Fayaz Mohammed
BRISTOL,South Gloucestershire
Summary
QA professional with over 10 years of experience. Focus on leading teams to ensure high-quality software delivery. Specialises in implementing robust testing frameworks and driving continuous process improvements. Known for fostering collaborative environments and mentoring junior testers to achieve consistent results. Strong technical talents and comfortable working in fast-paced environments. Skilled IT professional with background planning system testing to strengthen current processes. Proven track record of capturing impressive insights to fuel business results. Confident communicating with technical and non-technical audiences to influence decision-making. Critical thinker championing best practices.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead QA (Remote)
4G-Capital Ltd (Kenya)
Bristol
10.2022 - 11.2024
- Company Overview: 4G Capital is a market leader in unsecured working capital solutions with a significant presence across multiple African countries
- We empower micro and small businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa to grow and succeed by providing instant access to credit that unlocks business growth
- Our products blend business credit with financial education to maximize the credit’s impact for business owners, and all are managed and delivered through our proprietary core banking platform
- Responsible for leading different products in design and execution of test plan documents
- Experienced as a test lead on testing activities that includes integration, regression and end to end testing
- Experienced on presenting complex technical information in a clear and easily understood manner to the stakeholders and management team
- Building automated regression packs
- Leading workshops and mentoring software engineers in BDD
- Built a new acceptance tests framework from scratch 3 teams
- Experience working closely across a variety of teams including product management, interaction design, customer care and engineering
- Implemented the package libraries to deploy multiple frameworks in java and python across different platform teams to make it standard and uniform practice
- Responsible for maintaining, debugging and running automated tests scripts using Selenium-WebDriver, Python, Pytest-BDD (BDD)
- Experience of building CI in Bitbucket pipeline CI/CD
- Used CPython interpreter
- Experience of using Jira for sprint and backlog work and raising bugs and Confluence for documentation
- 4G Capital is a market leader in unsecured working capital solutions with a significant presence across multiple African countries
- We empower micro and small businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa to grow and succeed by providing instant access to credit that unlocks business growth
- Our products blend business credit with financial education to maximize the credit’s impact for business owners, and all are managed and delivered through our proprietary core banking platform
Senior Test Automation Consultant
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Newport
03.2020 - 09.2022
- Company Overview: Building a new web-based application for internal users to process multiple surveys on a daily basis in an efficient and quicker way than an existing legacy system coming into the system through multiple sources via electronic and paper from businesses and raise any data anomalies
- Working with Product Owner and Business Analyst to develop BDD scenarios in three amigos and test scenarios sessions
- Leading workshops and mentoring software engineers in BDD
- Built a new acceptance tests framework from scratch
- Working with multiple teams setting up framework for each of them
- Worked with api services using in postman,requests library
- Implemented the package libraries to deploy multiple frameworks in java and python across different platform teams to make it standard and uniform practice
- Responsible for maintaining, debugging and running automated tests scripts using Selenium-WebDriver, Python, Pytest, Behave (BDD)
- Good understanding of Concourse CI/CD build
- Responsible for writing test strategies document
- Experience of using Jira for sprint and backlog work and raising bugs and Confluence for documentation
- Building a new web-based application for internal users to process multiple surveys on a daily basis in an efficient and quicker way than an existing legacy system coming into the system through multiple sources via electronic and paper from businesses and raise any data anomalies
Senior Test Automation Consultant
Defra Bristol
10.2019 - 01.2020
- Responsible for building new test framework from scratch
- Responsible for maintaining, debugging and running automated tests scripts using Gherkin, SpecFlow Selenium-WebDriver in C# Visual Studio
- Experience of using Nunit, Specrun test frameworks
- Good understanding of CI/CD build pipelines, including the ability to configure tests to run the build/release jobs
- Responsible for writing test plan, test reports, release notes engaging and coordinating all the stakeholding covering all aspects of testing
- Experience of performing cross-browser and accessibility testing
- Experience of using Jira tool for sprint work and raising bugs
Senior Test Automation Consultant
Mercer (JLT)
Bristol
08.2019 - 10.2019
- Responsible for contributing to the automation test strategy using SBE Gherkin/SpecFlow/Selenium-WebDriver in C# Visual Studio
- Ensuring that all automated tests are checked in to version control (VSTS) and integration into CI process (VSTS)
- Review of automated and performance tests written by developers and testers, ensuring internal standards and best practices are adhered to
- Testing responsibility for identifying project risks and giving high-level estimates for future work to high-level stakeholders during scoping sessions
- Responsible for estimating, planning and prioritizing testing as part of a scrum team
- Collaborated with developers to propose testability and represent the quality of business requirements
- Understand business requirements in order to write automated tests primarily and occasionally manual exploratory testing as required
Senior Test Automation Consultant
SQA Consultancy Ltd
07.2017 - 07.2019
- Company Overview: End Client: Intellectual Property Office (IPO) – Newport
- Responsible for contributing to and building a strategy to facilitate the ongoing testing of projects within agile environments
- To provide essential input into requirements capture, test planning and the capture of test metrics
- Responsible for recognising and flagging issues outside area of own expertise or reporting to test manager, as appropriate
- Responsible for working closely with both internal and external clients
- Sound understanding of techniques for ensuring test coverage and traceability
- Ability to communicate with various stakeholders (both technical and non-technical)
- Mentoring Test Engineers within an agile environment
- Ability to work well within a team setting, but also capable of working independently with minimal supervision
- To research outside of the normal test activities, take an active part in test process improvement and actively share knowledge to others
- Implemented functional test automation using the Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber BDD tool with C Sharp
- Maintained Regression test suits by making changes in scripts and using VSTS server for continuous integration to run test build server
- Responsible for performing a range of system and specialist verification and validation tasks on different environments
- Reporting the Defects using VSTS tool
- End Client: Intellectual Property Office (IPO) – Newport
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Virtusa Polaris
01.2017 - 03.2017
- Company Overview: End Client: British Telecom(B.T.)
