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.
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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
- Age: 43
- Degree: Master
- Email: lutchenkovalentin@gmail.com
- Languages: C1+: English | Spanish | Russian
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
Soft Skills
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
LEAD QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER
2023 - Present
Verisk Underwriting Solutions
- Led the mixed team of 10 QA analysts in API, UI, and performance testing in an Agile environment.
- I created a whole team-level Test Automation Framework from scratch leveraging Playwright, K6, and Newman and integrated into it 4 different insurance and underwriting-related projects to eliminate the spread in tools and technical stack.
- Developed an automated API test code generator application that led to an increase of 70% in efficiency in testing through automation for 2 DEV QA functional testing projects, leveraging Six Sigma principles that banked more than 700 hours of yearly labor savings, eliminating manual activities and freeing time for exploratory and risk-based testing.
- Developed 2 test support npm packages to assist in the establishment of a robust CI/CD pipeline using Bamboo and Jenkins, incorporating smoke and regression data-driven API, UI, and performance test suites. These improvements ensured seamless code deployment up to best testing standards and reduced deployment time by 2x times.
- Conducted more than 10 team training during a year to adopt the latest test automation tendencies. Motivated 4 team members to obtain Playwright certification to become confident automated test developers. Mentored one QA analyst in test automation.
- Created the comprehensive testing documentation and delegated its maintenance to responsible team members.
- 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 real-time stakeholder notification and shortening of the feedback loop that provides immediate test results visibility.
QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER
2022
EPAM, Malaga, Spain
- Developed complete UI and API test automation regression suites with Cypress, migrated from WebdriverIO and Mocha/Postman frameworks, that allowed to unify the technical stack on the health software project.
- Analyzed test suites, and developed test plan improvements based on existing risk analysis that shortened the test execution by 20%, and eased the test automation candidates' evaluation.
- Gained valuable experience in test automation and integration into CICD pipeline leveraging Docker, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins produced a consistent test environment reducing the test maintenance time by 20%.
- Performed 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 to cover main risk areas.
- Managed test results reporting and test results evaluation via automation.
- 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 ANALYST
2018 - 2022
Virona IT, Minsk, Belarus
- Gained extensive experience in remote working with a development team on sports domain software products and performed both functional and non-functional testing, covering smoke, regression, sanity, retest, UI/UX, usability, and localization throughout the testing life cycle.
- Obtained strong practical experience in static and dynamic testing of the Application Under Test, requirements analysis, test effort estimating, and test design techniques.
- 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
- All
- 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.
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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
Contact
Feel free to reach me with the phone or email.