Focus on consolidating input across all sources (market, customers, sales, and partners) for new solutions and major functionality enhancements to address customer segment needs. Work closely with the product team, in planning and defining specific product features to ensure the delivery of reliable solutions to requirements and developing acceptance criteria to validate that the resulting product meets those needs.★ Work closely with sales and technical teams to develop and launch new solutions and services.★ Maintain product roadmaps, align organization stakeholders including sales to the roadmap, validate the roadmap with key customers and communicate the roadmap internally and externally.★ Coordinate with product owners in translating requirements into executable product use cases, scenarios, and acceptable criteria.★ Collaborate with Marketing to define the value proposition, product positioning, and promotion.★ Provide inputs to support marketing and sales efforts on data sheets and sales presentations for assigned product areas.★ Work closely with technical team and product owners to develop and launch new products and solutions.

★ Specsavers Project: International Optical Retailer Client ★Migrate the current in Specsaver application towards to a new cloud-based application. From the client perspective the new Specsaver application version should present the same look and feel and current functionalities but now based in a new technology approach to turn the application more efficient and technologically sophisticated.★ Work collaboratively with client to tailor a solution which works best for their business.★ Work closely with development teams to design world-class solution.★ Help in the project scope definition, requirements analysis and User Stories creation.★ Define solution requirements and manage backlogs of upcoming work.★ Collecting information and distilling into tangible goals.★ Present each User Story in the Planning meetings to be estimated by the development teams.★ Continuously feed into the direction and development of the products.★ Follow from very close the product development.

Assist quality assurance and synchronisation across all code bases (from different devices). Focus on OTT streaming media applied to multiple devices (including Android, iOS, web, Roku, Samsung, Apple TV / Android TV /Chromecast). Write acceptance criteria (Gherkin language) for all scenarios regarding a feature whilst constantly coordinating with QA on test cases and detailed requirements.★ Enhanced operational efficacy through effective use Figma, Jira, GitHub, and Confluence★ Ensured smooth workflow by designing business and technical solutions, connecting Product Owner, Architects, Development teams, and promoting future-proof solutions.★ Collaborated with the designer team regarding designing functional requirements and UX/UI wireframes utilizing Figma tool.★ Guaranteed user stories meet the required criteria in order to complete the designated work.★ Provided advice, clarification, and guidance during the execution of each Sprint by not only participating in team planning meetings but as well as pre-planning meetings.★ Converted the prototyped solution into user stories, creating User Stories making use of Jira (or GitHub) to deliver to the development teams’ scrums.★ Facilitated quality assurance teams better understand requirements and acceptance criteria on stories validation by providing necessary support and assistance.★ Enabled seamless development process by following the development of each feature from initial to final stage, giving assistance in form of pre-planned sessions.

Senior Mobile Applications Engineer at Sky UK (main focus: mobile Sky Store applications for iOS and Android – SkyStore.com).★ Agile product ownership experience in software development environment.★ Managed and prioritised a product backlog containing user stories and acceptance criteria.★ Interacted with internal (Designers, Marketers, Tech Architects, Scrum Masters, Developers, Testers) and external stakeholders (Conviva, Omniture) to understand existing business problems and determine the outcomes to be achieved.★ Analysis and evaluation of UX/UI documents.★ Ability to translate highly technical concepts to business leaders and non-technical stakeholders.★ Responsible to manage scrum events: Sprint Planning; Planning Poker; Backlog Refinement; Daily Stand-Ups; Reviews and Retrospectives.★ Experienced with agile development (e.g. SCRUM) and able to coordinate among multiple scrums.★ Expertise of testing the application developed for Android and iOS.★ Experienced in UI testing, Sanity testing, Feature testing, Functional testing, System testing, Compatibility testing, BlackBox testing, Regression Testing, Performance testing.★ Responsible to manage the UX/UI requirements and follow defects and reporting using JIRA.

Managed and prioritized product backlog. Utilised programming languages and development skills to create, test, and develop applications on mobile devices. Orientated to the Behaviour Driven Development framework: use intensively the gherkin language.★ Enhanced user experience and maximized client satisfaction by conducting effective analysis and evaluation of UX/UI documents.★ Demonstrated strong understanding of functional testing: Sanity testing, Regression Testing.★ Minimized risk and saved resources by utilizing continuous integration (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins.★ Increased quality and amplified profit by focusing on software testing: functional and automation testing (using Cucumber).

Developed and implemented software tests to identify mistakes and their causes. Deep knowledge with video (H.264/MPEG-4, H.262/MPEG-2) and audio (AAC) standards.★ Verified if code change introduces issues/defects into the existing functionality by writing testing plan scenarios for regression/sanity testing purposes.★ Saved time and resources by testing digital TV Set-Top Box.

IPTV Network Engineer at the TV services engineering department (MEO – Portugal Subscription TV - using IPTV platform) of a global telecommunications operator known as Portugal Telecom.★ Knowledge with DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C and mainly with IPTV;★ Experienced in IPTV platform (Mediaroom – by Microsoft), VOD (Video On Demand) and Web Applications servers (configuring/installing applications on the Internet Information Services – normally known as IIS);★ Experience with API testing including web services (OSS/BSS services) through WebService Studio and SOAP evocations;★ Experienced with IPTV testing projects;★ Experienced with C, C+, MathLab, SQL database queries, HTML/JavaScript, along with experience of Test Driven Development techniques;★ Responsible for the communication with the several vendors (STBs vendors – Cisco, Motorola, Pace - IPTV platform support – Alcatel in Portugal), technical areas and the product’s development department;★ Good experience with network protocol analysis/debugging tools such as Wireshark/Ethereal analysis and server configuration, bandwidth throttling;★ Management of several TV projects (Interactive Applications: Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Games) and respectively deployment on production;★ Functional and regression testing (TV User Interface) performing, through manual and automatic testing processes (using an automated test facility known as Witbe);★ Strong experience of testing content on STB (Sigma and Broadcom);★ Leadership roles in creation and execution of quality assurance and testing processes;