Envera Halilovic

About Envera Halilovic

Engineer II at Starbucks with 13 years of experience in quality engineering and test automation across large-scale distributed systems. I specialize in building resilient test services, performance/chaos testing, and ensuring reliability of cloud-native platforms handling millions of daily transactions.Skilled in Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and modern DevOps practices. Experienced in both functional and performance testing, automation frameworks, and cross-team leadership. Known for driving initiatives that improve test depth, system reliability, and team collaboration.Passionate about quality at scale, building reusable tools, and mentoring engineers to strengthen engineering practices across teams.

Experience

1. Software Engineer (Engineer Ii)

   Starbucks

   Jun 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Quality Engineer on the platform team supporting Starbucks’ digital order processing system, handling millions of transactions daily- Worked on developing Python-based test services for end-to-end validation, load / performance / chaos testing across a distributed AWS/Kubernetes platform- Reviewing developer pull requests and providing sign-off based on unit test coverage, functionality, and quality standards- Creating test plans for individual PRs and features, as well as broader test strategies covering major initiatives- Acting as informal lead within a team of six Quality Engineers - driving work test planning activities, bug triage, mentoring, and cross-team alignment- Collaborating with engineering team to ensure system reliability and observability- Contributed to shared test services adopted by other engineering teams across Starbucks- Worked on multiple initiatives to expand automation, improve test depth, and increase confidence in system behavior under scale

Education

• University of Tuzla, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

  Graduate Engineer, Telecommunications Engineering

  2005 — 2010

Skills

• Visual Studio
• Sql
• Scrum
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Test Cases
• Oop
• System Integration Testing
• Test Planning
• Test Case Generation
• Load Testing
• Wincc
• Xml
• Web Services
• Testing
• Html
• Software Quality Assurance
• Quality Assurance
• Scada
• Microsoft Technologies
• Sdlc
• Regression Testing