Hi, I'm Lisa.
I build things, break them on purpose,
then make them look better.

QA Tester (contract)

Inner Reality · Remote · 15 Nov 2024 to present

A campaign platform. I build and test live campaigns for betting and gaming operators and international consumer brands.

• Clarify requirements before testing starts, then test each platform release and carry every defect in Jira through to closure: reported to the developer, fixed, retested until it holds, closed.
• Create the look and feel of the public-facing campaigns clients' customers play, starting from a template and customising the page set-up, colours and buttons to each client's requirements, then test the user journeys to make sure everything works as expected. Five live so far, three of them AR experiences and one running across three countries.
• Designed a live prize survey from the ground up: its look and feel, its mechanics and how it works.
• Also build demos for client pitches, and create quizzes and surveys.
• Took over the team's QA test-case tracker and expanded it to around 350 cases across 6 user journeys (campaign setup, sign-up, sign-in, map, vault, AR), each recording environment, build version, severity, expected vs actual and the linked Jira ticket, kept current as features ship.
• Verify that deployments have actually landed before signing off, and call "not ready" when they haven't.
• Report what's fixed and what's outstanding in a weekly 1:1 with management and in the weekly team meeting.
• Ship front-end work through reviewed pull requests, including unifying Campaign Creator's look and feel against supplied branding: CSS, wording and consistency across its pages.

Co-Founder

GG Anvil · 2026 to present · alongside my primary role

A separate venture I co-own with one partner: a Discord-native competitive gaming and tournament platform, in development. Its map-veto tool is already live and in use.

• Build, test and fix features across the platform, and still developing it: 228 merged pull requests and 55% of the commits on the backend's main branch.
• Sole tester: my QA sign-off comes before every release.
• Handle client questions, explaining how the product works and walking users through the interface.
• Shape product direction and feature priorities with my co-founder.

Receptionist & Board Secretary

Serene Park Retirement Centre · Pretoria · Sep 2015 to Dec 2023

117 units (77 cottages, 40 flats), up to around 250 residents and a daily activities programme. One of three office staff under the manager, who reported to a governing board.

Receptionist · front desk & office · 2015 to 2023

• Ran the front desk for residents and visitors, and gathered residents' wishes and issues to bring to the board.
• Kept resident administration in order: the resident records workbook in Excel (details, contracts, subscribed services, residents joining and leaving), VoIP billing to and from residents and bulk payment to the provider, DStv subscriptions and cancellations, and petty cash and levy-account charges handed to the finance officer.
• Coordinated outside groups running events at the centre: who, what, when and where, the venue and set-up, and informing and reminding residents.
• First responder for the building's systems, trained by the manager: borehole, solar, backup generator during loadshedding, VoIP, Wi-Fi, lift and gas emergencies.
• Built the centre's website and started and ran its WhatsApp news channel; supported resident transport and the activities programme, and helped residents with their phones and laptops.
• Ran sound and slideshows at residents' memorial services and supported their families on the day.

Board Secretary · the centre's governing board · most of those eight years

• Prepared the agenda and the financial report for each roughly quarterly board meeting.
• Organised the meetings themselves, catering included.
• Kept the action log tracking every point from the last agenda: what was done, and what was still outstanding.