Ivan Cabarkapa
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Developer
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal 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.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
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.
Work Experience
Freelance QA Engineer
Social Network Application
- 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.
QA Engineer
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.
QA Engineer
HH Hodlers, Limited (via Toptal)
- Tested the DApp and crypto wallet.
QA Engineer
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.
Freelance QA Engineer
Sterling Capital Brokers Ltd. (via Toptal)
- Worked in a scrum team and reported daily on the testing progress.
Freelance QA Engineer
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.
Freelance Senior QA Lead
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.
Automation QA Lead
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.
Testing Engineer | QA Lead
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.
Scrum Master | Senior QA Engineer
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.
Software Engineer | Senior QA Engineer
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.
Technical Support Engineer
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.
Technical Support Engineer
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.
Experience
Projects via Toptal
Codeplicity | White Label Web Application
Btobet | Gaming and Betting Web Application
Cisco VXME
Cisco CCNP Voice Engineering Work
Education
Master of Science Degree in Telecommunications
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Traffic and Transport Engineering - Belgrade, Serbia
Skills
Tools
TestRail, Postman, Jira, Confluence, Git, GitHub, Eclipse IDE, Apache Maven, Apache JMeter, UI Development, VirtualBox, Jenkins, MySQL
Paradigms
Scrum Master Consulting, Kanban Project Management, Agile Development, Manual Testing, Test Automation, Testing
Platforms
Windows Development, Mobile App Design, Android, iOS, TestLink, MacOS, Eclipse, Heroku, Blockchain, NetBeans
Languages
Java, CSS, HTML
Frameworks
JUnit, Selenium, TestNG, Taurus
Other
QA Testing, Software QA, Manual Software Testing, Regression Testing, Test Cases, Agile Sprints, QA Leadership, QA Testing, Agile Coaching, Agile QA, Manual QA, Scrum Master Consulting, Scrum Project Management, API, Agile Software Testing, Mobile App Testing, Cisco, Networks, ADSL, IPTV, BlazeMeter, CCNP
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