• Participated and played a major role in the transformation of BNC towards a scaled agile methodology and DevOps.
• Introduced and facilitated the integration of BDD within the organization
• Coached the scrum team (Product Owners, BAs, and the development teams) on the use of BDD
• Assisted in the structuring the backlog with a Test-first mind to ensure better transparency, inspection and adaptation.
• In collaboration with the Product Owner and Scrum Masters, define the roadmap and cross-functional integration strategies and backlog using Kanban.
• Worked as a facilitator between the scrum teams (Squads) in a large and complex program.
• Managed and lead a QA team of 12 resources for a high profile program of a multi-channel delivery model with a $20 million budget.
• Effectively lead teams with various staffing models including interns, on-shore, near-shore and off-shore resources.
• Built a cohesive test team who shared best practices, test responsibilities, and supported reuse of test cases and test scenarios using cucumber Gherkins syntax.
• Elaborated Test strategies and provided estimates for Manual, Automation, and Performance test for high profile projects using both Waterfall & Agile methodologies.
• Developed the guidelines for the sprint Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and Release Definition of Done as a start point for discussion with the scrum team.
• Managed test planning using the risk based approach to quality ensuring better resource allocation and alignment of leadership focus.
• Chaired and managed daily defect meetings (defect triage) and prioritized defect corrective actions with the Product Owners, development team, Partners and Project Managers.
• Evaluated and recommended bank wide strategic tools such as X-ray for JIRA and saucelabs to reduce cost of licensing fees by more than 300k and test efforts by 20%, and to increase the quality of managing test scenarios, improve developers and test analyst productivity, transparency, and user experience.
• Implemented programs to identify and drive early test adoption and Agile principles in all projects, validated functional and non-functional requirements.
• Automated Test dashboards and defect reporting for project teams and upper management.
• Increased test coverage and efficiency without having to increase the number of test analysts by integrating test analysts with development teams resulting in a cohesive agile work environment.
• Developed and maintained project test schedules, tracked and forecasted project test costs and efforts, and managed project test risks and test data.
• Coordinated project testing and automation test development for functional and non-functional testing, including Manual, Automation, Security, and Performance tests for high profile projects using both Waterfall & Agile methodologies across Wealth management (RPM) and Digital Channels: “Mobile & web apps, Mobile Payments (Google/Apple Pay), Cheque Image, ATM, POS and External API Integration (Equifax, Korem, etc)”.
