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Alex S.
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Argentina
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America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
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QA Manual
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP, Number: 303355) Experience working in agile environments Strong Customer Service attitude Bilingual Spanish/English (attended thousands of daily meetings in English since 2004) Solid interpersonal skills with the proven ability to work unsupervised Exceptional organizational ability Exceptional communication skills Analysis and problem-solving solid skills Flexibility & adaptability to ambiguity
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Years of commercial development experience
12 years of experience
Core technologies
Other technologies
Project Highlights
Upwork
May `18 - Present
6 years
1) Sr Manual QA Tester - Worked in Saas projects as a Manual Tester - Tested APIs using Postman - Worked in Agile > Scrum and Kanban projects - Created and maintained Test Cases using TestRail - Tested Mobile apps (Android) - Some customers I had as QA Tester: o Device42 (USA): manual testing, creating test cases, tested APIs using Postman o TodoPerro (Uruguay): manual testing, mobile testing, web testing (Magento2). Used Browserstack to test the app and web app on IOS and Safari) o Ticket Games (Argentina): documented the QA processes. Manual testing. Collaborated with the Project Management (planning, documentation) o Silicon Development: Wrote test cases, and executed test cases. Smoke testing. Regression testing. Documentation. o Purefy: Senior Manual Tester: Wrote test cases, and executed test cases. Smoke testing. Regression testing. API Testing (Postman). Documentation. 2) Agile Project Manager - Worked as a coach teaching a team of Marketing how to use Jira and work in an Agile environment. - I set up projects in Jira from scratch: created a Roadmap > Epics > User Stories > Tasks. - Gathered requirements from Customers - Managed a team of Developers, Designers, and Testers - Created and maintained the project documentation (aka Wiki) using Confluence and Notion. - Some customers I had as PM: o Amherst Software (USA) o Monotype (USA) o Versata (USA)
Responsibilities & achievements
Rogers Software Development
Sep `12 - May `18
6 years
QA Lead Multiple activities related to the SQA field: - Leading a small team of 2 QA Manual Testers + 1 Automation Tester - Attending daily meetings to represent the QA team (Scrum / Kanban / Jira) - QA Team: assigning tasks, controlling resources, following up on daily activities. - Coaching and helping the QA members. Focal point between the Dev Team and the QA Team. - Detailed Defect reporting: adding all the information needed to help the developers replicate the issues easily. Screenshots are attached to the bug reports, step-by-step description, etc. - Defect tracking using tools like Jira/Trac/VTiger - Defect follow-up: direct contact with the developers to assist/be assisted by them to replicate the issues found - Multiple documentation tasks: changes to existing processes, test cases, test plans. - Daily work with automation QA engineers to ensure the proper coverage of the test cases - API testing (Postman) - Mobile APP (Android) testing - Mobile Site testing Wide experience using the following Team Collaboration tools used in this project based on the Agile Methodology: - Slack / Gtalk (Internal communications) - Jira/Trac/Vtiger (Defect management) - TortoiseSVN (Code management) - Virtual Machines with several sets of environments (several combinations between OS/Web Browsers) - Postman
Responsibilities & achievements
QA Sourcing PM
Mar `12 - Sep `12
6 months
Working as a Freelancer independent Tester for small/medium projects/customers from Argentina and the USA. Most of the projects where I worked in these last 2 years applied the Agile methodology. Worked for a few projects/customers from Elance.com (i.e. tested a .Net web application) and oDesk.com (Bilingual Online Maps Rater) QA Teacher/Coach: worked during 2013 as Teacher and Coach for qasourcing.net, preparing University Students (from IT careers) as “Junior Testers with Experience”: I thought them the basic theoretical/practical concepts of Manual/Black Box Testing
Responsibilities & achievements
IBM Argentina
Aug `04 - Mar `12
8 years
QA Manual Tester (100% English language) I tested different web applications, most of them were developed using Java, running under AIX and using a DB2 database. Tasks performed: Test Cases designed based on documentation such as Use Cases, Business Rules, Business Cases, or just based on the navigation through the menus of the application in the Testing Environment. Test Cases execution. Defect management: tracking defects from the time they were found up to resolution. Managed 3 Tester Junior. I created and updated and executed test plans. Documented special reports, Presentations presented to the Customers and the management (100% English language), etc. Level II Support Coordinator (100% English language) After I got my certification as PMP in 2005, I’ve been offered this position as part of a team of Coordinators of Critical Situations for Gold and Silver IBM Applications (very critical applications for the business related to Supply Chain). Dedication to this project: on demand.
Responsibilities & achievements
Gilbarco
Jan `04 - Aug `04
7 months
I tested several versions and releases of a POS (Point of Sale System) Client-Server Application developed in C++, SQL Server 2000 and running on Win NT and XP. Tasks performed: Testcase writing and design, from Use Cases made with UML diagrams, or from single MS Word Office documents. Mentoring and leading a team composed of testers juniors.
Responsibilities & achievements
Education
Higher education in Computer Science
Agency
10-50
GMT-5
Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Peru
Core Expertise
Industries
Banking & Finance, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Data Science & Machine Learning, Big Data
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