ALLEN KEVIN BAYBAY

As a QA Principal Automation Engineer at Lemongrass, I lead the design, development, and implementation of robust test automation frameworks to ensure the quality and reliability of cloud-based enterprise solutions.
My key responsibilities include:
• Defining and establishing the quality assurance process for the team.
• Designing, maintaining, and optimizing scalable automation frameworks to enhance test coverage and efficiency.
• Developing new automated test suites for various projects and products.
• Defining and standardizing testing iterations, including regression testing strategies.
• Driving continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) practices to streamline testing processes.
• Collaborating with developers, technical analysts, project managers, and delivery owners to evaluate and diagnose issues while recommending solutions.
• Owning defect tracking, follow-ups, and ensuring timely resolutions.
• Mentoring and coaching QA engineers, fostering best practices in automation and testing methodologies.
• Actively participating in design discussions, code reviews, and requirements gathering sessions to gain deep technical insight into applications.
• Implementing Playwright and other modern testing tools to improve test reliability and overall software quality.

Passionate about automation and software quality, I strive to enhance testing processes, ensure seamless user experiences, and drive efficiency within agile development environments.

• Supported agile development methodologies by participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives.
• Streamlined QA processes by developing and maintaining automation scripts, contributing to faster release cycles.

• Build Test Automation framework that will cover regression/integration/api testing of the organization's projects
• Lead automation quality engineers in developing automated test scripts
• Plans, designs, develops and maintains automated test scripts for multiple projects
• Review of software requirements
• Preparation and/or review of Test Plans
• Preparation and/or review of Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Results
• Test data creation
• Identify acceptance criteria required by the business stakeholder, test environment and test readiness requirements, develop automated testing scripts, conduct testing activities using automated testing tools, and provide status of testing in the course of a 2-week Sprint cycles
• Perform backend data validation and interface operability verification, and to coordinate across project teams for information gathering and sharing required to perform testing activities

• Establish good relationships with business customers and team members
• Participate in Test Planning
• Analyze all relevant documents for assigned projects to determine testing requirements
• Participate in Requirements walkthrough and review
• Participate in the test estimation exercise, as an input to release planning and project scheduling
• Participate in test scenario planning, test automation and test execution which is carried out in an effective and expedient manner
• Provide effort estimates on all assigned tasks
• Analyze all relevant documents and design test approach
• Create test scenarios and test cases for Test and UAT environment
• Create test scripts for automated testing for Test environment
• Communicate any issues, clarifications and concerns about software and testing requirements
• Participate in Test Case reviews
• Execute test cases for all assigned projects/enhancements
• Raise any defects found during testing and log the defect using the Defect Management Tool
• Identify Priority and Severity of any bugs/defects
• Raise and communicate bugs/requirement deviations
• Monitor defects from creation to closure
• Complete documentation outlining the results of tests to inform the preparation of future application documentation and reduce the impact of application defects
• Client Assigned: Goodlife Health Clubs

• Analyze requirements documents
• Design manual test cases to meet business and systems requirements
• Translate high-level business requirements and user case into test scenarios and test cases for manual testing
• Determine scope, complexity and size testing efforts
• Participate in test case execution particularly the more complex programs/scenarios
• Re-testing of bug fixes when necessary
• Document test results and report/log defects using JIRA Defect Tracking Tool
• Report on QA status to the project team and managers
• Work closely with software developers, business analysts, and other QA team members to analyze test results and proactively work to resolve any issues
• Identify potential quality issues, troubleshoot problems arising from the testing across all platforms/transaction types, recommend solutions and escalate appropriately
• Test data creation
• Review test plans, test cases, test scripts created by peers
• Review documented test results completed by peers
• Project Assigned: Macquarie Group

• To validate and verify Frontier Software release product suite through:
• Creation of manual test documentation
• Test execution of designated software releases, product enhancements & modifications
• Test execution of upgrade & update installation procedures
• Creation of automated test scripts, using associated software, as necessary
• Compliance with existing Quality & Testing methodology & standards
• Contributions to continuous process improvements & development of the SDLC within the company
• Other duties as directed by Quality Manager, Test Manager and/or Test Coordinator
• Test data creation

• Perform end-to-end testing in different projects (test planning to test closure)
• Perform testing in SAP HR and SAP BW applications (front end and backend testing)
• Analyze functional requirements and create test cases, scripts
• Engages in test estimation on test activities with the QA lead
• Execute test scripts using HP Quality Center (HPQC) as the test management tool
• Unit testing for emergency releases
• Interact with Application Developers, Business Analysts, and Clients in application design and document reviews
• Validates defect fixes
• Test data creation
• Very high annual performance rating with exceeded expectations from direct supervisors
• Attended Bootcamp Trainings namely: Test Planning, Test Execution, Testing Concept Overview, HPQC User

• Drives/generates programs geared toward improvement in cost, productivity and quality for manufacturing needs
• Attends to all customer issues, provides data analysis and their corrective and preventive measures
• Troubleshoots problems in manufacturing lines and responds to customer complaints on technical matters
• Generates and reviews process documents such as specifications and work standard guides to be used and implemented in production
• Identifies, modifies, and upgrades processes and controls in order to meet set quality, yield and turnaround time at optimum cost