Architect & Automation Tester & Manual Tester & Test Manager

The candidate is a QA Engineer with 9 years of commercial experience in the QA field. He worked as a Tester, QA Engineer, QA Engineering Lead and Architect so has the experience on all levels of QA. Currently, he works on a combined position of QA Engineer Lead and Test Architect, while the workload split is 50-50. The candidate uses Python as his main programming language and uses various frameworks and tools such as Robot framework, Postman, Selenium and jMeter. Has the knowledge of the cloud environment - is certified in Azure Fundamentals. He is interested and studying the field of artificial intelligence and biometrics. The candidate speaks Spanish, English and has the understanding of Czech, but feels more confident working either in Spanish or English. Has the experience in leading several teams simultaneously that were also distributed all over the globe. On his current position he leads 1 team consisting of 5 members and 2 support colleagues. He also coaches and mentors junior and less experienced coworkers.

Quality Assurance Engineer Lead / Test Architect (March 2020 - Present)

• Worked on a big data analytics application project.
• Reviewed, analyzed, and commented on business requirements with BA.
• Coordinated with the QA team during releases to ensure quality gates are met.
• Created and planned test cycles for different testing phases.
• Created release documentation such as test plan, test strategy, RTM, and defect reports.
• Coordinated test activities during the preparation phase.
• Mentored QA members.
• Created GUI automation in Robot Framework.
• Created DB automation in Robot Framework to cover ETL process.
• Built common test libraries using Python.
• Coordinated the maintainability of the test library and regression test scripts.

Solution Architect (January 2019 - December 2019)

• Worked on digital transformation for one of the world's largest building material industry.
• Reviewed, analyzed, and commented on business requirements with product owner, stakeholders, and BA.
• Identified development risks, dependencies, and enablers to propose measures for mitigation.
• Reviewed technical limitations and negotiated with product owner and BA for the best compromise between business requirements and IT solution architecture.
• Identified areas for improvement.
• Designed high-level technical solutions.
• Reviewed technical solutions with lead developers and followed up on development.
• Reviewed new technologies, created POC, and integrated successful POC to application architecture.
• Presented technical solutions and POC results to management, product owner, teams, and architects.
• Coordinated during releases phase with stakeholders, QA, and developers to meet quality gates and application standards.
• Created technical documentation.

Quality Assurance Engineer Lead (August 2017 - January 2019)

• Reviewed, analyzed, and commented on business requirements with BA and lead developers.
• Commented on technical solutions with the development team.
• Reviewed and analyzed failures sent by customers and categorized them.
• Worked with stakeholders and developers to facilitate defect resolution.
• Coordinated during releases phase with QA team and developers to fulfill quality gates.
• Defined acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Created and planned test cycles for different testing phases.
• Coordinated execution of manual and automation tests.
• Reported results of manual and automation tests.
• Mentored QA members.
• Created GUI automation in Robot Framework and API automation in Postman.
• Coordinated maintainability of test library and test environments.
• Documented QA process for new functionalities.

Quality Assurance Engineer (March 2016 - July 2017)

• Reviewed and analyzed failures sent by customers and categorized them.
• Defined manual test cases.
• Designed test scripts to cover most of the application functionality.
• Maintained the test library.
• Reviewed and analyzed test results.
• Reported product failures and documented them properly.
• Designed test scripts to check custom systems.

Quality Assurance and Software Testing Engineer (December 2012 - February 2016)

• Planned, designed, and executed test cycles.
• Defined test plans and manual test cases.
• Designed test scripts to cover most of the application functionality.
• Maintained the test library.
• Reviewed and analyzed test results.
• Reported product failures and documented them properly.
• Worked closely with the developer team.

IT Service Desk Analyst (March 2012 - December 2012)

• Recommended solutions and resolved problems across various IT platforms to minimize impact on business.
• Logged and tracked requests, maintaining history records.
• Understood computerized data entry systems and their uses for tracking activities.
• Worked closely with other teams.