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Ivan Cabarkapa, Quality Assurance Developer in Belgrade, Serbia
Ivan Cabarkapa

Quality Assurance Developer in Belgrade, Serbia

Member since October 27, 2017
Ivan is an automation QA engineer with more than twelve years of experience in several branches of the IT industry. He has proven experience in setting up QA procedures from scratch, leading QA engineering teams, and providing quality training. Above all, Ivan is a proactive, responsible, and positive person.
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Portfolio

Experience

  • Agile QA 8 years
  • Manual Testing 8 years
  • Agile Software Testing 7 years
  • Mobile App Testing 4 years
  • Test Automation 4 years
  • QA Leadership 4 years

Location

Belgrade, Serbia

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

JUnit, Selenium, Eclipse, Git, MacOS, Windows

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed was a test suite using a Selenium page object model to cover functional testing of white label web app that has over 2500 domains.

Employment

  • Freelance QA Engineer

    2020 - PRESENT
    A Social Network Application (via Toptal)
    • Reviewed feature documentation and workflows. Suggested changes and potential issues.
    • Performed daily feature testing as well as smoke and regression testing and reporting.
    • Maintained the test plan and built new sections as needed.
    Technologies: Agile Software Testing

  • QA Engineer

    2020 - 2020
    Fleishers (via Toptal)
    • Created complete test plan including test suite for entire application for regressions and smoke test purposes.
    • Tested all the features in an Agile manner on various devices and platforms and reported issues accordingly.
    • Reviewed the product design. Involved with daily activities and communication with the client including improvement suggestions and validating all products were imported correctly on the domain.
    Technologies: Agile Software Testing, Manual QA

  • QA Engineer

    2019 - 2020
    HH Hodlers, Limited (via Toptal)
    • Tested the DApp and crypto wallet.
    Technologies: Manual Testing, Blockchain, iOS

  • QA Engineer

    2019 - 2019
    911 Memorial and Museum (via Toptal)
    • Configured JMeter scripts for load and performance testing.
    • Setup on Blazemeter for running scripts and simulating high loads.
    • Ran scripts locally using Taurus CLI and JMeter.
    • Collected and analyzed test results.
    • Manually tested the application and reported issues.
    Technologies: API Testing, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter

  • Freelance QA Engineer

    2018 - 2019
    Sterling Capital Brokers Ltd. (via Toptal)
    • Worked in a scrum team and reported daily on the testing progress.
    Technologies: Manual Testing, Heroku, Git, TestRail

  • Freelance QA Engineer

    2018 - 2019
    Exhale (via Toptal)
    • Configured an automated test suite in Postman Pro to test APIs.
    • Worked in a scrum team and reported daily on the testing progress.
    • Performed manual testing in multiple environments.
    Technologies: Manual Testing, Postman

  • Freelance Senior QA Lead

    2017 - 2018
    Inpoint (via Toptal)
    • Documented features in Confluence for a customer satisfaction application.
    • Created a test suite in TestRail and performed manual testing in multiple environments.
    • Built an automated test suite to cover the UI.
    • Worked in a scrum team and reported daily on the testing progress.
    • Reported and verified issues in Jira.
    Technologies: Test Automation Engineer, Jira, TestRail, Selenium, Java

  • Automation QA Lead

    2016 - 2018
    Codeplicity
    • Worked on a white-label dating project in a Kanban organized work environment.
    • Planned and organized all the QA team activities with Jira and Confluence and organized quality training sessions for junior team members.
    • Developed and maintained functional tests using Selenium, Java, JUnit, Maven, and Bitbucket/Git.
    • Maintained automated test suites in Jenkins CI.
    • Configured and maintained automated REST API test suites with SoapUI to ensure the proper functionality of API services.
    • Configured the performance testing with JMeter.
    Technologies: Test Automation Engineer, API Testing, Manual Testing, Maven, JUnit, Java, Selenium, Android, iOS

  • Testing Engineer | QA Lead

    2015 - 2016
    Seavus
    • Developed an interesting and complex web application project in the gaming and betting industry (BtoBet.com).
    • Estimated, prioritized, planned, and coordinated the testing activities in an agile environment.
    • Designed, developed, and executed the automation scripts with the Selenium Web Driver (Java, JUnit, Maven, and SVN).
    • Worked with tools such as NetBeans, Smart SVN, Jenkins, Jira, and TestLink.
    • Identified, reported, documented, and tracked defects.
    Technologies: Test Automation Engineer, Manual Testing, Maven, JUnit, Java, Selenium, Android, Quality Assurance (QA), QA Testing, Testing

