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Senior
Registration: 12.10.2023

Alex Zaitsev

Specialization: QA Automation Engineer
10+ years of experience in Quality Control and Quality Assurance. 2.5 years of experience in Java and test automation. Strong background in manual testing and localization. Hard Skills: • Java test automation with TestNG, JUnit, and Allure. • Maven, Gradle for building frameworks from scratch. • REST Assured and Postman for API testing. • Selenium and Selenide for frontend test automation. • Appium for mobile test automation. • BDD with Cucumber and Gherkin. • CI/CD with GitHub, GitLab, and TeamCity. • SQL database exploration with DBeaver. • Debugging and issue investigation with Dev tools (Kubernetes, Android Studio, Charles Proxy, Firebase, Sentry, Amplitude). • Payment, integration, localization, regression, and smoke testing in Agile/Scrum environment. • Submitting bug reports in Jira and other bug-trackers. • Reviewing test documentation with test management systems such as TestRail. Soft Skills: • Adapt fast to new testing conditions . • Effectively organize remote working. • Track time with Tempo. • Work with limited supervision. • Communicate effectively and positively with the team members . • Constantly learning and improving skills.
QA Java TestNG JUnit Allure Maven gradle Selenium Selenide Appium
10+ years of experience in Quality Control and Quality Assurance. 2.5 years of experience in Java and test automation. Strong background in manual testing and localization. Hard Skills: • Java test automation with TestNG, JUnit, and Allure. • Maven, Gradle for building frameworks from scratch. • REST Assured and Postman for API testing. • Selenium and Selenide for frontend test automation. • Appium for mobile test automation. • BDD with Cucumber and Gherkin. • CI/CD with GitHub, GitLab, and TeamCity. • SQL database exploration with DBeaver. • Debugging and issue investigation with Dev tools (Kubernetes, Android Studio, Charles Proxy, Firebase, Sentry, Amplitude). • Payment, integration, localization, regression, and smoke testing in Agile/Scrum environment. • Submitting bug reports in Jira and other bug-trackers. • Reviewing test documentation with test management systems such as TestRail. Soft Skills: • Adapt fast to new testing conditions . • Effectively organize remote working. • Track time with Tempo. • Work with limited supervision. • Communicate effectively and positively with the team members . • Constantly learning and improving skills.
QA Java TestNG JUnit Allure Maven gradle Selenium Selenide Appium

Portfolio

EPAM

- Advanced in localization, smoke, and regression testing of online games, shops, and switching between products and platforms at the same time with tight deadlines.

Qvalon Inc.

- Increased automated test coverage by 10% for a project with 3000+ autotests by developing automated test scripts using Java with REST Assured, Selenide, and Appium. - Lead up to 5 releases in a week as a Team Leader, when we had less than 3 every 2 weeks. - Successfully verified over 200 tickets during regression and acceptance testing over the last year, contributing to a 15% reduction in the backlog. - Boosted an expansion to a new market by accepting Hindi and Arabic localizations on Android and iOS in tight collaboration with developers with only 2 weeks deadline for it. - Facilitated maintaining contracts with core US customers by identifying and resolving critical time zone conflicts. - Wrote and edited 100+ test cases and checklists, which saved hours on test design, test automation, and further testing.

Applause inc.

- Gained Silver badge on Utest.com (Top 8% among a million testers on the platform) for high-quality bugs found for web applications of customers. - Evolved proficiency in quick switching between products during the day by submitting 200+ bug reports for 50+ brands in 6 months. - Increased bug report submitting temp from usually 4-5 bugs up to 20 bug reports in a day with all steps and attachments added.

Skills

QA
Java
TestNG
JUnit
Allure
Maven
Gradle
REST Assured
API testing
Selenium
Selenide
Appium
BDD
Cucumber
Gherkin
CI/CD
GitHub
GitLab
SQL
TeamCity
Kubernetes
Android Studio
Firebase
Sentry
Amplitude
Agile
Scrum
Jira
TestRail

Work experience

QA Engineer
since 06.2021 - Till the present day |Qvalon Inc.
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- Increased automated test coverage by 10% for a project with 3000+ autotests by developing automated test scripts using Java with REST Assured, Selenide, and Appium. - Lead up to 5 releases in a week as a Team Leader, when we had less than 3 every 2 weeks. - Successfully verified over 200 tickets during regression and acceptance testing over the last year, contributing to a 15% reduction in the backlog. - Boosted an expansion to a new market by accepting Hindi and Arabic localizations on Android and iOS in tight collaboration with developers with only 2 weeks deadline for it. - Facilitated maintaining contracts with core US customers by identifying and resolving critical time zone conflicts. - Wrote and edited 100+ test cases and checklists, which saved hours on test design, test automation, and further testing.
Tester
12.2020 - 06.2021 |EPAM (Test.io)
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- Advanced in localization, smoke, and regression testing of online games, shops, and switching between products and platforms at the same time with tight deadlines.
Tester
10.2020 - 06.2021 |Applause inc. (uTest.com)
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- Gained Silver badge on Utest.com (Top 8% among a million testers on the platform) for high-quality bugs found for web applications of customers. - Evolved proficiency in quick switching between products during the day by submitting 200+ bug reports for 50+ brands in 6 months. - Increased bug report submitting temp from usually 4-5 bugs up to 20 bug reports in a day with all steps and attachments added.
Quality Control Engineer
08.2010 - 12.2020 |PK Volgashot-M PLC
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- Increased productivity by 40% by an experimental approach and implementing new technologies while leading up a group of melters. - Diminished losses on maintenance up to 5 times by testing and tuning up the spectral analysis laboratory application with benchmark analysis. - Reduced testing time by 50% by redesigning the testing processes. - Played a critical role in expanding customer base and preventing quality issues by designing test plans and developing equivalent classes for various alloy ranges.

Educational background

Global Economics / Linguistics
Volgograd State University

Languages

EnglishUpper IntermediateFrenchElementaryRussianNative
QAJavaTestNGJUnitAllureMavengradleSeleniumSelenideAppium