Netherlands

QA Engineer

Front-end

Nanodegree

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

Mathematics and Informatics

Gabriel Minca

Senior QA Engineer

Usability Testing

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Team player

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Event organisation

Game programming

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Postman

Softr

Trello

Airtable

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Java

JavaScript

Jira

Miro

Notion

Confluence

Jenkins

REST API

Selenium

Empathy

Organisation skills

Chatbot

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

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

How to get promoted

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

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

• Create and maintain automated test cases: end-to-end flow
• Exploratory testing & daily regression checks
• Empower developers with best practices for our testing process
• Participate in discovery sessions
• Started to learn Cypress

Tech stack: Selenium, Serenity BDD, Cucumber / Gherkin syntax, Java, Jenkins, Postman, Cypress
Domain: Ecommerce

• Started a brand new automation project considering cross-platform scenarios;
• Weekly regression & functional testing (manual testing);
• Validate fixes and improvements;
• Worked on a new testing process.

Tech stack: Appium, TestNG, POM - Page Object Model & Page Factory, GitLab
Domain: FinTech / Banking

• Started my solopreneur journey with a side business established in Estonia. During this time, I launched and managed two mobile games and sold UI kits on different platforms. 
• What I learned: the basics of product management, UI/UX design, customer development, app store optimization, lean methodologies.
Tech stack: No-code / low code tools, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, Google Analytics
Domain: Mobile Apps / Games

• Create and maintain test cases
• Manual testing (including API calls - with Postman)
• Execute automated tests (ReadyAPI / SoapUI)
• Identify issues from the web app logs
• Database checks 
• Work in an Agile environment
• Create and execute automated tests with Selenium (Java - TestNG) - December 2019

Tech stack: ReadyAPI, Postman, Spirateam, Kibana, SQL, Jira, Java - TestNG
Domain: Market Research / Digital Marketing Software

Gabriel Minca🇳🇱

About Gabriel Minca

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