Helena Sonoda

Helena Sonoda has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Helena started their career as a Professor at Unicsul and Senac from 2007 to 2012. Helena then transitioned into the field of Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing, starting as a Quality and Testing Specialist - Project Leader at RSI from 2008 to 2013. In this role, they were responsible for leading teams, managing projects, and ensuring QA deliverables' quality standards.

Following that, Helena worked at FIT - Instituto de Tecnologia from 2013 to 2020, where they held two roles. Helena served as a QA Leader for a hardware diagnostics tool project for Lenovo, overseeing a distributed QA team, establishing QA processes, and monitoring tests. Additionally, they worked as a Project Manager, managing projects with various companies such as HP, Flex, Cisco, and Cargill. Their responsibilities in this role included product and project management, team management, proposal and effort estimation, project progress monitoring, and stakeholder reporting and negotiation.

Since 2021, Helena has been working as a QA Engineer at MTI Technology. Specific details regarding their role at this company are not provided.

Helena Sonoda earned their BSc in Physics from Universidade de São Paulo, where they studied from 1995 to 1999. Helena then pursued an MSc in Computational Physics at the same university from 1999 to 2001. Helena furthered their education by obtaining a PhD in Computational Physics from Universidade de São Paulo, completing their studies between 2002 and 2006.

In addition to their academic qualifications, Helena Sonoda has received several certifications. In 2008, they became a Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) from the ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board. In 2010, Helena earned the certifications of Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL TA) and Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL TM) from the same institution. Moreover, they obtained the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) certification from the IREB - International Requirements Engineering Board in October 2010.