Josue Essotom Danigue

 Led and mentored a team of 4 QA Engineers, driving quality initiatives, improving delivery standards, and ensuring consistent test execution across releases.  Led all manual testing activities for web and API-based applications used by enterprise customers.  Reduced production defect leakage by 40% on a large-scale insurance platform used across multiple EU countries by introducing structured test strategies, risk-based testing, and early defect identification.  Increased overall test coverage by 35% by designing robust manual test cases and implementing automated test scenarios using Playwright, resulting in a 20% reduction in repetitive manual testing effort.  Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives in an Agile/Scrum setup.  Strengthened QA governance and cross-team collaboration by leveraging Jira and Xray for test management and working closely with developers and stakeholders to resolve high-impact issues prior to production releases.

 Mentored junior QA engineers to write concise and effective manual test cases for widely used mobile applications such as the Hubtel app  Automated end-to-end testing for the Merchant Dashboard web application using Selenium, contributing to a 50% reduction in critical production defects and improved overall release stability.  Perform extensive API testing with Postman and used SQL to check that all financial records in the database were correct.  Defined test strategies aligned with sprint goals and created/maintained automated test cases for web applications, ensuring efficient coverage and reduced manual testing effort.  Identified and tracked bugs, issues, and defects, performing regression and performance testing to guarantee consistent product quality