Carlos Emmanuel Cahu Da Cruz

Carlos Emmanuel Cahú da Cruz Address: Telephone: Rua Sarah Afonso Porto – Portugal - - Email: DOB: Nationality: Languages: -16/07/1983 Portuguese/Brazilian English, Portuguese, Spanish I am a multi-lingual Quality Assurance with an outstanding track record in the technology and chemical sectors. I have and over ten years’ experience of testing and web development. I have experience of working in companies of all sizes from Enterprise to SME. I have developed a valuable and transferable skillset. I am a highly dependable and enthusiastic person with a passion for ensuring applications are released that are of the highest quality. I have excellent communication skills, a helpful, courteous manner and take tremendous pride in what I do. I am looking to secure a position where I can bring immediate and strategic value whilst enhancing my skills, knowledge and experience. Technical Summary o Application Lifecycle Management Team Foundation Server 2012,2013, GIT and Jira o IDEs - Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, Eclipse o Tools - Telerik, Kendo UI, Fiddler, Putty, ULS Viewer o Languages - JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, C#, XSL, LINQ, jQuery, Perl, PHP o o o o System Integration – Web Services – ASMX, WCF, Ajax JSON Application Platforms - SharePoint 2010, .NET Framework, Apache Agile Methodologies – SCRUM Virtualisation – Hyper-V, vSphere Education and Training Education ❖ MBA in Project Management – EAD (USP – Brazil) - In Progress ❖ University: Instituto Politécnico de Beja – Portugal (2011) This included a one-year Erasmus exchange programme to Vilnius University, Lithuania ❖ Avenal High School, California - USA Training ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Application Development (10175A) - 2014 Agility BMS System Administrator – 2013 Basic ERP Training – March 2007 Regression Training – March 2004 CPT Programme for Systems Development. Result: Pass (ITECI) – July 2003 Certificates: ❖ Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Scrum Alliance February 2019 ❖ CTFL – AT_UK: ISTQB Certified Tester- Foundation Level Extension, Agile Tester – September 2016 ❖ CTFL Certified Tester Foundation Level (ISTQB) – March 2015 LinkedIn ❖ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-emmanuel-cah%C3%BA-/ Career Progression Sept 2023 – April 2024: ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) – Remote Senior Quality Assurance (Contractor) The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was established in 2005. It is an EU agency aimed at strengthening Europe's defences against infectious diseases. Our mission is to identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases. (1) Our main objectives are to: • • • • • search for, collect, collate, evaluate, and disseminate relevant scientific and technical data. provide scientific opinions and scientific and technical assistance including training. provide timely information to the Commission, the Member States, Community agencies and international organisations active within the field of public health. coordinate the European networking of bodies operating in the fields within the Centre's mission, including networks that emerge from public health activities supported by the Commission and operating the dedicated surveillance networks. exchange information, expertise, and best practices, and facilitate the development and implementation of joint actions. Main Responsibilities: ❖ Write test cases on Azure. ❖ Track defects and ensure they are resolved so software meets quality gates. ❖ Carrying out a range of manual tests: Exploratory, Functional, Non-Functional and Sanity/Regression tests. ❖ Contributing to user story/Task design Dec 2022 – Sept 2023: Friend Finder Networks – Remote Senior Quality Assurance (Contractor) Friend Finder Networks is an American internet company founded in 1996 by Andrew Conru. Its corporate headquarters are in Boca Raton, Florida, with additional offices in California, New York, and Taiwan. The company primarily deals in adult entertainment, online dating, and social networking services. Main Responsibilities: ❖ Write test cases on Qase ❖ Track defects and ensure they are resolved so software meets quality gates. ❖ Carrying out a range of manual tests: Exploratory, Functional, Non-Functional and Sanity/Regression tests. ❖ Contributing to user story/Task design May 2018 – December 2022: Docler Holding – Senior Quality Assurance Docler Holding gathers multidisciplinary companies in technology, media, entertainment, sports and the arts. With over two decades of software and product engineering expertise, and more than 18 companies worldwide. Main