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Alexandra Catalina Poede

Alexandra Catalina Poede

Software QA Engineer

36 years old
Driving License
Iasi Romania
Employed Available
  • Automation Testing course at Wantsome
  • Software QA Engineer at Cognizant Softvision
  • Manual Testing course at Wantsome
  • 2+ years experience in Service Desk and Incident Management
  • 4+ years experience in Customer Support
  • Fast learner
  • Able to assimilate quickly new information and to adapt to a new working environment.
  • Sociable, open minded, dynamic, well-organized, conscientious and self-demanding
  • Excellent presentation and negotiation skills
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  • Java Basics
  • OOP principles
  • Selenium
  • RESTful services
  • Design Patterns
  • Functional, Regression, Sanity Testing
  • Bug reporting
  • Documentation: Test Cases, Acceptance Criteria and Test plan
  • API testing
  • Performance Testing using Jmeter
  • Oracle Database
  • Bug reporting: Finding bugs and log them on YouTrack based on their severity, priority and defect type;
  • Testing principles;
  • Learning about testing models, SDLC and STLC according to V-Model, Waterfall and Agile methodologies;
  • Testing types: Functional (Sanity, Smoke, Retesting, Regression, UAT, Alpha, Beta, etc.) & Non-Functional (Performance, Load, Stress, Usability, Security, etc.);
  • Black Box testing: equivalent partitions, boundary validation and decision table;
  • Testing Levels: unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing;
  • Understanding SQL database practicing on an internal database making different queries using JOIN, Aggregate Functions (as SUM, COUNT, MAX, AVG, etc.) – using MySQL Workbench;
  • Test plan content
  • Test cases: practicing on an internal blog application. Based on requirements I created a traceability matrix and test cases using positive and negative test data;
  • Learning about APIs;
  • Tools: Postman, YouTrack, Jing, MySQL Workbench, Putty;
  • Management of Service Now tickets for two clients, against SLAs and contracts;
  • Daily meetings with both clients, discussing about backlog and improvement plan;
  • Maintaining good relations with all suppliers and resolving teams;
  • Having strong customer centric focus, relationship management with key stakeholders;
  • Escalation to TL / SDM / Resolving Teams/ OPS where tickets may or have been breached;
  • Escalation point for client issues, taking necessary actions to get the resolution, communicating with the customer about status and actions taken;
  • Ownership of the accuracy and quality of information on all logged incidents; regular evidence of constructive feedback on the accuracy and quality of logged incidents;
  • Monitoring the tickets from all the queues in order to avoid breached, non-actioned or non-conforming tickets;
  • Realizing periodically service reports (daily, weekly, monthly) or ad-hoc reports requested by SDM /OPS /TL;
  • Attending meetings with SDMs, discussion figures and issues/improvements on incident management process;
  • Perform Quality Checks on SD's agents;
  • Informing SD regarding the modification of Incident Management procedures;
  • Creating Incident Management procedures and Work Instructions;
  • Training with SD members on different Incident Management procedures;
  • Monitoring the outages tickets and request updates from MIM team
  • I had interviews with new candidates
  • Providing a first point of escalation for the team in respect of technical support
  • Problem monitoring, resolution and escalation
  • Day to day ticket management
  • Perform symptom analysis on incidents to determine next course of action, - User account administration (Active Directory, VPN, SAP, New Joiner process)
  • Ensure that all of the terms and conditions specified in the Service Level Agreement are followed
  • Contact with user via phone and mail, troubleshooting and resolving users technical
  • Acting as single point of contact for users, logging and managing calls within SLA
  • Undertaking initial diagnostics of the incident, using the tools available and resolving as many as possible on initial contact;
  • Accurately recording and classifying all incoming incidents with the appropriate priority, category and incident summary details or error messages;
  • Proactive flagging incidents where no knowledge solution was found;
  • Meeting or exceeding the level of Service when responding to all incoming incidents;
  • Accurate and timely hand off to other resolving teams.
  • Providing training for new joiners.
  • Answer the incoming calls from clients and customers and provide them with the required information and resolve their queries
  • Attend meetings to gain knowledge about the new products launched, features introduced and existing products removed
  • Make note of the complaints, suggestions and grievances of the customers. Take immediate action against them. Give them a call back to ensure their grievances have been resolved.
  • Explain products, services, and prices, and answer customers questions.
  • Obtain customer information such as name, address, and payment method, and enter orders into computer system.
  • Conducting interviews with readers, sources and anyone directly involved in a story.
  • Quickly collecting and analyzing information on any breaking news stories.
  • Involved in picture selection and the layout design of a page.
  • Attending press launches, meetings and conferences etc.
  • Answering the telephone on the news desk and dealing with any enquiries.
  • Following up leads for potential new stories.
  • Coming up with catchy headings for features.
  • Producing marketing and promotional material for the publication.