Kenya

QA Engineer

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Strathmore University

Waithira Njihia

Software Engineer in Test

Usability Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Python

Ruby

Jira

GitHub

Jenkins

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Project management

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

- Developed and maintained automated tests using pytest-bdd framework, ensuring product quality and reliability.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to set up API tests and release plans, resulting in streamlined processes and timely product launches.
- Prepared release reports and managed the execution of release plans
- Managed App translations for new countries by working closely with vendors, Growth, and Support teams, leading to successful localization.
- Improved acceptance criteria by refining specifications with the Product team, and conducting feature and regression testing to detect UI, workflow, and translation errors or bugs.

- Moderated industry expert panel sessions for the Women Techsters Open Day
- Judged and provided expert feedback on the quality of MVPs presented by the Women Techsters Fellows
- Mentored, provided knowledge, gave direction, and assisted women techsters fellows to build skills needed for career success

- Optimized backend services for real-time monitoring, reducing events quota usage by 60%, driving cost savings, and improving scalability.
- Developed a process to enhance cache hit rates for partner scenarios by democratizing the determination of TTLs for specific indices.
- Facilitated boot camp series for new hires, sharing knowledge on various topics related to backend services, leading to better team coordination and performance.
- Proactively monitored live sites, contributing to incident investigation and resolution, resulting in increased user satisfaction.

- Led the efforts to implement X-ray integration with the automation test suite.
- Led the work on enhancing the automation infrastructure by adding reruns, enhancing the results and test code, and adding slack integration.
- Developed and conducted functional automated testing on Android and iOS App platforms
- Reviewed and performed manual tests to understand the available opportunities for automation to help scale development and testing.
- Work with automation frameworks that integrate with the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Process
- Identify and prioritize tests that are candidates for automation.
- Test planning, bug detection, code maintenance, and regression testing.
- Test and communicate QA status on monthly app releases.

- Ensured product quality by executing a range of tests, including functionality, acceptance, regression, performance, and mobile compatibility tests
- Improved efficiency for the development team by maintaining continuous integration systems to detect code defects early on
- Automated smoke testing processes, streamlining product releases

- Created comprehensive test plans, cases, and strategies for software releases to ensure high-quality standards were met.
- Collaborated with the development team to implement agile development processes, including test-driven development and automation, resulting in improved efficiency and faster release cycles.
- Established and maintained continuous integration systems, enabling the development team to quickly identify and address defects introduced into the codebase.

- Enhanced Healthchecks.io's alert system, optimizing notification intervals to empower users with real-time data for better decision-making.
- Developed a notification extension for CKAN, streamlining data requests and enabling organizations to receive timely alerts.

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