- Responsible for all deliveries with respect to the assigned testing project within the defined parameters of quality, scope and timelines
- Ability to perform and organize functional as well as Automation testing
- Ability to prioritize and manage the workload and to ensure that the testing tasks progress within the agreed timescales
- Ability to provide technical assistance to other team members
- Working closely with different stakeholders to define & implement the automation coverage
- Create automated test scripts, maintain & execute automated scripts and reporting using Selenium web driver and Test Complete in VB.Net
- Investigate technical problems and needs, identify their source, and determine possible solutions
- Communicate effectively with team members and the stakeholders of the project
- Maintained Regression test suits and setting up test data for overnight regression test run
- Performing manual testing with the help of specifications
- End Client: British Telecom(B.T.)
Senior Test Automation Engineer
ADP
Bristol
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: Bristol
- Working with the wider teams (offshore-onshore), establish and execute an automation strategy in an agile environment with a behaviour driven development (BDD) process
- Responsible for improving the framework and also writing the automation test scripts with selenium webdriver, cucumber in ruby
- Supporting developers with guidance and support to automate all tests by default
- Migrated legacy manual tests to fully automated tests within the automation strategy
- Involved in performing gap analysis and driving change to ensure that coverage is appropriate
- Maintain and communicate accurate visibility of delivery progress, setting and reporting on key metrics
- Create and maintain energy, passion and focus on automation within the software delivery team, to meet the team’s commitments
- Drive continual learning and adaption to exploit automation opportunities
- Involved in identifying and managing cross-team dependencies
- Working with the business analyst and product teams to ensure that the backlog items have appropriate priorities and focus
- Setting challenging commitments and achieve them
- Bristol
Test Automation Engineer
Infosys
09.2015 - 12.2015
- Company Overview: Client: TNT (Courier Services, Freight Delivery & Logistics)
- Client: TNT (Courier Services, Freight Delivery & Logistics)
Test Automation Engineer
Kainos
01.2014 - 07.2015
- Company Overview: Client: DVSA (Driver & Vehicle Standard Agency)
- Client: DVSA (Driver & Vehicle Standard Agency)
Education
M.sc. - Mobile Communication Engineering
University of East London
London 01.2010 - 01.2011
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Selenium
- Agile
- GIT
- Jenkins
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- JIRA
- Agile Scrum
- Kanban
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- TestNG
- Cucumber
- IntelliJ
- PyCharm
- Visual studio
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- CPython interpreter
Timeline
Lead QA (Remote)
4G-Capital Ltd (Kenya)
10.2022 - 11.2024
Senior Test Automation Consultant
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
03.2020 - 09.2022
Senior Test Automation Consultant
Defra Bristol
10.2019 - 01.2020
Senior Test Automation Consultant
Mercer (JLT)
08.2019 - 10.2019
Senior Test Automation Consultant
SQA Consultancy Ltd
07.2017 - 07.2019
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Virtusa Polaris
01.2017 - 03.2017
Senior Test Automation Engineer
ADP
02.2016 - 12.2016
Test Automation Engineer
Infosys
09.2015 - 12.2015
Test Automation Engineer
Kainos
01.2014 - 07.2015
M.sc. - Mobile Communication Engineering
University of East London
01.2010 - 01.2011
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