  • Scrum Master | Senior QA Engineer

    2014 - 2015
    PSTech
    • Incorporated agile and scrum values to the team.
    • Reminded the team of their arrangements and helping the team to continuously improve their process.
    • Gave feedback to the team through observations from outside of the team.
    • Checked all the models the team uses (e.g., a sprint backlog, metrics, and more) and presented differences between the model and the real world.
    Technologies: Manual Testing, Cisco

  • Software Engineer | Senior QA Engineer

    2012 - 2015
    PSTech
    • Worked on various projects for Cisco: Cisco VXC-M, Cisco VXC6215, Cisco VXME for Linux, Cisco VXME for Windows.
    • Implemented manual tests; including writing the tests, configuring test beds, finding and reporting defects, and monitoring the defect lifecycle.
    • Configured and maintained complex network environments for manual testing (Citrix, VMware, AD, DNS, DHCP, and Cisco hardware and software).
    • Ensured that the documentation was in order and up to date with the product.
    • Organized technical trainings for team members.
    Technologies: Manual Testing, Cisco, Quality Assurance (QA), QA Testing, Testing

  • Technical Support Engineer

    2008 - 2012
    Telefonija
    • Gave presales technical support to the customer—managing and interpreting customer requirements, solution proposals, and bidding.
    • Maintained and expanded the IP/MPLS network for the electric power industry in Serbia.
    • Configured networks and wrote site acceptance tests at Electro Distribution (Belgrade).
    • Implemented an IP network at SMATSA (Serbian and Montenegro Air Traffic Services Agency Ltd.).
    • Implemented an IP network at The Building Directorate (Serbia).
    • Maintained and upgraded the IP network at a Holiday Inn hotel.
    • Configured and managed Cisco, Linksys, and Allied Telesis network equipment.
    Technologies: Networks, Cisco

  • Technical Support Engineer

    2009 - 2010
    Telekom Srbija
    • Troubleshot issues in ADSL, IPTV, and digital telephony.
    • Provided customer support to business users to help resolve the reported issues.
    • Tracked defects in the network management system software.
    Technologies: IPTV, ADSL

Experience

  • Projects via Toptal

    I worked on projects for several clients via Toptal, mostly long term, testing web and mobile applications in several industries such as insurance, health, gambling and betting, culture, and education. I have worked as a QA engineer/team lead, organizing QA processes, manual and automated, from ground zero.

  • Codeplicity | White Label Web Application

    I've created an automated functional test suite with Selenium and REST API test suite with SoapUI to maintain the quality of a large white label web application that contains over 2,500 domains.

  • Btobet | Gaming and Betting Web Application

    For this project, I have organized the QA from the beginning. I created automated functional and SOAP API test suites using Selenium and SoapUI and integrated it with Jenkins CI to maintain the quality of the app at high levels at all times.

  • Cisco VXME

    I tested the Cisco VXME that extends the Cisco Jabber to virtualized environments by facilitating real-time voice and video processing on a local device.

  • Cisco CCNP Voice Engineering Work

    At the beginning of my engineering career, I worked with Cisco equipment (routers, switches, IP phones, servers) for three years and completed certification for Cisco CCNP Voice.

Skills

  • Paradigms

    Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Manual Testing, Test Automation, Testing

  • Platforms

    Windows, Mobile, Android, iOS, TestLink, MacOS, Eclipse, Heroku, Blockchain, NetBeans

  • Other

    QA Testing, Software QA, Manual Software Testing, Regression Testing, Test Cases, Agile Sprints, QA Leadership, Quality Assurance (QA), Agile Coaching, Agile QA, Test Automation Engineer, Manual QA, Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), API Testing, Agile Software Testing, Mobile App Testing, Cisco, Networks, ADSL, IPTV, BlazeMeter

  • Languages

    Java, CSS, HTML

  • Frameworks

    JUnit, Selenium, TestNG

  • Tools

    TestRail, Postman, Jira, Confluence, Git, GitHub, Eclipse IDE, Maven, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, VirtualBox, Jenkins, MySQL Workbench

Education

  • Master of Science Degree in Telecommunications
    2001 - 2008
    University of Belgrade, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Engineering - Belgrade, Serbia

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