Vanessa Nahona
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
Dynamic Test Lead with a proven track record in test management and team development, recognized for ensuring compliance with standards and managing defects effectively. Proven ability to deliver quality outcomes through strategic planning and hands-on testing in Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall methodologies. A strong commitment to improving software delivery efficiency and reliability. Career objectives focus on leveraging skills to further enhance quality assurance processes within forward-thinking organizations.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Test Lead
Ministry of Health NZ
10.2022 - 08.2024
- Test Lead managing End to End processes and Test team for 3 separate districts Payroll systems (2 x AMS and PayGlobal) to rectify multiple Holidays Act breaches found and ensure compliance with the Holidays Act
- Test Strategy, plans, estimation, scheduling and reporting in a Waterfall and Agile environment
- Management of all End-to-end test activities including Functional, System, Integration and oversight of UAT testing
- Requirements Analysis, working with BA’s and Vendors for Test requirements
- Vendor Test Management
- Hands on manual data analysis and Reports testing
- Hiring and Management of 8 Senior Test Analysts, building a high performing team to ensure testing complete to high standards
- Applied best practices to ensure quality outcomes
- Defect management internally and with Vendors, Jira Administrator
- Management of multiple environments in various phases for the 3 separate districts
- Relationship management with ICT department and Project
- Work allocation management for ICT resources
- Close working relationship with ICT, Payroll & Project management
- Tools and Applications: Jira (project admin), Confluence PayGlobal, AMS Leader, MS SQL, MS Office suite
Test Lead/Senior Test Analyst
Ministry of Justice NZ
06.2021 - 10.2022
- Test Lead and Senior Test Analyst on projects to successfully deliver: Oracle server reports server upgrade
- Manual, Functional and Integration testing of 3 internal systems – Waterfall methodology: Justice bespoke CMS, Employment criminal check system and Collection system
- Test strategy planning and management of all phases of test activities
- Vendor liaison and Defect management
- Management of UAT for 3 separate teams
- Collection system upgrade and remediation project – Waterfall methodology: Integration and Manual testing and liaising with 3 external integration partners
- Mentoring and training junior Test Analyst and new Test Lead
- Whenua Maori project using customised Pega Workflow system – Agile methodology: Manual website testing of new system for workflow management of complex legislation for Maori Land court information and applications
- Accessibility analysis, testing and reporting
- Tools and Applications: Integration via FTP, Justice CMS, Collection system, Criminal Check system, MS SQL, PEGA, Wave, aXe, MS Office suite, Jira, Zephyr, Confluence
Test Lead
Ministry of Social Development NZ
03.2019 - 06.2021
- Test Lead and hands-on Senior Test Analyst on multiple projects concurrently, in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment to successfully test and deliver: LDAP Migration & Upgrade, MFA and SFA Implementation
- Manual, Integration, Functional, UAT
- Objective EDRMS upgrade & complex integrated bespoke Electronic Correspondence system
- Multiple DB & Server upgrades
- M365 Exchange migration – sole tester and manager
- Testing of multiple websites and Mobile testing including focus on Accessibility testing
- Cognos BI and TM1 upgrade & UAT management
- HR Health & Safety and Onboarding systems
- Writing Test Strategies, Plans, estimates and Reports
- Resource allocation and UAT management
- Managing and Testing with external vendors, defect management and coordinating joint testing efforts
- Trainer and mentor of staff new to the Testing practice and experienced staff
- Tools and Applications: SoapUI, M365, MFA, Scannervision, Objective EDRMS, Jira, Confluence, Wave, aXe, Congnos BI, Splunk, MS SQL, MS Office suite
Senior Test Analyst / Test Lead
Z Energy Limited
08.2016 - 03.2019
- Test lead/Senior Test Analyst on projects to successful deliver: Complex integration with external customer leading 5 experienced STA’s in Agile methodology
- Major upgrade of Oracle’s JDE ERP and integrations to external software where multiple customisations to JDE were required to be tested
- Waterfall methodology
- Test Strategy, Plan and Joint End to End Test Plan with external customers, defect management and management of joint testing with external customers
- Automation experience using Selenium and writing tests using Java
- Agile Test Lead on a project delivering and testing a website with multiple external APIs with a junior TA where I provided Mentorship and Coaching
- Tools and Applications: Oracle JDE ERP, Fuel management system, Jira, Postman, MS SQL, MS Office suite
- Automation using IntelliJ, Selenium, Java, Jenkins, Bitbucket
Senior Test Analyst
PartsTrader Markets Limited
07.2013 - 07.2016
- Senior Test Analyst/Test Lead in Agile team performing Functional, Integration and Regression testing
- Automation test creation in .Net with Specflow, Selenium, Gherkin (BDD) and SBE techniques
- Scrum Master for Agile development for the PartsTrader NZ team
- Sole tester on a new USA billing system integrated with MS Dynamics NAV
- Tools and Applications: MS Dynamics NAV, MS Visual Studio, MS Office suite, SQL, Source Tree, Octopus Deploy, Team City, Postman, Selenium
Senior Test Analyst
New Zealand Racing Board NZ (TAB)
08.2010 - 01.2012
- Manual website & mobile testing
Test Analyst
Ministry of Transport NZ
06.2010 - 08.2010
- EDRMS manual testing
Test Analyst
Inland Revenue Department NZ
04.2006 - 11.2009
- Manual testing
Education
Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) -
Z Energy
01.2019
ISTQB -
NZ Racing Board (TAB)
01.2011
Advanced certificate in Business Computing -
Wellington Polytechnic
01.2000
Certificate - Certified Tester - Advanced Level Test Management
ISTQB
Skills
- Testing management
- Testing planning
- Defect management
- Team development
- Test reporting
- Test execution
Referees
Upon request
Timeline
Test Lead
Ministry of Health NZ
10.2022 - 08.2024
Test Lead/Senior Test Analyst
Ministry of Justice NZ
06.2021 - 10.2022
Test Lead
Ministry of Social Development NZ
03.2019 - 06.2021
Senior Test Analyst / Test Lead
Z Energy Limited
08.2016 - 03.2019
Senior Test Analyst
PartsTrader Markets Limited
07.2013 - 07.2016
Senior Test Analyst
New Zealand Racing Board NZ (TAB)
08.2010 - 01.2012
Test Analyst
Ministry of Transport NZ
06.2010 - 08.2010
Test Analyst
Inland Revenue Department NZ
04.2006 - 11.2009
Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) -
Z Energy
ISTQB -
NZ Racing Board (TAB)
Advanced certificate in Business Computing -
Wellington Polytechnic
Certificate - Certified Tester - Advanced Level Test Management
ISTQB
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