Test Automation Engineer / SDET

ILYA SKVIRSKIY

Email: *********@*****.***

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-skvirskiy-84a309101

Summary

• Senior Test Automation Engineer with 9 + years of continuous testing experience – both manual and automation, using open-source technologies and/or in-house frameworks.

• Continuous experience with Agile/Scrum environments working with on-shore and off-shore teams both on-site and remotely.

• Continuous hands-on experience in developing new and improving existing test automation frameworks for various desktop and web-based applications using standard industry testing tools and methods.

• Hands-on experience in designing, creating, executing, and debugging automated test scripts for front- end and back-end testing.

• Practical knowledge in analyzing, designing, and developing solutions to complex problems, strong analytical, organizational, and creative skills.

• Good verbal and written communication skills, attention to details, self-direction, dedication to a team. Skills/Experience

• UI and API test automation.

• UI Functional/Regression/UAT Testing.

• Web Applications/Webservices/API testing (SOAP and REST).

• Test Management: Requirement Analysis, Test Plans, Test Processes, Test Cases.

• Agile/Scrum / Waterfall.

• SDLC/STLC,

• BDD/TDD.

• Bug tracking and Defect Management.

• CI/CD processes: continuous development and new automation testing code integration to the pipeline.

• Experience working with on-shore and off-shore teams. Testing and Automation Technology/Tools

• Gherkin/Cucumber/Serenity/Selenium/Maven/IntelliJ/TestNG/Junit.

• Microfocus UFT, HP ALM.

• JMeter, Load Runner.

• Postman API, SoapUI, SQL Developer, pgAdmin4/PostgreSQL, Aurora, Kibana, ElasticSearch.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): RDS, DynamoDB, RedShift, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, CloudWatch.

• JIRA/X-Ray, VSTS/TFS, Confluence, TestRail.

• SAP: FICO, SD, AP, AR, GL, ABAP.

• Working knowledge of Mobile (iOS/Android): SEETEST, Perfecto Mobile, Apium.

• Working knowledge of: ROBOT Framework/Python, Perforce P4, ETL processes, Linux/UNIX.

• Languages: Java, Python, VBA, VBScript, XML, JSON. Experience

Senior Test Automation Engineer/SDET January 2022 – December 2024 Broadridge Financial – New York, NY / Remote

• As a part of Agile software development team, was responsible for creating and implementing automated test cases for existing API automation testing framework closely following DevOps guidelines.

• As a part of a Scrum team, conducted in-sprint test design, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos, working with both onshore and offshore teams to meet objectives and timelines during the production of Broadridge wealth management solution -Wealth InFocus.

• Performed manual and automated API and Load testing using Postman collections.

• Created and implemented API automated test cases using Selenium, Java, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA, Gherkin, Cucumber.

• Conducted AWS cloud environments testing to validate infrastructure, interconnection and application deployment (RDS, DynamoDB, RedShift, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Postgres, CloudWatch, etc.) using Oracle SQL Developer and Kibana-ElasticSearch.

• Participated in CI/CD continuous integration and delivery process, committing new automation testing code to the pipeline using Jenkins, GIT.

• Used JIRA/Xray for test management and defect tracking. Senior Test Automation Engineer/SDET May 2021 – December 2022 Broadridge Financial – New York, NY / Remote

• As a part of Agile software development team, was responsible for designing and implementing new UI automation testing framework – BDD - closely following DevOps guidelines.

• As a part of a Scrum team, conducted in-sprint test design, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos, working with both onshore and offshore teams to meet objectives and timelines during the production of Broadridge financial solution - CCC (Customer Communications Center).

• Created and implemented UI automated test cases and test scenarios for various modules using Selenium, Java, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA, Gherkin, Cucumber.

• Used JIRA/Xray for test management and defect tracking.

• Participated in CI/CD process, continuously developing and committing new automation testing code to the pipeline – Jenkins, GIT.

Senior Test Automation Engineer October 2020 – February 2021 Flexi Software – Shelton, CT / Remote

• Working remotely on a project along with Flexi development and testing teams.

