Coherent Solutions is custom software development consulting company with ~2200 people and offices in the U.S., EU and Eastern Europe- Participation:Deputy QA Director, QA Architect, QA Services Sales and Group Manager:• Helping to improve QA Practice operations, processes, procedures, documentation (templates) across all locations• Participating in Sales, Discovery and other early stages of clients & projects engagements, estimating test efforts• Consulting company and clients’ QA teams on QA approach, processes, tools, strategy depending on requirements, constrains, testing scope etc. Creating corresponding proposal documents: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Release Plan• Performing QA Audit for existing company projects and clients. Providing recommendations, feedback, improvements, submitting JIRA tickets.• Interviewing QA and perform QA assessments across different locations• Starting and setting up QA processes, tools, team, testing scope/strategy/approach on new projects in the company• Interconnection with QA Automation group/team to improve integration and cooperation between manual and automated QA teams, processes, tools, testing documents and scope• Participating in security & penetration testing related activities. QA advisor in secure SDLC group. Performing secure SDLC audits for company clients/projects. Analyzing and creating recommendations/best practices for most popular OWASP projects: Top 10 vulnerabilities, Testing Guide, Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) requirements. Analyzing CVE (Common vulnerabilities enumeration) database. Creating checklists to test security requirements. • Participation/presenting QA meetups: web apps security testing, Zephyr configuration, performance testing process etc.• Creating and trainer for new trainings: Web apps and services testing

ISsoft is Belorussian daughter of Coherent Solutions: custom software development consulting company with ~2200 people and offices in the U.S., EU and Eastern Europe

- Summary:Modus powers the world’s most advanced and innovative vehicle tracking system for insurers, fleet managers and businesses that rely on superior driver and vehicle performance- Participation:QA Team management: QA tasks distribution, monitoring testing progress, QA team activities and performance, interviewing and hiring new QA engineers into QA department.Release management: creating/updating release notes and release scope using JIRA built-in tools, creating JIRA dashboards for QA scope/tasks managementConfigured JIRA on administration level: improved workflows, screens, transitions, issue types, email notifications for Modus projects.Improved own and QA team skills to to identify correctly and resolve integration issues between various teams: QA, Development (Management and Driver Portals, XG: both back end and front end, Mobiles: iOS, Android) and Project ManagementAnalyzed test case management tools, selected TestRail, performed configuration on advanced level and integration with JIRA. Created templates for test cases; test suites structure; priorities, components and other custom fields. Reviewed and improved test cases created by QA team. Analyzed test coverage and test cases execution results, generated reports.Performed product functional, integration, usability/GUI, API (Swagger) testing; performance testing of web applications using tools: New Relic (api and web services response time/load), Amazon web services (hardware resources monitoring), simulation tool to create load (internal custom development)– Tools and environment: Amazon Web Services, New Relic, Swagger, HockeyApp, Charles, Firebug, Chrome Development Tools, SnagIt, JIRA/Confluence, Git, RabbitMQ, Mobiles (iOS, Android)– Languages and Technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, Chef, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, XML

- Summary:What began as a small coin-operated machine repair service 30 years ago has quickly grown into a fully integrated engineering company. Today, JVL brings its team to the video slot machine market. - Participation:QA Team management: QA tasks distribution, monitoring testing progress, QA team activities and performance, interviewing and hiring new QA engineers into QA department.Release management: testing schedule and scope planning per releases, creating/updating release notes, release build information, creating JIRA dashboards per release to show project/product progress and leftoversBuild up post production support department and processes from scratch: Creating JIRA dashboards with production and customer issues; integrating/tuning system with automatic JIRA ticket creation in case if new issue appears; submitting, investigation JIRA issues, assigning to corresponding engineering teams, testing fixes and deploying new software (releases, patches, remote software updates), hiring/tuning team to delegate responsibilitiesCreated and supported JIRA dashboards for the most important JVL projects/products management. Tracked projects status, progress and leftovers using dashboards.Integrator to resolve issues between various teams: QA, Development (data center, server, games), Artists, Technical support, Customer Service and Post Production support engineers Performed test planning and estimation. Created/updated/send testing docs and templates (test cases, test results reports, test requirements.Performed games, server, data center products functional, usability, deployment, integration, data testingCreated, supported and updated build compilation/deployment jobs in Jenkins and LuntbuildAnalyzed JIRA integrated test case management plugins (Xray, Zephyr, SynapseRT) and started to integrate/configure with JVL JIRA– Tools and environment: Hudson/Jenkins, LuntBuild, Zephyr, Xray, JIRA/Confluence, MS SQL, ssh, TortoiseSVN, MSMQ;

