Artak Gasparyan

Address: Cupertino, CA *****

Phone: +1-909-***-****

Email: adcq9x@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artak-gasparyan/

Summary

Software and systems solutions testing practitioner and ISTQB certified test professional with over 15 years of experience in field of software testing, software development and software development processes.

Experience

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Synopsys, May 2017 – January 2020

Product Overview: enterprise solution – server-client cross platform application (C++, QT, Oracle DB)

Team building: Interviewing and hiring new engineers; Team coaching; Providing training.

Test process: Documentation review; Test planning; Tools selection; Change management; Process improvement practices; Analysis of metrics, Action plan creation/execution.

Technical involvement: Leadership on several projects; Designed more effective approaches for tests and automation.

Created and automated the process of generation of traceability matrices, using advantages of data driven and keyword driven test approaches. Benefits – coverage assessment, visibility on test suites and easy maintenance.

“Test Summary Report” has been introduced as the product of quality engineering team which concludes entire process, related activities and results, makes them measurable and finally provides a single metric – “Confidence Level”.

The "exploratory testing" has been made as a part of test process, based on team's level of experience, specifics of internal processes.

Hands-on manual testing has been done to find bugs, identify gaps withing test process, test automation.

Fundamental improvements have been done on identifying performance bottlenecks and breaking points of the system.

Designed and implemented server-side test automation framework (python). Reduced turnaround time, increased pass rate, the framework reused on customer’s staging environment.

Numbers of last 2 years – weighted defect count -60% (defects found at customer side); defects found externally/internally ratio -23%; line coverage +2.3%; time to close -25%; the 80% of inventory has been moved to private cloud and annually saved 210K.

Founding Board Member

Yerevan Testing Days©, June 2016 – Present

Yerevan Testing Days© Conference – founding board member, organizer, speaker

https://www.evntestingdays.com/software-testing-cup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-o21sr-RJU&t=455s

Armenia Software Testing Cup© – head of referees, organizer

https://www.evntestingdays.com/

https://www.evntestingdays.com/software-testing-cup

ArmSTQB – member of Armenian board of ISTQB

ISTQB Foundation level certification – trainer of exam preparation courses.

Software QA Manager

Kubisys Inc., May 2012 – April 2017

Product Overview: Production-Based LAB Environments (Python, Ruby on Rails, Xen, VMware, SQL DB, Web based server-client application, Networking)

Successfully built a team of 15 engineers, with perfect relationship, professional and ethical environment. Managed project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope. Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.

Successfully implemented scrum development process (Scrum Master), BDD practice and Risk-based testing strategy.

Developed and maintained web-based application with RESTful API on RoR.

Implemented unit, functional (API test), integration tests using RoR Test framework. Started implementation of CI with Bamboo and CD with puppet.

Automated validation of virtual clones by comparing with production environment configuration (WMI, python, ruby, shell).

Software Systems Engineer

Kubisys Inc., February 2008 – April 2012

Product Overview: Production-Based LAB Environments (Python, Ruby on Rails, Xen, VMware, SQL DB, Server-Client application, Networking)

Developed web-based application with RESTful API on RoR.

Created automation scripts for Exchange server migration tests (VB script, Power Shell, WMI, RPC, shell)

Tested manually entire workflow of Exchange migration process

Software QA Engineer

Synopsys, April 2006 – February 2008

Product Overview: enterprise solution – Manufactory Yield Management system for EDA (C++, Oracle DB)

Test design and implementation. Also test automation with Visual Test and WinRunner.

Identified process improvements and standards for structured testing, test documentations.

Wrote and maintained several engineering standards for QA teams.

Managed whole Testing process for several projects.

Skills

Quality Assurance (10+ years), Process improvement, Software testing, Manual testing, Test automation, Leadership, Risk management, FMEA, Operations management, Performance testing, Automation framework, Unit testing, Functional API testing

Waterfall, V-Model, Agile software development, TMMI

Ruby, Python, Perl, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, VBScript, Excel-VBA, HTML, SQL, XML, JSON, YAML

Windows, Linux, Jira, Bamboo, SAP CRM, Git, Purify, Gcov, Subversion, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, REST API, Postman, WMI, Oracle, VMWare, Xen, Hyper-V, vSphere, BDD, Keyword driven testing, Data driven testing

Education

Yerevan State University, Armenia

Master of Science, Applied Mathematics and Informatics

Certifications

ISTQB Certified Tester, March 2013 to Present

Certified Tester, Foundation Level (CTFL)

ISTQB Certified Tester, July 2019 to Present

Certified Tester, Advanced Level Test Manager (CTAL-TM)

Trainings

«Leadership Development and Management», American University of Armenia

«Crucial Conversations», Synopsys Armenia

«Effective Meetings», Synopsys Armenia

«Presentation Skills», MIC Armenia

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