General QA engineer (Python)

Experience

With over 6 years of experience in the software development industry, I've honed my skills as a General QA Engineer, continually improving and expanding my expertise.

I'm proficient in developing and implementing automated testing frameworks from scratch using Python, Selenium, Locust, and other testing tools. Maintaining test infrastructure and looking for elegant solutions.

Experienced with API, UI, Performance, and Load testing, working with multiple projects simultaneously. Managed internal company projects. Can create and maintain company/project documentation. Also, worked in various Agile teams which used Kanban/Scrum frameworks in Product and Outsource companies..

My QA journey:
1. General QA/Project manager at Algoseek
June 2023 — now
Responsibilities:
• Created QA infrastructure from scratch using Amazon EC2 and github actions.
• API/UI test automation and general web application testing.
• Working with multiple projects simultaneously. And managing some of them.
• Project/Company/QA documentation creation and support.
• Managing project tasks on different levels (Bugs, Features, User Stories, etc.).
• Taking part of discussions about company product plans. Working with requirements and planning development team work.

2. General QA at The Product Engine (Ernst&Young contractor)
May 2020 — May 2023
Responsibilities:
• General web application testing started from requirement analysis to release approval.
• Test documentation creation and support.
• Bug creation, support, and verification, sometimes fixing bugs on the BE side.
• Managing test environments with CI/CD.
• Communicating with clients and product owners with requirement clarification, performing features DEMO.

3. Junior QA at The Product Engine (LindenLab contractor)
February 2018 — May 2020
Responsibilities:
• Manual desktop/web/mobile applications testing.
• UI automation testing (Selenium).
• Performing smoke, regression, ad-hoc testing, multi-browser, and multi-platform testing.
• Sustaining test cases, test plans, and other documentation.
• Working with a huge application with a lot of functionality and thousands of bugs.

Skills

Automated Testing Jira Postman SQL API testing Selenium Web testing Python Allure GitHub Linux Microsoft Azure Pytest Locust Perfomance Testing Manual Testing Jenkins Docker PostgreSQL AWS

Highlights

• Worked as a standalone QA in the Agile/Scrum team for complex product with high work-load.
• Creating test infrastructure from scratch. Implemented CI/CD, daily notifications and reporting to the web server resulting in faster and more reliable test executions. Plotting performance metrics for different services.
• Successfully identified and reported critical defects during the early stages of the development cycle, leading to a significant improvement in the overall quality of the software application.
• Worked in close cooperation with the development team and management to streamline the testing process, reducing the overall time to market for the software application.

Looking for

Ideally, I want to work with a web application with focus on API and BE testing. Interested to trying my skills in miltech sectir.
Can be lead of QA manual/automation team and manage small projects.

Preferred language

Українська, English