Fredrick Irubor

Quality Assurance Engineer

Profile

A certified tester, quality assurance engineer, with six years experience in Performance testing, Test automation, Manual Testing, API testing. The experience of working on various projects with diverse stakeholders has proved my ability to manage people and testing timelines effectively. I am passionate about learning new technologies and keeping up to update and certified on newest trends in the tech space.

Certificates

  • Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst, ISTQB
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate AZ204
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals DP900
  • Certified Tester Foundation Level, ISTQB
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals AZ900
  • Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Bankers Nigeria
  • Certificate in IT, British Computer Society
  • Microsoft Certified Azure AI Fundamentals AI900
  • IBM - Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

Professional Experience

Quality Assurance Engineer, First City Monument Bank

10/2022 - present | Lagos

  • Test Automation: Reduced turnaround time for regression tests on APIs and Uls from an average of 48 hours to 30 minutes with automated test suites using Postman and RestAssured for APIs, Selenium and Cypress for Uls.
  • Test Design & Implementation: Strong experience of identifying negative test cases and edge scenarios that often lead to software failures. Achieving proper test coverage to ensure high quality at release.
  • Test Techniques: I employ various blackbox test techniques - Boundary value analysis, Equivalence partitioning, Use case testing while testing to maintain a standard of more than 95% successful bug-free releases in every quarter.
  • Continuous Integration: I collaborate with DevOps engineers and Developers to incorporate higher level tests into CI/CD pipelines, to augment unit testing. I have worked with CI/CD pipelines implemented using Jenkins, Azure Pipelines.
  • Agile Testing: I work with a fast paced team focused on delivering value to users as quickly as possible, seeking feedback and actively working on feedback from users. I use agile project management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps Boards.

Quality Assurance and Software Tester, Access Bank PLC

11/2019-10/2022 | Lagos

  • Test Automation: I spearheaded the drive for more test automation in the daily activities of my team by assisting team members, and providing weekly updates on the progress of manual tests automated to management.
  • Performance Testing: Identified critical applications exposed to high loads on production, executed performance tests to uncover bottlenecks that negatively impact performance and suggest optimizations to Developers and the Infrastructure team.
  • Test Case Management: I procured test management tool Zephyr on JIRA for my team, and onboarded team members on the tool, this was a step up for the team from documenting tests with spreadsheets.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering B.Eng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), University of Benin

Second Class Upper Division

Project: Design and Implementation of a G.S.M Signal Jammer

2012-2017 | Benin City

Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), Saint Patrick's Model College

2006-2012 | Asaba

Skills

Performance Testing

  • Apache Jmeter
  • LoadNinja
  • Distributed testing
  • Performance test reporting and presentation
  • Stress testing
  • Load testing

API Automation

  • Postman/Newman API Automation
  • RestAssured API Automation
  • Javascript, Report generation