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Gabriela S.
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Costa Rica
UTC -06:00
America/Costa_Rica
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12 years of experience working on software development projects playing roles like Product Owner,Scrum Masterand QA Engineer.
I have almost 12 years of experience working on software development projects playing roles like Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Technical Lead, and QA Engineer. During the last 4 years, I have focused my career on Business Analyst and Product Owner roles in different industries, working closely with clients analyzing their businesses, gathering requirements, proposing better processes, and implementing improvements in their products, while leading the development team regarding the business knowledge, the product backlog and, user stories to implement, at the same time.
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Years of commercial development experience
12 years of experience
Core technologies
Project Highlights
RODEO LOGISTICS
Nov `22 - Jan `23
2 months
World Championship Rodeo Association Platforms I worked as a Scrum Master working side by side with the Product Manager and development team; reorganized the team and implemented the Scrum framework in order to adopt agile practices and establish work/career paths for designs, development, and QA teams.
Responsibilities & achievements
Requirements gathering and definition with the Product Owner and Stakeholders ▪ Analyze and document requirements needed to create user stories for Front-End and Back-End ▪ Support UI/UX designers in the creation of designs /mockups ▪ Follow up automation strategies and incorporate them into the QA team practices Daily troubleshooting in order to remove impediments and help the team to move forward ▪ Coach team members in order to apply properly Scrum practices ▪ Lead daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint reviews, and retrospective meetings ▪ Support and guide team members by identifying areas to improve; such us as soft skill or tech knowledge ▪ Diagram and document feature workflows ▪ Create and manage the project backlog ▪ Create and manage the sprint backlog ▪ Support constantly the development team with requirements and business knowledge ▪ Research and analyze third parties API documentation ▪ Support and coordinate the project roadmap with the PM
BALLAST LANE/ HealthCare Mobile App
Jun `22 - Nov `22
5 months
I Worked on Business Analysis working closely with the team being the bridge of communication between the business rules and technical implementation to develop a mobile app and integrating with different third parties in a covid home test device and platform
Responsibilities & achievements
Meet constantly with the client and PM to discuss app requirements. ▪ Analyze and document requirements needed to create user stories. ▪ Support UI/UX designers in the creation of designs /mockups ▪ Diagram and document feature workflows ▪ Create and manage the project backlog ▪ Create and manage the sprint backlog ▪ Support constantly the development team with requirements and business knowledge ▪ Research and analyzed third parties API documentation ▪ Map and document input and output at the different BE implementation levels ▪ Support and coordinate the project roadmap with the PM
PROXIMITY 10 PEARLS
Aug `18 - Jun `22
4 years
As Product Owner/Business Analyst, I worked closely with the clients by understanding, analyzing their business, and designing new processes based on their needs. Visiting the client constantly and meeting with them allowed me to be a bridge of communication between them and the development team; looking to achieve the business requirements by leading and guiding the technical team.
Responsibilities & achievements
Meet constantly with the client to discuss system requirements. ▪ Gather, analyze, design and document implement notes from the system requirements. ▪ Create UI design/mockup ▪ Diagram and document feature workflows ▪ Create and manage the project backlog Create and manage the sprint backlog ▪ Coordinate and manage sprint backlog reviews ▪ Review and test the sprint goal ▪ Coordinate and support new releases to the client ▪ Support constantly the development team with requirements and system knowledge ▪ Support the client with user acceptance testing ▪ Provide support and trainings to the client regarding the system implementation ▪ Support and coordinate the project roadmap with the team lead ▪ Backup the Scrum Master on scrum events artifact when needed
FISERV/Mobile Banking App
Feb `18 - Jun `18
4 months
Worked as Lead QA for teams located in India and New Zealand; also required testing mobile banking apps on different Andriod and iSO devices; as well, as coordinate between the different projects to establish better QA practices by migrating from waterfall to Scrum.
