Andre Nascimento CV

Introduction

● A QA Lead Test Engineer with over 20 years of diversified experience in test management, functional testing, test automation and performance testing in a brazilian, North american and european companies.

● Experienced working in a wide range of business sectors including finance, sales, printing, mobile, virtualization, printing and capacity planning.

● Extensive experience in Agile projects including all aspects of the STLC as requirements, test strategy, test analysis, test planning, risk analysis, test execution and test management.

● Ability to write code in Shell script, Ruby, Java and C# with focus in test automation.

● Proficient in test harness tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Pivotal Tracker, Mantis, Load Runner, JMeter, SOAPUI, Selenium and Capybara.

● Strong analytical and problem solving skill personal additionally strong Team player with excellent leadership skills, travelled offsite to provide training, experienced working in fast-paced environments and multi-tasking, and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and has enthusiasm for new technologies. Education:

March 2014 - March 2016

Master degree in Business Administration: Organizational Strategy PUC-RS

Result - Concluded

Abril 2002 – October 2002

Software engineering specialization

UFMG

Result - Concluded

January 1997 - December 2001

Control and Automation engineering graduation

PUC-MG

Result - Concluded

Professional Certification:

ISTQB – Advanced Test Manager (2011), ISTQB – Advanced Test Analyst (2010), ISEB - Intermediate Software Testing (2010), IELTS(2009),ISEB – Foundation Certificate in Software Testing (2005). Skills:

Languages: Bash script, Ruby, Java, C#

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Mysql, SQLite, Oracle Web Development: HTML

Testing Tools: Manual, Automation tools like Capybara, Selenium, Load Runner, JMeter Test Management: Quality Center, JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, Pivotal Tracker, Test Rail Employment History

Company: SWIFT, Brussels – Belgium.

Period: April 2019 to nowadays

Sector: Financial

Client Name: Global banks

Project: Cloud Lite3

Cloud Lite 3 is a project that aims to build a confidential and private cloud to authenticate and authorize financial transactions under a secure environment. Project runs on transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology. Cloud Lite 3 project runs with 10 testers geographically distributed in Belgium, Malaysia and Greece. Test Environment: WINDOWS, Robot Framework, Python, PyCharm, HP Quality Center, Jira Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy related to one component of the Cloud Lite 3.

● Responsible for elaboration of test scenarios in HP Quality Center.

● Responsible for GUI test automation using Robot framework, Selenium, Python libraries and IDE PyCharm. Company: EBP, Brussels – Belgium.

Period: October 2018 to March 2019 (pré-defined contract for 6 months) Sector: Electronic engineering magazines

Client Name: European tenders

Project: IBAU

IBAU project is a part of EBP platform and is responsible for getting information from Ibau (german tender) and verify some aspects as data accuracy, data confidentiality and percentage data repetition. After this data is sent to other department to add tags and be classified. Once it is done data is sent to the publishers. Project runs on transition from Waterfall to Agile methodology. IBAU project ran with 3 developers and myself as Technical Test Manager. Environment: WINDOWS, C#, Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, SQL Server. Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy for a platform that parses information from some european tenders to compose two important European engineering magazines.

● Responsible for creating and configuring all needed test environments to run the automated tests.

● Author that created the first Unit Test project using 'Moq' tool in a C# platform and 'SQL Server' as a database.

● Responsible for leading the acceptance tests with the clients located in Germany.

● Responsible for creating, updating and showing the test report for internal and external clients.

● Responsible for tracking defects and sharing updating information in the 'Confluence' tool.

● Implemented some code refactoring related to serialization and deserialization input data. Company: Farfetch, Porto – Portugal.

Period: September 2016 to September 2018

Sector: Ecommerce

Client Name: many boutiques around the world

Project: engineering finance sector

Project scope is to join financial information from clusters to produce accuracy data to finance stakeholders. To achieve it was needed to align internal and external communication with company clusters and clients. Project runs in Agile methodology and is composed of 4 subprojects. I acted directly on 2 of them and was the Test Lead of the finance cluster. Environment: WINDOWS, .NET, C#, Agile, API, Mock Server, Visual Studio, Jenkins, Jira, Test Rail. Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy from backend services that inputs the finance company sector.

● Author of some adopted best practices in terms of test tools, processes and methodologies inside the finance technical team.

● Responsible for test estimation and effort inside Agile meetings with project stakeholders.

● Responsible for creating and maintaining test automation in C# platform for backend services with the tools: 'Mock Server',

'Client API', 'Kafka', 'SQL Server', 'Jenkins' pipeline and 'GIT'.

● Lead company test community with the objective of adopting software testing best practices.

● Responsible for working closely with Test Lead and stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivered with the highest quality standards.

● Responsible for the software testers interview process. Company: HP, Porto Alegre.

