Katarzyna Javaheri-Szpak / QA Engineer

About

Experience – Phase 1 – studying

My professional experience dates back to 2005. I worked as a social media and marketing specialist, manager and project coordinator. I also have experience in media relations and copywriting.
In the years 2005-2014, I ran my own business, working for state and private entities and media.

In April 2016 I started taking my very first steps as a front-end developer (HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, JS, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap 3&4). I completed three certified Full Stack Web Development specialization courses at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

In October 2016, I started postgraduate studies at the WSB University in Gdańsk (Poland) in the field of web application developer. Junior Web Developer, which I graduated with a very good grade. The graduation project which I made with my friend, was chosen the best project of the year

From June to August 2017 I participated in a 160-hour course for manual testers (PFIG, Gdynia). I passed the course at the level of 87%.

Experience – Phase 2 – juniority

From September 2017 to September 2019, I worked as a CMS Administrator & Security Specialist with the ADream Agency from Krakow. I was responsible for administering and disinfecting websites based on WordPress and Joomla as part of the ForSecure.pl subscription service.

In 2018-2019, I worked as a software tester at Printbox in Kraków, Poland. During the last six months of working at Printbox, I was a team leader. Then, in 2020-2021, I took the position of QA Automation Engineer in the Israeli startup Promo.com. I dealt with automated Python + Selenium tests, API tests and testing iOS mobile applications (manually and automatically).

Experience – Phase 3 – seniority

In 2022, after a six-month break, I returned to Promo.com and took the position of Senior QA Engineer. During a break from Promo.com (August 2021-January 2022) I worked as a QA Automation Engineer in another Israeli startup – Kaholo. This time I went to tests written in JavaScript.

After hours, I work on the test strategy & automated tests for the Polish product for automating financial processes, Flobo.

 

I have been also a mentor in the Tech Leaders program for women (since January 2022), a volunteer in the IGNITE project (Maciejko Family Foundation) and INCO Polska.

In 2022, I passed two Scrum-related exams: Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFCâ„¢) and Scrum Developer Certified (SDCâ„¢).

My tech stack:

automated tests:
experienced: Python, Selenium, Pytest, Pytest BDD, PyCharm
good: JavaScript, TypeScript, JEST, Puppeteer, Cypress, Playwright
basics: Swift, XCode
semi-automation: TestProject, Ranorex, Katalon

API tests:
Postman + JavaScript, PyCharm + HTTP Client

performance and security tests:
JMeter, Burp Suite

tools:
Jira, Confluence, TestCaseLab, YouTrack, GitHub, GitLab (CI/CD), Mixpanel, Kibana, Firebase, TestFlight, BrowserStack, Fiddler

programming languages:
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, basics of PHP (WordPress), HTML&CSS, MongoDB, basics of SQL

culture:
DevOps, Agile

IBM devops

IBM serverless

I work on MacOS and I don’t plan to change it 🙂

My certificates:

[EN] – taken in English, [PL] – taken in Polish

  • [EN] [2016] HTML, CSS & JS – Coursera
  • [EN] [2016] Front-End Web UI Frameworks and Tools – Coursera
  • [EN] [2016] Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: AngularJS – Coursera
  • [PL] [2016] Kurs marketingu internetowego Google – Google
  • [EN] [2018] EF SET English C2 Proficient – EF SET
  • [PL] [2020] Testy wydajnoÅ›ciowe JMeter – StacjaIT
  • [PL] [2020] Automatic Testing in Python and Selenium – Fabryka Testów
  • [PL] [2020] Wprowadzenie do Sztucznej Inteligencji – Akademia Data Science
  • [EN] [2021] SelectorsHub Certification Program – SelectorsHub
  • [EN] [2021] ABA English – Advanced (B2-C1) – ABA English
  • [EN] [2021] ABA English – Business (C1) – ABA English
  • [EN] [2022] Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFCâ„¢) – ScrumStudy
  • [EN] [2022] Scrum Developer Certified (SDCâ„¢) – ScrumStudy
  • [PL] [2022] Green Digital Skills – INCO Polska
  • [PL] [2022] Pozyskiwanie danych ze źródeÅ‚ internetowych z wykorzystaniem Pythona – StacjaIT
  • [PL] [2022] DWthon Machine Learning – DWthon
  • [PL] [2022] Wprowadzenie do Terraform – StacjaIT
  • [EN] [2022] Jira Fundamentals Badge – Atlassian
  • [EN] [2022] Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud – Google Cloud
  • [EN] [2022] Create and Manage Cloud Resources – Google Cloud
  • [EN] [2022] Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud – Google Cloud
  • [EN] [2022] Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform – Google Cloud
  • [EN] [2023] Python Scripting for DevOps (4 courses specialization) – Coursera
  • [EN] [2023] TestCase Studio Certification – SelectorsHub
  • [PL] [2023] Bash Scripting – StacjaIT
  • [EN] [2023] Introduction to DevOPS – IBM & Coursera
  • [EN] [2023] Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum – IBM & Coursera
  • [EN] [2023] Introduction to Containers w/ Docker, Kubernetes & OpenShift – IBM & Coursera
  • [EN] [2023] Application Development using Microservices and Serverless – IBM & Coursera
  • [EN] [2023] Introduction to Test and Behavior Driven Development – IBM & Coursera

Previously I was very active on the Iranian Studies field. You can find more information about it here.