Impossible List

Inspired by Diogo Correia — a living checklist of professional goals, challenges, and milestones.

Professional Milestones (Barraq Technology Lab)

  • Perform End-to-End Testing of international remittance workflows across Distributed Microservices Architecture handling high-volume cross-border transactions
  • Automate and validate REST APIs for beneficiary creation, FX rate validation, and transaction commit workflows using Rest Assured and Postman
  • Validate complete Remittance Transaction Lifecycle including OTP verification, IVR authentication, and MTO integrations
  • Validate Kafka-based asynchronous transaction processing, retry handling, and fallback mechanisms across distributed services
  • Contribute to API Automation Framework Development using Java, Rest Assured, and TestNG, improving regression efficiency by 40%
  • Integrate automated test suites with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to support faster release validation and production stability
  • Perform Mobile Application Testing for BARQ applications using Appium for cross-device compatibility

Professional Milestones (PayU Digital Labs / Wibmo)

  • Perform Functional, Regression, and Integration Testing for Payment Gateway Applications supporting domestic and international transactions
  • Validate End-to-End Payment Transaction Lifecycle including initiation, routing, authorization, settlement, and chargebacks
  • Test Merchant Onboarding Workflows including MID/TID configuration, MCC validation, and bulk onboarding processes
  • Validate Settlement Cycles (T+1/T+2), reconciliation workflows, and ISO/IPM/NPCI settlement formats
  • Verify Switch-Layer Routing Logic, ISO8583 message conversion, and transaction handoff between networks
  • Conduct Performance, Stress, and Load Testing to ensure application resilience under high transaction volumes
  • Execute PCI-DSS Compliance Validations, fraud rule testing, tokenization checks, and 3DS Security Validations

Professional Milestones (American Heart Association / Impelsys)

  • Lead QA Activities for React-based production releases, including test planning and go-live support
  • Design and implement Selenium WebDriver Automation Frameworks for smoke, regression, and browser compatibility testing
  • Develop Hybrid Automation Frameworks using Selenium, TestNG, and Apache POI, improving test coverage by 40%
  • Perform API Functional and Integration Testing using Rest Assured and Postman across enterprise integrations
  • Manage UAT Cycles, coordinate stakeholder validations, and ensure production readiness for user-facing features
  • Validate Enterprise Integrations including eCards, SSO, eLearning, MotionPoint, Google Maps, ShopCPR, and Instructor Network
  • Conduct Regression, Performance, Load, and Stress Testing to reduce critical production defects by 30%

Technical Mastery & Certifications

  • Master core automation and testing tech stack: Java, SQL, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Cucumber
  • Build expertise in API testing and CI/CD operations via Rest Assured, Postman, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
  • Complete DevOps Certification Training covering configuration management, containers, and pipeline automation
  • Deploy resilient MySQL database environments featuring Master-Slave replication and Redis caching
  • Integrate monitoring and log analytics tools like Datadog, Grafana, and Kibana into deployment testing