ANASTASIA JAMES
Huddersfield
Summary
Detail-oriented Software Quality Assurance Engineer adept at ensuring the flawless performance of software applications through meticulous testing and analysis. Proficient in Python, Java, and JavaScript for manual and automated testing to identify bugs, defects, and vulnerabilities. Skilled in creating comprehensive test plans, executing test cases, and documenting results to validate system stability, functionality, and performance across various scenarios. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and raise the quality profile throughout SDLC. Skilled at providing test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria whilst working in a test-first environment to achieve Agile project deliverables within defined milestones.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
CapitalSage Holdings
01.2022 - Current
- Analyse software project requirements, identify test objectives and prioritise features for testing,
- Executing manual and automated testing to accurately identify and rectify quality faults.
- Conducting functional, regression, performance, integration and user acceptance testing, ensuring compliance with project requirements and specification
- Performing usability tests with different demographics enhancing overall user satisfaction.
- Performing re-testing of bug fixes and regression testing to ensure the stability of updates and bug fixes
- Develop test plan and test cases based on business requirements and technical specifications
- Managing bug tracking system efficiently leading to a significant decrease in unresolved issues.
- ensuring proper documentation and stakeholder collaboration to ensure product quality, efficiency and alignment with business
- Execute regression testing using Appium to re-run existing test cases on modified software
- Schedule test runs and analyse results for validation, using Postman
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain utmost quality throughout the software development lifecycle
Software Tester
Empretechnologies
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Analysed requirements, identified testable features, and defined test objectives
- Developed detailed test plan and test cases to validate system behaviour
- Developed and executed automated tests to ensure adequate test coverage for functionality, integration, end-to-end and UAT testing
- Developed and maintained comprehensive test plans based on user stories and requirement documents
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams on implementing an Agile environment.
- Utilised Git for version control by collaborating with the development team to manage test scripts, test data, and documentation in repositories
- Integrated Trello with Git repositories to streamline workflows and ensure seamless coordination between testing activities and other development processes.
- Liaised with Agile delivery teams using Test-Driven Development (TDD) with Java to understand user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring continuous integration and achieving an 18% boost in high-quality tested features
- Conducted exploratory testing by exploring the software's functionality without predefined test cases to uncover defects, usability issues, and edge cases, generating an 11% improvement in the defect discovery rate
- Utilised JavaScript for performance testing, scripting performance scenarios, measuring page load times and analysing performance metrics to identify bottlenecks, resulting in a 12% increase in average page load time
Education
MA - Education Studies
University of Huddersfield
01.2022
Skills
QA - Manual and Automation testing Methodology - Waterfall andAgile/Scrum
Testing - Smoke, Exploratory,System, Regression,Performance, UAT, API, database
Technologies - HTML, CSS, JSON,Java, Javascript, Typescript, SQL
Framework - Cucumber BDD,Page Object Model
Automation tools - Selenium,Cypress, Playwright
API tools - Postman, Swagger,Cypress, Playwright
Test Management - Jira, Zephyr,Azure DevOps, TFS, Confluence,TestRail, Xray
CI/CD - Jenkins, AzureDevops
Version control - GitHub, GitLab, AzureDevops
Projects - Web and mobile applications, CRM, Salesforce, E-commerce, Finance, Retail
Certification
- ISTQB
- Test Code Camp Academy
Timeline
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
CapitalSage Holdings
01.2022 - Current
Software Tester
Empretechnologies
01.2020 - 12.2021
MA - Education Studies
University of Huddersfield