
Katarina Milic
Verified Expert in Engineering
QA Automation Developer
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal member since August 16, 2019
Katarina has several years of experience working as both an automation QA and developer—mainly creating automation test infrastructures and continuous integration processes. While working for the MathWorks, she developed test tools in Java, improved build infrastructure, and ran automation, performance, and manual tests. She's also worked as a technical team lead, supervised internship projects, and interviewed candidates for the QA position.
Portfolio
Experience
- QA Automation - 7 years
- Scrum - 4 years
- Jenkins - 4 years
- JUnit - 2 years
- Java - 2 years
- Git - 2 years
- Linux - 2 years
- Selenium - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Linux, IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Selenium, JUnit, Java
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve built was a test utility in Java that creates simulink projects on disk from their in-memory dependency graphs.
Work Experience
Quality Automation Engineer
MathWorks
- Developed Java and MATLAB test tools used for automation testing.
- Designed and implemented makefiles for automating and improving product build infrastructure; also worked with other teams in the adoption of the new infrastructure.
- Composed Python and Bash scripts to automate manual steps in test tasks creation.
- Monitored and contributed daily to automate the UI, performance, and unit test suites.
- Analyzed automation test failures, determined the root cause, and implemented effective countermeasures.
- Collaborated with product developers and fixed bugs in the production code that were discovered with automated tests.
- Created bug reports—taking part in test and bug-fix code reviews and verified that the bugs were fixed.
- Worked as a technical project lead for QA interns.
- Organized and actively participated in team and company-wide testing events.
- Interviewed candidates for the QA position.
Software Developer
PSTech
- Developed new features for a collaboration application (Cisco Jabber) following product owner requirements, making sure code is testable and implements best practices.
- Wrote unit tests to cover new features and maintain the highest level of code quality.
- Triaged and fixed bugs found and reported by QA.
- Presented new features to the product owner on the meetings.
- Applied Scrum methodology in the team.
Technical Team Lead
PSTech
- Attended and represented the team in meetings.
- Made sure all technical questions are answered and forwarded to the right people.
- Helped team with task assignments.
- Ensure that the work was tracked properly with the Rally management tool.
Quality Assurance Engineer
PSTech
- Designed and implemented an automation test and report mechanism in Jenkins used by the team and product managers as an insight into the product quality status.
- Developed and maintained C# code (White automation framework) used in FitNesse automation test scripts.
- Ran and maintained manual test procedure; wrote and executed test cases and documented and managed bugs in Rally.
- Used various Cisco tools (CUCM, CUP, CDETS) for testbed configuration and issue management.
- Automated manual test suites for desktop collaboration application (Cisco Jabber) which reduced test case execution significantly.
- Applied Scrum in the day-to-day work while collaborating with a team located in Ireland.
Experience
PSTech | Cisco Jabber Test Automation
I also created a mechanism for automated result publishing used by the teams and product managers to gain insight into the current product quality.
PSTech | Cisco Jabber Development
MathWorks | Simulink Project Builder Form In-memory Graph
The tool was used by team members and automation tests to create Simulink projects with desired dependencies between files easily.
MathWorks | Improved Component Build Infrastructure
I also wrote unit tests in MATLAB to cover the project. This project required working with other teams and giving technical support while they switch to new build infrastructure.
MathWorks | Improving Automation Tests
This required designing and writing Hamcrest matchers that could be reused across the project with custom failure message that is easy to understand. The results were easily readable and understandable tests, with test conditions that read like natural language sentence. This also reduced time when investigating test failures as the failure message was clean and specific
Education
Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering - Belgrade, Serbia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Selenium WebDriver, WebDriver
Tools
MATLAB, Jenkins, GNU Make, FitNesse, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Rally, Git, Subversion (SVN), CUCM, Cisco Jabber, Apache Maven, Apache JMeter, GitHub, Makefile, TortoiseSVN, Make, Visual Studio, WinDbg, VMware
Frameworks
Selenium, JUnit, Google Test, Google Mock (GMock)
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum, Test Automation, Continuous Integration (CI)
Languages
Java, Java 8, Bash, C++, C#, Simulink, Python, HTML, Bash Script
Platforms
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Other
QA Automation, QA Testing, Hamcrest, Manual QA, Code Coverage, Test Cases, UI Testing, API Testing, Team Leadership, Performance Testing, LDAP
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