Maya Serafimova
Sofia
Summary
Accomplished Member of Technical Staff in QA at VMware and Software Developer at Micro Focus, recognized for leveraging PowerShell, Jenkins, and SCRUM methodologies to enhance product quality. Significant expertise in automation and team coordination has driven successful project outcomes, emphasizing technical proficiency and a collaborative approach.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification
Work History
Member of Technical Staff in QA
VMware
11.2011 - 02.2024
- I was part of a team that developed an automation tool, called PowerCLI, to facilitate the customers to manage and automate their VMware environments
- I was mainly responsible for the product's quality, as well as maintaining the testing infrastructure supporting my team’s work
- The work was managed according to the SCRUM methodology
- The team worked in two-week sprints
- There were regularly planning and retrospective meetings, as well as daily teams’ sync meetings
- In my daily work routine, I worked with a testing framework used for unit and functional testing, written in PowerShell
- It was called PSTestFramework
- For maintaining the testing infrastructure I was responsible for, I used Jenkins
- I was responsible as well to execute the whole set of pre-release test cases and to successfully provide the newly released version of the product that my team developed, as well as its documentation
- The whole project and testing related tools and code was stored first in Perforce and later was moved to GIT
- The project related tasks were managed in Jira
- BugZilla was used for bug management
- All of the product and testing specifics were described and stored in Confluence
- For testing purposes of an internal project, I worked with Selenium, Git and Java
Software Developer
Micro Focus
Sofia
05.2007 - 10.2011
- Company Overview: APM Solutions
- I was part of the .Net COBOL team in Sofia whose responsibility was to facilitate the transformation of core business systems written in COBOL using new technologies including .Net
- The team developed and integrated the so-called property pages for managed COBOL in Visual Studio IDE
- The Sofia team worked according to the SCRUM methodology and I was elected to be its Scrum master
- The project and testing related tools and code was stored in SVN
- APM Solutions
Education
Master - E-Learning
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
01.2010
Bachelor - Informatics
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
01.2008
Skills
- PowerShell
- C#
- Java
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- Postman
- Git
- Perforce
- Tortoise SVN
Hobbies and Interests
- Traveling
- Cooking
- Hiking
- Snowboarding
- Cycling
- Glass Painting
- Photographing
Certification
● SQL for Data Analysis: Beginner MySQL Business Intelligence
Udemy
During the course I’ve been working with MySQL and Workbench
● API Testing in detail using Postman - Test Automation
Udemy
During the course I’ve been working with Postman
● Programming Basics with Python - November 2024
Software University
● QA Fundamentals and Manual Testing - July 2024
Software University
During the course I’ve been working with Postman, MySQL and
Workbench
● Software Technologies - May 2024
Software University
During the course I’ve been working with Trello, Git, MySQL,
Workbench and Docker Playground
● QA Basics- March 2024
Software University
The course curriculum consisted of Software Quality Assurance
introduction, test levels and types information, as well as bugs and bug
tracking system details
● QA Automation – January 2019
Software University
During the course I’ve been working with Postman and Selenium
● Web Application Developer
New Horizons Bulgaria
ML 2310 Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio
2008
● Web Front-End Development
Telerik Academy
Courses that I’ve completed during my university education:
● Introduction to Programming in C#
NASD – Nakov Academy
● Core.Net
NASD - Nakov Academy
Languages
- English, Full Professional Proficiency
- German, Limited Working Proficiency
Timeline
Member of Technical Staff in QA
VMware
11.2011 - 02.2024
Software Developer
Micro Focus
05.2007 - 10.2011
● SQL for Data Analysis: Beginner MySQL Business Intelligence
Udemy
During the course I’ve been working with MySQL and Workbench
● API Testing in detail using Postman - Test Automation
Udemy
During the course I’ve been working with Postman
● Programming Basics with Python - November 2024
Software University
● QA Fundamentals and Manual Testing - July 2024
Software University
During the course I’ve been working with Postman, MySQL and
Workbench
● Software Technologies - May 2024
Software University
During the course I’ve been working with Trello, Git, MySQL,
Workbench and Docker Playground
● QA Basics- March 2024
Software University
The course curriculum consisted of Software Quality Assurance
introduction, test levels and types information, as well as bugs and bug
tracking system details
● QA Automation – January 2019
Software University
During the course I’ve been working with Postman and Selenium
● Web Application Developer
New Horizons Bulgaria
ML 2310 Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio
2008
● Web Front-End Development
Telerik Academy
Courses that I’ve completed during my university education:
● Introduction to Programming in C#
NASD – Nakov Academy
● Core.Net
NASD - Nakov Academy
Master - E-Learning
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bachelor - Informatics
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
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