Rodrigo Alejandro Soto Marín
Quality Assurance
Paraíso,Cartago
Summary
Quality Assurance Test Engineer that previously worked for Testing Software from August 2020 to June 2024 with a track record of enhancing product quality at Cayuse and Surehand. Specialized in manual testing and a few months of mobile, automation testing and accessibility testing. Able to adapt to any given situation, strong teamwork, effective communication and willingness to keep learning and grow as a professional. Knowledgeable in the Scrum methodology and the use of different tools and technologies to help improve, maintain and simplify the assurance of quality of most projects.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Testing Software (Surehand)
08.2020 - 05.2021
- Including both web and mobile versions, Surehand focuses on skills-first hiring that instantly matches industrial employers with best-fit tradespeople.
- Three different versions of the application exist (Employers, employees and Admin). Subscription based for Employers, free for employees.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and sprints.
- Occasional testing of stories and bug tickets when needed.
- Helped with manual regression testing when needed.
- Created infrastructure needed to have mobile automation tests running, using tools like Selenium, Appium and BrowserStack.
- Developed and maintained automated test cases running on both physical and virtual mobile devices.
Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Testing Software (Cayuse - Sponsored Projects)
08.2020 - 06.2024
- Sponsored Projects is a web application that functions as a central hub of Cayuse that allows users to manage the lifecycle of proposals and awards in Universities around the world. Sponsored Projects is used to create proposals that researchers use to apply for funding, electronically route proposals for internal review before submission to the sponsor, and then manage any received awards through the life of the award.
- Heavily multi-layered, coordination, communication and integration testing is essential and necessary, since a lot of areas in the app depend on the correct functioning of areas from other projects.
- Completely editable forms, where admins customize questions, objects and integrations with other projects.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and sprints.
- Established clear and daily communication channels between QA team members, Developers and Product Management for improved collaboration in addressing software defects and current/future functionality.
- Daily testing of stories and bug tickets, focusing on Acceptance Criteria, negative scenarios and accessibility.
- Conducted thorough regression tests across multiple platforms at the end of each quarter or when needed after implementing functionalities that heavily changes or impact the system.
- Interlocking with the developers before stories are sent to QA Ready, this with the purpose of identifying possible test scenarios not explicitly stated in the Acceptance Criteria or scenarios that could impact a different area of the application that might not be obvious at first glance.
- Use of Accessibility testing tools like NVDA, I-Menu, CCA(Colour Contrast Analyzer), Headings Map and VisBug.
- Streamlined bug reporting processes using defect tracking tools like JIRA, allowing for faster issue resolution times.
- Developing and Maintaining of test plans and test cases with tools like qTest and Zephyr.
- Identified critical bugs before deployment with diligent execution of test scenarios in various environments.
- Contributed to hotfix testing in several different environments both, in and out of business hours, to ensure customer's satisfaction whenever needed.
- Creation and sharing of daily reports about all open issues and their status at the time.
- Use of Confluence for further documentation and training about new or existing functionalities.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computational Science
University of Costa Rica
Cartago, Costa Rica 05.2001 -
Skills
Manual Testing
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Testing Software (Surehand)
08.2020 - 05.2021
Quality Assurance Test Engineer
Testing Software (Cayuse - Sponsored Projects)
08.2020 - 06.2024
Bachelor's Degree - Computational Science
University of Costa Rica
05.2001 -
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