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Lola Akingboye

Dartford,Kent

Summary

Enthusiastic, motivated QA engineer with over 5 years of experience in the design, analysis and execution of tests with insight and in-depth Manual testing knowledge and skills. A Manual tester with extensive experience in functional and non-functional testing across various platforms. Clients and stakeholders focused with extensive experience in delivering quality and highly sophisticated products through excellent communication skills, relatable skills and a great team player. Proactive Test Analyst that enjoys challenges in learning the latest technology and adapts to new changes and innovation in a complex project throughout a project lifecycle. Quality-driven QA Engineer with a strong zeal to work within multiple software development methodologies, such as SCRUM, KANBAN, WATERFALL, TDD, BDD and EXTREME PROGRAMME. Skill Summary ISTQB-ISEB Certified QA Tester with experience in driving Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies within e-commerce and NHS. Possessed excellent problem-solving and transferrable skills within the industry standards and procedures.

Skills

  • Good Analytical, problem-solving Test Analyst with a great understanding of mobile and web application testing
  • Over 4 Years of working as a Manual Tester and experience in; Database Testing, API Testing, Analytics Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing and Regression Testing, Cross Browser Testing, UAT and Usability Testing on Web applications and Mobile application Testing
  • Experience in using Manual Testing Tools like Browser Stack, Jira, Postman, Xray and Zephyr
  • Great Knowledge and Skills in web services API testing
  • Experience in analysing functional and non-functional requirements, use cases and business requirements
  • Excellent knowledge of writing SQL Queries to test data integrity and validity
  • Experience in Data Migration, Data Extraction and Data Mapping Testing
  • Great experience in writing and reviewing Test Plans, Test Design, Test Execution, Test Reports and Traceability Matrix
  • Great knowledge of Test case Analysis, Design and Execution within a Software Development Life Cycle
  • Ability to adapt swiftly and master new concepts within any work environment
  • Great team player, and strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Technical Skill
  • Browsers/Servers: Internet Explorer (all versions), Fire Fox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome
  • Test Tools: Jira, Test Rail, Browser Stack, Confluence and Postman
  • Office tools: Excel, PowerPoint, Ms-word, SharePoint and One Drive
  • Others: WCS and FIGMA
  • Operating System: iOS, Android, Windows 7, Windows 10, LINUX, Chrome OS, UNIX, Mac OS
  • Software Development Process: Kanban, Agile/Scrum, V-Model, TDD, BDD, and Waterfall

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work history

QA Engineer

Pets At Home
02.2022 - Current
  • PaH is the Uk's leading pet store and pet care
  • Project: Polestar and VIP app
  • Description: Polestar is delivering the Pets at Home vision of a joined-up petcare experience for customers; the e-commerce website is required to authenticate against Azure B2C platform
  • Responsibilities:
  • Collaborating with Product Owner, Business Analyst, UX Designer and Developer to refine user stories' acceptance criteria
  • Deriving and creating test scenarios in GWT from user stories following 3 Amigos sessions
  • Participating in user stories estimation during refinement and sprint Planning in order to determine sprint backlog
  • Analysing user stories and acceptance criteria to ascertain they are testable, not ambiguous, clear and not contradicting
  • Contributing and supporting the creation of the Test Plan document
  • Escalating requirement bottleneck to Business Analyst, Product Owner and Delivery Manager
  • Performing Functional Testing and System Integration Testing of web and mobile applications
  • Designing and executing test scenarios created from design documents
  • Executing test scenarios of mobile, web and native apps in Browser Stack and mobile emulators
  • Carrying out Performance, Exploratory and Accessibility testing of web and mobile applications
  • Collaborating and working with other teams within the project in testing bugs from production (Hot Fix & Patch), and UAT bugs; Participated in Go-live release sanity testing
  • Performing Regression Testing on builds after fixes to bugs to ensure that the application has not regressed; carried out sanity testing of native and mobile applications during release
  • Creating User Acceptance Testing test scenarios and supporting testers during UAT
  • Performing Back-End Testing by using SQL queries on MySQL database for data verification and validation
  • Reporting and tracking defects in Jira and collaborating with the team to resolve defects
  • Writing test reports after each release cycle to document the outcome of test activities
  • Testing payment flow of eCommerce applications integrated with third parties (Paypal and CyberSource) to ensure systems are properly integrated.

