Viktoria P., Middle Manual QA Engineer

Experience

Manual QA Test Lead, Balkan-SAST

09/2020 - 10/2021
Description:

• Performing manual test on safety-critical systems for railroad centralization;
• Using custom simulators(e.g. hardware nodes that allow you to simulate a railway network and operators workplace) and software to perform tests and identify defects and issues;
• Writing detailed bug reports, including clean and accurate descriptions of detected errors and how to reproduce them;
• Retesting and regression after a fix is issued;
• Keep up-to-date latest software packages in both simulator nodes and operator nodes;
• Test plan and test design of ETCS Driver Machine Interface implementation (https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/european-train-control-system-etcs) following EU safety standards;
• Test plan and test design of Automatic Railway Level Crossing Systems following EU and local safety regulations;
• Actively participate in qa recruitment process, including building hiring matrix, interview questions and practical tasks
• Training, onboarding and documenting all aspects in the QA team;
• Organizing workload and distributing tasks;
• Oversee tasks and make sure deadlines are met;

Achievements:

• Developed good understanding of the railway transport automation and safety standards;
• Improved team performance and effectiveness by implementing best software testing practices and continuous training;
• Managed to become Lead QA Engineer
• Improved the QA hiring process
• Created QA engineers on-boarding process
• Created excessive documentation for use from the QA engineers

Freelance Manual QA/QC Tester, Tobidun.io

05/2020 - 10/2020
Description:

• Helping to assure the quality of the software;
• Performing functional and non-functional tests using best ISTQB practices;
• Testing web applications with the most commonly used browsers;
• Time managment
• Leadership
• Ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Goal oriented
• Attention to detail
• Proactivity
• Creativity
• Testing mobile application on Android 10;
• Performing exploritary tests on every release;

Data Entry Operator, store.bg

04/2018 - 09-2020
Description:

• Responsible for adding new products sold in the "Beauty" , "Office" and "Pets" sections of store.bg platform.
• Verifying and translating full product data (incl. product photo, product description, proper use, ingredients, expiration, etc.) either from manufacturer website or if provided from the official distributor .
• Managing product data flow in different software systems used in the store.bg platform (mostly exporting product data).
• First line in testing new store.bg internal software platform feature implementations.
• Helping with reporting bugs and feature incompatibilities to the developers of store.bg.

Education

01-03/2020
Swift Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria Introduction to the QA methods, practices and tools including:

• Functional and Non-Functional testing
• White Box & Black Box testing techniques
• Methods for software development - Waterfall, V-model and Agile, including Scrum
• Levels of software testing - Component, Integration, System and Acceptance testing
• Writing and reviewing test cases
• Test planing
• Introduction to HP Quality center and TestRail
• Bug life-cycle
• Introduction to JIRA
• Working with HTML and XML
• SQL Basics