Canada

QA Engineer

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Mohammad Monfared

QA Automation Architect

Usability Testing

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Analytical skills

Integration Testing

Postman

Python

UserTesting

Docker

GitHub

JavaScript

Jira

Miro

Confluence

GitLab

Jenkins

REST API

Selenium

ChatGPT

HTML

Linear

Communication

Collaboration

Unit Testing

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

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

Getting the most out of my internship

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

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

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

Project related:
- Working on a large project with more than 12 million users.
- Contributing to integration tests using Cypress + JS/TS.
- Reviewing new PRs.
- Integrating tests into CI/CD (Jenkins).
- Working with high-level orchestration-based environments (Kubernetes).

DataArt Related:
- Created internal educational courses for DataArt (Selenium/Cypress) + Review and grade participants.
- Participated in updating the company QAA qualification matrix.
- Run internal and external webinars.
- Successfully mentored various mentees and helped them get new qualification level.

- Led a QA team of 4 people.
- Implemented BDD approach at organizational level and improved all SDLC flow with Shift-Left approach. To do that I had lots of meetings to explain and onboard others and finally we Implemented Gherkin syntax for acceptance criteria definitions, bug reports, and test cases. At the end we had a well-organized feature reference which was also a Living Document because of automation.
- Hired and onboarded other QA team members.

- Implemented a Web UI Test Automation framework from scratch using Selenium/Robot framework. Increased regression test automation coverage by 90% and smoke tests by 100%. (Number of automated features/test-cases)
- Implemented a performance test framework from scratch using K6.io and delivered the results in the form of informative reports. This caused the development team to improve the web app performance by ~20%.
- Implemented CI pipelines for different approaches (Nightly / Check-ins / Smoke)

Founded in 2014, Snapp is Iran's first and biggest mobile and web-based smart transportation system. In 2018, Snapp turned into a super app, and now it offers Snapp group services. With this comprehensive application, you can reserve a ride, a motorcycle, a truck, order food, make hotel reservations, reserve a hostel, book a bus or plane, and more.

As a QA Automation Engineer (Developer), I was responsible for:

- Sketching out ideas for automated software test procedures
- Implementing and maintenance automation scripts using Pure Python/Selenium/Appium/RobotFramework, etc. 
- Run the automated test-cases against the Snapp's Mobile App/Web App/API 
- Working with Snapp's backends including Databases, APIs, Cloud environments, and etc to ensure maximum test code coverage. 
- R&D on QA developing to be updated with the latest technologies and solving challenges
- Collaborating with other teams to solve application faults found in automated tests
- etc

- Built a QA Team from scratch and implemented all QA activities including test documentation, test planning and test running. Responsible for multiple projects. (7 team members when leaving).
- Hired and onboarded various QA team members.
- Implemented an automation framework for UI and API testing using Pure Python/Selenium/Appium/RobotFramework, etc.
- Implemented STLC best practices covering all requirements to align with SDLC and release plans (by considering risks).
- Performed functional and non-functional test plans (with the team) and delivered comprehensive reports for each cycle.

- Led a team of 3 app reviewers/QAs in IranApps.

"IranApps" was one of the largest Android stores in the Middle East and one of TGBS projects. In IranApps, I was a tester and app reviewer (auditor), responsible for reviewing the apps pending release. In IranApps, I played hundreds of applications and games every day that were developed with different technologies and features.

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