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KYUNGBAE KIM

Seattle,WA

Summary

Dedicated and experienced Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer with a proven track record of ensuring product quality through meticulous testing and automation. Seeking opportunities to leverage my expertise in software testing, automation, and project management to contribute to a dynamic and innovative team.

Experienced software engineer with strong foundation in quality assurance and testing methodologies. Expert in automation tools, bug tracking systems, and test case design. Known for collaborating effectively with development teams to ensure high-quality deliverables and adaptability to evolving project requirements. Strong analytical skills and attention to detail ensure reliable and efficient software performance.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Grab
09.2018 - 12.2023
  • Review requirements and develop functional and non-functional test cases
  • Actively lead and enhance the test processes to meet quality, compliance, and business objectives
  • Work with development and product team to write robust functional and non-functional tests
  • Organize, and manage test cases in test case repository
  • Provide test progress to stakeholders throughout the sprint
  • Work well in fast paced and Agile development environment and drive continuous improvements
  • Perform manual testing of iOS and Android apps to ensure that product meets requirements
  • Find and report bugs with detailed steps to reproduce so that development team can squash them quickly
  • UI Automation script using Appium and Selenium with python
  • Implement, improve, and maintain existing manual and automated test suites for the supported applications
  • API testing including automation (Postman, Python, PyTest)

Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Kindle Rendering)

Amazon
07.2017 - 06.2018
  • Collaborate closely with TPM, developers, managers to plan/maintain software release cycle and make sure that all the blocking or critical issues get resolved/fixed during the Agile sprint
  • Triage issues to appropriate development team based on the root cause and ownership of the features
  • Develop and implement automation plan to support software release
  • Maintaining automated test frameworks
  • Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
  • Automate and maintenance software: release note (written in Java) and Kindle/iOS device performance test frameworks (Python)
  • Continuously maintain, innovate, and improve automation and test processes
  • Analyze test results and deliver detailed reports that accurately isolate problems.
  • Experience in black and grey box functional and UI testing methodologies
  • Experience with standard QA and development tools and operating within short release cycles

Web Freelancer

Web Freelancer
07.2016 - 06.2017
  • Worked on various single page websites by using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP using RESTful APIs
  • Design and run user tests to inform evolution of site design
  • Design and develop web sites and web applications that meet the needs of customers
  • Lead meetings and communicate with client units to determine design and functionality requirement

Quality Assurance Engineer

Samsung Telecommunication America
08.2009 - 02.2016
  • Special promotion from Sr. QA Engineer in year 2014
  • Lead engineering team to support international development and engineering efforts for Samsung wireless devices
  • Serve as subject matter expert to direct, advice, and mentor junior testers.
  • Special promotion from Sr. QA Engineer I to Sr. QA Engineer III in year 2015
  • Manage and update UI automation test scripts created with Samsung Test Platform tool with Eclipse IDE
  • Research, design and implement scripts for UI automation for Samsung mobile devices
  • Collaborate closely with other team members to plan, design and develop robust solutions
  • Strong knowledge/experience of GSM/CDMA/ WCDMA/LTE
  • Excellent problem solving, interpersonal communication and project management skills
  • Developing testing framework, test cases, test checklist, test schedule, and summary report
  • Driven successful TA (technical acceptance) of over 10 mobile phone models as the project lead
  • Managed bug tracking systems, ensuring timely resolution of reported issues and maintaining clear communication with stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands.
  • Increased product reliability by performing thorough regression testing on each release cycle.
  • Collaborated closely with development teams to improve software functionality and stability.
  • Streamlined QA processes, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced time to market.
  • Met tight deadlines to satisfy client demands and project timelines.
  • Ensured timely delivery of high-quality products through effective coordination with cross-functional teams.
  • Assisted in training new QA engineers, providing guidance on best practices and company-specific procedures.
  • Ran automated test suites and evaluated performance, functionality and scalability.

Education

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06.2016

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering - Embedded Computing System, Software Engineering

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
01.2009

Skills

  • Basic knowledge on Industry Software & Programming Languages: JAVA, Python, HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, API, JQuery, version control (GitHub), RESTful, XML
  • QA experience: black box, grey box, UI automation, test case, test plan, SDLC, Agile
  • Mobile platform experience: Android, Windows, IOS
  • Strong co-working skill as part of a team
  • Strong analytic and problem solving skills
  • Test case design
  • Manual testing
  • Functional testing
  • Test data management
  • Test environment setup
  • User acceptance testing
  • Regression testing
  • Test documentation
  • Software development life cycle
  • Quality assurance metrics

Timeline

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Grab
09.2018 - 12.2023

Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Kindle Rendering)

Amazon
07.2017 - 06.2018

Web Freelancer

Web Freelancer
07.2016 - 06.2017

Quality Assurance Engineer

Samsung Telecommunication America
08.2009 - 02.2016

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Coding Dojo

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering - Embedded Computing System, Software Engineering

University of Washington

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