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Marko Stavrakis

Surrey,BC

Summary

15+ years of experience in Quality Assurance including; manual testing, automation testing, smoke testing, black box testing, user acceptance testing, system testing, and feature testing Strong experience in understanding business needs and testing required to satisfy clients' and company's needs Experience in Jira, Testrail, Saucelabs, FogBugz, Testopia Experience in Agile and Waterfall teams Experience in Automation using Test Complete for Windows, Cucumber for iOS Experience in testing Mobile devices including, Phones, Tablets and Wearables

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Tester Level 3

Central1
05.2015 - Current
  • Performed Web testing of different Credit Unions
  • Automation Analysis of Core Credit Union Application
  • Performed Automation using Java and Selenium
  • Performed Mobile Testing in both Android and IOS
  • Helped on-board new QA
  • Scrum Master for previous Team (no scrum credentials)
  • Black Box Testing
  • Basic Automation using Java and Selenium
  • System Testing
  • Test case creation
  • Test case analysis
  • Mobile Testing
  • Manual Testing
  • Improved software quality by executing thorough test cases and identifying critical defects.

QA Engineer

NGRAIN
09.2010 - 04.2015
  • Perform manual and automation testing on NGRAIN applications (Interactive 3D and Augmented Reality), for Lockheed Martin
  • Manually test NGRAIN application on Windows Surface Tablet with Windows 8 OS
  • Create business development scripts for application on IPAD
  • Using Test Complete to create automation for the NGRAIN application
  • Automation test cases are written using a Behavior Driven Development approach
  • Create and execute test cases and test plans
  • Work with team to improve on AGILE/SCRUM methodology on projects
  • Train new QA Analysts on NGRAIN applications
  • Black Box Testing (Windows)
  • Automation using Testcomplete

QA Engineer

Tatara Systems Inc.
08.2007 - 03.2008
  • Tested GSM, CDMA phones testing connections to Software Application using (1xRTT, EVDO, GPRS, and 3G)
  • Tested in different OS platforms including Windows XP (Pro, Home, Media, Tablet), Windows 2000, Vista (Ultimate, Premium, Basic and Business)
  • Extensive testing of the application with the Tatara Systems Gateway
  • Analyzed Tatara Wireless WAN Application and Cellular phones
  • Set up AP with different encryption types (WEP, WPA, WPA2, and 802.1 x (with encryption))

Software Quality Analyst

Strangeloop Networks
08.2006 - 01.2007
  • Developed Bug lifecycle using Twiki, testing Proof of Concept (POC), Client – Server Testing, Using WAS tool to check Bottlenecks in network and finding TTLB and checking for errors on ASP.NET specific web pages
  • Extensive load testing recording web server metrics for POC, using and changing web pools via SSL Explorer to configure different networks, getting metrics for how client server acts under extreme load

Quality Assurance Specialist

Argus Technologies
03.2006 - 06.2006
  • Supervised the testing of software documentation, version control and was a direct liaison to the Software Developers
  • Extensive manual testing on the CXC supervisor controller
  • The CXC monitored rectifiers and battery operations
  • Tested that alarms and relays where controlled properly by software manually and via web

Quality Assurance Specialist

Argus Technologies
08.2000 - 12.2004
  • Supervised the testing of software documentation, version control and was a direct liaison to the Software Developers
  • Extensive manual testing on the CXC supervisor controller
  • The CXC monitored rectifiers and battery operations
  • Tested that alarms and relays where controlled properly by software manually and via web

Education

Electrical Engineering - Telecommunication

BCIT
Burnaby, BC
06.2000

Skills

  • Manual testing
  • Test case design
  • Functional testing
  • Agile methodology
  • Regression testing
  • User acceptance testing
  • Defect tracking
  • Automation testing
  • Mobile testing
  • Selenium webdriver
  • Java proficiency

Timeline

Software Tester Level 3

Central1
05.2015 - Current

QA Engineer

NGRAIN
09.2010 - 04.2015

QA Engineer

Tatara Systems Inc.
08.2007 - 03.2008

Software Quality Analyst

Strangeloop Networks
08.2006 - 01.2007

Quality Assurance Specialist

Argus Technologies
03.2006 - 06.2006

Quality Assurance Specialist

Argus Technologies
08.2000 - 12.2004

Electrical Engineering - Telecommunication

BCIT
Marko Stavrakis