QA Engineer working on Life Insurance product with the following responsibilities:Reviewed development stories and help define and document the right test criteria and cases.Worked with product or project managers to establish timing and ensure timely completion of QA deliverables.Executed, and maintained manual tests and tests data.Communicated with developers and product managers on specific issues.Analyzed and debug issues and collaborate with developers to ensure root cause is identified.Provided input into prioritization and resolution of issues.Documented test results with all necessary detailMaintained QA guidelines and process documentation.Provided input into and help implement improved or more efficient QA processes.Worked in close collaboration with product, developers, and other QA members to produce high quality products and release on time.Deployed and troubleshoot local, sandbox, and/or CI/CD environments to enable testing.Maintained testing framework as needed.Worked on integration of automation framework within Development frameworks.

QA Engineer on a Next Generation Firewall project with the following responsabilities:Wrote automation tests using existing product automation frameworks based on Python pyATS and behave (BDD) libraries.Wrote Selenium tests for UI.Wrote REST API tests.Created automation pipelines using Jenkins and other internal CI/CD tools.Created tests for newly developed features.Conducted manual testing and troubleshooted new features developed.Troubleshot and diagnosed failures of devices that appeared from automation runs or via manual testing.Installed and maintained physical firewall devices.Created container images to test different traffic scenarios.Installed different virtual machines in VSphere or Amazon EC2 to test firewall functionality (Active Directories, Ubuntu servers, proxy servers, Cisco Identity Service Engine, different types of endpoints).Filed bugs and worked with developers to document/fix product defects.Created and gathered results for new software versions before release.

Managed and coordinated the testing strategy (project's full scope) with System / SW/ HW project managers.Planned and tracked all system / software testing activities according to customer/internal milestones (timing), required scope, and quality (considering the context and the understanding of the test objectives and risks including the selection of the testing procedure, estimated time, budget, and expenses related to tests, management of the required resources);Responsible for decision-making on the implementation of the testing environment, including the level and type of automation;Handled critical situations that occurred during the project's testing phase and assumed possible risks when necessary;Defined key indicator values to measure the evolution of testing and to assess the quality of tests and hence of the product;Ensured connection and traceability between the requirements, testing specifications, and test results in line with Continental Transmission processes and frameworks, including global trends in automotive (ISO 26262 safety).

Analyzed and assessed the SW/System project requirements in terms of testability;Created test specifications.Responsible for configuration and maintenance of the test environment;Involved in test implementation, performance testing, and result recording; assessed the test results and documented deviations from the expected outcomes;Performed test implementation and execution in Python using the Continental testing framework (Automated HIL Testing);Developed a tool used to gather PDFs generated by the testing framework reports and display them in HTML format.Created scripts for reporting test statuses exported to an Excel file.Generated report files using Matplotlib.