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) and a volunteer in the IGNITE project (Maciejko Family Foundation).
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
I work on MacOS and I don’t plan to change it 🙂