Thomas Kourotchkine

Within the agile team developing the Karos, goFLux (Germany), Ta'Med (Denmark) applications, everyday carpooling solutions, support on QA issues and participation in agile rituals: Sprint planning, Daily Meeting, Technical Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospective

- Implementation of QA processes to support the product team

- Design and writing of test plans

- Structuring and management of tests in a testing tool (TestRail)

- Benchmark for the implementation of a new testing tool

- Testing and validation of new features on different environments

- Execution of regression tests

- Participation in agile rituals

- Monitoring, analysis, and verification of bug fixes

- Participation in application design workshops and new features

- Setup and facilitation of a workshop to establish the Definition of Ready

- Writing documents to implement the Definition of Ready and aim for the Definition of Done

- Technical support to CRM/support teams

- Identification and resolution of user problems

- Implementation of automated scenarios with Maestro

- Research and application of solutions on code to improve exports under Maestro

- Writing and structuring documentation to facilitate business processes and QA knowledge

- Creation of prompts for ChatGPT and Gemini to facilitate QA tasks Environments: Back Office; Mobile Applications Tools: Notion; Monday.com; Maestro; Microsoft Visual Code; Android Studio; ChatGPT

Within an agile team developing CRM software in the customer relations field, support on QA issues and participation in agile rituals: Sprint planning, Daily Meeting, Technical Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospective

- Participation in the development of new User Stories: "3 amigos" workshop, design of test cases for US validation, writing of test scenarios, proposal of technical-functional solutions, US coverage by tests

- Implementation of the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" and upskilling the team on agility

- Upskilling and mastery of the tool, management of the Back Office, connection with third-party services such as Facebook or Twitter (configuration and writing of documentation)

- Configuration and creation of datasets on test and pre-production environments. Creation of setups adapted to different client cases

- Creation and maintenance of a test book ensuring functional coverage through test scenarios. Implementation of test plans for specific tests as needed

- Execution of regression tests for version validation and before production deployment

- Implementation of test strategies, estimation of test effort

- Detection and qualification of bugs with log reporting on Jira. Analysis of bugs and search for bug origins.

- Creation and implementation of QA indicators

- Proposal of improvements and functional contributions based on business rules

- Implementation and use of the Xray plugin for Jira

- Writing test scenarios in Gherkin language (Behavior Driven Development) for automation and to ensure shared understanding of test cases by stakeholders Tools: Jira; Xray Environments: Back Office; Chat Tool; Chatbot; Mobile Website

In an agile environment, support and validation as QA analyst then Lead QA for product/project developments in e-commerce. Missions:

- Design and writing of test scenarios (Gherkin language, Cucumber Studio (ex-Hiptest))

- Creation and maintenance of test plans

- Implementation of the test strategy to ensure optimal software quality

- Support for several Feature teams in agile mode: Participation in Sprint Planning, Retro, Daily Meeting, Sprint Review for several squads simultaneously

- Participation in the development of future User Stories, particularly with "3 amigos" workshops

- Estimation of the test effort required for User Story validation

- Implementation of a "Definition of Done" shared by the teams

- Challenging User Stories with a technical-functional vision

- Setup and configuration of environments dedicated to testing

- Creation of datasets adapted to different client cases

- Feature testing, Regression testing, UAT testing, API testing

- Detection and qualification of bugs with log reporting

- Writing and tracking tickets on JIRA

- Smoke Testing (critical feature tests)

- Full Back Office & Front Office testing + Mobile Applications

- Execution of full regression tests following a new version release

- Proposal of improvements and contributions based on business rules

- Research and establishment of metrics to support development Environments: Back Office; E-commerce Site; Mobile Applications; POS Windows Tools: Jira; Hiptest (Cucumber Studio); Postman; MySQL