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- Establishing QA processes, improving collaboration between QA and Dev teams
- Functional testing, end-to-end, back-end, front-end test automation
- Enhancing Test Automation and Continuous Delivery strategies
- Close collaboration within Product and Marketing teams
Tech stack:
- JavaScript, Python, Ethereum, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, ActiveMQ 
Key achievements:
- Introduced proper QA process management, improved software delivery pipelines, enhanced FE and BE automation suites.
- Coaching QA engineers, visualising Testing results

Engineering Lead in QA

Responsibilities:
- Lead Quality Assurance engineer and Quality Engineering Guild Lead (7 engineering squads)
- Closely collaborating with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Product Managers, Heads of Product, Engineering, Infrastructure and CTO
- Wide-company Testing strategy, adoption of new tools and frameworks
- Early get on track with embedding quality into the new features and products
- Provisioning of Testing tools, paid subscriptions to Cloud Testing  farms 
- Hiring manager for QA positions, building QA Guild, mentoring QA engineers
- Ensuring Quality Engineering OKRs to be met
Key achievements:
- Built Testing/Test Automation Strategy while getting Software Quality at Nuri to the new higher levels
- Built Quality Engineering Guild up to 12 ppl

Lead Software Engineer in Test

- Functional and performance testing, end-to-end testing
- Technical leadership in Test Automation and Continuous Integration strategy
- Dedicated involvement in testing mission-critical backend software components
- Hiring manager for QA positions, building QA Team, coaching new QA colleagues

Tech stack and tools:
- TeamCity, JIRA, Python, JavaScript, REST, JMeter, AWS, MSSQL, Windows Server, MongoDB, Docker, Vagrant

Architecting Automated Functional Testing via Selenium&Python,
Load\Stress Test automation via JMeter tool on cloud machines. Application under test was a large scale web product - micro-consulting ultra compliant social network, which links various people in researching for different technologies and products, that is used to develop clients own businesses and help them to growth capital from venture firms. Scrum methodology was used on the project.

QA Automation Engineer

- Functional testing, end-to-end, back-end, front-end test automation
- Enhancing Test Automation and Continuous Delivery strategies
- Collaboration within Product Design and outsource Dev teams
Tech stack:
- Ruby, RoR, Capybara, Cucumber, Docker, Kubernetes, ActiveMQ, Blockchain, Gitlab, Jenkins

Senior Software Engineer in Test

- Web UI Automation framework (Selenium, Python, MySQL, FreeBSD)
- Automation activities to Ironport's WBRS, SBRS, Corpus products
- Regular QA Tasks on Ironport WBA product

Quality Assurance Engineer

Client was an EU-compliant SWISS cloud computing IaaS-provider.
Leading QA activities on the start-up from zero stage, building and implementing QA and Continuous Integration processes from scratch. Leading JIRA configurations through all projects, Scrum usage. Debugging and researching.

Tech stack:
Openstack Havana and Ice House
Cloud computing
Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04
Back-end testing, tempest.
Front-end testing, ruby+cucumber
CI with Jenkins.

- Softserve internal metrics tool (Mysql, Bugzilla, MSSQL, Python, VBA)
- Outsource work for Cisco Ironport 
- Web UI Automation framework (Selenium, Python)
- Maintenance of other Automation frameworks and automated testsuites creation
- Maintenance of picture processing scripts (Python, Ant, Tomcat)

Test Automation Engineer

- Working in the Cross-functional team closely collaborating with PO’s, developers and DevOps
- Hiring manager for QA positions, building QA Team, mentoring new QA team members 
- Close collaboration with PO, CTO, Agile Coaches and other Development teams over the strategic Quality Assurance goals
Tech stack:
- RubyOnRails JavaScript, Cypress.io, Github@actions, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, TestRail
Key achievements:
- Achieved “Whole Team Testing” approach with actively implementing Agile Testing within the team as well as influencing the other teams
- Build Test Automation Strategy and actively committed to putting it into the life by actively contributing to reach new levels on Test Automation as one of the company’s strategic goals 
- Contributed to make Cypress E2E Automated Tests an integral part of Github@actions Continuous Delivery Pipelines

e2e Test Automation suites, Functional testing, browser compatibility testing.
RoR, Cucumber, RSpec, Github API, Mercurial API, Request.bin API, REST, hybrid automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Freelance work for Severalnines - automation and management software for database clusters.
Functional testing, e2e testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

