Work experience

QA Automation Lead

Automation test engineer

QA Engineer

Junior manual QA engineer

Gitmax

US-based software company (NDA)

Informatica

ThriveDX SaaS

SEMrush

1 year 11 months (DEC 2021 - CURR)

1 year 1 month (may 2018 - jun 2019)

3 years 2 months (AUG 2015 - oct 2018)

4 years 4 months (MAR 2011 - jul 2015)

1 year 9 months (jun 2009 - mar 2011)

QE Manager

Manage teams in several accounts to ensure a positive work environment translating the corporate goals into personal and professional growth.
Maintain staff by selecting, orienting, and training team members.
Coach existing team members on their own career paths.
Deal with performance issues and support problem resolution and decision-making.
Conduct performance evaluations.
Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results.

Automation QA

Perform as an Automation QA for a well-known Telemedicine company in the US, helping them to improve their current systems and working to deliver a quality product to the market.
Improving the current QA Automation framework implementing BDD tests for a better understanding of the Agile Stakeholders on what has been automated as part of a quality process.
Implementation of Javadoc in the QA Automation frameworks to standardize the scripting process, and reduce the time the new QE members spend in an onboarding process.

QA Team Lead

Responsible for leading a medium size team to deliver a quality product and implement best QA practices.
Train team members to become All-rounded QAs able to perform Manual, Automation & Performance testing.
Develop dashboards to maintain informed the client on the product status and the performance of the team using BI metrics.
Analysis and creation of KPIs to evaluate the success of each team member based on their productivity.
Interview possible candidates to fill the opened positions required for certain projects within the company.

Led a QA team in collaboration with business analysts, developers and infrastructure specialists on a mission-critical card transaction processing application.
Responsible for technical and business requirements
Review and test management (Zephyr for JIRA test management tool).
Developed a domain specific test automation framework from scratch.
Was the only person responsible for the entire integration testing process. Focused on design, implementation, execution and automation of microservice integration tests (back-end).
Primary technical stack used in test automation: Java 11/Kotlin, JOOQ, Kafka-Clients, Docker, TestContainers, WireMock, MockServer, Spring, TestNG, RestAssured and other minor libraries/frameworks.
Responsible for design and implementation of unit tests for microservices using tools such as: JUnit, Spring Boot Test, Hibernate, Mockito, Mockk and others.
Performed design, execution and automation of acceptance and system tests using a similar tech stack as used for integration testing.
Advocated and implemented an automation.
Testing approach where a single microservice is tested in isolation in a docker-containerized Environment with the help of TestContainers library and custom YAML-based DSL. The approach had significantly improved overall quality of the product.
Designed and developed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Integrated automated test execution and report into the pipelines which improved test feedback and reduced time to production.
Developed a Kotlin library that integrated automation-tests'
Results with an external test management tool (Zephyr Scale for JIRA) making test execution results more clear, readable and integrated into workflow.
Developed a configurable stub service that contributed to the "shift left" approach allowing the team to emulate integration with a third party application and perform testing as early as possible. Stack used: Kotlin, Spring-boot, GRPC, Protobuf.
Single handedly developed a library-based implementation of the APTRA™ Advance NDC protocol (used for communication between a host and an ATM). Developed initially for testing purposes, the library was later noticed and adopted by the dev team as a core solution for the application.
Responsible for code review of other team members (test automation engineers and developers).
Regularly conducted interviews with QA engineers.

Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
Worked in close collaboration with business analyst and dev teams to develop a high performance Microservice-based messaging platform that provided various APIs to our customers such as SMPP (SMS), SOAP,REST, GRPC.
Researched and gathered information on test Approaches suitable for the product.
Responsible for test management including test Design, automation tests development, manual and Automation test execution, acceptance testing.
Developed from scratch a comprehensive Test-automation framework for system testing Purposes (Java 8, RestAssured, TestNG, JSMPP, SSHJ, Docker.

Preparing test plans, test cases, check lists
Analysis of test results
Testing of REST servicesETL and server-side applications that are closely associated with Oracle DBSWING based desktop applicationUI using WebDriver
Communication with customer (demo, reveal and so on)

Supporting information systems and our products, contacting with customers (including our foreign partners).
Testing.
System analysis.
Working with data bases, taking part in global projects.
Developing application software to automate internal business processes, scrum stuff.

Education

2008
Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

Matt Melton

QA Automation Lead