QA Automation Developer

---- Tatiana Tokareva ---- QA Automation/Software Development Specialist ----

tat.tokareva (at) gmail.com

---- Summary ----

* Detail-oriented IT professional with 3 years of expertise in requirements analysis, design and development of web-oriented applications.

* 2 years of experience designing and building test automation frameworks and scripts.

* Thorough knowledge of software testing and verification techniques.

* Strong skills in object-oriented programming, Java, SQL, Unix scripting.

* Fluent English, excellent problem solving and communication skills.

---- Technical Experience ----

* Programming and Modeling Languages: Java (expert); SQL, Unix Shell Scripting (advanced); Ruby, UML, JavaScript, C/C++, C# (prior experience).

* Automated testing tools: TestComplete, Selenium, Abbot, Cobertura, gcov, JavaPathFinder.

* Technologies and platforms: J2SE, J2EE, JSP, JSF, JNDI, JDBC, Servlets, SAX/DOM, JAXB, JavaMail, HTML, XML, XSD, XSLT, CSS, Ajax, Active Directory, LDAP, Vmware Server/Workstation.

* Design Frameworks & Libraries: Spring, IceFaces, Hibernate, JUnit, Active Record, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra (Ruby DSL).

* Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL.

* Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Server 2003/Server 2008, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris.

* Development tools/environments: Eclipse, Net Beans, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Ant, SVN.

---- Professional Experience ----

09/2010 - 12/2011 University of Western Ontario, Canada, Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant

Research on automated software testing under supervision of Dr. James Andrews. TA for undergraduate level computer science courses.

Project:

Recording and evaluating industry black box coverage measures

- Responsibilities included:

* Design an approach to measure black box coverage of a test suite using equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis techniques.

* Evaluation of the black box coverage measure as a predictor of test suite's fault-finding ability.

- Tools: Java, C/C++, Abbot, Cobertura, gcov, UNIX shell scripting, JAXB, JUnit.

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04/2008 - 08/2010 DataArt Inc., Voronezh, Russia, Java Developer/Test Automation Engineer

International software development company specializing in enterprise application development.

Projects:

Enterprise single sign-on and network authentication

- Customer: Passlogix, Inc New York, NY, USA (now acquired by Oracle, Inc)

- Description: v-GO product is a suite of authentication and password management solutions for enterprises, including single sign on, session management, Windows password reset and strong authentication. v-GO suite was deployed and maintained in large enterprise corporations.

- Responsibilities included:

* Built and maintained a multiple-layer framework based on TestComplete test automation tool, which unified the process of test scripts creation and execution for v-GO suite products.

* Incorporated automated localization, cross-browser and cross-OS testing into test framework.

* Designed and implemented automated test scripts in C#script and diagnosed execution errors.

* Created test plan and test case documentation based on functional requirements.

- Tools: TestComplete 7.02, C#script, C#, Oracle 10g, AD, ADAM, MS SQL Server, VMware Server.

VoIP Telephone Station User Interface

- Responsibilities included:

* Facilitated design of a lightweight automatic IP-telephone station UI deployable on VoIP server.

* Quickly learned Ruby DSL technology and implemented multi-feature reach user interface.

* Proposed format and implemented customizable printable reports.

* Fine-tuned LDAP synchronization.

- Tools: Ruby 1.8.6, Sinatra framework, Apache NTLM, LDAP, JavaScript, Unix shell scripting.

Database appliance

- Customer: Leading USA IT company specializing in process and technology optimization solutions for cross-industry businesses.

- Description: Performance management web application with complex back-end part which allows defining database & hardware parameters, applications running on the server, and SQL queries, in order to emulate system performance. It is used to determine current system limits and predict future performance in terms of throughput, quality and cost.

- Responsibilities included:

* Elicited requirements from customer’s employees and legacy system with lack of documentation.

* Ported functionality of a legacy desktop system into a web-based application.

* Facilitated design and development of a web-oriented application with user-friendly interface.

* Implemented a web service for remote calculation of results at the back-end server.

- Tools: J2SE 6, UML, Spring Framework, JSF, IceFaces, ORM (Hibernate), Tomcat 6.

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05/2008 - 09/2008 Google Summer of Code, Voronezh, Russia, Java Developer

Program offering student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.

Project:

Open ID for Apache Roller weblogger

- Customer: Apache Software Foundation

- Description: Apache Roller is an open source Java-based, full-featured, multi-blog, multi-user, open source weblog server with multi-layer architecture. Implemented OpenID support allowing Roller to act as an OpenID consumer, i.e. provide the ability for the new and existing users to login via OpenID.

- Responsibilities included:

* Investigated architecture of Roller system with lack of documentation.

* Conducted research of available Java OpenID libraries.

* Designed a project plan and accomplished project deliverables on time having tight deadlines.

- Tools: J2EE 5, Tomcat 6, Servlets, JSF, Struts, Acegi security, Hibernate.

---- Education ----

09/2010 - 12/2011 University of Western Ontario, Canada

M.Sc. in Computer Science. GPA: 95.5/100

09/2004 - 07/2009 Voronezh State University, Russia

Specialist Diploma (equivalent to B.Sc.) in Information Systems and Technologies. GPA: 5.0/5.0

---- Awards and Scholarships ----

July 2011: Google Diversity Program Award - ISSTA conference invitation.

2010 - 2011: University of Western Ontario International Graduate Research Scholarship.

2004 – 2009: Voronezh State University Scholarship for the Academic Excellence.

2003 - 2004: Voronezh Governors and Administration Grant for excellence in high school studies.

2004: Gold Medal, award given to students for the outstanding academic achievement – maintaining GPA 5.0, academic excellence and high performance at final state exams.

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