Jan Vavrecka - QA Engineer

WORK Experience
Senior SDET Consultant
January 2024 - Present (Prague, Czech Republic, EU)
Writing functional, integration and other automation workflows (end-to-end) to validate product functionality.
Performing UX testing & design review.
Planning and executing test suites across web-based products.
Finding bugs and validate specifications through manual and automated testing techniques.
Implementation, execution and debugging of automated test scripts using various technology and tools.
Release planning and upgrades scheduling.
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
December 2018 - December 2023 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Regression and automated testing of event web application, with data propagated into the mobile application.
Development of automated tests in Javascript to automate multiple parts of the application, replacing part of manual tester's duties.
Co-operation with team of front-end & back-end developers to speed up the bug filing and fixing process.
Web application testing according to product owner acceptance criteria definitions, confirming feature request functionality.
Technologies: Javascript, Jest, Python, BitBucket, JIRA, Postman, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Charles, Cypress, TestRail
QA Automation Engineer
November 2017 - August 2018 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Virtual data room web application testing based on stories defined by product owner.
Initiation and creation of test suites while improving the test coverage ensuring delivery of high quality product.
Development of automated tests to simulate user's interaction with basic and also advanced modules of the application.
Integration testing of multiple components using CI tools (Jenkins) to ensure web application's functionality.
Trouble-shooting, analysis of errors in test suite configs , inspection of test logs and reporting found issues through bug tracking software.
Technologies: Ruby, RSpec, Mercurial, TortoiseHg, Selenium WebDriver, NightwatchJS, Jenkins, JIRA, JFrog, BitBucket
QA Engineer & Technical tester
October 2015 - December 2016 (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Initiation and creation of multiple test suites based on technical documentation, with appropriate requirements specified in pre-defined user stories.
Analysis of errors in test configuration, trouble-shooting, test logs inspection and follow-up communication with appropriate domain owners to speed up the bug fixing process.
Development of utilities in Java to support other teams / team members to save resources (eg. tool for downloading multiple voice queries from data repository using a given user's credentials).
Voice-to-text solution testing - recording queries with a pre-defined content and checking its transcription, validating appropriate query content intention using NLU (Natural Language Understanding) module.
Continuous integration testing and configuration - automation of the whole process of test suites setup, execution, analysis and evaluation of the results for multiple languages at the same time.
Technologies: Java, Python, Tortoise SVN, Git, Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Bamboo CI
Technical tester & QA Analyst
August 2012 - October 2013 (Brno, Czech Republic)
Manual testing of POS web application test scenarios defined in spreadsheets with a focus on a new client file creation and initiation of a future loan contract.
Development of automated tests in Java/Selenium to automate multiple parts of manual tester's duties, eg. user profile initiation, one-step/multiple-step contract creation.
Initiation and creation of test suites for load testing on company's POS web application with HP LoadRunner.
Co-operation with team of developers and manual testers' team to speed up the bug filing and fixing process.
Integration testing of multiple components using Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins CI) to ensure web application's functionality.
Technologies: Java, Selenium, JUnit, Jenkins CI, SoapUI, HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center
Education
Master's degree in Service science, management and engineering
Study programme: Applied informatics (2012 - 2014)
Master's degree in computer science, with focus on project management.
Completion of three-semester Cisco CCNP course.
Former member of official Masaryk university choir (https://en.sbormuni.com/), male tenor voice lead (2 years).
Bachelor's degree in Applied informatics
Study programme: Applied informatics (2008 - 2012)
Bachelor's degree in computer science, including hands-on subjects focused on Java, databases and theoretical concepts.
Completion of two-semester Cisco CCNA course.
Former member of official Masaryk university choir (https://en.sbormuni.com/)
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