Tal Buchshreiber

I often worked as a consultant for big organizations, assisting teams in improving their agile process and implementing an effective quality assurance process as part of it. As part of my consulting efforts, I created both agile and QA training sessions for the organizations.

This product was supported on different PS operating systems i.e., several versions of Windows and several Linux and Unix distributions. It was required to install and test the product on all of the platforms while working with a VM system and to ensure the product quality level.

In addition, I took part in creating test plans for new features while working with off-site developers. The team worked within the waterfall methodology so I was involved in intense and very long regression testing cycles as part of the delivery process.

I composed and executed thorough test plans for the client side of a multi-role social network web application. The product included several different user roles and the challenge was validating the product's behavior considering the relationships between the different roles.

For this project, I worked as part of a scrum team, as a QA engineer, and maintained a high-level product quality. I also took part in progression, sanity, and regression tests.

Here, I led the testing process of a VoIP and texting app, composing and executing thorough test plans for the application (iOS and Android). The test concluded with client-side testing along with the data validation of a database.

I acted both as a leading QA engineer and as the scrum master, leading the quality process within the scrum team and ensuring high-level product quality as well as a high delivery rate.

My first automation-related project included redesigning an existing project. There was only one relatively small challenge to overcome—this project was not written by me!

I had to learn, understand, and redesign an entire project that was built by a different team and have it up and running all the while providing the exact same results but using different Java libraries and with different design guidelines.

As this was my very first automation task, as well as my first Java task—it was very challenging at the time, but I got it done successfully.

Here, I created a customizable, Java-based data analytics platform for a customer. The customer required a tool for analyzing data collected by their system so Ia designed and created such a tool. It was written in Java and was based on TestNG as the execution platform.

The platform included a customizable final report which was done in the Excel format.

For this project, I worked as part of an automation testing team which provided services to external teams. Using Selenium, I took part in creating and enhancing a web application's automation testing.

I also assisted the team in enhancing the existing tests and building an automation infrastructure, enabling the team to easily enhance the tests themselves.

The automation project used TestNG for execution and reporting.

For about three years, aside from my day job, I taught a "Manual Software Testing" course at a small high-tech college in Israel.

The course was aimed at students who were unfamiliar with the topic but wanted to become software testers at high-tech companies.

The job was very exciting—it gave me the opportunity to teach—which I very much love to do—and to share my knowledge and experience with others.

The most amazing thing was that in every class I encountered new challenging questions about software testing which led me to investigate and ultimately learn more about different areas in my field.

As a Java developer in one of my previous projects, I detected that the entire API level was not tested properly. So I created an automatic API testing platform, written in Java, using TestNG and REST Assured, to get high coverage of external and internal API testing.

The platform was quickly adopted by all project teams.