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Description

I am a Lead QA with 11 years of experience in banking, finance, media, and telecommunications. My role involves analyzing business needs, optimizing QA strategies, and automating tests to ensure the quality and reliability of developed solutions.

As a Lead QA, I drive the testing strategy, automation (Playwright, Cypress, Karate, Swagger), and continuous integration (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GithubAction) for test optimization, API validation, and performance monitoring through KPIs.

As a Business Analyst, I ensure the writing of functional and technical specifications, the analysis of business requirements, and coordination between technical teams, POs, and business stakeholders to ensure optimal solution alignment.

My expertise covers functional and technical test management, defect tracking, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement of QA processes, using Agile/SaFe & Scrum methodologies 🚀

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Société Générale - GTPS
Lead QA
BANKING AND INSURANCE
March 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
Puteaux, France
As a Business Analyst & Lead QA, I am involved in quality management and test optimization in a Cloud and DevOps environment. My role is to align business and technical needs, ensure high reliability of applications, and guarantee optimal quality of deliverables.
Aligning technical and business teams to streamline the integration of new features.
Defining and executing QA strategies by integrating Agile/SaFe best practices.
Automating tests and continuous integration to ensure the reliability of deployed services.
Budget monitoring and resource optimization to ensure effective planning within an Agile/SaFe framework.
Defining and monitoring QA and DevOps KPIs to improve test coverage and limit production regressions.
Gathering and in-depth analysis of business needs, in collaboration with Product Owners and stakeholders.
Writing and validating functional and technical specifications.
Defining and implementing cross-functional testing strategies ensuring coherent alignment of QA practices.
Automating End-to-End (E2E) tests with Playwright, Cypress, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
Developing API tests based on Swagger, ensuring complete endpoint coverage.
Integrating tests into Xray and CI/CD, with centralized reporting to improve visibility on deliverable quality.
Visualizing test results on Grafana, allowing real-time monitoring of quality and performance.
Collaborating with SRE and Ops teams for test implementation.
Monitoring and analyzing defects detected during acceptance testing, in collaboration with development teams to ensure rapid fixes.
Designing and conducting QA Bootcamps at each PI, promoting practice standardization and continuous improvement.
Jira GitHub Jenkins Kubernetes Python jfrog X-ray Postman PostgreSQL SQLAlchemy Behave TDD/BDD Gherkin JavaScript Cypress Karate Playwright GraphQL Java
CANAL+,
Lead QA
September 2021 - March 2023 (1 year and 6 months)
Moulineaux, France
**Projects**: Service Platform

**Methodology**: Scrum

**Team**: 30 people

**Project Description**: Implementation of a new service platform for advertising agencies, under the direction of Canal+'s technical and operational productions. Integrated into the Editorial IT team, the mission is to ensure the analysis, validation, and optimization of processes while guaranteeing the quality of developments and deliverables.

**Achievements**:
Writing User Stories with the Product Owner, defining acceptance criteria, and validating business requirements.
Analysis of US, impact study, and breakdown into sub-features.
Costing, workload estimation, and tracking of US.
Working closely with the Product Owner to define the product backlog and prioritize tasks.
Writing test plans with POs and development teams (Tres amigos).
Development of integration and performance tests.
Execution of unit, functional, and non-regression tests.
Using Xray to manage test plans, test cases, and track results.
Test automation with Cypress for the front-end.
Testing payment flows on the platform to ensure their proper functioning and compliance with business requirements.
Test automation with Karate for backend tests.
Processing and analyzing advertising contracts using Apache Spark.
Code reviews.
Technical documentation (Test Report, Test Record): Confluence, Sharepoint.
Integration and configuration of SonarQube and correction of Sonar analysis feedback.
Security and authentication management via OKta.
Médiametrie
Integration and Software Validation Testing
PRESS AND MEDIA
September 2017 - September 2021 (4 years)
Within Médiamétrie's DSM Directorate, I worked on several strategic projects related to audiovisual media audience measurement on a national and international scale. These projects concern:
Television, radio, and streaming platforms (Netflix).
Analysis of usage and optimization of audience measurement tools.
Improvement of the quality of results and performance of developed tools.
The objective is to ensure accurate and reliable calculations, while proposing solutions for the evolution and optimization of measurement systems.