Responsibilities & achievements
QA lead for mobile banking apps. ▪ Team tasks assignment. ▪ Mobile apps installation. ▪ Client–team communication ▪ Automation maintenance. ▪ Services testing. ▪ Defining and creation of test cases. ▪ Test cases execution. ▪ Defects reporting and validation. ▪ Defects triage. ▪ Creation of test documentation such as test plans and test strategies. ▪ Functional testing. ▪ Metrics reporting.
GAP LATAM/ Health Insurance System
Jul `13 - Feb `18
5 years
Lead QA teams for health insurance projects to guarantee the best product quality for health insurance plans; as well, as working with analytics reports performing functional, black and white box testing, DB testing, regression, smoke, sanity and stress testing.
Responsibilities & achievements
Responsible for leading QA teams. ▪ Client coordination ▪ Creating test plans and test strategies ▪ Analyzing business rules and implementation notes from the BA and PO ▪ Demo new releases to the client ▪ Train new team members transferring the system knowledge ▪ Define test scenarios, creating, and executing test cases, finding and reporting defects ▪ Design DB testing scenarios for ETL test ▪ Support automation tests by identified testing scenarios, documentation, and maintenance ▪ Running manual API testing ▪ Creating and designing data test scenarios; as well as developing and running data query tests ▪ Stress and volume testing
CECROPIA TESTING SOLUTIONS/Fitness Social Network
Jan `12 - Jul `13
1 year
Implement the QA functional practices in a fitness social network; besides creating and maintenance automation testing and API automated calls and manual API testing.
Responsibilities & achievements
Create and maintain Selenium2 - Java automation test scenarios. ▪ Daily review and documentation of new builds and regressions tests in Jenkins ▪ Java and Selenium researching and implementation. ▪ Execute, document and automate web services in a Python framework ▪ Support and train teammates with QA practices and daily tasks ▪ Support functional testers by coaching and reviewing documentation
GAP LATAM/Social Network
May `11 - Dec `11
7 months
join a social network team as a junior QA analyst learning the QA practices, analytical skills and responsibilities by identifying test scenarios, creating and executing test cases, reporting and verifying system bugs and run constant regression testing the verify the system stability and quantity
Responsibilities & achievements
Work as manual QA identifying creating and executing test cases ▪ Navigate throughout the site looking for issues and improvements and running ▪ Pixel perfect verification ▪ Execute functional, sanity, exploratory, smoke manual testing ▪ Execute manual performance testing ▪ Maintenance test cases suites
HR Middleware System
As a senior QA, help the client to guarantee the best quality for their customers’ HHRR systems by creating and establishing QA practices in their development cycle. Additionally, researched and tested apps API frameworks, support and troubleshoot any issues their customer could face.
Responsibilities & achievements
Create a test plan and strategy for the client and each of their customer app ▪ Create test cases and regression test suite template ▪ Execute functional and API testing regularly as part of the sprint task ▪ Regression, Smoke, Sanity, and Exploratory testing of each of their customers ▪ Work on QA Release Document ▪ Coordinate and supported the client running UAT ▪ Bug reporting and verification. ▪ Demo presentation to the client. ▪ QA tasks estimation for coming features ▪ Help the client’s client support department regarding business requirements
FUSION HIT
Implemented QA practices in a brand-new project in the company to manage field work for heavy machine companies, gathering statistics from the engineers and working with analytics to generate performance reports.
Responsibilities & achievements
Creation of a QA strategy from scratch for a client. ▪ Client coordination regarding acceptance criteria. ▪ Creation of mockup based on the acceptance criteria ▪ Regression, Smoke, Sanity and Exploratory testing. ▪ Test Cases creation and execution ▪ Bug reporting and verification. ▪ Demo presentation to the client. ▪ Estimation for coming features.
Education
Higher education in Computer Science
Agency
50-100
GMT-6
Costa Rica, Alajuela
Core Expertise
Industries
Architecture & Design, Logistics & Transportation, E-Commerce & Retail, Banking & Finance, Accounting & Auditing, Big Data
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