Alen S.

Alen S.

Product Owner

Split, Croatia
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About Me

Alen is a passionate product manager with a background in product quality. During his career, Alen was involved in product roles on various projects, enterprise solutions, and commercial business applications. The majority of his experience is coming from B2B SaaS model-based projects. His strong analytical background, technical skills, and communication capabilities are values that Alen brings to agile teams. The goal Alen strives to achieve is to be data-driven whenever possible.

Work history

Swappie
Co-founder and Product Manager
2019 - 2021 (2 years)
Remote
  • Led the idea validation process by conducting interviews with potential customers.

  • Made a business model canvas from scratch to prove the monetization model.

  • Wrote software specifications, made wireframes, personas, user flows, and UI/UX flows.

  • Led the software development process and managed off-shore development.

  • Tested and released the product to the live environment.

FYX
QA Engineer
2019 - 2021 (2 years)
Remote
  • Advised QA process integration into the existing team.

  • Performed tests for the web-based application end to end, including the automated tests review.

  • Tested mobile applications end to end for two different user groups.

  • Reviewed, analyzed, challenged, and wrote business requirements.

  • Reported more than 50+ bug reports in the project management system.

WebSockets Angular.NET Core
MLG (via Laplacian)
QA Engineer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • Completed end-to-end testing of a tournament management platform.

  • Lead the QA process from the very beginning.

  • Tested the API and UI.

  • Automated the API.

PostmanREST APIs Angular
Quickparking (via Typeqast)
Senior QA Analyst
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Remote
  • Gathered requirements and completed business analysis.

  • Held workshops and trainings with the client during the onboarding process.

  • Wrote end-to-end UI test automation using Protractor and integrated that into CI/CD pipeline.

  • Wrote API test automation using Jmeter and integrated that into CI/CD pipeline.

  • Lead the QA team in daily activities such as documentation and feature testing.

  • Tested hardware integration and data migration from the legacy system into new platform.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Apache JMeter BootstrapC#ProtractorSeleniumJavaScriptAngularWindows Embedded
Typeqast
Senior QA Analyst
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Remote
  • Established and grew a newly formed QA team.

  • Recruited and screened new QA candidates.

  • Set up test strategy for the company.

  • Organized and lead cross project QA gild.

  • Implemented QA process and practices to new projects in the company.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) TeamCityREST APIs AngularC#
HR Cloud
QA Engineer
2015 - 2017 (2 years)
Remote
  • Wrote and maintained a robust regression test automation repository written in Selenium IDE and ran on in-house built test runner.

  • Tested new features built on top of the in-house developed test runner.

  • Reviewed product specification and worked closely with product owners on requirement refining and tunings.

  • Completed manual testing and signed off versions ready for production.

  • Mentored junior team members and on-boarded them into test automation.

  • Presented feature demos to product owners and platform trainings for new team members.

Roomi
Senior QA Engineer
Present (2024 years)
Remote
  • Completed manual testing on mobile platforms (iOS and Android).

  • Manually tested the web application in all modern browsers by using locally installed browsers as well as cloud services such as BrowserStack.

  • Implemented UI test automation to the project from scratch.

  • Powered up QA processes and introduced new practices into SDLC such as automation in project management tools and acceptance testing approach in requirement tickets.

  • Tested A/B testing framework that was built in-house, needed to support fast and extensive user behavior testing.

  • Provided API test automation using Postman and Newman.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SeleniumWebdriverIOREST APIs NewmanPostmanJavaScriptNode.js

Portfolio

Swappie

Swappie is a cultural gift exchange platform where people from around the world can connect to share their cultures with each other. Get a fun surprise box from a distant land, and send one of your own.

FYX

FYX™ is the leading provider of emergency roadside assistance for the intermodal and over-the-road trucking industries, offering expedited service and protection for your fleet.

Roomi

Roomi is an online platform that makes roommate finding and shared living easier. The target market was the US with a focus on NYC. Roomi is mobile-first with most of the users using the iOS application and that was a platform that had the most sophisticated features, before the web and/or Android.

Quickparking

Quickparking is a Dutch-based company that offers parking services on locations near all major airports in Europe. The competitive advantage of Quickparking is a hi-tech registration plate recognition system that is integrated with the barrier on parking entrance and exit.

MLG - Crossroads

Crossroads is an advanced tournament management system allowing the organization and management of e-sports events.

Education

Education
Specialization in Web Development
Algebra Education Center
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
Education
Master's Degree in IT Management
Faculty of Economics
2011 - 2013 (2 years)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in IT Management
Faculty of Economics
2008 - 2011 (3 years)