• Responsible for designing test automation structure, test plan and a business process flow, as well as hands-on scripting and improving testing coverage for the in-house built accounting application using Microfocus UFT 15.01, ALM, Selenium.

• Tracking and reporting defects to the development team and logging them using Onyx Jira. Senior Test Automation Engineer March 2020 – July 2020 Hobbs Madison Inc – Hancock Whitney Bank / Remote

• Working remotely on a project along with development and testing teams for the Hancock Whitney Bank.

• Responsible for designing test automation structure, hands on scripting and improving testing coverage for the in-house built web-based application using Microfocus UFT and ALM.

• Tracking and reporting defects to the development team and logging them using Jira. Senior QA Automation/Technical Lead June 2018 – January 2020 Investors Bank. – Iselin, NJ / Onsite

• As an Automation Lead, designed and implemented test automation regression testing framework in a greenfield testing environment. Using Microfocus UFT and Selenium/Cucumber, created an automated regression structure that provides testing coverage to Investors bank’s daily operations and transactions.

• Daily supervised QA automation team assigned daily and weekly tasks; while helping and guiding team members in test scripts development; setting development strategies, priorities, and requirements for testing purposes.

• Tracking and reporting to the QA Manager daily and weekly test results and automation team’s development progress. Participating in team meetings and discussions; collaborating with the different business/branch managers.

Senior QA Automation Engineer May 2017 – March 2018 Paynet Inc. – Skokie, IL / Onsite

• As a part of Agile software development team, designed and implemented automation regression testing framework. Using Microfocus UFT and JMeter, created an automated testing structure for a newly built Paynet’s in-house financial application.

• As a part of a Scrum team, conducted in-sprint test design, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos. Worked closely and effectively with the developers, BA’s, SME and Systems and Database Administrators to clarify requirements, ensure robust testability, and provide feedback on design (functional and technical) of the application.

• Participated in CI/CD process, continuously developing and committing new automation testing code to the pipeline. Incorporated techniques for data driven tests, error handling, troubleshooting of automated test failures and other software development issues and defects, designed and implemented reusable function libraries.

Sr. Test Automation Engineer September 2016 – April 2017 Veritas Technologies – Roseville, MN / Onsite

• Implemented test automation, to perform components, regression, and backward compatibility testing and to maintain regular functional and back-end testing using Robot framework and Python.

• Responsible for developing, testing and maintaining software modules in a VM test environment that simulates real life customer software application.

• As a part of a Scrum team, participating in Agile development activities including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.

QA Automation Tester/Lead December 2015 – September 2016 Revlon Inc. Research and Development - Edison, NJ / Onsite

• Led QA automation team (offshore and onshore resources).

• Created automated scripts and framework to reflect real life scenarios for SAP business transactions using UFT 12.52 and Panaya Cloud Quality Suite.

• Created automated scripts and a framework for the Revlon.com project using Selenium WebDriver and Java.

• Tracked and reported daily and weekly test results progress of the onsite-offshore automation team members using TFS and worked closely with the rest of the QA team to set priorities and requirements for testing purposes.

QA Automation Tester September 2015-December 2015

Compuflex Corp. - Springfield, NJ / Onsite

• Designing comprehensive test plans and cases that cover functional and technical specifications, integration, compatibility, and performance.

• Isolating and reporting bugs, documenting defects with steps to reproduce and reporting test results progress, incidents, defects, and other quality metrics to QA management. Developing automation that adheres to team standards for code design, version control and documentation. QA Automation Analyst March 2011-September 2015

WestEast Capital Inc.-Chicago, IL / Onsite

• Responsible for designing new and maintaining existing regression and smoke tests for UI, database, and web services validation, using QTP /UFT and SoapUI.

• Performed heads-down scripting with complex automated scripts, custom checkpoints, XML and DB validation for Regression, Smoke and Production Testing. Education

Moscow Highest Institute of Management 1987-1992

Moscow, Russia

Business Management and Economics

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