Experience
Frontend Developer at Elsevier (May 2021 - March 2024)
At Elsevier I worked for a team responsible for the Mendeley Cite add-in. The product was mainly used by researchers and students to help them with referencing their work.
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Worked directly with users by participating in user research sessions where they could request features, give feedback, and suggest changes.
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Designed and built new features in fortnightly releases with the UI/UX team.
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Successfully tested, modified, and deployed new features with the Quality Assurance team.
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Established a better understanding of testing within the team as the testability expert and improved existing testing processes. Gave a company-wide presentation advocating the enhanced testing strategy.
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Ensured accessibility of the tool for everyone by introducing the jest-axe library for screen-readers and participating in workshops and pair programming sessions. Received an award for implementation of accessibility into the main flow of the product.
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Worked closely with the Microsoft team to discuss their new releases and better understand how it may help Mendeley Cite.
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Took the initiative to create debugging tools to help efficiently resolve support queries.
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Worked on documentation and diagrams such as spikes for potential features, application start-up process, testing approach, theming, and many more.
Projects
Testing Strategy at Elsevier
October 2022 - March 2024
I took the role of a Testability Champion within my team and as part of that, I came up with an initiative to introduce a better testing strategy. To do so, I have asked two of my colleagues to join me in discovering and developing a better approach. One of the first steps was to figure out current bad habits and a way to encourage the team to learn better ways. I have set up numerous workshops with my colleagues to come up with a guide that would sum up the improvement strategy and introduce a playground repository where the 3 of us have worked on examples of bad and good code.
We worked on each testing layer at a time, and once we were happy with the proposal, I would then set up workshops with the whole team to share our findings, and plans and have group coding sessions ensuring that each member of the team is on the same page. This allowed the team to ask questions, clarify any unknowns, and practice together.
In addition to the official documentation, I have also created a monthly newsletter that I have shared not only with my team but the wider company to showcase our achievements and spread the knowledge.
To ensure that my team could trust my judgment, I have taken additional courses to better understand current best practices and approaches to testing, such as Testing JavaScript by Kent C. Dodds.
Technical Skills
Typescript, Javascript, React, Redux, Unit Testing, Integration testing, End-to-End Testing, React Testing Library, Accessibility, Jenkins, Fluent UI, Github, Agile methodologies, HTML, CSS, Fluent UI, Git, Jira, Appium, New Relic
Education
Masters of Arts in Tourism Management
University of Westminster (2018-2019)
Bachelor of Arts in Tourism Planning and Management
University of Westminster (2015-2018)
Courses
Testing Javascript by Kent C Dodds
Green Belt for TypeScript by Security Journey
Languages
Polish (Native)
Interests
Weight lifting, Travelling, My cats - Mocha and Giermo, Reading