Freelance work for Cipherhealth - a leading healthcare technology company implementing innovative communication and satisfaction improvement solutions.
Functional testing, Performance testing, Continuous Integration, Mobile testing.
Ruby on Rails, Cucumber, Jenkins, Jenkins API, Github API, JMeter, Maven, Xcode, Appium, iOS native app Load Testing.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Docker and Jenkins.

Test Automation Lead

- Test Automation Activities
- Jython, J2EE, Tomcat, C++, COM, CPPUnit
- Python, Selenium, MySQL

Successfully created two  Web UI Automation Frameworks based on Python and Selenium from scratch, for Functional black box testing as well as for LOAD testing, using them for day-to-day operation.

Working as Consultant of Metacom company
Functional Web-Automation Testing, using Ruby/Cucumber/Watir 

Responsibilities:
- Planning test automation
- Test framework implementation
- Test implementation
- Test documentation
- Ongoing execution, maintenance, and result analysis.
- CI Integration
- Managing Automation team of 3 people

Test Automation Architect

- Functional testing, end-to-end, back-end, front-end test automation
- Load and Performance Testing, uptime monitoring
- Enhancing Test Automation and Continuous Delivery strategies
- Close collaboration within Product, Development and Infrastructure teams
Tech stack:
- Java, JavaScript, Cypress.io, Kafka, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo, JMeter, AWS, TestRail
Key achievements:
- Introduced Load Testing through JMeter as a part of Testing process which resulted in improving microservices/apps performance
- Introduced TestRail as a complete solution for Test Management system, manual and automated
- Made Automated Tests an integral part of Continuous Delivery Pipelines

Responsibilities:

- Serve as Engineering Lead for the Quality Assurance Team
- Supervise company-wide quality processes, emphasising Shift-Left Testing and Agile methodologies
- Foster team building and enhance team bonding within QA
- Resource Management and Strategic Planning
- Oversee day-to-day operations with Team Leads and Directors of Engineering
- Develop and implement a comprehensive testing strategy across the organisation, including the adoption of new tools and frameworks
- Integrate quality assurance practices into new features and product development from the outset
- Manage the provisioning of testing tools and subscriptions

Key Achievements:

- Successfully implemented a company-wide testing strategy utilizing a Shift-Left Testing approach
- Led the transition of all automated tests to the Playwright Test Framework
- Spearheaded the adoption of the k6 Load Test Framework and integrated it into project pipelines
- Strategically assisted five engineering teams in improv

QA Engineering Lead

• Played a pivotal role in enhancing quality assurance practices within one of the chapters of the Corporate Bank Technology division at Deutsche Bank.  
• Developed and executed comprehensive automated integration tests for the Verification of Payee Instant Payments implementation.
• Collaborated with diverse teams to ensure compliance with ECB deadlines while optimizing testing processes using Java Springboot, Kotlin, and GCP.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Associate VP

I have started my career in IT working in daughter-company of the largest and most progressive Ukrainian bank.

Technical support, system administration, online help, critical user support

System Administrator

AI-Powered Cloud SaaS QA Platform leveraging RAG technology for intelligent test generation and comprehensive test automation.

Responsibilities:
Founded and developed complete SaaS application with FastAPI backend, Vue.js frontend, PostgreSQL database and ML tools.

Built full-stack architecture with hierarchical project management and enterprise tool integrations.

Seeking potential clients and partnerships. Would you be my next customer or beta user?

Founder and CEO

I’m a Quality Engineering leader with 20 years of experience building test automation, CI/CD systems, and engineering te

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