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Beanna Postel

Toronto,ON

Summary

Dedicated Quality Assurance Engineer with more than 20 years of extensive experience.

Expertise in various types of testing and process optimization.
Strong understanding of testing methodology.
Strong experience supporting QA efforts pertaining to multi-system platforms, web based applications, system interfaces, performance testing and integration testing.
Strong understanding of different types of SW architectures: WEB, Client-Server, stand-alone application etc.
Strong working experience in defining Testing Methodologies, Web based e-Commerce applications and documentations.
Knowledge in Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall development models projects.
Working with different teams inside the company: Development, Operations (IT), Products, System architects, Integration team, Profession Services.
Expertise in Manual/Functional Testing of financial platforms.
Best knowledge in configuration and deployment of tests environments, installation & configuration DB Oracle schemes.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

BlueSnap
01.2020 - Current
  • Implement API tests by using IntelliJ IDEA for Java designed clever code completion, static code analysis, and refactoring.
  • Developing and Executing Functionality, Regression, Data Validation, BI Reports tests.
  • Build and execute API test collections in Postman, parse API specifications, and define user-facing test cases. Manually verify API behavior.
  • Write complex SQL queries to gather and validate data, covering various scenarios and edge cases.
  • Coach the team members to implement adequate tests suitable for web applications, APIs, and Data.
  • Review the test designs, test plans, and test cases to ensure the coverage.
  • Analyze the requirements, seek clarifications, contribute to good acceptance criteria, estimate, and be committed.
  • Create test plans that are smart and adequate to ensure the product quality and stability.
  • Write the test cases and automate the test executions to ensure acceptance criteria is met.
  • Develop automated regression test suites for continued assurance of product quality.
  • Validate production by running the sanity tests, and data validations.
  • Lookout for providing best possible customer support by troubleshooting, resolving production incidents and by eliminating the problems from the root level.


Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

BlueSnap
11.2015 - 01.2020

• Interacted with the Users, Designers, Developers and Project Manager to get a better understanding of the Business Processes and gathered Business Requirements for Personal Client Information Systems (PCIS).
• Documented the existing system and verified it with follow-up meetings.
• Worked with the team and the Business to document the Use Cases.
• Performed Regression and User Acceptance Testing for Online Web Application system.
• Written and executed as technical leader Test Scripts manually for the huge projects as:
E4X(multi-currency settlement), Kount (Fraud detection),Global Payment processors.
• Experienced in working with the online banking system
• As a black box tester executed functional testing using equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, error guessing.
• Analyzed & suggested business requirements, specifications for any additional improvements.
• Participated in Functional Walk-Through to validate the Application Design against the Test Cases written.
• Bug tracking, issue tracking and project management process using JIRA.

Quality Assurance Team Lead

BlueSnap
04.2014 - 12.2015
  • Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.
  • Estimation of the testing to be done and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources.
  • Lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites.
  • Responsible for ensure proper configuration management of the test ware produced and traceability of the tests to the test basis.
  • Responsible for ensure test environment is put into place before test execution and managed during test execution.

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

BlueSnap
01.2013 - 04.2014

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Traiana, Inc. FinTech Focused On FX Prime Brokerage
03.2009 - 06.2011
  • Test Planning & Execution: Independently create and execute comprehensive test plans for both complex features and large-scale projects, accurately estimating effort and scope based on risk assessments.
  • Sprint Planning & Design Collaboration: Actively participate in sprint planning and contribute to the design phase's software development, working closely with Product and Engineering to define clear acceptance criteria and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
  • Investigate feedback from Customer Success, reproduce issues, classifying bugs and feature requests then work with the product engineering team towards resolution.
  • Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams.


Quality Assurance Engineer

SuperDerivatives
02.2006 - 03.2009

CRM Quality Assurance Engineer

ERN Israel
02.2004 - 10.2006

Education

Industrial Engineering Technology -

Tel Aviv University
Israel
07-2001

Skills

  • Automated Testing
  • API Testing
  • Manual Testing
  • Mobile Web SDK
  • Java
  • DataBase Testing
  • Data Analyses
  • Process Improvement

Languages

English
Full Professional
Russian
Native or Bilingual
Hebrew
Full Professional

Timeline

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

BlueSnap
01.2020 - Current

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

BlueSnap
11.2015 - 01.2020

Quality Assurance Team Lead

BlueSnap
04.2014 - 12.2015

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

BlueSnap
01.2013 - 04.2014

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Traiana, Inc. FinTech Focused On FX Prime Brokerage
03.2009 - 06.2011

Quality Assurance Engineer

SuperDerivatives
02.2006 - 03.2009

CRM Quality Assurance Engineer

ERN Israel
02.2004 - 10.2006

Industrial Engineering Technology -

Tel Aviv University
Beanna Postel