Period: November 2014 to October 2015

Sector: Printing

Client Name: own HP

Project: Instant Ink

Project scope is to retain and to maintain the greatest number of consumers in terms of printing. Instant Ink was a platform created by HP to allow users to get a good experience with printing. Instant Ink portfolio ran in the Agile methodology geographically distributed (USA, Brazil and China) and composed of 5 subprojects. I actuated directly in 2 of them as a QA Lead and QA Lead of the overall portfolio.

Environment: UNIX, Capybara, Selenium Grid2, testNG, Pivotal Tracker, Scrum, Agile Environment, web services, SOAP UI, Putty. Platform: All browsers.

Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy for a platform responsible for establishing the agreement among HP and customers in terms of ink consumption.

● Responsible for test estimation and effort inside a scrum team using the 'Pivotal Tracker' tool.

● Responsible for test management in different geographic locations: China, USA and Brazil.

● Responsible for test automation creating and maintenance for a frontend system using 'Ruby' programming language with

‘Cucumber’ (BDD tool), 'Selenium' and 'Capybara' test tools, 'Linux' as OS and 'GIT' as control version systems.

● Responsible for test automation creating and maintenance for a backend system using 'Ruby' programming language with

'Airborne' gem and 'Linux' OS.

● Responsible for delivery test automation through 'Jenkins' tool until LIVE environment.

● Built test automation for 'Chrome', 'Firefox' and 'IE' browsers.

● Responsible for performance testing using the 'Load Runner' tool. Company: HP, Porto Alegre.

Period: November 2011 until October 2014

Sector: Printing

Client Name: own HP

Project: Mashup Service

Mashup service is a backend project inside HP printing portfolio and is responsible for joining information from different sources and types in order to produce customized travel guides with customer preferences. Travel guides were generated due an integration with Mashup services with frontend projects. The project also had a frontend configuration only for Admin settings. Environment: UNIX, Capybara, Selenium Grid2, testNG, Pivotal Tracker, Scrum, Agile Environment, web services, SOAP UI, Putty. Platform: All browsers.

Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy for a platform responsible for parsing information from different sources and input data for travel guide PDF file.

● Responsible for test automation for a frontend project using 'Rails' as programming language, ‘Cucumber’, 'Selenium' and

'Capybara' as test tools and 'Linux' as OS.

● Responsible for test management and report to Agile team members.

● Responsible for delivering test code through 'Jenkins' tool.

● Responsible for test environment creation using 'AWS' cloud system.

● Responsible for test automation creation and maintenance for a backend project to create and compare PDF expected files. Company: HP, Porto Alegre.

Period: September 2010 to till October 2011

Sector: Printing

Client Name: own HP

Project: Mobile Printing

Mobile printing is a platform responsible for storing documents in a cloud system based and allows customers to print documents in a closer print location. HP created a lot of kiosks inside the USA to make this idea possible and provide a good printing experience to customers. The project that I acted on was a backend part of this portfolio. Environment: UNIX and Windows, Load Runner, Pivotal Tracker, Scrum, Agile Environment, web services, SOAP UI, Putty, cURL. Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy for a platform responsible for storing documents for a cloud system and allows print them in a closer public print location.

● Responsible for API test automation and delivery for a backend service that ran in 'Java' platform.

● Responsible for performance testing using the 'Load Runner' tool.

● Responsible for functional testing in mobile devices. Other projects inside HP between 2005 – 2010:

● HOPPER: During 1 year, I worked as a QA Lead for a project that was responsible for management of Virtual Machines from Enclosure HP system. Main responsibilities were managing QA activities and reporting the status to the US team.

● CapAd: During 4 years, I had worked with a capacity planning project as QA Lead. It is a virtualization project and it estimates the usage of CPU, Memory, Disk IO and Network utilization when a new virtual machine is created inside a VM Host as well as the energy consumed when it occurred. My main activities were guaranteeing the quality of the project, managing a QA team (ten people) and doing some automated testing in Java, Selenium, TestNG with Eclipse IDE. Company: Dell, Porto Alegre

Period: October 2004 to November 2005

Sector: Senior Software Tester

Client Name: own Dell

Project: GFX (Global Fulfillment Exchange)

GFX is a backend project inside the ‘Product’ portfolio. The scope is to show the product updated information in terms of pricing, and availability of Dell products. GFX is responsible for providing this information to frontend Dell projects. Environment: Java, Oracle, Test Director.

Main Responsibilities:

● Responsible for the whole test strategy for a backend platform responsible for dealing with other projects to show the price and availability of 'Dell' products on the website.

● Responsible for test cases creation and maintenance in 'Test Director' tool.

● Responsible for exposing the test results and communicating to 'Dell' customers.

● Responsible for accomplishing the release and deploy and create and run acceptance test in production environment. Interests

Throughout my career, I have been working and specialized in two different areas both inside software testing: test management and test automation. I would like to keep my focus on these approaches. Personal Contact

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Skype: andre.nascimento734

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