
Alexey Kazarin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Developer
Sofia, Bulgaria
Toptal member since August 12, 2022
Alexey is a geek on test processes automation, responsible for the quality of released functionality. Keen on building the right environment and infrastructure for the testing needs by setting up report tools, test management tools, and support. Alexey is an ISTQB certified tester with extensive experience in test planning with different test techniques, test documentation, and configuring quality gates for test pipelines.
Portfolio
Experience
- Test Automation - 8 years
- Java - 6 years
- Selenium - 5 years
- Test Design - 5 years
- Docker - 4 years
- Postman - 4 years
- Jenkins - 4 years
- Cucumber - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Postman, Jenkins, Selenium, Docker, Java, Cucumber, Google Pub/Sub, Windows, REST APIs
The most amazing...
...things I’ve done were improving the team’s daily routine by upgrading open-source projects and creating several test frameworks from scratch.
Work Experience
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Prolev Technologies, LLC
- Tested back end with REST Assured and front end with WebDriver and Selenoid.
- Released services with production validations while acting as the release manager.
- Implemented and extended a test framework based on Java.
- Created bugs in Jira based on a template structure and test plans.
- Analyzed and maintained daily regression test reports.
- Configured CI/CD builds in Jenkins Pipelines for regression and Smoke testing.
- Led Scrum events as the Scrum master in a team of 7-10 people.
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Nexign
- Developed a test framework from scratch based on Java.
- Saved all test scenarios to test a management tool, TestRail, as test documentation.
- Set tasks and monitored their implementation as the quality assurance (QA) team lead.
- Created JMeter test profiles and provided results of load testing.
QA Automation Engineer
LiveTex
- Developed a test automation framework based on JavaScript language from scratch.
- Created and maintained a team dashboard based on Grafana for tests and releases processes monitoring.
- Maintained regression testing based on Selenium and used Allure Repor for report creation.
- Configured quality gates for team pipelines based on regression testing results and static code analyzers.
- Provided security testing of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) injections with OWASP ZAP.
QA Automation Engineer
Easy System Implementation
- Implemented a test automation framework in C# from scratch.
- Wrote test documentation based on technical requirements.
- Tested UI scenarios in several browsers with Selenium Grid.
Experience
Jenkins Dashboard View Plugin | Open Source
Web Widgets Test Framework | LiveText
Cucumber Test Framework | Prolev Technologies
Back-end and Load Testing Framework | Nexign
Education
Master's Degree in Automation Control Systems
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas - Moscow, Russia
Bachelor's Degree in Automation Control Systems
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas - Moscow, Russia
Certifications
Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
ISTQB – International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Introduction to Linux
edX
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Retrofit, REST APIs, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid
Tools
Jenkins, TestRail, Postman, TeamCity, Cucumber, Git, IntelliJ IDEA, RabbitMQ, Terminal, Apache JMeter, Chef, Allure Report, Redmine, Grafana, Apache Maven
Languages
Java, GraphQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#
Paradigms
Microservices, Test Automation, DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Frameworks
Selenium, Allure Testing Framework, NUnit, JUnit
Platforms
Unix, Linux, Docker, Apache Kafka, Windows
Storage
PostgreSQL
Other
Programming, QA Testing, Computer Science, Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA), RESTful Microservices, Test Design, Google Pub/Sub, Process Automation, CI/CD Pipelines, SCADA, Microsoft Azure, OWASP, Test Documentation
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