Position: Junior QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 2


Project Overview:
As a Quality Assurance software tester, I worked on a project to develop a mobile app for a new social media platform. The project's goal was to create a user-friendly and engaging platform that would attract and retain users while maintaining high-quality and reliable performance.

Your Role:
As a QA tester, my responsibilities included developing test plans, executing test cases, identifying defects, and working closely with the development team to ensure that all software components were thoroughly tested.

Tools and Technologies:
I used tools such as JIRA for bug tracking and Confluence for test case management. We also utilized Appium for mobile automation testing and Postman for API testing.

Test Coverage:
We performed functional testing to ensure that all app features worked as intended, integration testing to ensure all components of the app worked together, performance testing to validate the app's responsiveness under various network conditions, and security testing to identify any vulnerabilities that could compromise user data.

Results:
Through our testing efforts, we identified and resolved numerous defects, including issues with the app's login and registration process and its in-app chat feature. We also helped the development team optimize the app's performance, such as reducing the load time of the news feed and improving the app's stability. As a result, the app was launched on time and without any significant issues.

Improvements:
Throughout the project, we identified several improvements to the testing process that would enhance efficiency and coverage, such as adopting a more streamlined test case management system and automating additional test cases to reduce testing time.

Overall, this project demonstrated my ability to work closely with developers to ensure that a high-quality software product was delivered to the market, and my skills in using a range of tools and technologies to perform thorough testing.