- Summary:Strevus, Inc. provides a secure Compliance Lifecycle Management that enables financial institutions to facilitate communication, validation and reporting of information between their clients, counterparties and regulators.The Strevus solution provides a persistent, secure and auditable communication channel between counterparties and a central repository to manage and track legal entity compliance information. By using Strevus, organizations can connect to the right people the first time to get accurate information, thereby eliminating duplicate requests for information and improving client relationships while assessing risk and achieving regulatory compliance.- Participation:QA, DevOps, BA and Development agile/scrum processes organization and tuning taking into account flexibility in company priorities / goals / strategy; fast growing engineering teams.Interviewed and hired new QA engineers into QA department.Performed testing activities planning and estimation. Distributed tasks between QA team.Created/updated/send testing docs and templates (test cases, test results reports, test requirements including security and performance etc.)Performed Strevus web-based products functional, security, performance, deployment, integration, data testingSupported and updated build deployment jobs in JenkinsSupported integration with IT department for Release ManagementSupported integration with Sales\Product Management teams for Product feedback and qualityDaily communication with cross-functional teams (Dev, PM, BA, DevOps). Participated in Staff/Engineering/Sales updates meetings with Directors, Sales, VP, CEO, CTO. Set top level priorities/tasks fro QA automation team . Monitored QA activities and performance.– Tools and environment: Jenkins, Fiddler, Firebug, JIRA with Greenhopper, Confluence, MySQL, ssh, Git, RabbitMQ; Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber for BDD, Amazon Web Services, Enterprise Architect

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- Summary:Right Touch product uses real time behavioral targeting, that help to personalize each step of the online shopping process and customer service experience to convert more of existing site traffic to sales. Using technologies such as recommendations, targeted offers, automated guides, optimized search results, and live assistance with chat and click-to-call.- Participation:Organized Development and QA processes based on Agile (Scrum-like) methodology. Interviewed and hired 6 new QA into QA department. Performed SQA activities planning, estimation and management for Right Touch projects: created dashboards with burn-down chart (QA tasks estimations and progress), estimated effort for each release testing, distributed tasks between QA team. Daily communication with top management. Wrote daily/weekly project and testing status reports; participated in weekly project and testing status meetings. Performed QA and Automated QA team motivation and tasks planning. Monitored daily activities and performance.– Tools and environment: Jenkins, Fiddler, Firebug, JIRA/Confluence, MySQL, Putty for ssh, TortoiseSVN, Hadoop; Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, Robot Framework– Languages and Technologies: Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML

Customer: Kit Digital, Vodafone AG, Telecom Argentina, Kyte, Globecast, TV2Moro- Summary:Projects goal is VX Enterprise platform customization and optimization for world known Telecommunication providers such as Vodafone, Telecom Argentina etc. With the VX Enterprise Platform, the end user can watch live video (TV), video on demand (VOD) on the mobile devices, web and Set Top Boxes. The operator of the VX Enterprise Platform tracks and manages content delivery and usage, advertisements, billing etc.- Participation: QA Team Leader on 2 Kit Digital customer projects (3-5 QA subordinates): Vodafone Mobile TV, Vodafone Videothek, Telecom Argentina, TV2Moro, VX Vision, PMT Organized efficient and straight forward QA and Testing processes on customer side (Kit Digital in Cologne) for Vodafone Mobile TV project. Performed test planning activities: wrote test plan, estimated effort for Mobiles (about 20 devices) and WEB testing, distributed tasks between QA team, reviewed and analyzed testing progress, provided feedback to QA, Project and Top Management, wrote daily/weekly testing status report. Performed advanced functional testing (business logic and flows); defects reporting, tracking, verifying. Tested and clarified business requirements and CRs. QA Automation Lead on 2 Kit Digital projects (2 subordinates): coordinated GUI automation for CMS on Kyte project; Automated SOAP requests to Web Services on VX Vision project.Designed, debugged, executed performance scripts against Front End, API, DB, Web Players on 3 Kit Digital projects (Telecom Argentina, Videothek, TV2Moro); analysed Web Server, DB performance, found and reported performance issues, wrote performance test results reports– Tools and environment: Fiddler, Firebug, JIRA/Confluence, Trac, RedMine, Mantis, MySQL, TortoiseSVN, Jmeter, Soap UI, Couch DB; Mobiles (Symbian, iOS, Android)– Languages and Technologies: Java, JavaScript, PHP, Zend Framework, XML, HTML

