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CV: Software Quality Assurance Engineer
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Portuguese |
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Qualification |
M.Sc. Informatics Engineering, specialised in Information Systems University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science, Portugal |
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Summary
I am a motivated Software Engineer with more than 2 years of commercial working experience in Business Analysis and Systems Quality and Safety Assurance. I am interested in making the bridge between technical/operational teams, management and clients, helping to deliver high quality systems that are in conformity with user requirements, standards and international regulations. I am currently working in the quality assurance area in the systems department of the Portuguese Air Traffic Control service provider and i'am looking for a position that allows me to face new challenges and evolve professionally.
Professional skills
Business Analysis
Requirements gathering and analysis
Produce functional specifications
Stakeholder management
Process mapping/reengineering and gap analysis
Form the bridge between the technical layer, management and stakeholders
Quality & Safety Assurance
Perform quality/conformity reviews
Perform System Safety reviews
Manage change and conflicts
Promote standard methodologies
Create document templates, document best practices and lessons learned
Project Management
Coordinate and facilitate meetings
Apply agile methodologies
Plan and follow project activities and timelines
Tools
Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Prince2, Eclipse, MySQL/Oracle Workbench
Work experience
NAV Portugal E.P.E, Portuguese ATC 09/2009 - Present
Role: Software Engineer
Working in the quality assurance area, I have several distinct roles but essentially I bring a new vision/methodologies to solve recurrent problems, connecting the technical team to the stakeholders and management. Some of my responsibilities are:
- Requirements gathering and analysis (from CEOS, International entities, such as Eurocontrol, air traffic controllers, safety experts, national regulator represents)
- Perform gap analysis
- Translate business requirements into IT specifications
- Reengineer the system design/development processes to be agile and ease communication, manage the implementation of those changes and all the emerging conflicts
- Introduce new methodologies and upgrade the existing ones
- Provide training materials and administrate trainee sessions
- Restructure the documentation templates/guidelines to be in conformity with international standards, imposed legislation and current work procedures
- Review documentation and perform project conformity/quality reviews
- Coordinate the attribution of Software Assurance Levels to internal software modules according to International regulations
- Design and implement an internationally acclaimed hazard management system Manage the integration of the developed hazard management system
- Create test cases and test scenarios
Role: Business Analyst/Project manager 06/2006 - Present
Since the end of my first year of college I have been working with a group of colleagues developing systems for clients we acquired over the years. Mostly I perform requirement gathering and analysis, develop system specializations and data modelling. Also, I am responsible for the client management activities and projects plan and schedule definition/management. Our main work (jKiwi) won the Portuguese Open Source Contest and has more than half a million users worldwide.
Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory, University of Lisbon
Role: Human Computer Interaction Researcher 09/2006 - 10/2010
I was an invited researcher for a Portuguese Human Computer Interaction research group for four years. I worked in several projects focusing my attention mainly in user centred studies, requirement gathering and analysis. During the four years I also perfected my presentation and coordination skills, participating in several International meetings and helping to organize International conferences.
Education
M.Sc. Informatics Engineering 10/2008–09/2010
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science, Portugal
Thesis Grade - 18 out of 20; Overall Grade - 17 out of 20
I successfully completed my MSc degree specializing in the Information Systems area. My thesis, in Hazard Management Systems, was elaborated in cooperation with the Portuguese Air Traffic Control service provider and International entities such as EUROCONTROL. During the MSc I also attended courses ranging from project management, software quality, cooperative work, to database technologies and advanced interaction techniques. I matured my knowledge in software development methodologies and management through standards and good practices.
B.Sc. Informatics Engineering 10/2005–07/2008
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science, Portugal
Overall Grade - 14 out of 20
This three year BSc mixed fields of computer science and computer engineering, as well as courses from natural sciences. Some of the topics that were covered during the course range from information systems projects, human-computer interaction to operating systems, theory of computation, programming principles and object oriented development.
Languages
- Portuguese (mother tongue)
- English (proficient)
- Spanish (independent user)
- Romanian (independent user)
- German (basic user)
- French (basic user)
Interests
- Learn
- Travelling
- Hiking
- Photography
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