I am Mirosław Zalewski, software tester currently living in Brno, Czechia. This is my online résumé.

I do wear glasses, but I don't have any recent photo with them on.

Feel free to read my blog, send me an e-mail or follow me on social media sites.

Work experience

Quality Engineer

08.2017‒present, Red Hat

Software Quality and Analysis Engineer

11.2013‒07.2017, Sii Polska

Projects

web-based laboratory tool, Automation tester (01.2017‒05.2017)
mobile CRM system, Manual tester (05.2014‒10.2015), Test team leader (11.2015‒12.2016)
SAP Business Intelligence reports, Manual tester (02.2015‒09.2015)
web-based EHS tool, Manual tester (11.2013‒04.2014)

Highlights

mobile CRM project: driving force behind wiki system that served as knowledge base and facilitated onboarding of new team members
mobile CRM project: designed JIRA workflow that streamlined communication between team members and reduced number of issues closed without code change
laboratory tool: reduced number of false-positive failed automated functional test cases to zero
laboratory tool: doubled number of automated functional test cases in four months

Projects

What I do outside of work

Pelican Metadata Generator

Graphical application to create Pelican post metadata.

Python 3, PyQt 5, unittest, git, Markdown

Civic engagement in Europe

R Shiny application that allows user to explore changes to civic engagement index in various European countries over time.

R, ggplot2, Shiny (HTML, CSS), data wrangling, visualisation

Przepis na LibreOffice

My discontinued blog focused on LibreOffice tips and tricks. It was relatively popular in Polish open source and academic communities, attracting about 20 000 unique visitors in peak months.

Wordpress, PHP, HTML, CSS, writing

My blog

My current, tech-focused blog.

Pelican, Jinja2 (HTML, CSS), Markdown, writing

Skills

I won't blink if you ask me to do any of these

Manual testing
Test automation
Test planning
Exploratory testing
Functional testing
Integration testing
Regression testing
Black box testing
White box testing
Requirements review
Test estimation
Test designing
Bug triaging
Issue pinpointing
Root cause analysis
Bug tracking
Preparing test documentation
Data analysis

Tools

I feel comfortable using and discussing these

JIRA
HP ALM
Jenkins
Confluence wiki
Git
Python
JavaScript
R
Bash
SQL
Linux
Selenium WebDriver
Postman
Protractor

Education

2017

Statistical data analysis in public administration and business, Postgraduate studies

Poznań University of Economics

2008‒2013

Sociology, Master of Arts

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Contact

Email

Twitter