Elena Mircheva-Mendl
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I am a young professional with strong industrial experience in software development cycle evaluation and testing. I love data and currently I am looking for new opportunities in a dynamic, innovative environment. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
German International School of Silicon Valley, Teacher, Mountain View, USA 4/2016 - present
Preparing and teaching German classes on Saturdays, checking homework and answering questions Accenture, Google (contract), Manual Localization Tester, Mountain View, USA 11/2016 - 2/2017
Found bugs in mobile dev ice software and applied engineering rigor to reproduce and diagnose those bugs
Wrote concise and descriptive bug reports
Configured dev ices for testing
ZeroChaos, Google (contract), Ads Quality Rater, remotely 8/2016 - 10/2016
Analyzed and provided feedback of search results Technical University of Munich, Working student 2/2012 - 3/2015 Chair for Software & Systems Engineering, Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. M. Broy
Prov ided efficient customer support using tickets system
Analyzed, evaluated and prioritized scientific literature
Maintained publication databases and webpages by editing HTML code
Co-organized and participated in 18 software engineering workshops for around 70 IT professionals at the Technical University of Munich (e.g., workshop series “Hot-Spots of Software Engineering”, covering test-automation, software reuse, IT security, code analysis tools, process management tools and more) BMW Group, Intern, elect ric/electronic processes, Munich, Germany 2/2012 - 12/2012
Formulated and analyzed internal progress metrics using MS Excel, to control and quantify the specialization of a universal electronic and software architecture for indiv idual car model series
Described and documented progress metrics, wrote quick references using MS Power Point
Authorized and maintained intranet webpage using System Gauss VIP web content management
Created and executed test cases using Quality Center; wrote samples for software regression tests NTT Data, Web-Developer, Munich, Germany 9/2011 - 2/2012
Co-designed layout for BMW online shop
Wirecard Technologies GmbH, Integration Tester, Munich, Germany 8/2010 - 9/2011
Developed, executed and automated end to end test cases for online banking applications
Tracked software defects and analyzed root causes Logica, Software Tester, Munich, Germany 6/2009 - 7/2010
Evaluated and improved test cases using Mercury QC ZAST, Intern for software testing, Munich, Germany 12/2008 - 6/2009
Tested medical emergency documentation software
Authorized software user manual
EDUCATION
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany 10/2011 - 9/2015 B.Sc. Media Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction
B.Sc. thesis: “A Critical Tracking Task on a Smartphone and Tablet as a Tool in Driver Distraction Studies”, conducted at Technical University of Munich (with distinction)
Relevant coursework: Database systems, Software architecture, Algorithms and data structures, Multimedia Programming, Concept development for IT dev ices in clinical environments, Human-Machine-Interaction studies of projector integrated in mobile dev ices, Short film: “How will Brain-Computer Interfaces change our world?”, Business planning
Student project “Software Engineering for IT” (with distinction) ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Data Science, Stanford Continuing Studies (with high distinction) 2017
Business case studies at Bechtel International Center, Stanford University 2016 STARTUP EXPERIENCE
Social Startup ToolUpYourLife, Cofounder, Munich, Germany 12/2014 - present
Educational program for high school students, first prize awarded 12/2014 by Social Entrepreneurship Akademie
Participated in pilot consulting sessions for high school students and performed background search of similar concepts SKILLS
Software: MS Excel, CMS Gauss VIP (now OpenText), Quality Center Programming: R, Java, C/C++, SML, Pascal
Web-Development: HTML and CSS
Languages: Bulgarian (first language), fluent English and German (speaking, reading, writing) VOLUNTEERING
Volunteer at Technovation Challenge, Silicon Valley 1/2016 - present
Volunteer at Bechtel International Center, Stanford University 10/2015 - present
Volunteer for Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Palo Alto 2/2016 - present