Nadia F. Bousquet
Quality Assurance Tester, Mobile Banking Applications
Austin, TX · (512) 555 0131 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/nadiafbousquet
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Four years of software testing, three on a mobile banking application
INDUSTRIES
Digital banking, food delivery applications
SPECIALTIES
Mobile regression automation, exploratory testing, device coverage, release sign off
SYSTEMS
Appium, Playwright, BrowserStack, Jira, TestRail, Charles Proxy, GitHub Actions
CREDENTIALS
International Software Testing Qualifications Board Certified Tester Foundation Level
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Balcones State University
Executive Summary
Quality assurance tester with four years on mobile applications, the last three on a banking app used by about 1.4 million customers across Apple and Android devices. Writes the automated regression suite in Appium and Playwright, runs the manual exploratory passes before each release, and owns the device matrix on BrowserStack. Known for finding the defect that would have reached the app store review.
Signature Achievements
- Grew the automated mobile regression suite from 120 to 640 test cases, cutting the manual regression pass from four days to one.
- Holds escaped defects after release at an average of 1.2 per release across 26 releases, down from 5.8 before the automation build out.
- Found a check deposit rounding defect in exploratory testing two days before release that would have misposted about 3,000 deposits a day.
- Covers 96 percent of the customer device base with a 28 device matrix on BrowserStack, rebuilt from analytics each quarter.
- Cut failed builds caused by flaky tests from 18 percent to under 3 percent by adding retries only where the network was the cause and fixing the rest.
- Logged 1,900 defects in Jira over three years with a reopen rate under 4 percent.
Professional Experience
Quality Assurance Engineer, Mobile
Hill Country Digital Banking, Austin, TX April 2023 to present
Digital bank with about 1.4 million mobile customers releasing every two weeks; one of four testers on the mobile team
- Write and maintain Appium and Playwright automated tests for login, transfers, check deposit and card controls.
- Run exploratory test sessions on every release candidate and document findings in TestRail.
- Maintain the device matrix on BrowserStack and run the full suite against it in GitHub Actions each night.
- Log, reproduce and retest defects in Jira and sit in triage with developers and the product manager.
- Sign off each release after checking the release notes against test coverage.
Quality Assurance Tester
Pedernales Delivery Technologies, Round Rock, TX February 2022 to April 2023
Food delivery application with about 200,000 weekly users and a courier application
- Tested customer and courier applications by hand against acceptance criteria written in Jira.
- Wrote the first 120 automated tests for the checkout flow in Appium.
- Verified push notification and location behavior across twelve phone models.
- Reported weekly defect counts and pass rates to the engineering manager.
Certifications and Training
Certified Tester Foundation Level, International Software Testing Qualifications Board, earned 2022
Certified Tester Mobile Application Testing, International Software Testing Qualifications Board, earned 2024
Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org, earned 2023
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Balcones State University, San Marcos, 2021
Core Skills
Appium automation · Playwright test scripts · Exploratory testing · Device matrix planning · BrowserStack execution · Jira defect triage · TestRail case management · Flaky test reduction · Release sign off · Network traffic inspection