Valentin Lutchanka

I'm

About

I am an open-minded and goal-oriented QA Lead Software Engineer in Test (JavaScript, Python), that combines more than 5 years of experience in manual and automated testing with 12 years of customer relationship management. Six Sigma Green Belt certified.

SDET Automation engineer & QA lead.

JavaScript | Cypress | WebdriverIO | Playwright | Postman | Newman | Bruno | Mocha | Supertest | K6 | Jmeter | Pyton/Pytest

  • Birthday: 09 June 1980
  • Website: My Bento board
  • Phone: +34662250565
  • City: Malaga, Spain

I am currently working as the QA Lead at Verisk UAT QA, where I am dedicated to enhancing my skills in Automation Testing using Javascript and Python. I am an QA automation specialist with a goal-oriented and open-minded approach, backed by strong analytical skills. My expertise spans functional and non-functional (performance) types of testing, and I possess robust hands-on experience with prominent testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Jmeter, K6, Mocha, and Postman/Newman. Additionally, I am proficient in integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Bamboo. My programming skills encompass JavaScript, NodeJS, Python, SQL, CSS, and HTML. I have expertise in AWS cloud services.

My commitment to learning extends beyond my current skill set, and I am eager to explore new technical and non-technical domains. I have a proven ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with colleagues, fostering team unity and enhancing overall productivity. With a dedication to excellence and a quality-oriented approach, I am well-prepared to contribute effectively to any project or team. I am excited about the prospect of furthering my professional journey and embracing new challenges in the ever-evolving landscape of technology.

Facts

In my life and work I follow a 'Continuous improvement' way, and it proves itself every day
    My workflows include:
  • Data driven functional/non functional, UI and API automated testing
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging of single Page applications
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Testing showcase Repositories

Projects using different frameworks

Hours saved with LSS improvements last year

QA Analysts Team leaded on the last position

Hard Skills

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES & TOOLS

JavaScript 100%
Playwright 100%
Cypress 85%
WebdriverIO 85%
Performance testing (Jmeter | K6) 90%
CI/CD tools (GHA | Bamboo | Gitlab | Jenkins) 95%
API testing (Postman | Newman | Bruno | Supretest) 100%
Python/Pytest 65%
Docker/Containerization 85%
Other testing frameworks (Mocha | Vitest | Jest) 75%

Soft Skills

Open minded 100%
Analitical skills 100%
Teamplayer 95%
Time management 100%
Problem solving 100%
Conflicts resolution 100%
Decision making 90%
Fast studying 90%
Responsibility 100%

Resume

An open minded and goal oriented SDET Automation engineer, QA Lead, proficient in Frontend and Backend functional/non functional test automation. Lead a team of SDET and UAT QA analysts in API, UI and performance testing for Acceptance and UAT environments. Creation and maintenance of Automation testing frameworks - Playwright/Cypress and K6.

Sumary

Valentin Lutchanka

  • Benalmadena, Malaga, 29630, Spain
  • +34 662250565
  • lutchenkovalentin@gmail.com

Education

DevOps with Docker/ Full stack CICD and Containers

2023

University of Helsinki, Finland

University courses to leverage best DevOps practices in CICD, Docker and containerisation of the automated test suites.

EPAM University - Test Automation

2022 - 2023

EPAM, Malaga, Spain

Practical internship course of automation testing with JavaScript using WebdriverIO, Cypress, Mocha frameworks, Postman API platform. Participation in various E2E and API automation testing projects.

Bachelor of Business administration

2004 - 2006

Dutch Delta University, Netherlands

Three-year professional undergraduate course in Business Management.

Professional Experience

QA AUTOMATION LEAD I

2023 - Present

Verisk Underwriting Solutions

  • On my current position I am leading the team of SDET and UAT QA analysts in API, UI and performance testing for Acceptance and UAT environments. I created a whole team-level Test Automation Framework leveraging Playwright, K6, and Newman, and integrating the different projects into a unified TAF to eliminate the spread in tools and technical stack.
  • Accomplished an increase of 70% efficiency through automation for a functional testing project leveraging Six Sigma principles that banked more than 700 hours of yearly savings.
  • Spearheaded the establishment of a robust CI/CD pipeline using Bamboo and Jenkins, incorporating smoke and regression data-driven tests to ensure seamless code deployment.
  • Continuous team development and training to adopt the latest test automation tendencies.
  • Comprehensive testing documentation creation and maintenance, defects tracking, and test results reporting.
  • Strong practical experience in requirements analysis, test effort estimating, test design, test development, test review, test execution, test result evaluating and test reporting. Work in close communication with developement team under the discovered issues. Organizing and test running in manual and automation functional testing, API, performance, installation, regression testing. Proficient in test design techniques such as equivalent partitioning, boundary values analysis, pairwise method.
  • Established a unified automated reporting system within the test automation framework for just-in-time stakeholder notification and shortening of the feedback loop.

TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER

2022

EPAM, Malaga, Spain

  • UI and API test automation with Cypress, WebdriverIO and Mocha/Postman frameworks.
  • My tasks included test suites analysis, test plan creation, test execution, test automation candidates evaluation. I gained valuable experience in test automation and integration into CICD pipeline leveraging Docker, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
  • Test suites analysis, test plan creation, test execution, and test automation candidates evaluation.
  • Proficient API automation testing using Postman, validating the functionality and performance of APIs.
  • Led test planning initiatives and conducted thorough requirements testing, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
  • Managed test results reporting and test results evaluation.
  • Worked in close communication with development team under the discovered issues.
  • Embraced Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies, gaining proficiency in project management tools to enhance collaborative and streamlined workflows.

MANUAL/AUTOMATION QA TESTER Specialist

2018 - 2022

Virona IT, Minsk, Belarus

  • I have gained extensive experience in remote collaboration for sports app development, working with a development team. I performed both functional and non-functional testing, covering smoke, regression, sanity, retest, UI/UX, usability, and localization throughout the testing life cycle.
  • I obtained strong practical experience in static and dynamic testing of the Application Under Test, requirements analysis, test effort estimating, and test design techniques. I proficiently handled positive and negative testing scenarios for UI, API, and functionality using WebdriverIO, Postman/Newman, and Mocha/Supertest.

MANAGER

2009 - 2018

Club de Hockey, Benalmadena, Spain

  • I have gained valuable managerial experience including customers relationship management, conflicts resolution, sales/service and office management in Sport industry.

Portfolio

Custom made tools for test automation projects support

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  • App
  • NPM
Automated API tests Assertions generator
  • Single page web application to automatically generate API tests assertions for Postman, Insomnia, Mocha/Cypress, Playwright and PyTest frameworks with 100% response body, headers and schema test coverage.
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Newman parallel tests executor npm library
  • Newman Parallel is an npm package that executes Postman collections in parallel, saving time by running them concurrently and saving HTML and XML results reports.
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JSON to CSV batch converter npm library
  • Jtocsv is an npm package that reads the JSON files from a folder path, parses and flattens the data and combines the data in the output CSV file. It provides flexibility through command-line arguments.
Explore this project

Services

Data driven functional/non functional, UI and API automated testing

Complete API backend testing solutions using Postman, Bruno, Mocha(Chai-HTTP) or Pytest(requests) libraries

UI E2E automated test suites

Development from scratch of the automated test frameworks leveraging Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO

Performance / Load testing for Frontend and Backend

Jmeter, K6 and Lighthouse automated tests development

Test results reporting and notification systems

Custom solutions for leveraging the Automated tests reporting and notifications for Teams, Telegramm, Slack etc.

Web pages crawling and parsing solutions

Utilizing the custom scripts in Python and JavaScript for automated web crawling and data scrapping

Certifications

The DevOps with Docker course provides an introduction to container technologies, with a particular focus on Docker and container orchestration using Docker Compose. Containers are a lightweight, portable way to package and deploy software applications. Throughout the course, we'll explore the various components of web services, such as reverse proxies and databases, and how they can be deployed using Docker.

DevOps with Docker

DevOps with Docker Certificate

Helsinki University

This Full Stack Web Development extension CI/CD course, you will gain an understanding of why you should use a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery system (CI/CD system), what can one do for you, and how to get started with GitHub Actions which is...

Full Stack CI/CD Certificate

Helsinki University

In this Full Stack extension Containers course covered the containers utilization to create immutable execution environments for your Node.js and React projects. Containers also make it easy to include multiple services in our projects. Utilizing containers gives you flexibility to explore and experiment with multiple different and popular tools.

