Engineer Test Cases

ILLYA KATSYUK

San Jose, CA

408-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/illyakatsyuk *************@***.***

MANUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Focused on technical leadership, customer oriented hands-on senior level Software Quality Assurance Engineer with extensive experience in leading software quality assurance engineering teams with a proven track record of delivering many high-quality products, on schedule and meeting all standards and stated product objectives. I am an innovative individual who has an excellent sense of teamwork to get results by instilling commitment, trust, fairness, and loyalty. Demonstrate exceptional problem solving and strategic thinking skills under tight time constraints.

Testing in regulated environments.

PayPal Payments.

Managing team coordination.

Multiplatform testing.

SDLC including Agile / SCRUM.

Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Mentoring team members.

Highly adaptive.

Documenting, Reporting

Security Testing.

Manual and Automated testing.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Improved team productivity and shortened release cycle by using innovative test approaches.

Sharpened team’s tasks execution and product quality by aggressively using Agile/Scrum techniques.

Reduced go-live transition risks by establishing testing using phased approach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Android.

Applications: Microsoft (Visual Studio, .Net, Utilities); IBM/Rational (ClearCase, Notes ClearQuest); Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr); HP (ALM); Rally, Secure CRT, Perforce 4, WinCVS, GIT, TOAD, SQL Developer, Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG.

Programming Languages: JavaScript, HTML, PL/SQL, XML, Java.

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server.

Mobile Devices: Smartphones, Tablets.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT 2015 - Current

Doing independent consulting work for private firms in software testing and business analysis.

Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA 2014 – 2015

SYSTEMS QA ANALYST IV (Contract)

Undertook a role of the Systems QA Analyst IV in the Digital Content division containing more than 50 testers.

Defined QA process, QA strategy for projects; generated test plans, metrics, test cases and traceability to the business requirements.

Made recommendations to improve product quality, usability, and reliability. Reviewed existing test documentation to uncover weaknesses in the test coverage.

Acted as a point of contact between all parties involved into projects to clarify ambiguities and to define the best test approach, which saved roughly 3-5 days of test preparation time for each project.

Mystical Basket, LLC, Jacksonville, FL 2013 – 2014

LEAD SQA ENGINEER

Set up the SQA department in the startup company that offers a fully functional cloud based product for users creating Do-It-Yourself. Several releases were successfully delivered to the customers under my guidance.

Outlined test strategy for the product. Started the QA process, created test plan, metrics, and test cases.

Developed TestNG based test automation framework and wrote automated Java written test cases using Selenium WebDriver. The test automation reduced by over 50% the testing time.

Made recommendations to improve product quality and reliability that led to a better look-and-feel experience of the website.

PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA 2005 – 2013

SENIOR SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

Assisted Manager in governing the SQA teams in two major departments: Merchant Features and Pay Flow. Was rewarded several times by Manager’s Spot Awards for consistent improvement the product quality.

Led QA team during many major and maintenance releases.

To reduce the testing time by 15%, coordinated test activities with outsourcing team in India and with Customer Support group in Omaha, NE.

To shorten the API testing time by over 300%, wrote the RESTful API test automation.

Initiated pre-release production API testing which significantly reduced the number of defects pushed live.

Automated front-end test cases using Selenium WebDriver/TestNG framework.

Conducted an extensive amount of database testing utilizing SQL queries.

Epson Palo Alto Lab, Palo Alto, CA 2004 – 2005

SENIOR SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER (Contract)

Prepared documentation outlining test strategies and methodology, generated test plans, test cases, and test reports for product ensuring all applicable tests are completed and the test coverage is adequate.

Conducted Functional and Localization testing against Japanese locales

ADP Claims Processing Group, San Ramon, CA 2004 – 2004

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER (Contract)

Created and maintained application documentation; Conducted Functional, Acceptance, Regression and Data Integrity testing.

Supported Localization testing for the English (Canada), and French (Canada) locales.

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 2003 – 2004

SOFTWARE DESIGN ENGINEER IN TEST

As part of PlaceWare acquisition, transitioned to Microsoft Office Live Meeting division to train and share my knowledge with new employees and contractors.

Supervised and mentored a group of contractors in Microsoft Office Live Meeting division.

Conducted security testing of the Live Meeting application.

To determine the appropriate test automation tool for the product, evaluated a number of third party test automation tools.

Generated test automation scripts utilizing MS Visual Studio.NET 2003 and C#.

PlaceWare, Inc., Mountain View, CA 1999 – 2003

SENIOR SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

Led QA group in End-to-End testing.

Coordinated group testing of SSL and content encryption.

EDUCATION / TRAINING:

MS in Electrical Engineering

BS in Manufacturing Economics

JavaScript & AJAX for Test Developers

Programming Concepts

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Agile methodology

Security Testing of Applications

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