Canada

QA Engineer

Alekson Fortes

Quality Engineer

GitHub

Integration Testing

JavaScript

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Activities:
- Sharing knowledge about quality, automation and tests throughout the company in the Quality Guild meetings, where I led a group of QAs and Developers to build a mindset who cares about quality in our softwares.
- Interview candidates to work for the company.
- Creation of Testing Strategy with the whole team approach when working in a Scrum team.
- Creation of E2E tests with Cypress and Typescript.
- Creation of API integration tests with Java, JUnit and Rest Assured.

I was the only QA of a big dev team(including a remote team in another country), where I had to manage the quality tasks and also automate both the backend and the frontend. Also, I used to write unit tests, integration tests, and component tests, sometimes pairing programming with devs. 

Experience in "DevOps" tasks like builds, releases, pipelines, cloud computing, monitoring, metrics.

Activities:
- Frontend Automation with Protractor and Typescript.
- Backend Automation with Java and JUnit.
- CICD experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Cloud with AWS.
- Monitoring with Grafana and CloudWatch, integrating with Slack and AlertManager.
- Builds with Gradle.

I worked for Sicredi outsourced by Accenture.

Activities:
- Test Automation with Selenium.
- Services Virtualization with LISA.
- Scrum knowledge and experience.
- Credit Processes between BNDES and SICREDI.
- Performs estimation efforts on projects.
- Work with business and development teams to clarify requirements to ensure testability.
- Validations of Oracle BPM software.
- Creation and Execution of Test Cases.
- Defect and Test management using IBM tools: RTC and RQM.
- SQL validations in Oracle databases.

Worked as a contractor for Banrisul bank.

At Banrisul I worked with Payware, a financial credit card system, with Linux applications and Oracle databases, in which I was responsible for the diagnoses, the reports and also responsible for resolving known errors.

Activities: 
- Validations in Oracle and Linux .
- Payware Authorization, CMS e Batch.
- ISO 8583 and transactions authorization.
- Knowledge in processes involving Credit and Debit transactions of Mastercard and Visa
products.
- Knowledge in Visa Edit Package .
- Log analysis and errors report.
- Batch routines of Outgoing and Incoming files.
- Knowledge in Clearing, Settlements and Chargeback processes.
- Sharing and document knowledge through creation of WIKIs and Knowledge Base articles.

It was my first experience with Automated Tests. I have worked with UFT/QTP tool.

Accounting, Banking and Financial tests where I worked on the market of electronic payments(credit cards and transactions capture).

Activities:
- Payware Processes: Chargeback, Liquidation and Interchange.
- Automate tests using HP UFT tool.
- Performs estimation efforts on projects.
- Interaction and leadership with other testing members, development team, project management.
- Work with business and development teams to clarify requirements to ensure testability.
- Experience in Mobile Applications Tests: Android and IOS. 
- Validations of SAP Financial programs and transactions. 
- Creation and Execution of Test Cases.
- Defect and Test management using HP Quality Center tool.
- Validations in Oracle and Sybase databases.
- Functional testing, Regression testing, Exploratory testing and Usability testing.
- Status report to the direct manager with the blocking issues and project's execution information.
- Knowledge in process involving Credit and Debit transactions.
- Knowledge in SAP, Quality Center, Payware and Base24.

I worked for Dell Computers on global projects outsourced by Stefanini.

Activities:
- Data Creation and Validation in Databases Oracle. 
- Creation and Execution of Test Cases.
- Web Services tests using SoapUI.
- Defects and Tests management using Microsoft test Manager tool.
- Functional testing, Regression testing, Exploratory testing and Usability testing.
- Status report to direct manager with blocking issues and project's execution information.
- Knowledge in Siebel and Tandem.

Experience on Banking & Financial Markets which I worked on the market of eletronic payments(credit cards and transactions capture).

Activities:
- Creation and Execution of Test Cases.
- Defect management using HP Quality Center tool.
- Test management using HP Quality Center tool.
- Validations in Oracle and Sybase databases.
- Functional testing, Regression testing, Exploratory testing and Usability testing.
- Knowledge in process involving Credit and Debit transactions.
- Status report to the direct manager with the blocking issues and project's execution information.
- Knowledge in Quality Center, TestLink, Mantis, Payware and Base24.

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