Position: Automation QA Engineer (Java)
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Years of experience: 5

- successfully developed and implemented QA/AQA strategy for the whole SCS;
- support and contribution to the development of testing solutions and infrastructure;
- hiring and mentorship of AQAs;
- decision-making in QA Committee and Software Quality Workgroup;
- a successful development of QA department from scratch (with no initial documentation at all). 
- optimization of QA activities and processes: setting methodology, accompanied by close cooperation with the owner, developers, designers, and managers; 
- development of test & product documentation.
EXPERIENCE:
- Developed QA/AQA strategy for SCS (~70 repositories, >400 modules);
- Lecturing and participation as a speaker in QA conferences, organization's QA Committee, and Workgroups;
- Execution, creation, and support of test automation on different tests levels (system, integration (API), unit);
- Management of test documentation (test plans, checklists, test cases, bug- & QA reports/analytics);
- Hiring and mentorship of new AQAs;
- Team-leading experience;
- Communication with different layers of an organization;
- Negotiations and decision-making with a customer and inshore teams;
- Domains: social networking, banking, merchandise/retail

SKILLS:
- Automated and manual testing (functional, non-functional);
- Java (Selenium, Selenide, Allure, Rest-Assured, Mockito, TestNG/Junit, JDBC);
- Good understanding of SDLC, STLC and Defect Life Cycle;
- Postman (and writing JS test-scripts)
- Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes;
- GIT, Mercurial;
- SQL;
- HTML/CSS;
- Agile: Scrum/Kanban; Waterfall;
- Jira, Confluence, Zephyr, TeamCity, Bugzilla, TestRail;
- DevTools, TestComplete;
- Linux, WinOS, iOS, Android; VM Box/ Vagrant/Hyper-V.
I am mostly interested in advising and setting up automated testing and correlated QA processes (even from scratch) within fast-pace Agile environments. The key expectation is a wide variety of tools and management flexibility (desire to discuss and negotiate) in decision-making during our cooperation.