SELORM KWASHIE AHORLU
Software Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Address: Ghana Post Digital Address (GB-053-5680)
Email: *************@*****.***
Contact: +233-**-***-**** / +233-**-***-****
SUMMARY
A software quality assurance engineer with 6+ years working in the software industry skilled in automation and manual testing with a solid understanding of the software development/software testing life cycle, bug life cycle, testing approaches and techniques, good knowledge in performing root cause analysis and experience in leading a team of QA Engineers who work in a diverse agile team.
CORE SKILLS
• Test Automation Using Selenium and TestNG or Junit
• Automated API Testing with RESTAssured
• Experience in testing mobile apps using Appium
• Performance Testing using JMeter, Lighthouse and k6
• Agile with Scrum Methodologies
• Experience in using Jira, Xray Project & Testcase Management
Tools
• SOAP and RESTful API testing using Postman, Swagger and SoapUI
• Knowledge in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• Developing of Test Plans and Test Cases
• Experience with Linux environment
• Knowledge in SQL Database
• Strong reporting skills to stakeholders
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
• Java
• Python
• JavaScript
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Software QA Engineer (Remote) - Contract
Hostfully (California, USA)
September 2022 – June 2024.
• Delivering high-quality stable bi-weekly releases.
• Developing test automation framework in Python (Selenium).
• Experience in testing both iOS and Android using BrowserStack and Appium.
• Maintenance of existing test automation test frameworks.
• Reduced the defect ratio from 115% to a whopping 34% in 12 months.
• Running performance tests for both WebUI and API using Lighthouse and Apache JMeter.
• Performing manual and running automated test scripts for the PMP Mobile application.
• Developing a focused test plan for the PMP Platform.
• Mentoring junior QA Engineers.
• Handling changes and conducting regression testing.
• Collaborating with developers to communicate regularly on defect prevention and delivering a high standard code to QA.
Software Test Automation Engineer (Remote)
tech11 GmbH (Wurzburg, Germany)
September 2020 – August 2022.
• Developing test automation framework in Java (Selenium).
• Maintenance of existing test automation test frameworks.
• Developing test cases for the tech11 insurance platform.
• Represented the QA team in daily project meetings to provide status and escalated outstanding issues to the project management.
• Mentored and provided guidance for junior QA automation team members. QA Automation Engineer (Remote)
Accolm Limited, (Stockholm, Sweden)
October 2019- August 2020.
• Automation testing of Accolm BAM web application interface using Selenium.
• Maintenance of existing test automation test frameworks.
• Deploying of Accolm BAM releases after fixes by the development team.
• Creating technical documents to support test scenarios.
• Support clients when setting up the BAM application.
• Creating Automation Test Plans and getting approvals,
• Contributing to the analysis of functional requirements and participating in engineering initiatives.
Software QA Engineer
Bewsys Limited, East Legon, Accra. (Ghana)
August 2018- September 2019.
• Beta testing for all plugins and themes on each update
• Developing test automation approach by applying test automation techniques
• Finding and reporting product bugs
• Participating in defect triage and Scrum meetings
• Executing manual test cases on areas that cannot be automated.
• Participating in Grooming sessions with Product Owners and Developers Freelance Remote Software Engineer
Pattern Craft Group, Sunyani (Ghana)
December 2016- November 2019.
• Front-end development for Android Apps.
• Website design using Bootstrap and HTML.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani - Ghana. 2014-2018.
WORKING LANGUAGES
• English – 90%
• French – 35%