Portfolio

About me

My name is Magdalena Olak. I discovered the profession of tester relatively recently and I liked it very much. I knew right away that I could quickly be very good at it because during the last 9 years I have been dealing with creating and testing websites using, among others, Jira, TestLink, GIT, HTTP, CSS, PHP and CMS. I also know the basics of SQL / MySQL. Last year I have completed 3 online courses, Java Certification Course and I have started postgraduate studies in the field of Software Tester. I have set my daily routine on the priority of learning as much as I can in the field of testing. I see the employment as a Manual/Automation Tester or Test Engineer or as a milestone in my professional career thanks to the variety of tasks and the possibility of development. I'm oriented for further development as Software Tester/Software Test Engineer. On this site I would like to share my all gained experience from personal studies and researches.

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Tools

  • Jira, Trello - Issue tracking and project management tool for developers
  • Postman - Testing tool for REST API
  • TestLink - We-based open-source test management tool
  • Selenium IDE - Open source record and playback test automation for the web
  • SoupUI - Testing tool for SOAP and REST APIs
  • Bug Magnet - Exploratory testing assistant for Chrome and Firefox
  • Mouse Recorder - mouse and keyboard recording macro
  • xPath Finder - xPath finding tool
  • Xmind, Mind Meister - Mind mapping softwares
  • draw.io - Flowchart maker and online diagram software
  • bpmn.io - Simple web-based tooling for BPMN, DMN and CMMN
  • PyCharm - Integrated development environment
  • GitLab - Open source web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository
  • Eclipse IDE for Java Developers - The essential tools for any Java developer
  • Eclipse Modeling Tools - Tools and runtimes for building model-based applications
  • GitHub - A provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git
  • VMware Workstation Player - allows you to run a second, isolated operating system on a single PC
  • VirtualBox - a free and open-source hosted hypervisor

Tech skills

  • Creating test cases
  • Software testing
  • Reporting bugs
  • SQL
  • GIT
  • DevTools
  • SCRUM
  • Finding unique CSS Selectors and xPaths
  • Creating diagrams and decision tables
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP basics
  • UML
  • Ability to set up virtual machines (e.g. Linux)
  • Java basics

Professional Education

2020.10 - now - University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Postgraduate – Software Tester

- Software testing planning
- Software manufacturing methods
- The role of a software tester in software projects
- Introduction to software testing
- Organisation of the software testing environment
- Testing applications for mobile devices
- Automation of tests
- Good practices in software testing
- Selected management elements in IT projects
- Testers in work teams

2014 - 2015 - Catholic University of Lublin, Poland - Postgraduate studies of Internet Technology and Multimedia Information Processing

- Website design with the use of HTML and CSS
- Programming in PHP
- Database design (SQL/MySQL)
- Creating web applications using PHP frameworks
- Flash animations and applications
- Interactive web applications
- The basics of entrepreneurship for the IT industry
- Processing of computer graphics
- Creating websites in the content management system (CMS)
- Websites administration and publishing
- Photography workshops

Certificates

Courses

Technical Books read

Blogs read

Webinars

Skills training

  • SQL - CodeWars is created to strengthen different skills (in my case SQL)

My bug reports

My test cases examples

Projects

  • ISTQB w pigułce - A document created for everyone who wants to learn the secrets of ISTQB Foundation Level in an easy and accessible way (work in progress).

  • Individual project - creating and testing site e-olak.pl:

  • e-Olak.pl - Website prepared for future Software Testers. In the articles, you will learn what problems testers are facing.

A little success

Experience

2021.03 - now
Testing Specialist - SoftSystem Sp. z o.o.