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Registration: 21.04.2022

Alexander Maximov

IT
senior
Specialization: Quality Assurance engineer

Portfolio

Quest Software Inc. , Database Management Group

Sept. 2008 – Aug. 2013: QA manager, Test Lead  -As a QA manager, supervised and allocated QA resources (6-10 QA) across three Toad family products  -As a test lead of Toad for SQL Server (www.quest.com/products/toad-for-sql-server), - built and managed the test process for the whole product life cycle, manual testing  -communicated with the end users on the product community forum and provided the tier-2 support across three Toad family products Feb 2005 – Dec 2008 QA Engineer, Database audit management system  -manual testing of Windows desktop client and server sides  -installing and administering the products across test environments (OS: Windows\Unix; RDBMS: MS SQL, DB2, Oracle)

Devexperts Inc.

 -manual testing of the UNIX based server-side  -running existing autotests and investigating test results (Java, TeamCity)  -analyzing requirements and creating new test cases

JSC “Arcadia Inc.”

-As a QA team leader, I managed a team of 6-10 people and ensured testing activities were completed withing the company standards and industry best practices. Participated in hiring, conducting technical interviews, team management and support -In 2021, passed assessment for a certified Scrum Developer and took an active role to improve Agile practices that drastically changed business delivery process -Implemented load testing of APIs using JMeter. Set up CI process on TeamCity to run tests on Blazemeter platform -Achieved 50 to 100% coverage of automation testing of REST APIs (using C# and TeamCity) and UI (using WebDriver and Cypress) -Successfully advocating for BDD approach (with SpecFlow) that helped us to have shared understanding with business on executed scenarios -Gained in-depth understanding of fin-tech projects and their subject matter while manually testing various system components relying on Azure, MS SQL server\ Cosmos DB, Redis, Service Bus, Application Insights etc.

Skills

C#
Fiddler
GIT
JavaScript
JMeter
Postman
SQL

Work experience

Leading QA Engineer at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, Fastmarkets division
11.2017 - 02.2022 |JSC “Arcadia Inc.” (www.softwarecountry.com)
-As a QA team leader, I managed a team of 6-10 people and ensured testing activities were completed withing the company standards and industry best practices. Participated in hiring, conducting technical interviews, team management and support -In 2021, passed assessment for a certified Scrum Developer and took an active role to improve Agile practices that drastically changed business delivery process -Implemented load testing of APIs using JMeter. Set up CI process on TeamCity to run tests on Blazemeter platform -Achieved 50 to 100% coverage of automation testing of REST APIs (using C# and TeamCity) and UI (using WebDriver and Cypress) -Successfully advocating for BDD approach (with SpecFlow) that helped us to have shared understanding with business on executed scenarios -Gained in-depth understanding of fin-tech projects and their subject matter while manually testing various system components relying on Azure, MS SQL server\ Cosmos DB, Redis, Service Bus, Application Insights etc.
Challenged myself to grow and gain expertise in various roles in a small startup
09.2014 - 11.2017 |Future Technologies, IT Consultancy
 -As a business analyst, worked directly with end users to analyze business requirements and worked on feature requirements with the dev team  -As a QA engineer, performed manual testing (white/black box) of the companybased Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool that produces three-tier clientserver application as well as the end-user system  -As a software engineer,  -made up the MS SQL Server database structure including implementation of business logic (functions, stored procedures, views, triggers)  -implemented business logic within the generated C# code of the system  -developed user guides  -deployed the product on the customer’s environment (Windows Server 2012, IIS)  -worked on support cases from the production system
QA Engineer, GFT Markets
09.2013 - 08.2014 |Devexperts Inc. (www.devexperts.com), Financial Software for Brokerage and Exchanges
 -manual testing of the UNIX based server-side  -running existing autotests and investigating test results (Java, TeamCity)  -analyzing requirements and creating new test cases
QA manager, Test Lead
01.2005 - 07.2013 |Quest Software Inc. (www.quest.com), Database Management Group
Sept. 2008 – Aug. 2013: QA manager, Test Lead  -As a QA manager, supervised and allocated QA resources (6-10 QA) across three Toad family products  -As a test lead of Toad for SQL Server (www.quest.com/products/toad-for-sql-server), - built and managed the test process for the whole product life cycle, manual testing  -communicated with the end users on the product community forum and provided the tier-2 support across three Toad family products Feb 2005 – Dec 2008 QA Engineer, Database audit management system  -manual testing of Windows desktop client and server sides  -installing and administering the products across test environments (OS: Windows\Unix; RDBMS: MS SQL, DB2, Oracle)
Technical writer (rus), QA Engineer
06.2003 - 01.2005 |Altec Ltd., Russian software company (www.altec.ru)
 -developed user & marketing documentation (Adobe FrameMaker 7.0)  -as a QA engineer, performed functional and sanity testing

Educational background

Engineer in automation of mechanical engineering
2002 - 2005
St-Petersburg North-West State Technical University
Engineer in automation of industrial processes
1998 - 2002
Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Non-ferrous Metals and Gold

Languages

EnglishUpper Intermediate