Who am I?

Personal Details

  • Name: Sofia Vistas
  • Date of birth: 30 May 1989
  • Nationality: Portuguese
  • Address: Berlin, Germany
  • Email: sofia.vistas@gmail.com

About Me

Hey! You found Sofia Vistas. I am currently working as a Quality Assurance Engineer in Berlin. On the side, I keep learning and improving my mobile development skills, geeking around mostly about Android.

On a personal note, I am a passionate traveler, poetry writer and music maker. Optimistic and enthusiastic learner of vast topics. Served for long years in ESN, the biggest student association in Europe for Erasmus mobility program, where I intensively developed my leadership and people skills.

My Professional Background

Work Experience

2015 September - Present

Blacklane

Mobile Quality Assurance Engineer

Engineer in Mobile
Blacklane conveniently connects passengers with the spare capacities of licensed, regulated and insured professional drivers.

Working in the mobile team of Blacklane, I learned with some of the best engineers about testing best practices. A strong sense of automation of tasks was embeded in our process, allowing me to develop a deep understanding of automation testing focused on mobile platforms (iOS and Android). Responsible for the release testing management process of all our app suit and cooperating with developers to create the right set of tests that can bring meaningful and actionable results.

  • Design and implementation of functional, integration and unit tests for functional and non functional requirements
  • Profiling & security auditing
  • Improve the testing toolset and techniques for better code coverage and comprehensive reporting
  • Maintenance of the regression suite
  • Management and tracking of defects on JIRA, ensuring delivery of high quality features
  • Created and maintain technical documentation related to testing practices and standards
  • Hands on and flexible to help other domains of testing within the company

2014 April - 2015 August

payleven

Quality Assurance Engineer

Engineer
payleven allows businesses and private individuals to use iOS or Android smartphones or tablets to accept card payments for goods and services.

Working in the mobile payments industry provided valuable insights on such emerging environment, where quality standards are very demanding. I perfomed manual testing activities, web and mobile automation using Selenium and Appium, fully managed and monitored the test procedures for a very successful payleven product: the mPOS SDK. Also independently coordinated frequent app releases, got familiar with defect tracking systems and the agile development environment.

2012 April

NAV Portugal EPE

Network Engineer

Internship
Network and Traffic Engineering, System Administration, Problem Solving, Optimization of Air Traffic Management Systems

Developed skills such as complex routing and packet analysis, understanding network engineering concepts applied to modern aviation systems and monitored a small sub-set of air-traffic network.

My Education

Education

2013 September - 2014 April

Technische Universität Wien

Vienna, Austria

Masters in Business Informatics

The area of Business Informatics covers information and knowledge as well as information-processing processes in organizations and society. It therefore builds the interface between humans, organizations, and information technology. The subjects of the research-driven teaching are thereby information and communication systems in economics and society, especially the analysis, modeling, design, implementation, and evaluation of such systems. Besides the primarily computer science-oriented approach, the success of such systems requires the consideration of technical, economic, and social aspects. Thereby, computer science and economics are combined.

2007 September - 2013 June

Instituto Superior Tecnico

Lisbon, Portugal

Telecomunications and Informatics Engineering

The Bologna 1st cycle degree Licenciatura em Engenharia de Redes de Comunicações (LERC, Licenciate Degree in Communications Networking Engineering) aims at providing the scientific and technological fundamentals in the area of Information Technologies and Communications Networking.The graduates of LERC are provided with a solid basis in these engineering areas, thanks to innovative teaching methods and to the interaction with the surrounding technological environment, leveraged by their insertion in the environment of Taguspark, the largest Portuguese Science and Technology park. Given the solid preparation and the strong practical component of teaching at the IST, the graduates in Engineering Sciences - Information and Communication Networks Engineering, are ready to integrate project, consultancy or support teams, working in several areas, such as operator of communication networks and programmer of distributed applications.

Volunteer

  • Human Resources Leader

    The experience as a Human Resources leader of an non-profit volunteer organization with more than 50 active members revelead to be remarkable on the way I deal with people. Planned interviews, trainings and teambuildings for young active students. Develop a strong capacity for listening and motivating team peers.

  • ESN OLYMPICS

    The Main Organizer of a first time event in the country. Olympic games for international students, adding a big intercultural and healthy framework to the student experience. Involved more than 200 people, amongst them, staff, competitors, sponsors and universities. Coordinated the event on the national level, involving more than 6 cities. Hands on solving complex problems under high pressure.

  • Vice Present

    Being the Vice President of the biggest international student organiztion in Lisbon was an everyday challenge. To motivate and plan along with a Board, prepare proposals to council members and be available to represent in front of external partners, prepared me to high pressure situations, decison making, diplomacy and versatility.

  • Chair Of Network & Events

    The Network & Events Committee monitors a powerful Network that has now more than 12 000 members. It is important to have an open mind and capacity to listen, scan problems and occurences that happen on the European level. During this mandate, I also implemented a pilot project with EU funding called Twin Up 4 Start Up, that fosters sisters cities in Europe to take advantage of existing funds to develop economically disadvantaged people to start their businesses together.

What I’m best at

Skills & Knowledge

Programing

Java/ Android 86%
Swift 48%
SQL 79%
Javascript 57%

Learning

Automation Testing

Espresso, Selenium, Cucumber, Appium, Robotium, Jenkins, XCUI Framework, KIF.

Development

Android – github.com/sofiavistas

Random

Lithuanian language & Bass playing

Language Skills

Portuguese
Native
English
Proficient
German
Basic

Knowledge

  • Network Architectures & Management
  • Mobile payments
  • Mobile UI/UX best practices
  • mySQL & Postgres
  • GitHub
  • CI & CD processes
  • Cloud Test Farms
  • API Testing
  • AWS
  • Mixpanel
  • JIRA
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Mobile Security

Hobbies & Interests

  • Sports

    Sports

    surf, horse ridding, jogging

  • Books

    Books

    Recomending: Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

  • Tech

    Tech

    some thoughs medium.com/@anasofiavistas

  • Travel

    Travel

    112 cities, 38 countries.

  • Writing

    Poetry

    Check me at http://sofiavistas.svbtle.com/

  • Music

    Music

    Singer and bass player. Proud Fado lover. Check https://soundcloud.com/sofia-vistas

Contact

Get in touch

You will find me these days hanging around the streets of Berlin. Often passing by my beloved home country, Portugal. Feel free to drop me a line and approach me. Glad to hear from you!


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