Alex Rodionov, Developer in Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia
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Alex Rodionov

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Software Developer

Location
Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia
Toptal Member Since
April 4, 2016

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.

RubySeleniumPHPPythonCucumberLinuxRSpecMacOSAgile Software DevelopmentScrumiOSHTML5GitHubVagrantRuby on Rails (RoR)

Availability

Part-time

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

2011 - PRESENT
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  • Released an outdated Ruby gem action_mailer_cache_delivery for email testing in Ruby on Rails and released it.
Technologies: Gherkin, Ruby

Software Developer in Test

2011 - 2011
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.
Technologies: Ruby

Software Tester

2006 - 2011
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.
Technologies: PHP

Watir

Development of Watir-WebDriver and WatirSpec projects as "code monkey" member of Watir team

Security Kit

Created Security Kit as a meta-module with implementations of different web security solutions

Mozilla WebQA

https://quality.mozilla.org/teams/web-qa/
Contributed to test automation system (Selenium + Python) for addons.mozilla.org

Languages

Ruby, Python, PHP, Gherkin, HTML5

Frameworks

Selenium, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sinatra

Tools

Apache JMeter, Cucumber, Watir, RSpec, Vim Text Editor, GitHub, Vagrant

Platforms

Linux, MacOS, iOS, Drupal, Android

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Scrum

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL

2005 - 2010

Masters Degree in Culturology, English

Omsk State Pedagogical University - Omsk, Russia

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