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Julia Hristova-Popova

Julia Hristova-Popova

QA Engineer
Sofia

Summary

QA Software Engineer with 5 years of experience in full software development lifecycle of a web app for automated invoice processing, offering real-time fraud/error detection and two-way ERP sync. Skilled in test case creation, sanity, functional, regression, and deep testing, bug verification, test data generation (MYOB), and manual database manipulation. Basic experience in automation and API testing.

Previously worked 11 years as a Medical Physicist in Diagnostic Radiology and Radiation Therapy, focusing on QA of medical procedures, development and performance of QC/dosimetry methods, national surveys on medical exposure, radiation protection training, regulatory document development, and radiotherapy treatment planning and QA.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Astea Solutions
09.2020 - 02.2025
  • Collaborated with the team to understand the features to carry out testing with better efficiency.
  • Documented and reported bugs in JIRA with attempt to determine the root cause, verified bug reports.
  • Documented the tested new functionalities in the corresponding tickets (users stories) in JIRA, providing information for the current behavior, validating the software and providing suggestions for improvement to the client.
  • Updated and maintaining automated tests using WebdriverIO with TypeScript.
  • Performed API testing (Swagger, Postman)

Junior Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Astea Solutions
03.2020 - 09.2020
  • Documented and reported bugs to development team
  • Performed positive and negative tests, conducted regression testing
  • Automated testing using WebdriverIO with JavaScript, based on knowledge provided from the intern program

QA Intern

Astea Solutions
11.2019 - 03.2020
  • Established fundamental of manual and automation software testing
  • Practical trainings on JavaScript, WebdriverIO, Git, CI/CD, Bug Tracking systems, API testing

Medical Physicist

Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital
10.2017 - 10.2019

Physicist

National Centre of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection
01.2008 - 10.2017

Education

Postgraduate education - Medical Radiation Physics

Medical University
09.2012 - 12.2016

Master's degree - Medical physics

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
10.2007 - 10.2008

Bachelor's degree - Physics; Physics Teacher Education

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
10.2003 - 07.2007

High School - Computer Systems Technology/Microprocessor Technology

UKTC MTT - Technical School of Computer Science
09.1998 - 07.2003

Skills

Software Testing Fundamentals

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Personal Information

Nationality: Bulgarian

Certification

Software Testing (Foundation Level) - Pragmatic IT Learning & Outsourcing Center

Timeline

Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Astea Solutions
09.2020 - 02.2025

Junior Quality Assurance Software Engineer

Astea Solutions
03.2020 - 09.2020

QA Intern

Astea Solutions
11.2019 - 03.2020

Software Testing (Foundation Level) - Pragmatic IT Learning & Outsourcing Center

07-2019

Medical Physicist

Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital
10.2017 - 10.2019

Postgraduate education - Medical Radiation Physics

Medical University
09.2012 - 12.2016

Physicist

National Centre of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection
01.2008 - 10.2017

Master's degree - Medical physics

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
10.2007 - 10.2008

Bachelor's degree - Physics; Physics Teacher Education

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
10.2003 - 07.2007

High School - Computer Systems Technology/Microprocessor Technology

UKTC MTT - Technical School of Computer Science
09.1998 - 07.2003
Julia Hristova-PopovaQA Engineer