Full Stack Containers Certificate

Helsinki University

Complete internship practice for test automation with JavaScript, including the creations from scratch of test automation frameworks utilizing Playwright/Cypress/WebdriverIO and API frameworks with Mocha, Supertest, Pytest

EPAM

Test Automation with JavaScript Certificate

EPAM

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. A Lean Six Sigma Green Belt possesses a thorough understanding of all aspects of the Lean Six Sigma Method including competence in subject matters contained within the phases of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC).

LSS Green Belt

LSS Green Belt

LSS Green Belt

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) The foundations of cloud computing. The core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage. Security best practices and compliance in the AWS Cloud. The cloud costs, economics, and billing practices of the AWS Cloud.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Cloud concepts. Azure architecture and services. Azure management and governance.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Improve your skills by tackling a new Postman challenge for 30 days in a row. The “30 Days of Postman: Coding Challenge for Developers” has been a transformative journey. From a beginner unsure of API testing intricacies to someone who confidently wields Postman’s features, I’ve emerged with a valuable skill set.

30 days of Postman - for developers Certificate

Postman

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification. Six Sigma Green Belts are devoted to process improvement for their teams. Help your team increase efficiency, decrease defects and mistakes, find and remove obstacles, and improve overall quality output.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate

LSS (Linkedin)

AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner. Build solutions in a live AWS environment — first with step-by-step guidance, then experiment on your own.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certificate

AWS

Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate. This six-course certificate, developed by Google, is designed to provide IT professionals with in-demand skills -- including Python, Git, and IT automation -- that can help them advance their careers.

Google IT

Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate.

Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate.

Playwright 101 test automation Certificate. Certify your expertise as a Playwright automation tester for end-to-end testing of modern web apps with this certification.

Playwright 101 Certificate

Lambda Test

Cypress 101 test automation Certificate. Showcase your expertise with end-to-end testing using Cypress automation framework and stay one step ahead.

Cypress 101 Certificate

Lambda Test

LambdaTest Test Automation Professional Certificate. Test automation is an enormous time-saver, as well as a critical part of CI/CD and agile development. Whether you’re considering a career shift into test automation or just need to talk about it at work, these courses can help. Tune in, pass the final exam, and earn your certificate.

LambdaTest Test Automation Professional Certificate

Lambda Test

JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Free Code Camp Certification. While HTML and CSS control the content and styling of a page, JavaScript is used to make it interactive. In the JavaScript Algorithm and Data Structures Certification, you'll learn the fundamentals of JavaScript including variables, arrays, objects, loops, and functions.

JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures

JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures

Free Code Camp

In the Quality Assurance Certification, you'll learn how to write tests with Chai to ensure your applications work the way you expect them to.

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance

Free Code Camp

Continuous integration with Jenkins Certificate. Understandig the Continuous integration best practices with Jenkins.

Continuous integration with Jenkins Certificate

Continuous integration with Jenkins Certificate

Test Automation University

Cypress with Typescript Test Automation University Certification.

Cypress with Typrescript Certificate

Cypress with Typrescript Certificate

Test Automation University

AWS API Gateway with HTTP, Lambda, DynamoDB, and iOS. Leveraging the Cloud first solutions for testing activities.

AWS API Gateway with HTTP, Lambda, DynamoDB, and iOS

AWS API Gateway with HTTP, Lambda, DynamoDB, and iOS Certificate.

Linkedin

Learning GitHub Actions for continues testing CICD setup. Automated tests integrations into deployment pipelines.

Learning GitHub Actions Certificate

Learning GitHub Actions Certificate.

Linkedin

Advanced Jmeter for performance testing. Load, Spike, Stress and distributed testing with Jmeter.

Advanced Jmeter Certificate

Advanced Jmeter Certificate.

Linkedin

Level up your API testing in Postman by harnessing the power of AI and automation techniques. Learn best practices and employ Postbot, an AI-powered assistant to streamline your workflows.

Postman API tester certification

Postman API tester Certificate.

Postman

Test Automation in DevOps Certificate. Leveraging the Continuous testing in DevOps processes.

Test Automation in DevOps Certificate

Test Automation in DevOps Certificate.

Test Automation University

JavaScript, SQL and CSS HackerRank Certificates.

JavaScript, SQL and CSS Hackerank Certificates

JavaScript, SQL and CSS Hackerank Certificates.

HackerRank

Contact

Feel free to reach me with the phone or email.

Location:

Benalmadena, Malaga, 29630, Spain

Call:

+34662250565