Alex Rodionov
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia
Toptal member since August 8, 2012
Alex is a talented quality assurance engineer and software engineer in test, experienced in building a full range of software testing processes and incorporating them in the development cycle of applications from mobile to web. He is a contributor to the Mozilla test automation team WebQA and is a core member of the Watir team.
Portfolio
Experience
- PHP - 5 years
- Ruby - 3 years
- Selenium - 3 years
- HTML5 - 3 years
- Python - 2 years
- Watir - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Vagrant, GitHub, Vim Text Editor, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a Vagrant and KVM-based parallel CI system.
Work Experience
Software Engineer in Test
Toptal
- Created an acceptance test automation framework with Cucumber and Watir WebDriver.
- Implemented a concurrent tests system with Selenium Grid 2.
- Built a continuous integration system with Jenkins.
- Built a continuous deployment system with Jenkins and Capistrano.
- Released an outdated Ruby gem action_mailer_cache_delivery for email testing in Ruby on Rails and released it.
Software Developer in Test
Museeka
- Created a test automation framework for a web application with Selenium RC.
- Created a test automation framework for an Android application with Cucumber and Frank.
- Built a continuous integration system for all applications (API, mobile, web) with Bamboo.
- Built a continuous delivery system for a web application with Bamboo and JIRA.
- Created a Ruby wrapper for a REST API.
Software Tester
Development Mill
- Built a software testing team from scratch.
- Created a load testing system on top of Apache JMeter.
- Built an automated testing infrastructure with Selenium for web applications and Robotium for Android applications.
- Implemented a continuous integration system with Jenkins for web and mobile applications development.
- Learned Drupal and PHP.
- Created a security kit module for Drupal.
Experience
Watir
Security Kit
Mozilla WebQA
https://quality.mozilla.org/teams/web-qa/Education
Masters Degree in Culturology, English
Omsk State Pedagogical University - Omsk, Russia
Skills
Tools
Apache JMeter, Cucumber, Watir, RSpec, Vim Text Editor, GitHub, Vagrant
Languages
Ruby, Python, PHP, Gherkin, HTML5
Frameworks
Selenium, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sinatra
Platforms
Linux, MacOS, iOS, Drupal, Android
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Scrum
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL
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