QA Tester

Specsavers Optical Group LTD
09.2020 - 01.2022
  • Specsavers is an optical retail company that offers optometry, ear care and optician services for eyecare
  • Project: Digital Experience
  • Description: The project involved digitalising customer experience and ongoing enhancement to user journeys on the Specsavers website
  • Role: Working in a team of 2 manual Test Analysts, an Automation Engineer, 4 Developers, 1 Business Analyst and a Delivery Manager
  • Responsibilities:
  • Carried out Static testing by analysing the requirement specifications to eliminate defects from an early stage and reduce the number of bugs going on to the next stage of development
  • Participated in reviewing and completing Project and Product Assessments to determine test prioritisation according to business/stakeholder requirements
  • Collaborated with Business Analyst and Product Owner to gather and understand project requirements and goals
  • Reviewed the Test Plan document during the inception of the project in other to determine the scope, objective, approach and specification of testing required within the project
  • Facilitated a walkthrough with the project team members and inspected requirements and functional specifications
  • Participated in daily stand-up meetings, Sprint planning, sprint review/demo, retrospective meeting and 3amigos meeting as part of Agile ceremonies
  • Developed and executed comprehensive test plans and test cases for web and mobile applications
  • Created detailed and comprehensive test scenarios and test execution plans in Xray following a thorough analysis
  • Created and documented a Traceability Matrix in other to show adequate test coverage
  • Performed positive and negative testing of an application for thorough and robust testing coverage
  • Involved in detailed execution of manual testing within Agile process to ensure the quality of software and application been built to meet stakeholders' highest standards
  • Performed manual Integration and Regression testing during Development and during the Go-Live process
  • Participated in Defect Reporting, Analysing, Tracking and Report Generation by using Issue Tracking Tool (JIRA).

QA Test Analyst

Bromley Healthcare
05.2018 - 08.2020
  • BHC is a non-profitable social Enterprise Organisation that provides quality healthcare within Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham Boroughs
  • Project: Emis Migration
  • Description: Migration of clients' data from the Rio application to Emis for Community Nursing Staff
  • Responsibilities:
  • Analysed System specifications and Business requirements in order to determine the product backlog
  • Participated and reviewed Test deliverables during the pre-data migration phase- Extraction stage
  • Designed high-level Test scenarios following refinement sessions for every iteration to exercise each test condition using various test techniques (equivalence partitioning, syntax, error message validation, exploratory testing, etc)
  • Participated in sprint planning, retrospectives and daily stand-up as part of agile team collaboration
  • Liaised with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team outside of the agile team to communicate effectively in resolving any defect raised during testing
  • Wrote SQL queries for metadata validation such as NULL checks, constraints and record count
  • Verified that source and target migrated data conform to the requirement specifications
  • Revamped Test scripts per the current and future functionality for new requirements/stories or any change request
  • Identify and report software defects using bug-tracking tools and collaborated with developers to resolve issues
  • Executed test scenarios and escalated bugs found during testing to the appropriate team member
  • Liaised with appropriate team members to prioritise fixed bugs, and conducted confirmation and regression testing to ensure all other functionalities are working appropriately
  • Assisted and reviewed test approach to reflect changes to requirements following change requests or project scope changes
  • Participated in Back-End testing and validated updated client record tables on Database (DB) using SQL queries.

Education

ISTQB Foundation Certification in Software Testing -

BSc Specialist - Public Health

London Southbank University

Additional Information

  • REFENRECES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Languages

English
Upper intermediate

Timeline

QA Engineer

Pets At Home
02.2022 - Current

QA Tester

Specsavers Optical Group LTD
09.2020 - 01.2022

QA Test Analyst

Bromley Healthcare
05.2018 - 08.2020

ISTQB Foundation Certification in Software Testing -

BSc Specialist - Public Health

London Southbank University

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