QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Working with various clients and on different projects to improve the quality of the products and the software testing processes through consultancy and training, with a focus on test automation. I have worked in the finance sector, ecommerce, health&insurance and other industries.

I have performed the usual variety of testing activities - test planning, methodology and strategy construction, test execution, test automation.


* Pairing with testers to improve functional and integration test approaches


* Hands on Testing and Automating for APIs, Web and Mobile


* Consultancy reviews of development teams to create improvement plans for Agile, Testing and Automating.


* Testing Rest service APIs using PHP (Laravavel) and Java libraries


* Performed tutorials and hosted the QA track at local dev conferences


* Provided Training in Java/C#/PHP, APIs, REST Assured, Selenium WebDriver


* Build tools used: Maven, Gradle


* Testing tools: JUnit, RSpec, PHPUnit, Codeception, Serenity


* UI testing: Selenium, Sikuli, Galen framework


* CI/CD: Jenkins, Bamboo, Gitlab


* Mobile: Appium for both iOS and Android

-- Deciding test strategy, focusing on automating 100% of the tests to facilitate rapid delivery

-- Test planning and implementing processes for functional and non-functional testing

-- REST API, Web and Mobile applications testing

-- Created automation framework with Selenium Webdriver, using Page Objects and Step Object automation design patterns

-- Adopted BDD/ATDD approach in test case creation to facilitate communication with Product owner using Serenity BDD (former known as Thucydides)

-- Integrated Appium for mobile automated testing both on iOS and Android

-- Acted as a Scrum Master for the frontend and backend teams
Test Automation responsibilities:

-- Build a unified automation framework for web&mobile applications

-- Increase UI test coverage

-- Coach team members on automation best practices

Release manager responsabilities

-- Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

-- Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time, and that they meet or exceed expectations

-- Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

-- Research new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies and analyzes their application to current configuration management needs

-- UI & Component Testing

-- Researching the best way to test the UI and the layout on different browsers including on iPad/Android tablets

-- Created an automation tool for screenshot comparison testing

-- POC for running the regression tests using ghostdriver and PhantomJS

-- Analyzing functional documents and test conditions

-- Creating and maintaining suites of independent and accurate functional/integration test cases according to the above

-- Finding and entering defects. Follow up with developers for this

-- Setting up the test environment

-- Reporting progress and achievements to my mentor/team leader

-- Running manual regression based on a previous prioritization process

-- Validating customer issues in a short amount of time

-- Experienced in testing a web application
-- All the activities and responsibilities of a Quality Control Specialist

-- Deciding the testing strategy and creating the testing goals

-- Taking ownership over some features of the application

-- Being responsible with releasing great quality software every three months