Our Software Testing Training is delivered by software testing practitioners with many years of IT experience including over 8 years QA experience as lead testers and test managers within the Public Sector, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Insurance and Telecommunications industries
Sam Obot
Sam has been a tutor for over 9 years. He specialises in manual and automated software testing. You will gain knowledge and experience of manual and automated software testing based on theory and structured practical work provided during his course. He will empower you with the skills you need to impress potential employers and open doors that were previously closed to you. From preparing you with typical interview questions to ensuring your CV is fit for purpose Sam will be there for you like he has many other students who are now reaping the rewards in their new career as software test analysts.
He has have over 17 years commercial experience working in testing and development. A dedicated professional with excellent skills who has worked as a test manager/test lead/ tester / test analyst on several projects. He has created several test strategies, test plans, test approaches and testing frameworks based on various technologies such as SAP, JAVA, Android, mobile apps,.Net, Oracle, Siebel legacy systems, 3rd party and other bespoke systems. He has worked both in manual testing and test automation on various scales of projects - small, medium and large. He has also used different methodologies such as Agile, V-Model, ASAP, Waterfall, RAD, RUP, etc A lot of his work has involved the transition from unit testing to integration testing to system testing to user acceptance testing (UAT) to regression testing.
He has also been involved in a variety of non- functional testing roles(load, performance, stress, soak, disaster recovery, back-up, failover, security).
Sam currently teaches our Software Testing Essentials course
Ralph
Ralph has over 10 years of Financial Services experience as a Business Analyst with many years as a trainer. He is vastly experienced in the System Development Lifecycle in PC based and web based applications including open source and Commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications within the Banking, Insurance and Financial Service Sector. Ralph started his career in the banking industry and has worked with the likes of HSBC, Royal bank of Scotland (Commercial & Private banking), Aviva, Admiral, Royal Sun Alliance, Direct Line and Legal & General. He has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science (University of Wolverhampton) ISEB Certified – Business Analysis, ISEB Certified – Software Testing, Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Database Administrator, Agile Certified Prince 2 and a CIBAP certified Chartered Accountant.
James teaches our Business Analysis Essentials course
Biswajit Nanda
Biswajit is a committed professional with excellent experience in managing Testing & teams and delivering Test projects to improve working practices. He has an extensive career in Test Management and implementing changes to improve processes, including with automation,producing templates and coordinating offshore testing.
He is an effective team leader, with excellent abilities in leading and managing individuals, in providing training and development in order to improve skill sets and deliver against organisational objectives. He has successfully improved team abilities, while ensuring individuals are motivated and enthusiastic in their roles, leading by example.
He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Prince2 Practitioner and has excellent experience in managing Agile scrum teams.
Specialties: Test Management in BI,DWH (Kimball),ETL,Database,Data Governance,Data Quality, MDM,CRM,Reporting,Web applications
•Test automation frameworks with C#, SQL Server,Fitnesse, DBFit, Selenium,DBUnit,Winrunner, Loadrunner, QTP, Rational tools,MTM,Coded UI,HP QC 9.2/,10.0,Scrum Works,Jira,Bugzilla,Mantis,VSS, TFS,Hudson CI
•Scrum,TDD,BDD,V-Model,Spiral,Waterfall
•Team Leadership,Communication,Risk Management
•SAP Data Services,Business Objects(BO),Cognos Reports,SSIS,SSRS,MDX programming
Bis currently teaches our Selenium and SQL for Testers training course
Tanvi Nanda
Tanvi is an expert agile testing and automation professional with more than 8 years of experience with well known companies like Google, Nokia, SKY, theTrainline.com, Marks and Spencer’s and Sainsbury’s.
She is passionate about automated solution of Web, Mobile and Performance testing, currently working as a Lead Automation QA in Agile Environment and is certified in Scrum (Agile), ISTQB, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Skills:
- Expert in Test Automation for Web, Mobile and Performance Testing.
- Expert in Agile Testing process and Test Automation best practices.
- Selenium Webdriver (Java), SQL, Gatling, XML, JSON, Web services, APIs, Appium, Calabash, TDD using Fitnesse, DBFit, SOAP UI, JMeter, BDD using Cucumber, SpecFlow, Twist.
She has also been trained in Java, .Net, Agile (Lean, Scrum & Kanban).
Tanvi currently teaches our BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) Test Automation Framework with Cucumber