Software Quality Assurance

RODRIGO SALAZAR

Costa Rican address: **M Residencial Las Catalinas, Cartago, Costa Rica 30801

US address: 110 Walnut St, Toms River, NJ

CR Phone: (+506)8864, US Phone: 732-***-**** ********@*****.*** https://linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-salazar-586b803a SOFTWARE QA T E S T E R

Automated Testing Software QA Experience 5-Year Record of Proven Results

Software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, manual and automated test case designing, creating and executing. Development and constant improvement of automated framework for UI and webserver testing

Qualifications include five years of QA software testing experience, test automating experience and user-acceptance testing experience.

Backed by strong credentials including a computer science degree; advanced command of various testing suites, agile methodologies and monitoring tools; and cross-platform skills in Windows, Linux Android and iOS. Skills Summary

SQA Testing & Methodologies

Test Plans, Cases & Processes

Functional Requirements

Scripting & Documentation

Regression & Negative Testing

UI & Compatibility Testing

Data Interface & Migration Testing

Performance / Load / Stress

Testing

Testing Automation

Defect / Bug Tracking

Test Strategies & Coverages

QA & QC Standards

BDD and TDD

Professional Experience

AVANTICA TECHNOLOGIES San Jose, Costa Rica

Nearshore software engineering service provider.

Project: Internal trainings and coaching

Internal process to train and develop QA career path Automation QA Trainer and coach, 3/2017 to present Serving as a guide for QA engineers that want to make their way in the Automation QA career path by helping set goals and work toward achieving them. Giving advice and good practice in order to achieve quality code, while doing code reviews in eagerness to congratulate quality code or in marking improvement areas. Results:

Guide new QA automation engineers in their career paths in order to have a new generation of automation engineers specialized on selenium web driver and java, but being able to integrate to any other technology.

Reviewing code Java code from existing functional and API automated projects to help find week points and strengthen frameworks and automated test.

Help out teams define the best technologies and strategy for developing new frameworks and test plans that matches best with the client’s needs. RODRIGO SALAZAR

Costa Rican address: 31M Residencial Las Catalinas, Cartago, Costa Rica 30801 US address: 110 Walnut St, Toms River, NJ

CR Phone: (+506)8864, US Phone: 732-***-**** ********@*****.*** https://linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-salazar-586b803a AVANTICA TECHNOLOGIES San Jose, Costa Rica

Nearshore software engineering service provider.

Project: Spectra

Event and ticketing specialized company

Lead QA Tester, Software Quality Assurance Tester, QA Automation developer, 3/2015 to present Promoted as lead QA tester overseeing quality-assurance testing and teams for client software development project Spectra. Supervise a three-member software QA testing team in developing and implementing quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies to ensure compliance with QA standards and customer specifications. Results:

Created and executed manual software test plans, cases and scripts to validate the correctness of the new software. Led QA testing that:

Worked closely with the development team to assure quality and reliability of the software being developed.

Validated the creation of a new application that could migrate and integration without losing millions of records and years’ worth of information.

Assigned and tracked QA team members’ task on each sprint to make best use of effort and resources.

Created and executed automated software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes. Led QA testing that:

Pinpointed defects created by refactor or new features that could have gone to the final release unnoticed.

Reduced time and effort invested on running periodic regression and smoke tests allowing to be performed more frequently without compromising man power.

Automated API test using to ensure the correctness of backend services allowing earlier knowledge of potential defects.

Maintained software development efforts as test-driven development (TDD) and Behavior-driven development (BDD) process, which had QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity.

Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues. Leveraged developer background to communicate effectively with software design team, quickly gaining their respect and becoming a valued, “go-to” team member on challenging test cases.

Performed constant code reviews to members of the automation team to enforce good practices and quality code for an overall better and more robust automation framework as well as guiding and training new automation engineers.

Technologies Used:

- Project and Test Management: Rally, Jenkins, Git, Agile Scrum

- Functional testing Automation technologies: selenium web driver, Java, TestNG, Cucumber, Eclipse, Page Objects, Page Factory

- API Automation technologies: Java, TestNG HTTP client, Json Object Parser SoapUI.

- Manual Functional Testing technologies: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Windows, MacOS, Cassandra, MySQL, Safari

- Manual API testing: Swagger, Json, XML, SoapUI

RODRIGO SALAZAR

Costa Rican address: 31M Residencial Las Catalinas, Cartago, Costa Rica 30801 US address: 110 Walnut St, Toms River, NJ

CR Phone: (+506)8864, US Phone: 732-***-**** ********@*****.*** https://linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-salazar-586b803a GROWTH ACCELERATION PARTNERS San Jose, Costa Rica Custom app development and software development.

Project: Zenoss

IT monitoring and management software for physical, virtual and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Feature owner, Software Quality Assurance Tester, QA Automation developer, 9/2013 to 3/2015 Serve as a key member of software development team as a feature owner, creating and executing test planning and taking responsibility for the correctness of each deliverable. Performed system, unit, performance, regression, and automated testing. Provided client developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs/flaws and recommended fixes. Results:

Contributed on improving automated testing tools and programs addressing areas including software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error/bug retests and integration with other management programs.

Migrated test case and bug management software to the newest version that was being left behind in versions; adding new valuable features and integration capabilities with automation framework.

Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.

Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness. Technologies Used:

- Project and Test Management: Rally, Git, Testlink, Agile, Scrum

- Functional testing Automation technologies: selenium web driver, Selenium Grid, Java, TestNG, IntelliJ, Page Objects, Page Factory, bash scripting

- Manual Functional Testing technologies: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Windows, Linux, MySQL, AWS, Docker, bash scripting

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AVANTICA TECHNOLOGIES San Jose, Costa Rica

Nearshore software engineering service provider.

Project: Method Factory/Krome photos/Sheridan Healthcare E-commerce development company/ photo projects/ healthcare management group Software Quality Assurance Tester, 4/2012 to 9/2013 Worked as the only quality assurance member of the development teams. Analyzed business requirements, estimated project scope, create and execute test cases and worked closely with fellow developers to deliver high- quality software solutions.

Technologies Used:

- Project and Test Management: Subversion, Testlink, Jira, Agile

- Functional testing Automation technologies: selenium web driver, Java, TestNG, Eclipse

- Manual Functional Testing technologies: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Windows, Android, iOS AVANTICA TECHNOLOGIES San Jose, Costa Rica

Nearshore software engineering service provider.

Software Quality Assurance Tester Internship, 1/2012 to 4/2012 Worked on the analysis, design and development of a custom automation framework that integrate with the company’s test case management and bug tracking systems. RODRIGO SALAZAR

Costa Rican address: 31M Residencial Las Catalinas, Cartago, Costa Rica 30801 US address: 110 Walnut St, Toms River, NJ

CR Phone: (+506)8864, US Phone: 732-***-**** ********@*****.*** https://linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-salazar-586b803a Technologies Used:

- Project and Test Management: Subversion, Jira

- Functional testing Automation technologies: selenium web driver, Java, TestNG, Eclipse Education & Credentials

INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE COSTA RICA Cartago, Costa Rica BS in Computer Science, 2012

Technology Skills (Complete list on request)

Java, C#, PHP, python, SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, JDK android SDK, Selenium Webdriver, spectrum, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit, Visual Studio testing Management, Moodle, Agile, Rally, Jira, Testlink, OnTime; soapUI, IntelliJ, Jenkins, Bamboo, Eclipse, Netbeans,.Net, XML, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, AWS, linux shell scripting

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