Matt Melton

Skills

Phone
+3620502406077

Email
mm@gitmax.com

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.

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.

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.

GitMax
QA Automation Lead

Education

7 years

Java

9 years

Auto QA

10+ years

QA

4 years

Docker

Private US-based software company (NDA)
QA Automation Lead

• 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.

Informatica
Automation test engineer

ThriveDX SaaS
QA Engineer

I was responsible for:

• preparing test plans, test cases, check lists
• analysis of test results
• automation testing of:

REST services
ETL and server-side applications that are closely associated with Oracle DB
SWING based desktop application
UI using WebDriver

• communication with customer (demo, reveal and so on)

SEMrush
Junior manual QA engineer