021

Software Quality Engineer

India Wipro Ltd
08.2014 - 01.2016

Project Engineer (Test Analyst

Chennai India Wipro Ltd
05.2012 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Biotechnology

Amity University

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