Paul Astorga

Experience

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  Growth Acceleration Partners

  Aug 2014 - May 2015

  QA Engineer

  Worked at Growth Acceleration Partners as a QA engineer, with the functions of Web and Mobile testing of new software implementation, creation of testing cases and check list, black and white testing, using tools like Jira, firebug, mobile emulators, firefox, chrome canary, filezilla, virtualbox. Also knowledge on Scrum method for agile processes.

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  Prodigious Latin America

  Jul 2015 - Mar 2016

  Functional QA Analyst

  Worked at Prodigious as a QA analyst, as a member of Digitas LBI team for Bank of America customer. I was in change of Merril Lynch project that is a Bank of America division.Functions: -Web and Mobile testing cross browsers and devices.-Creation of test cases and test plans.-Regression, smoke testing and exploratory testing. -Functional and creative testing.-Black and White box testing. -Accessibility testing using JAWS. -Performance testing using jmeter and PageSpeed. -ISTQB implementation.Also using tools like Jira to manage tickets and bugs, ObservePoint to check all web pages tags, firebug, adobe Photoshop to check all the creative design for the web page, browserstack to simulates mobile devices and old browsers.Technologies: -CSS. -HTML5. -CQ5-JavaScript. Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Apr 2016 - Jul 2017

  Software Quality Engineer II

  Security QA Engineer II, with the function of connectors testing for Arcsight products, also leader of projects as: -RC checklist (control and management for test cases on ALM). -On boarding process to new hires.Main functions:-Support new functionalities for more than 250 existent smartconnectors.-Testing on IPV6/IPV4 environments (Linux / Windows).-Test security events flow from client’s devices.-Testing parsers to analyze the data that the security event is sending through the smartconnector to the Arcsight manager center and Logger tool.-Testing FIPS security standards integrated with the software. -Implement QA best practices for testing. -Regression testing. -Create / modify test cases for RC checklist project. -Distribute and organize tasks on the team.-Create user stories and set story points. Show less

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  SchoolMint

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2018

  Mid QA engineer

  QA engineer working on the DPS and core projects of the software, this applicationmanages all the applications, registrations and re-enrolls of students on USA, testing based on web andmobile browsers, using pivotal tracker to manage new features and bugs reporting, TestRail to create allthe test cases, also introducing automation based on nodeJS and selenium webdriver.Functions: - Test​ ​plan​ ​and​ ​test​ ​suite​ ​creation​ ​every​ ​sprint. - Manual​ ​testing​ ​on​ ​Windows​ ​and​ ​MAC​ ​environments. - Regression​ ​testing. - Daily​ ​Scrum​ ​meetings. - P0/P1​ ​testing. Show less

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  Micro Focus (formerly HP / Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  Specialist QA engineer

  Security Specialist QA engineer working on the Arcsight project (formerly HP Enterprise product), this Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system helps organizations monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats and incidents. I was in charge of the reporting feature, performing UI and data testing of different security reports created by the SIEM.- Create test plans for each application under test.- Create new automation scripts based on manual test cases from OpenText ALM using Selenium Web Driver with java.- Bring maintenance on the smoke and regression suites.- Verify automation output from smoke and regression suites. Improvements on the QA processes for the automation team.- RestAPI and graphql testing with Postman.- Onboarding of new hires for the automation team. Show less

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  Growth Acceleration Partners

  Oct 2019 - Oct 2024

  Working on different projects as an automation engineer on the UI with clients such as SecureWorks and Saatva, creating and maintaining new automated test cases on the automation frameworks, performing automated API testing and contract testing.- Create test plans and test strategy for each application under test.- Create new automation scripts based on manual test cases from Zephyr Scale/TestRails using Cypress framework with Javascript and Typescript.- Creation of automated test cases for API testing and contract testing with JEST framework.- Performance testing with Locust.- Integrating new automated test cases in the CI/CD environment.- Bring maintenance on the smoke and regression suites.- Verify automation output from smoke and regression suites.- Improvements on the QA processes for the automation team.- RestAPI and GraphQL testing with Postman.- Onboarding and mentoring new team members on automation. Show less

  • Senior QA Automation Engineer

    Jan 2022 - Oct 2024

  • Advanced QA Automation Engineer

    Jun 2020 - Jan 2022

  • QA Engineer

    Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
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  Kforce Inc

  Nov 2024 - Feb 2025

  Cypress QA Automation Engineer

  Working as a contractor with a USA based project, supporting the client such as Moody’s ratings on implementing their QA processes, test the scorecard application for analysts, validate data and calculation formulas, and create and maintain new automated test cases.- Create test plans and test strategy for each application under test. - Creation, maintenance and execution of JIRA test cases.- Create new automation scripts from test case management tools using Cypress framework with TypeScript.- Creation of automated test cases for API testing with Cypress.- Integrating new automated test cases in the CI/CD environment. - Bring maintenance on the smoke and regression suites.- Improvements on the QA processes for the automation team based on best practices and ISTQB.- RestAPI and GraphQL testing with Postman.- QA metrics and demo per sprint. Show less

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  Ambient Consulting

  Feb 2025 - now

  Software Quality Assurance Engineer