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I explored several positions in IT, from technical to functional areas
Web Quality-Assurance intern
BysoftChina (software engineering company)
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • e-commerce
  • Magento
  • CMS
  • Drupal
  • SVN
  • Linux
  • QC
  • XML/XSLT
  • KM
Guangzhou, China
Aug. 2010 - Feb. 2011 (7 mo.)
I worked in a very central position at the interface between project managers, team leaders and developers (60+ people).
In addition to insuring developers' work complied with specifications, I was also involved in technical processes redefinition (SVN...)
  • Involved in technical specifications and test plans writing
  • Code review of each commit
  • Troubleshooting of client issues
Some examples of what I produced...

Import script refactoring

I wasn't really happy with one of our import scripts. It had been built incrementally, while discussing with the customer's IT provider. The source code was quickly becoming a mess and testing it thoroughly was getting really complicated.
I decided to rewrite the script, and took the opportunity to use that as the basis for a "refactoring" tutorial.
I started by identifying bugs and opportunities for improvement in the existing code, then created the basis for a more generic framework for import scripts (aka "let's not reinvent the wheel every time").

Investigating attributes' scopes

We were confronted with very strange results when testing a product import script, and bugs didn't seems to follow a discernable pattern. 
As I couldn't find any obvious bug in the import script code, I decided to build a test case on a fresh Magento setup, in order to remove most of the variables and figure out first how exactly things are supposed to work in Magento.
In the end it turned out Magento's way of handling "website"-scoped attributes was the culprit.
I summarized my findings in a PowerPoint slideshow in order to spread the word among our developers.

Sharing knowledge through the wiki

I contributed many pages to the company's wiki :
  • Cleanup of empty pages, consolidation of orphan pages
  • Creation of thematic entry points, notably one for all newcomers (with a checklist : credentials, software, internal tools...). I also prepared one entry point for future QC Team Members, in order to give them some "insider tips" on common places to look for bugs.
  • Recap of technical good practices and procedures: PHP, SVN, deployment procedures... It was also the opportunity to capitalize on bugs we encountered and solved on previous projects.
  • Every QC Team Member was creating test email accounts to evaluate newsletter emails rendering in the most common webmails. I took the initiative to create generic accounts and share the credentials on the wiki.
Also, when I got assigned to our biggest Magento project, I worked over a weekend in order to review all the knowledge that was spread among more than 250 Mantis tickets (bugs solved, decisions made and orientations taken...)  and consolidated the data in a new wiki instance, to be used as up-to-date technical specifications / documentation.
What they said about me...
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Extract from my Sept./Oct. 2010 Bimonthly Evaluation Report
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Extract from my Nov./Dec. 2010 Bimonthly Evaluation Report
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