Former student and alumni, Daniela Alvarez Ulloa, was a 2018 CPIS graduate. She currently works for Misfits Market in NYC as a Senior QA Analyst. Misfits Market is an online grocery store that sells rescued produce/pantry items typically ignored by super markets (items usually have cosmetic issues, are too big/small, short expiration dates, etc.). The NY office has closed due to Covid-19 so she is working remotely.
Her days start off by running the daily regression test scripts remotely. These are automations she created that test multiple scenarios on the ecommerce website. While she waits for the run to complete, she checks to see if there are any new/open triage tickets pending. These tickets can range from application bugs, website bugs, accounts issues, etc. Any high priority tickets will be addressed first, other tickets will be tended to throughout the day. She then returns to check the automation run report to make sure there weren’t any errors that need to be flagged with engineering. Next stop is project work. This typically consists of feature meetings with product managers and developers, requirements gathering, test scenario/test case creation, testing on developer environments, and bug tracking. Depending on how many new features are in the sprint, the tasks can take up most of her day.
Other days Daniela works on test scripts which consist of her creating or updating test scripts that test the ecommerce website using bots to control and run the browser. Daniela codes the scripts in Java using IntelliJ IDEA. She stores the code in a GitLab repository and uses Git for version control. She also uses testing software to record actions on her browser which also creates tests. Currently she is training to learn how to code these test scripts for mobile iOS and Android devices.
