Alexey Kulagin

Sacramento, CA ***** 917-***-**** adve9o@r.postjobfree.com

US Green Card Holder

SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

● 5+ years of hands-on experience in Software QA field

● Background in Software Engineering and System Administration

● Experienced in structured testing both Web-based and Mobile applications on different platforms

● Experienced in Manual testing and involved in Automation software application testing

● Skilled in different testing types: UI/Functional, Build acceptance, Regression, Backend, API, Validation/Verification, Integration/System, Cross-browser, Synchronization, A11Y

● Skilled in building SQL queries for Backend and Data integrity testing

● Apply Unix/Linux knowledge for analyzing log files for Backend and Mobile testing

● Experienced in developing and analyzing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and running them

● Hands-on experience in writing easy following, meaningful Bug reports

● Solid understanding of Software Development, Testing and Bug Life Cycles

● Good working knowledge in both Waterfall and Agile methodology

● A deep understanding of technical concepts, principles and terminology

● Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities

● Ability of working under multiple projects at the same time

● Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills

● Excellent team player ready to support, guide and collaborate with colleagues TECHNOLOGY & TESTING PROFICIENCIES

Desktop OS: macOS, UNIX/Linux, Windows

Mobile OS: iOS, Android

Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, XML, JSON, SQL Frameworks: Maven, Selenium, TestNG

Web Testing: Chrome DevTools, Lambdatest

Mobile Testing: ADB, Android emulators, Xcode, iOS simulators, Samsung Device Farm, AWS API Testing: Charles Proxy, Postman, Postman Interceptor, Swagger Version control: Git, GitHub

Test management: JIRA, TestRail, Confluence

App distribution: TestFlight, GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software QA Engineer, Redrock Biometrics Inc., San Francisco, CA 03/2022 – Current

● Worked across multiple projects related to biometric identification and touchless financial payments

● Performed testing Web-based and Mobile applications working on iOS/Android and macOS platforms

● Launched Test runs to perform: UI/Functional, Sanity, Regression, Web/Mobile, Cross-browser, Cross-platform, Compatibility, Synchronization, API, A11Y, HTTP Verb Tampering security testing

● Performed Mockups testing against requirements and UI guidelines

● Used following tools:

o Chrome DevTools and Charles Proxy for Web-app debugging and performing HTTP validation and HTTP verb tampering security API testing

o ADB for controlling mobile Android apps and getting bugreports, logcat, crashes and ANRs logs, screenshots and video records, installing/uninstalling apps o Xcode for getting logs from iOS devices

o GitHub and TestFlight as a software distribution tools o JIRA as Agile project management and Defect tracking tool o Terminal to install software (Homebrew) and get access to the Backend through ssh o Arduino IDE for configuring Wi-Fi dongles

● Managed and configured JIRA Cloud: set up different issue types, schemas, workflows, statuses and transitions, board’s settings etc, to ensure QA processes in Agile environment

● Developed and maintained test documentation as: Test Scenarios, Test Cases to cover appropriate testing types, PRD, Traceability matrices

● Wrote and maintained technical guidelines for internal and customer usage

● Set up and maintained test environment and testing software

● Filed easy following, meaningful Bug reports and traced them in JIRA

● Participate in triage and troubleshooting meetings as a member of engineering team Software QA Engineer, The ValleyTekSolutions Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 03/2018 – 03/2022

● Hands on experience in:

API testing using Postman and Swagger

Application debugging using Chrome DevTools and Charles Proxy

Lambdatest for Web app Cross browser testing in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge

ADB, Android emulators and for Android mobile testing

Terminal with Unix/Linux knowledge for analyzing log files

iOS simulators for UI iOS testing

TestFlight and GitHub for apps distribution

AWS for Cross-platform and Compatibility testing

JIRA as an agile project management tool, defects tracking and maintain QA documentation using Confluence and TestRail plugins

● Performed UI/Functional, Smoke, Regression, Backend, API, Integration/System and other testings

● Analyzed various QA artifacts: Use Cases, BRD, PRD, specifications to prepare a detailed Test Plans

● Developed Test Cases, Test Scenarios and executed them

● Involved in attending all Agile Scrum meetings and making updated reports

● Involved in requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and managing the defects and executing the test cases

● Built complex SQL queries to validate data

● Involved in providing the efficient locators strategy like XPath and CSS to run Automation scripts in stable condition

System Administrator, Federal Treasury Department, Chelyabinsk, Russia 04/2017 – 12/2017

● Deployed and configured virtualization system – VMware vSphere: vCenter Server, ESXi

● Configured a Data center cluster of virtual machines: vMotion, HA, vSwitch, DRS, Fault tolerance

● Deployed and configured virtual machines based on OS: FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server

● Data backup and recovery based on Acronis and Veeam solutions

● Ensured operability of local services such as: sendmail, samba, ssh, squid, MySQL

● Ensured operability of video conferencing servers based on: Polycom, LifeSize, OpenMCU

● Organized and maintained IP telephony based on Asterisk and Avaya EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in Computer electronics, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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