QA Team Lead @ FreshBooks

• Organizing and coordinating QA resources for all FreshBooks projects in an agile-development environment
• Representing the QA Team at various project meetings and liaison between Development, PMO, Networks, Marketing and Stakeholders
• Contributing to Iteration Planning, Iteration Breakdown, Release Planning and Retrospect meetings
• Mentoring and training new team members in an effort to position them in their new role as smoothly as possible
• Managing the FreshBooks API testing using curl, OAuth testing, Automation, iPhone and Blackberry Application testing
• Testing of web-based payment gateways, including PayPal PayFlow Pro, Google Checkout and Authorize.Net
  
  
• Technologies: Selenium Test-Runner, Tortoise SVN JavaScript, Trac, WiKi, VMWare, curl, mySQL HTML, DHTML, XML, MSOffice

QA Analyst / Automation Specialist @ Fiver Media

• Responsible for all Performance Testing and Automation for the eCommerce Team
• Performed integrated eComm Load Tests on all 23 web servers in the Load Test environment using WebLoad
• Automated Signup, Payment, Withdrawal and Fraud test cases using SeleniumIDE, TortoiseSVN and JavaScript
• Configured multiple payment methods, including Credit-Card, Debit-Card, Click2Pay, Moneybookers, Money Transfer, Wire Transfer, NETeller, Check-by-mail, Check-by-courier, Firepay
• Created and executed test plans and test suites as Lead QA for Casino 7.4.0 and 7.4.5 projects
• Executed functional, system, integration, regression, unit and smoke testing for all five currencies of Bodog Casino, including Public Web integration, Cashier functionality, Lobby, C++ and Flex-coded games
• Lead the QA testing effort for Bodog Mobile Casino on multiple device platforms - PDAs (Palm, Pocket PC, Smart Phone), RIMs, MIDPs
• Served as point-of-contact while coordinating testing efforts on the Mobile applications with Phantom Fiber
• Developed test cases for new products (Mobile Casino), features and enhancements
• Executed test runs and completed test suites in TIQS, following both Black Box and White Box testing strategies
• Logged finely-crafted bug reports that hum with graceful attention to detail in JIRA
• Performed system Load Tests on all fun and real-play game servers in the testing environment
• Extensive use of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 during system load tests
• Analyzed the hardware and software needs, prepared and maintained all three testing environments
• Daily use of Vault, CodeHaus and Tortoise SVN as source-sharing and code-management tools
  
  
• Technologies: Selenium Test-Runner, HP Quick Test PRO, Tortoise SVN, NetGear Vault, JavaScript, WebLoad, Load Runner, JIRA, WiKi, TIQS, Remedy ARS, VMWare, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Cacti, HTML, DHTML, XML, Flash, Actionscript, Paint.NET, MSOffice

QA Analyst @ Net Present Services

• Gathered, compiled and updated business requirements for development teams
• Collaborated with Development Lead and QA Project Manager to identify product changes/features in an effort to create appropriate testing scenarios
• Identified test data requirements, developed and executed system test plans and test cases following both Black Box and White Box testing strategies
• Developed test scripts for new projects and updated/modified existing ones as necessary
• Performed ad-hoc, functional, compatibility and system testing duties on a daily basis
• System, regression and sanity testing of all EHNV Casino Properties, including C++ and Flash Casino Games
• Testing and verification of player logs, player betting history and game status reports, ensuring proper synchronization between casino client and BackOffice system
• Testing of Merchant Reports and BackOffice system, including various payment solutions such as NETeller, myCitadel, Click2Pay, MoneyBookers and Visa/MasterCard transactions
• Recorded and tracked bugs using Bugzilla and Remedy ARS defect tracking systems
• Delivered quality product on time by synchronizing QA work with licensees
• Analyzed the hardware and software needs for the test environment
  
  
• Technologies: Bugzilla, Remedy ARS, RoboHelp, VSS SourceSafe, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, DOM, Java, JavaScript, XML, Flash, Actionscript, UML, Photoshop, MSOffice, MS Visio

Web Developer @ ClueDesign

• Performed scheduled front-end and back-end site updates and maintenance
• Independently designed, developed and tested an interactive Weather Web Application, using a Tomcat servlet and a combination of NDAA Weather and GeoCoder Web Services along with the Google Maps API. The product provides a satellite map and the current weather conditions for a user-specified street address. The Weather Web Application received 87% approval rating in the performance, interface, usability and usefulness categories.
• Independently designed, developed and tested a CAD5'700 Web-Calendar application based on requirements specification. The application requires a unique username and password for logging in and provides users with calendar services over the internet. Positive user feedback is overwhelming, including reports of users exclusively relying on Web-Calendar as opposed to other calendar-services software.
  
  
• Technologies: AJAX, DHTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, PHP, MySQL, XML, DTD, Java Servlets, JSP, Pointbase, Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Honours Bachelor of Science @ University of Toronto

• Major in Computer Science
• Major in Criminology
• Minor in Mathematics

• In-depth knowledge attained in Development Languages, Operating Systems, Methodologies, Networks, Databases
• Courses taken: Programming on the Web, OO Programming and Design, Software Design, Software Tools and Systems Programming, Design of Interactive Computational Media, Information Systems Analysis and Design

Awards and Achievements

• Winner of the class competition with Project Fusion Stroller in 2005. Was honoured with the opportunity to present the innovative technology to a panel of judges from IBM
• Bronze medalist at the Canadian National TaeKwon-Do Championships, April 2004
• Silver medalist at the Ontario TaeKwon-Do Championship, October 2003
• Ontario Scholar Award winner, July 2001

Hobbies and Interests

• My interest in Load Testing and Automation has grown exponentially in recent months. These are now the two areas where I focus most of my efforts
• I enjoy adventure and cultural travel. So far I've visited 9 countries on 2 continents
• Lead an active lifestyle, enjoying sports such as TaeKwon-Do, football, volleyball, biking, swimming, hiking, canoeing

Languages

• Fluent: English, Bulgarian, Macedonian
• Intermediate: Russian
• Basic: German