QA Lead

Boris Zelmanov

Staten Island, NY / Poconos, PA https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-zelmanov/

Contacts: 718-***-**** E-mail: *********@*******.***

Experience:

**/** – 07/25 AMC Health, New York (remote)

Director of QA and Engineering

Test Lead – U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (via AMC Health/Cognosante)

Served as Director of QA and Engineering, supporting private healthcare providers (Geisinger, BCBS…) and

the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (via Cognosante). Initially joined as a Test Lead and was later promoted to Director, where I led QA strategy and engineering execution across critical Healthcare platforms. Oversaw test automation, compliance (including HITRUST and HIPAA), release management, and leadership of cross-functional

teams across multiple projects.

·Led QA and testing efforts for mission-critical applications supporting federal (VA) and private healthcare IT systems.

·Directed strategy and implementation of automated testing across production and lower environments, ensuring deployment stability and consistent software quality.

·Supervised multiple QA teams (both Off-shore and U.S.-based), contributing to hiring, evaluating, mentoring and collaboration across cross-functional teams (software and hardware focused).

·Managed software releases, coordinating with QA, IT and Product teams across all projects.

·Prepared and maintained comprehensive documentation for compliance reviews, audit readiness, software releases, and post-release validations, utilizing ZenQMS and DHF Cloud Vaults.

·Planned and built “from scratch” CI/CD pipelines and quality frameworks aligned with federal compliance standards, Section 508, and PHI requirements.

·Designed, built and deployed automated test frameworks in live production environments, ensuring strict adherence to PHI/PII handling requirements and full compliance with HITRUST and HIPAA standards, using Selenium, JUnit, Java and Ant.

·Utilized tools such as JMeter and Selenium + Java to enable continuous performance monitoring and benchmarking of system responsiveness and load capacity.

·Provided QA support across major IT initiatives such as cloud migrations, data center evaluations (MySQL DBs), and environment validations; conducted infrastructure/performance testing, validated data integrity, and supported DR/failover verification efforts.

10/17 – 03/18 The Rockingham Group, Harrisonburg, Virginia (remote)

Freelance QA Architect

·Involved in a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process including design of structure, relationships and activities associated with the customer's related needs, uninterrupted user's access, stability of the web pages and web apps.

·Extensive experience creating and designing Master Test Strategy Documents, Master Test Plan, Test schedules, Test Cases and Test Scenarios using a JIRA agile mode.

·Designing and developing sophisticated frameworks based on a Selenium Library using Java and Python as scripting languages.

·Building a Continuous integration QA schema for website modules using Jenkins and Ant within the Eclipse core (Java/JUnit) at the cloud-based server.

·Organizing and coordinating quality assurance process, including black box, unit, system integration, negative, regression, UI, API and functional testing.

02/16 - 05/17 STOPit, Bedminster, New Jersey

Senior QA Engineer/QA Lead

A member of the development team worked in STOPit, the leading technology company that is providing software and services solutions to mitigate, deter and control cyber-abuse, harassment and crisis in schools, universities and workplaces.

·Designed and deployed a 'zero-cost' AWS based Automation Framework, which monitored a status of the incident reporting system in real time (24/7) using the open source software (Jenkins ‘CI initializer’), Eclipse, Selenium/JUnit, Ant, PyCharm, Python/Pytest and IE/Chrome/Firefox Web Drivers).

·Performed X - browser, X - platform (Win7/8.1/10, Mac, Linux) and X-device (mobile phones, tablets, VM emulators) compatibility, web APIs/REST services testing in virtual and real machine environment.

·Developed and applied variable comprehensive scenarios for the Functional, Regression and Integration Testing using Eclipse/Java (JUnit) and PyCharm/Python (Pytest) ad-hoc frameworks for day-to-day QA tasks.

·Devised and executed Performance and Load Test scenarios and scripts using JMeter and Visual Studio (e.g. Open Fire server response to a multiple XMPP connections or generating a Heavy Volume Load (10K - 40K per load) of messages/incidents/users and analyze the impact to Web Servers and RDB). The test environment included up to 4 R3Large AWS servers, the combined simultaneous quantity of threads reached up to 120K.

·Administered the ETL testing in cooperation with DB developers to assess various data flows (e.g. a migration of users’ messages from Open Fire DB to MySQL chat/interface table or a verification of SMS/Email flow via Dynamo DB as a result of a load testing).

·Practiced complicated SQL queries to collect different additional information for test results, enhanced data visualization, gathered and presented the information in the user/management friendly way.

·Reported and tracked bugs in JIRA throughout project life cycle, documented processes in Wiki pages and SDLC/workflow charts.

·Performed Multivariate, Push Notification, Cross-Platform, Optimization, Durability, Connectivity, Security and in-depth UI Testing for iOS / Android.

·Collaborated with the app developers team, used an Agile (SCRUM mostly) methodology.

·Performed all test scripts/code under a Source Control (SourceTree by Confluence).

·Moderate hands-on experience in Continuous Android automated testing via an AWS Device Farm (cloud) using TestNG / Appium.

·Strong programming experience in IDEs (Eclipse, Selenium, JMeter and MS Visual Studio).

Education and certification:

MS in Engineering & Computer Science, Mogilev State Technical University Belarus

AS in Accounting, Mogilev State Accounting School Belarus

Oracle Apps /SQL/ PLSQL Developer, New Age Training New York, NY

WEB Developer /DB Developer, New Age Training New York, NY

Coldfusion /SQL Developer, New Age Training New York, NY

Quality Assurance Comprehensive Course, SAM Center Brooklyn, NY

Technical Skills:

OS/platforms: Win 7-11, Win Server 2003-19, Linux, iOS, Android, VM-Ware, Virtual Box, Citrix, AWS, VA Cloud

QA Tools: Selenium Webdriver, Eclipse (JUnit/Ant/Java frameworks), JMeter (Incl. XMPP, API and HTML plugins),

HP QTP 10, MS Visual Studio 10, BlueStack (Android emulator), JAWS

Source Control/Management Tools: JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence, SourceTree, Redmine, TrackIt, GitHub, Jenkins

Languages: SQL, SQL Plus, PL/SQL, TSQL, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Coldfusion, Python, VBS

Design Tools: PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, PaintShop, PhotoImpact, AutoCAD

Oracle Tools: Oracle EBS/Financials 11i/R12, Discoverer, Crystal Reports, PL/SQL Developer, Toad

RDB: Oracle 8i/9i, Coldfusion Server, Fox Pro, MySQL, MS SQL Server, AWS based Dynamo/Lambda DB, Iguana

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