Carolle Batchanou

Currently employed at BNP Paribas since March 2024 as Lead QA Automation, where I am involved in setting up a QA automation strategy from scratch and its CI/CD industrialization.

With a strong functional and business vision, acquired through a Business Analyst role, I secure deliveries, mitigate production risks, and support the skill development of newly onboarded QA from other teams.

→ QA Strategy Definition & Quality Governance

→ API & Integration Test Automation

→ Java QA Frameworks (design & sustainability)

→ CI/CD Integration

→ Quality Reporting

→ Multi-squad QA Support

→ Strong Business Understanding (banking/finance)

• Hybrid role ofLead QA Automation & Business Analystfor enhanced business understanding

•Active participation in run, functional scoping, manual acceptance testing, TNR, and production deployments

• Definition of automation strategy aligned with business objectives

•Creation of the automation foundation from scratch

• Coaching 2 QAs across different squads to help them deploy the same strategy.

• Ensuring QA autonomy and sustainability of practices

I worked as a QA tester within the B2C Rakuten team, performing manual tests - Release management - automation tests (test repository)

-Manual Tests: Follow-up and analysis of Jira tickets from grooming, sprint planning, demo - planning the integration of developments made by developers in the INTEG environment - test and validation or non-validation of tickets in INTEG - If no regression, planning the deployment (deployment in PREVIEW, deployment in PROD) - Update of the Master of the application

-Release Management: Monitor ongoing deliveries on Trello, coordinate with QA from other teams for delivery, ensure correct configuration of properties (configs, dba script, metrics) in INTEG, PREVIEW, and PROD with DBA and operations teams

-Automation of TNRs: by filling the CucumberStudio test repository - writing scenarios, implementing steps - testing on Docker machines provided for this purpose.

Technologies used: Jenkins, Postman, Bitbucket, Consul, Grafana, Zoom, CucumberStudio, VisualStudio, Javascript, KANBAN method, Scrum, CONFLUENCE

-Platform Development: Front-end automation project - automating subscriber subscription flows in France with technologies: Browserstack, Selenium IDE, nodejs, codeceptjs, Bitbucket, etc.

-Platform Development: API automation and test scenario project (BDD) with technologies: Java 8, Jenkins, Cucumber, Serenity, Selenium WebDriver, POSTMAN, IntelliJ, Bitbucket.

Development of test scripts in Java 8, BDD meetings (scenarios), running scripts via the Jenkins job set up every morning and reporting test results to developers.

-Writing BDD + Implementation of API test scripts + Scenarios on the INTERNATIONAL project