Axel Degroote

Background

About Axel Degroote

IT professional with extensive experience in all key QA/Test disciplines, requirements, reviews, audits, release/project planning, epic and sprint planning, backlog refinement, product release, test management and hands on testing experience.Skills and Knowledge:• Lead teams of over 18 professionals with both onshore, offshore, and international resources.• Planning, documenting, training, building presentations, as well as creating and refinement of user stories and test cases.• Methodologies: SDLC/STLC, RAD, RUP, Scrum/Agile, DevOps/CI/CD or “Shift-left” testing.• Types of testing: Unit, System, Regression, Exploratory, A/B, UAT, manual, automated, performance, and load testing.• Project/Team Management: Workfront, ClearQuest, Slack, Project, Trello, JIRA, Confluence, Team Foundation.• Test Management: ClearQuest, Quality Center/ALM, Microsoft Test Manager.• Automation Tools: Functional Tester, Silk test, HP/Microfocus, Shunra, Perfecto, TestComplete, Cypress with Cucumber and Gherkin, some Selenium with Appium.• Performance Tools: JMeter/BlazeMeter, LoadRunner, Silk Performer, Calibre, Performance Dev Tool with Lighthouse.• API Tool Types: Postman, Swagger, Insomnia.rest, Katalon.• Testing experience in various infrastructures: Cloud, security.NET, SQL, non-SQL, multi-tiered client server, and mobility.• Enterprise software (ERP-CRM): Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle-EBS, and various other custom solutions.• Data related: Writing basic SQL scripts for data verification. Used Tableau, MS SQL, and Oracle.• Operating Systems: Microsoft, Unix, Linux, Android, iOS.• Industries: Banking, Retail, Automotive, Education, Real Estate, Medical, Telecomm, Oil and Gas, Media, Education.• Other: AWS, InstallShield, FlexDeploy, Microsoft Office Tools.• Fluent in English and French.