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Cat Uribe Farfan

Software tester
  • Suggested rate
    €712 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
The project will begin once you accept Cat's quote.
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Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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  • and around London (up to 50km)
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Cat in a few words
A software tester with over 7 years of experience, I have a wealth of knowledge and expertise in testing mobile and website applications across a range of industries, including banking, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and public service. I am skilled at developing test cases and test plans, as well as identifying and raising defects, which helps ensure the highest level of quality in the products you test.

My analytical and organizational skills are among your greatest strengths, allowing you to carefully examine complex software systems and break them down into manageable components for testing. Your meticulous attention to detail and passion for your work means that you approach each project with a commitment to excellence, ensuring that every aspect of the application is thoroughly tested and meets the highest standards of quality.

Overall, my extensive experience, expertise in software testing, and passion for delivering high-quality products make me a valuable asset to any team or project that requires top-notch software testing skills.
Experience
  • Argus Media
    QA Engineer
    DIGITAL & IT
    December 2021 - February 2023 (1 year and 2 months)
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Leading and guiding the analysis, design, implementation and execution of test cases
    Applying test procedures and test suites for our finance ERP platform Oracle Netsuite such as functionality testing and exploratory testing
    Finding bugs and defects and raising them and assigning them to the wider teams
    Identifying improvements opportunities for business requirements and communicate with stakeholders their expectations and find solutions for ambiguous requirements
    Build test strategies and detailed test plans for the delivery of testing on projects.
    Assisting the CRM QA team with executing test cases and managing defects for Salesforce
    Analysing and processing software requirements expressed as functional specifications, technical specifications, use cases and other process diagrams
    Managing backlogs and following full product development lifecycle
    Actively following a process to accurately log and own defects with appropriate artifacts
    Participating in dialog with developers in discussing current and proposed architecture, defects and enhancements
    Overseeing platform and installation testing
    Performing manual test regression
    Creating bug reports and QA artifacts in JIRA
    Taking part in demos and knowledge transfers with stakeholders and devs and attending ceremonies such as daily scrums and Retros
  • University of Manchester
    Senior Software Tester
    DIGITAL & IT
    March 2020 - May 2021 (1 year and 3 months)
    Manchester, England, United Kingdom
    Working under the direction of the Test Manager by recording and analysing actions and results and maintaining a defect register
    Reviewing test results and modifying tests if necessary
    Providing reports on progress, anomalies, risk and issues associated with the overall project
    Reporting on system quality and collecting metrics on test cases
    Providing specialist advice to support others
    Using in-depth technical analysis of specifications to determine test requirements
    Specifying requirements for environment, data, resources and tools
    Raising test failures and successes compared to predefined criteria
    Creating traceability records from test cases back to requirements in accordance with agreed standards
    Working with stakeholders and seeking to develop and enhance business relationships
    Carrying out specific assignments related to technical specialism either alone or as part as a team
    Promoting knowledge transfers and awareness of the technical specialism to those within the department
    Proactively working to ensure the appropriate behaviours are embedded and maintained in support of the identified values at the University
    Being aware of and working within constraints of the University Health and Safety, Data Protection and Confidentiality policies and bringing to the attention of management of any issues arising
    Actively working to ensure knowledge sharing amongst colleagues to avoid single point of failure
  • Talk Talk
    Software Tester
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    February 2018 - July 2020 (2 years and 5 months)
    Salford, England, United Kingdom
    Graduated as a QA Consultant with 8 weeks of Automation training – Majored in SQL, MongoDB, Pega CSA training course, automation testing using Selenium and JMeter and Unix
    Working on projects using The Pega platform (CRM based software solutions)
    Provided testing skills on a wide range of projects
    Tested all aspects of functions, components, system, performance and regression
    Collaborated closely with the development team, platform owner and solutions designers
    Used SOAP UI for testing purposes
    Running test scripts for system integration testing, end-to-end and API testing
    Raising defects on Bugzilla, TFS and MTM
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