Andrei Vetkalov

Quality Assurance Engineer with 10 years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing. Worked with mobile applications and web applications. Experienced working in retail, digital, IT and building management industries. Strong team player, quick learner, great at identifying bottle-necks. Together with the colleagues built a QA department and worked on processes which in the end helped reach the 90% coverage of the frontend part of the code.

“Arloid Automation”, Dubai, UAE

Automation QA Engineer

April 2022 – January 2023

Automation Testing

⁃ Developed and maintained UI automation test scenarios with PyTest and Selenium

⁃ Designed automation frameworks for UI testing of website desktop and mobile version

⁃ Tested API with Postman

⁃ Created and edited GitLab jobs for test pipelines

⁃ Managed project repositories with Git

⁃ Managed Docker files

As a result of my work the test coverage of production environment increased by 30% and development environment - by 40%.

Manual Testing

⁃ Created, maintained and executed manual test cases, with Zephyr as well

⁃ Reviewed, updated and labeled manual test cases

⁃ Managed test cycles

⁃ Tested old and new features in different environments

⁃ Bug report and track using JIRA

Thanks to my efforts the team now has a workflow and procedures of how to check the code in manual testing.

Test-related tasks

⁃ Created and maintained documentation in Confluence

⁃ Introduced daily deployments for new product and enhancements

⁃ Presented test result analysis during daily Agile stand-up meetings The team received a documentation which describes all front-end part of web and mobile products as a result of my work.

“220 Volt Ru”, Saint Petersburg, Russia

QA engineer

April 2014 - April 2022

Automation Testing

⁃ Automation tests (Python + behave, Selenium, Selene, Gherkin)

⁃ Tested API with Postman

⁃ Worked with Gitlab and pipelines

⁃ Basic Docker management

⁃ Work with log files in Kibana, with RabbitMQ, DevTools (Chrome)

⁃ Supported testing environments and virtual machines

Thanks to my tests the speed of code development increased 2 times as there was much less iterations of code debugging and checking.

Manual Testing

⁃ Manual (functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, black, gray,

white box) testing of web apps (eCommerce, CRM-system)

⁃ Manual mobile apps testing

⁃ Wrote test plans and test cases, updated project mind maps

⁃ Bug report and track using Jira, Redmine

⁃ Wrote daily build reports

⁃ Validation of upcoming bugs

With the help of my tests there were several critical problems resolved: financial security of customer payments, leakage of the legacy code, autofilling, etc.

Test-related tasks

⁃ Synced tasks workflow with developers

⁃ Worked in an Agile team

“Oggetto web”, Taganrog, Russia

Manual QA engineer

August 2013 - April 2014

⁃ Manual (functional, regression, integration) testing of Magento eCommerce products

⁃ Manual mobile apps testing

⁃ Searched for and described defects with Redmine

⁃ Validation of upcoming bugs

⁃ Synced tasks workflow with developers

⁃ Worked in Agile team

“InoSoft”, Taganrog, Russia

Junior QA engineer

October 2012 - August 2013

Manual (functional, regression, integration) testing

Search and describe defects with Jira.

Work in an Agile team.

Southern Federal University, Russia - Taganrog Campus

Bachelor’s degree (BSc)

2005-2011

Radio-frequency engineering and TV broadcast