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Rameez Cornelius

Rameez Cornelius

Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Summary

I take great pride in maintaining a high standard of work ethic, punctuality, and strong planning and organizational skills. I am a quick learner, always eager to enhance my abilities. My confidence and reliability enable me to adapt easily to new environments, and I consistently strive to exceed expectations. I am confident that I would be a valuable asset to any organization.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
2014
2014
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote)

Mr D Food
Cape Town, South Africa
11.2023 - Current
  • Led the development of QA strategies for optimal results.
  • Improved system reliability with comprehensive error detection processes.
  • Mentor and train QA team members, providing support and sharing expertise to elevate their performance on projects.
  • Delegate tasks and assignments to other testing team members, ensuring balanced workloads and efficient project progression.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for testing within projects, ensuring clear communication and alignment across teams regarding quality goals and deliverables.
  • Participate in recruitment activities, including conducting technical interviews, to help expand and strengthen the QA team.
  • Maintain and manage automated testing frameworks in Jenkins, ensuring reliable execution of test scripts and timely reporting of results.
  • Review technical specifications and user stories to identify, design, and document comprehensive test cases.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful release of features, including testing, validation, and troubleshooting during the release process.
  • Participate in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, enhancing automation pipelines and ensuring seamless delivery of new features.
  • Conduct both manual and automated testing, ensuring software quality and functionality across various platforms and environments.
  • Analyze test results, report defects, and track resolution, collaborating with developers to troubleshoot issues and verify fixes.
  • Contribute to regression testing efforts before major releases to ensure the integrity of core functionalities.
  • Provide feedback on product design and user experience from a quality assurance perspective, helping to improve overall software usability.
  • Support the team in continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process gaps and proposing solutions to enhance testing efficiency.
  • Mitigated production issues through prompt troubleshooting methods.
  • Fostered a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
  • Collaborated with software developers to enhance product design and functionality.
  • Increased customer satisfaction levels through the delivery of top-tier products.
  • Authored detailed QA reports, providing key insights into product quality.
  • Submitted performance reports, identifying shortfalls and facilitating improvement actions.
  • Prioritised conflicting requirements, meeting tight deadlines and keeping projects on-task.
  • Inspected and troubleshot product and production discrepancies.
  • Ensured product quality by implementing rigorous testing protocols.

Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote)

Mr D Food
Cape Town,, South Africa
09.2020 - 11.2023


Maintain and manage automated testing frameworks in Jenkins, ensuring reliable execution of test scripts and timely reporting of results; Review technical specifications and user stories to identify, design, and document comprehensive test cases; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful release of features, including testing, validation, and troubleshooting during the release process; Participate in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, enhancing automation pipelines and ensuring seamless delivery of new features; Conduct both manual and automated testing, ensuring software quality and functionality across various platforms and environments;Analyze test results, report defects, and track resolution, collaborating with developers to troubleshoot issues and verify fixes;Optimize and maintain existing test automation scripts, ensuring they remain robust and adaptable to new system changes; Contribute to regression testing efforts before major releases to ensure the integrity of core functionalities; Provide feedback on product design and user experience from a quality assurance perspective, helping to improve overall software usability;Support the team in continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process gaps and proposing solutions to enhance testing efficiency.

QA Engineering Team Lead (Hybrid)

Kurtosys
Cape Town, South Africa
07.2018 - 08.2020
  • General Skills: Negotiation, Collaboration, Communication and Reporting, Leadership, Testing Skills: Ability to set up an automation strategy, Test Strategy Improvement, Wide knowledge of Testing Approaches, Understand Client and Domain Requirements, Setting quality metrics, Accept and Clarify requirements, QA Team Ambassador, Technical Skill: Setting up Frameworks, Code Reviews, Responsibilities: Defining Test strategy and test metrics, Managing the Test Team, Review and Feedback, Planning and controlling the testing process, Continuous test process improvement, Leadership Responsibilities: Performance Reviews, 1 on 1's, Being a point of contact, Recruitment and supervision

QA Engineer (Hybrid)

Kurtosys
Cape Town, South Africa
05.2018 - 07.2018
  • General Skills: A creative and critical mind, Testing Skills: Ability to setup an automation strategy, Ability to troubleshoot, Testing plan, design & estimation reviews, Database & SQL Knowledge, Monitor test execution, Technical Skill: Hands-on experience using Automation tool, Responsibilities: Taking part in Test planning, designing, and estimations, Review of test artifacts - Test Plans and test scenarios, Test automation - identify test cases to be automated, Reporting and tracking defects, Leadership Responsibilities: Identify Skills gaps from Associate / QA Engineers, Mentoring Associate / QA Engineers, Collaboration with development team - Senior Tester is expected to know communication tactics, to deal with the Develop

Performance/Automation Test Lead

DVT (Dynamic Visual Technology) - Company rebranded to 'InspiredTesting'
Cape Town, South Africa
02.2017 - 04.2018
  • Produce Project Artefacts, Fulfill Scrum Master role/leadership role, Assist with manual test execution, Perform Test Analysis, Manage scope and commitment per test iteration, Jira management per sprint/iteration, Client reporting /stand up, Escalate impediments, Backlog Grooming, Internal review of completed work, Technical Support for team, Mentorship, Communication with client Product Owner, Defect Management, Project Approach and Strategy, Sprint Planning and Retro session hosting, Attend Scrum of Scrums, Capacity planning, Performance reviews of team members, Project estimations, Assist with maturing the GTC Functional Testing service offering

Intern

DVT (Dynamic Visual Technology) - Company rebranded to 'InspiredTesting'
Cape Town, South Africa
02.2016 - 02.2017
  • Automation Testing, Manual Testing, Mobile Testing

Education

Zwaanswyk High School
/2010 - 01.2014

Torque IT

Skills

  • Manual and automated testing
  • Functional testing and non-functional testing
  • Regression analysis
  • Selenium proficiency
  • Understanding of agile methodology
  • Bug tracking systems
  • Load and stress testing
  • User acceptance tests planning
  • SQL literacy
  • Bug reporting
  • Python programming
  • Test strategy and test case design
  • Requirement analysis
  • Agile methodology
  • API manual testing
  • Unit testing
  • Selenium
  • Git version control
  • Cross-browser compatibility checking

Certification

  • ICAgile Certified Professional, ICAgile Education Management, August 2017
  • Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance, October 2017
  • ISTQB Foundation Level, South African Software Testing Qualifications Board, October 2017

Affiliations

  • Off-roading
  • Board games
  • BBQ!
  • Travelling and Adventure

Languages

English
Fluent
Afrikaans
Intermediate

Timeline

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote)

Mr D Food
11.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote)

Mr D Food
09.2020 - 11.2023

QA Engineering Team Lead (Hybrid)

Kurtosys
07.2018 - 08.2020

QA Engineer (Hybrid)

Kurtosys
05.2018 - 07.2018

Performance/Automation Test Lead

DVT (Dynamic Visual Technology) - Company rebranded to 'InspiredTesting'
02.2017 - 04.2018

Intern

DVT (Dynamic Visual Technology) - Company rebranded to 'InspiredTesting'
02.2016 - 02.2017

Zwaanswyk High School
/2010 - 01.2014

Torque IT
Rameez Cornelius