Ralston Fernandes

About

Motivated software testing professional with 11 years of experience in quality assurance, test design, defect tracking, and multiple testing methodologies. Experienced in the software development life cycle, cross-platform testing, and automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java.

Experience

• Software Test Engineer
  Media.Net
  Jan 2016 – Jul 2024

  Knowledge of complete software testing life cycle and agile testing with expertise in various testing methodologies and quality assurance techniques. Expertise in bug reporting and tracking, test documentation, and multiple testing types including integration, system, functional, regression, sanity, smoke, GUI, database, UAT, and performance testing. Involved in automating test cases using Selenium WebDriver with Java, maintaining bugs using JIRA and GitHub, and collaborating on reporting tools and dashboards.

• Research Analyst
  Media.Net
  Oct 2012 – Dec 2015

  Managed and executed ad campaigns on the YBNCA platform for premium websites, optimized domain names for internet advertising, monitored and reported campaign returns, and liaised with business development specialists to support revenue growth.

Education

• Bachelor of Science
  Information Technology · 2010 – 2012

Skills

• Software Testing 8 to 10 years
• Quality Assurance 8 to 10 years
• Test Automation 8 to 10 years
• Optimization 2 to 5 years
• Manual Testing 8 to 10 years
• Reporting 2 to 5 years
• Usability Testing 8 to 10 years
• Campaign Management 2 to 5 years
• Performance analysis 2 to 5 years
• Functional testing 8 to 10 years
• Regression Testing 8 to 10 years
• API Testing 8 to 10 years
• UI Testing <3 months
• Integration Testing 8 to 10 years
• Defect Tracking 8 to 10 years
• SDLC <3 months
• Smoke Testing 8 to 10 years
• Sanity Testing 8 to 10 years
• Black Box Testing 8 to 10 years

Tools / apps / platforms

• Apache Maven 8 to 10 years
• Atlassian JIRA 8 to 10 years
• GitHub 8 to 10 years
• Jenkins CI 8 to 10 years
• Postman 8 to 10 years
• Selenium 8 to 10 years

Languages

• English Fluent Speak
• Hindi Speak
• Marathi Speak
• Konkani Speak

🎯 Hobbies & interests

• Reading
• Travel
• Football