Monika Sokołowska

ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation level
Certified MITC® Software Testing 01
Certified SAFe® 6 Scrum Master
Certified SAFe® 6 Practitioner
Web Accessibility Auditor (WCAG)
Java(basic), C#(basic), SQL(basic)
GIT, GitLab, GitHub
Jira, Confluence, Trello
Miro, Figma, Canva
RTM, Zephyr for Jira
Visual Studio, IntelliJ
Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, NUnit (to refresh)
REST-Assured
API testing: Postman, Insomnium, Bruno, Hoppscotch (including automation)
Accessibility: HTML, WCAG 2.1, Dev Tools, WAVE Evaluation Tool, Silktide Accessibility Checker, ARC Toolkit, AXE DevTools, IBM Accessibility Checker, ANDI, NVDA and more

09/2023 -

focusing on constant delivery of value for customers
actively participating in teams’ scrum ceremonies, leading retrospectives
performing different testing-related activities during all phases of development process of the product - creating and executing test cases for new features (UI/API), reporting defects observed, performing regression testing (including end-to-end and integration tests between different applications within a product ecosystem)
maintaining and updating testing documentation (test suite, test scenarios)
maintaining engineering and internal documentation (Confluence, Jira - preparing release notes, test plans, test reports)
actively contributing to improving procedures and testing processes in the project e.g. implementing partial automation of API testing in the project
resolving issues found during development process by cooperation with team members, clients, other teams within company
performing basic performance testing and usability testing, reporting possible UX improvements
expanding knowledge about technologies and practices used in development process - .NET, C#, CI/CD - both by hands on experience and courses
engaged in multiple projects within company - requiring high organisational skills and ability to focus without distractions on one scope at a time
constantly broadening skill set by learning and implementing newly aquired skills into everyday testing process in projects

02/2023 - 09/2023

successfully finished Academy Training with Academy All-Stars exclusive cycle (invite-only cycle for the best performing testers in uTest Academy)
performing exploratory testing sessions using appropriate tools to facilitate the test process
reporting defects based on failures observed, confirming defects observed by others team members, logging outcomes of executed test cases
confirmation testing, localization testing

06/2006 - 07/2023

supervision and coordination of the work of the interdisciplinary team
preparing high-quality technical documentation using BIM software (ArchiCAD, Autocad)
building confidence in the level of quality of architecture documentation - checking others' projects for inaccuracies, inconsistencies, adherence to regulatory requirements and technical standards
processes improvements in the company - implementing system for updating graphic designs on the website
preparing graphic designs for projects - 3D models, visualizations, design materials (Artlantis, Photoshop, CorelDRAW)
client support for individual selection of architectural solutions

Software Quality Assurance (AGH University of Science and Technology)

10/2022 - 06/2023
PhD in Architecture (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)

01/2014 - 05/2016
MSc Architect (Cracow University of Technology)

10/2002 - 10/2007

MONIKA SOKOŁOWSKA