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Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

- Manage E2E automated testing deliverables- Responsible for managing QA functions, including planning, strategizing, and implementation.- Implement CD and TDD for upcoming features by working closely with services development team.- Lead QA team and ensure all development tasks are meeting quality criteria through test planning, test execution, and issue tracking.- Create and maintain automation framework that aligns with the business and technological needs of the project.- Continuously evaluate technical testing complexities and discuss the mitigations as early as possible with team members and managers.- Evaluate testing processes that will increase team productivity, creating automatic reports to be reviewed with managers on a daily or weekly basis to find gaps in test coverage.- Perform regular knowledge transfers over the product, testing strategies, and technologies used.- Lead all scrum team meetings and scrum ceremonies for automation team.Tech stack:- Java, Maven, TestNG, Cucumber- Appium, AWS device farm- Jenkins, Git, Allure reporting

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Management of about 5 test engineers, responsible for testing BackEnd behavior driven scenarios on Verizon platform against different stage environments, guiding the QA Team to construct a robust, re-usable framework and regression suite making use of appropriate tools. Establishing test management processes for Verizon Parking and Traffic solutions.Tech stack:- Java, Maven, Spring- jUnit, Cucumber, Allure report- Jenkins, Docker, ReportPortal, Git- Jira, Xray

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Leading team and coordinate the team according to business needs• Manual and Automation Test management: metrics, visibility, planning, strategy• Automation Testing team: 4• ElasticSearch/jUnit framework has been created for Rules Engine testing - Drools + multithreading• Bulk data comparison tool has been created for big data testing - based on XMLUnit• Non functional testing - jMeter + Graphana solution was created• CI/CD implementation• All testing levels testingTechnologies○ Java○ jUnit, Allure reporting○ Scrum○ CI○ Elasticsearch, Kibana○ jMeter, Graphana, InfluxDB

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Coordination with all stakeholders leaders • Automation Testing team: 3 • Framework implementation, DEMO, getting most critical requirements, agreements, metrics visibility improvement, Scrum setup, CI

Irvine, Ca, Us

Leading team and coordinate the team according to business needs• Automation Test management: metrics, visibility, planning, strategy• TAF with MongoDB has been created from scratch with BDD process implementation• Functional auto-testing withing iteration• Supporting legacy applications, set up with Jenkins

Newtown, Pa, Us

Leading team and coordinate the team according to business needs • Automation Testing team: 9 • Automation Test management: metrics, visibility, planning, strategy • TAF with MongoDB has been created from scratch with BDD process implementationBusiness Information and Media • Functional auto-testing withing iteration • Supporting legacy applications, set up with Jenkins

Newtown, Pa, Us

Project: Desire2Learn. Brightspace. http://www.brightspace.com/Technologies:- Selenium WD, C#, SpecFlow(BDD), Jenkins, Git- Scalability (PNUnit)- Kanban, RallyTools: - Stash - Source Tree - Visual StudioMy general responsibilities:1) Covering application features by GUI tests updating and creating.2) Test Automation Framework improving. Base on the Page Object pattern with BDD design.2) Filling smoke and regression test packages.3) Responsible for code review.4) Working with CI. Report configuration.5) Daily meetings with customer.6) Writing conventions and guide documentation.7) Collaboration with foreign team.8) Help to newcomers with TAF using.

Newtown, Pa, Us

Project: Travis Perkins (50% assigned), creating and supporting of UI testsTechnologies:- Selenium WD- Java - jUnit- Ant- JenkinsProject: EXP-FIN (50% assigned), Supporting www.venera.com for Expedia customer.My responsibilities:1) Creating test cases,2) Functional testing,3) Regression testing,4) Acceptance testing,5) Selenium Web Driver test creation with Java, Maven, CI and TestNG technologies.

Newtown, Pa, Us

Project: WGSN-MYWN , Robot-construction by Kapow Katalyst ToolsTechnologies:- Kapow,- HTML,- CSS,- SQL,- MySql,- Regular expressions,- XPath.My responsibilities were:1) Constructing robots;2) Information gathering(text, prices, links, pictures, high resolution pictures);3) Entry data into a database;4) Working with branches;5) Looping by tags;6) Looping in forms;7) Working with HTTP cookies;8) Data conversion RegExp;9) Replace HTML tags;10) Working with AJAX requests;11) Working with JSON data structures;12) Create and use snippets;13) Testing by SQL requests;14) Carry out regular peer review for post-production optimization;

Development of online stores on Magento system.Examples: http://vovkshop.com/ http://zolotoiostap.com/Responsibilities:1) Finding and installing templates for Magento system;2) Setup and configuration template;3) Changing CSS styles for template;4) Analyzing and decomposing customer's requirements;5) Testing software;6) Work with JS jQuery library;7) Installation and configuration of Magento modules;

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Software Engineering

High School, General Specialization