Product Owner

Nihilent Limited Johannesburg
Product Owner
June 2021 to date

Developed and communicated a clear product vision and strategy aligned with business goals.

ERP (SAP)

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

Leveraged data analytics to inform strategic data-driven decision-making.

Defined and prioritized product roadmap, ensuring alignment with stakeholders and overall company objectives. 

Led the development and optimization of event-driven systems as a Product Owner, aligning stakeholders and ensuring seamless real-time processing to meet business objectives.

Conducted market research and user feedback analysis to identify customer needs, trends, and opportunities for innovation. 

Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases using Azure Devops and confluence tools. 

Collaborated with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, sales) to deliver product features on time and within scope. 

Wrote and prioritized user stories, detailed acceptance criteria, and product backlog items in collaboration with the development team.

Conducted sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint review meetings to ensure alignment and continuous improvement. identifying, managing and supporting resolution of impediments.

Promoting Dev-ops practices within squads for implementing continuous integration of applications. 

Identified and mitigated risks that could impact product delivery or quality, and proactively resolved issues.

Nihilent Limited Johannesburg
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer 
August 2018 to June 2021

Developed automation Test Suit for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality using selenium POM (page object model framework). 

Developed performance Test suit using Jmeter.

Developed Web service test suit using Soup UI.

Involved in performing GUI, Functional and Regression Testing.

As Team player Performed Root Cause Analysis for the assigned issues for existing functionality. 

Executed the test cases, recorded the results, and documented defects, questionable functions, as well as inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs. 

Identified and tracked defects, generated bug reports, and submitted test report.

Nihilent Limited India
Test Analyst
February 2015 to August 2018

Involved from the first day of the project, starting from the requirements finalization shared by the business. 

Participated actively for creating Test Suit, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Execution plan, tools used, and risks involved etc.

Followed the process of extraction requirements from the use cases shared. 

Generated process flow for the use case shared by the BA and then converted to detailed test cases.

Frequent status check meetings with the team and responsible for Test Reporting too. For internal use only

Tracking and reporting upon testing activities including testing results, test case coverage, required resources etc. 

Involved in Unit and Integration Testing, Web testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Web APIs Testing.

Ensuring contents/structure of all testing documents is documented and maintained.