- Summary:QA Manager/Team Leader, build engineer on 1 internal and 4 external sophisticated content related projects for world-known customers (TMC, Avaya Inc, Abbott, FRC).Projects objective is content processing from Internet including: crawling from various sources in Internet (html files, RSS news, FTP, restricted repositories etc.), data structuring (into xml files), processing (text extraction, tagging, clustering, summary extraction etc), searching (indexing, searching by various criteria’s), translation (SysTran service), providing UI for CMS (feeds management), providing UI for end users working with content (searching, email notifications, uploading user’s data etc.)All projects are based on the same platform (core) components. Additional back end services, agents, GUI, and data workflow were customized.- Participation:Manager and Team Leader on 5 projects (3 QA subordinates); mentored newcomers (2 persons); performed QA resources distribution and allocation for projects; Participation in project status meetings; CRs, requirements clarifying with customers; Testing documentation creation and review (test plans, test results reports and status reports, test cases); advanced functional testing (including grey box testing using DB SQL queries, back end and web application logs, configuration management and changes testing); defects reporting, tracking, verifying; Experienced Build Engineer: build up, deployed and released builds (including back end and web components, DB patches, managed configuration); monitored and configured sophisticated QA ENV (~ 60 virtual servers under Xen)– Tools and environment: TeamCity, XenServer, MSMQ, Fiddler, Firebug, JIRA/Confluence, MS SQL Server, TortoiseSVN, RSS– Languages and Technologies: .NET, MS Silverlight, SysTran, XML, HTML

Customer: Renaissance Capital- SummaryParticipated in advanced financial project for largest Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital. Project objective is full automation of: trades life cycle on financial markets (creation, settlement etc.); numerous financial reports generation; risk management; notifications sending etc.Project includes Back, Front and Middle Office systems (subprojects).Work included testing activities, configuration, synchronization of Back Office systems (ADG and DaVinci)- Participation:‘Informix DB upgrade’ subproject Team Leader (2-5 subordinates); mentoring QA newcomers (3 persons); participation in project status meetings; test status reports creation; communication with BA and DEV; CR and requirements reviewing and clarifying; working with all testing documentation; heavy functional testing (including Grey Box testing using DB SQL queries); defects reporting and tracking-------------------------------------------------- Customer: SAP AG- SummaryParticipated in sophisticated enterprise software solution testing for world-known vendor SAP.‘SAP E-Sourcing’ solution automates the entire sourcing process, including enterprise sourcing tasks, spend and compliance, contract management, supplier management etc.Solution supports Buyer and Supplier portals, multi-clustered environment. - Participation:Platform testing (Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX), heavy functional testing, localization testing (6 locales), bugs reporting, test cases creation and update, test plans creation. --------------------------------------------------Customer: Microsoft Corporation- SummaryParticipated critical pilot project for world’s major software development vendor. Work included testing of Microsoft’s latest MS Live family products, such as Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Spaces; localization testing, Internalization, OS compatibility (Win XP, Vista), Web compatibility (IE, Mozilla Firefox etc).

Customer: London Stock Exchange- Summary:Participated in financial project for London Stock Exchange.The aim of the project is to enhance the RNS (Renewable News Service) offering new IT platform to protect revenues and reduce IT risks of operating on an unsupported platform. RNS Billing solution receives meta-data from the RNS Core system, calculates charges and passes charges to e-Enterprise (Finance) and the contributor’s RNS submit screen- Participation:Helped to design test automation framework, wrote/run automated scripts for several functional modules of application. Test cases creation and update; test cases & bugs statistics creation and update; functional testing; defects reporting and tracking; requirements review and testing; participation in project status meetings– Tools and environment: QuickTest Professional, JIRA/Confluence, Firebug, Fiddler, MS SQL Server, MS Visio– Languages and Technologies: .NET, XML, HTML, VB Script

Customer: Equisys- Summary:Participated in Zetadocs PDF project for Equisys. This is software solution for document processing, notification and delivery. Zetadocs PDF helps create, deliver and share electronic documents, work interactively on-screen, link it to business software to cut paper use, saving time and money. Solution supports integration with the Active Directory, MS Office applications, etc.- Participation:Test cases creation and update; functional testing; defects reporting and tracking; requirements review; participation in project status meetings– Tools and environment: JIRA/Confluence, Rational ClearQuest, Fiddler, Adobe Acrobat– Languages and Technologies:XML