Responsibilities: ❖ Lead QA for the Model Center at the Livejasmin Product ❖ Write test cases on Testomat using BDD ❖ Track defects and ensure they are resolved so software meets quality gates. ❖ Carrying out a range of manual tests: Exploratory, Functional, Non-Functional and Sanity/Regression tests. ❖ Contributing to user story/Task design April 2013 – May 2018 : BusinessPort – Test Analyst BusinessPort is a leading supplier of Business Management Software (Agility) to the oil and gas industry. Their portfolio of clients includes some of the biggest oil services and utility companies in the world. Agility is an in-house .NET based application that has a user base of several thousand users. Main Responsibilities: ❖ Lead tester for Agility product suite on both the .NET, MVC and SharePoint platforms. (Agility also has a SharePoint interface). ❖ Design test plans and author test scripts to test application functionality delivered within the SCRUM iterations. ❖ Track defects and ensure they are resolved so software meets quality gates. ❖ Provide feedback to the development team and product manager. ❖ Carrying out a range of manual tests: Exploratory, Functional, Non-Functional and Sanity/Regression tests. ❖ Contributing to user story design ❖ Investigating client issues April 2012 – April 2013: Software Developer and Quality Control Administrator, Muir Matheson (Weather forecasting systems, Aberdeen) Muir Matheson manufactures and maintains weather and oceanographic monitoring system for customers in the Aviation, Oil & Gas and Environmental Monitoring Industries, with the mission of providing outstanding environmental system integrations by supplying best class software and hardware combinations in support of fixed and rotary wing operations, sea going logistics and subsea activities Main responsibilities: ❖ Using C# and Perl to design patterns and develop custom applications to meet the needs of clients. ❖ Implementing solutions on demand ❖ Training users on new systems ❖ Writing extensive documentation Key projects: ❖ Pace/HMS: Analysed helideck motion during helicopter landings, to improve safety in hostile weather conditions(C#/ Visual Studio and C++/Borland 6). ❖ MMWeather: maintained website that provides real-time weather data (Perl). July 2011 – April 2012: Web Administrator, Leitat (Chemicals, Barcelona, Spain) Leitat is a Technological Institute, recognized by the Catalan Government (TECNIO) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, with the mission of collaborating with companies and other entities to create economic, social and sustainable value by RD projects and technologies processes from innovation and creativity. Leitat acts as Technological Partner by signing collaboration agreements to join efforts to meet the industrial technology challenges set out and promoting enterprising capacity and technology transfer. Main responsibilities: ❖ Ensuring the web servers, hardware and software were operating accurately ❖ Uploading information to the website ❖ Generating and revising web pages using HTML January 2007 – March 2008: Enterprise Resourcing Planning (ERP) Consultant, Datasul (ERP Consultancy, Pernambuco, Brazil) Datasul is a Brazilian-capital company, pioneer in the development and trading of software integrated solutions for corporate management, which has been present in the market since 1978. The software developed by Datasul is designed for automating and managing their customer’ critical processes, such as: finances, human resources, logistics and manufacturing, among others Main responsibilities: ❖ Diagnosing problems and proposing solutions and improvements in the parameterization in the company's ERP ❖ Implementing process mapping ❖ Creation of documentation and reports ❖ Training Users ❖ Providing technical/helpdesk support January 2004 – August 2005: Test Analyst, Motorola (Communications, Pernambuco, Brazil) The Brazil Test Centre (BTC) was Motorola’s initiative to enable the optimization of its software verification process to greater efficiency of this process and reduce operational costs. The Innovative character of the BTC project could be reflected by the continuous improvement of processes in the integrated areas of design, implementation and test automation, as well as developing support tools to these areas. Environment surrounding verification and troubleshooting on all devices giving productivity and effectiveness through actions aligned with the aforementioned areas. Main responsibilities: ❖ Carrying out multimedia tests on Motorola mobile devices ❖ Track defects and ensure they are resolved so software meets quality gates. ❖ Provide feedback to the development team and product manager.