Ilia Galperin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Quality Assurance Developer
Auckland, New Zealand
Toptal member since April 28, 2020
For over a decade, Ilia has managed a variety of quality assurance functions, including strategy, test execution, UI, API testing frameworks, and reporting tools that provide results for stakeholders in start-ups, small, and large companies. He has a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and the critical importance that high quality plays to the success of a project. His skills bring an added advantage to any project requiring in-depth analysis and skilful QA.
Portfolio
Experience
- Quality Assurance (QA) - 10 years
- Selenium - 7 years
- REST API Automation - 7 years
- C# - 7 years
- Automated UI Testing - 7 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 6 years
- Behavior-driven Development (BDD) - 5 years
- QA Leadership - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Selenium, Linux, Windows, Docker, Visual Studio, C#
The most amazing...
...UI and API testing framework I've created was for The New Zealand Herald. It increased the quality of the product for over half a million New Zealand customers.
Work Experience
Senior Test Engineer
Nzsuperfund
- Build a REST API testing framework from scratch using HttpClient (.NET Core), JSON.NET, and SpecFlow (BDD framework).
- Automated all positive REST API test scenarios for new microservices.
- Integrated REST API tests to Azure DevOps continuous deployment.
- Supported and trained QA analysts to improve their knowledge about testing applications with service-oriented architecture.
- Maintained existing automated test scripts, updated scripts according to new test flows.
Senior Test Engineer
New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME)
- Wrote UI tests with advanced waiting techniques using Selenium and Python for a React app.
- Wrote REST API tests using Requests (Python) and Behave.
- Integrated UI and API tests to Jenkins continuous integration.
- Maintained existing automated test scripts, updating scripts according to new test flows and making scripts more resilient to random and timing failures.
- Collaborated with developers to improve application testability.
Senior Test Engineer
Watercare
- Architected and built web UI test automation tools from scratch using Selenium and Java.
- Established an automated visual testing process with Applitools and Selenium.
- Established code review process in the testing team.
- Implemented an Element Objects strategy (to replace the popular Page Object strategy), which dramatically reduced code maintenance effort.
- Wrote REST API tests using REST Assured and Cucumber.
- Offered training and support for teammates to improve their performance with test automation tools.
QA Lead
Agrigate Solutions
- Managed all quality assurance functions including planning, strategy, test execution, and tools.
- Collaborated with developers to improve application testability.
- Architected and built web UI test automation tools from scratch using Selenium and PHP.
- Automated 80% of regression test cases for web and mobile applications. The execution time was reduced from five hours (manual execution) to 20 minutes.
- Integrated UI tests to the Forge continuous deployment process.
- Integrated unit tests to the GitLab continuous integration process.
- Established an automated visual testing process with Applitools and Selenium.
- Collaborated with the project manager and lead developer to improve product quality in an agile environment.
Senior Test Engineer
Fraedom
- Architected and built web UI and REST API test automation tools from scratch using C#, Selenium, and SpecFlow.
- Established an efficient development process for test automation tools with code review.
- Trained teammates to deepen their knowledge about C#, Selenium, REST API, and SpecFlow.
- Engaged five other scrum teams to use our tools along with support and training.
- Integrated UI and API tests to continuous integration (TeamCity) and contusions deployment (Octopus Deploy) processes.
- Extended the existing mobile automated testing solution with C# and Appium.
Test Analyst
Vista Entertainment Solutions
- Prioritized QA issues and facilitated the best solutions.
- Developed, executed, and maintained test cases, test plans, and manuals in an agile environment.
- Maintained existing automated test scripts for web applications (Angular) using Selenium and C#.
- Maintained existing automated test scripts for desktop applications using Coded UI Tests and C#.
- Acted as the head of the Vista QA guild–The internal organization with over 30 people whose goal was to improve the entire company's QA process through education and the learning of new technologies.
QA Lead
Eastern Bosphorus
- Managed all quality assurance functions including planning, strategy, test execution, and tools.
- Collaborated closely with the project manager and lead developer to improve product quality.
- Developed and executed test cases and maintained test plans and manuals.
- Architected and built web UI test automation tools from scratch using Selenium and Python.
- Hired and trained QA engineers to improve the overall organization delivery time.
QA Lead
Ingenium Solutions
- Led the team in establishing the QA process in the company.
- Managed all quality assurance functions including planning, strategy, test execution, and tools.
- Developed and executed test cases and maintained test plans and manuals.
- Collaborated with the project manager and lead developer to improve product quality.
- Wrote UI tests for web application using coded UI tests and C#.
Test Analyst
Polyoptimum
- Performed functional, load, and regression testing.
- Developed and executed test cases and maintained test plans and manuals.
- Wrote UI tests using the Selenium IDE for a web application.
- Wrote UI tests using TestComplete 9 for a desktop application.
Experience
Agrigate
https://agrigate.co.nz/Ingenium Solutions (Carebook)
https://carebook.comFraedom (UI Automation Framework)
Watercare (UI Automation Framework)
Education
Master’s Degree in Microelectronics and Semi-conductors
Far Eastern State University - Vladivostok, Russia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React, Requests, Vue, Selenium Grid
Tools
Postman, Visual Studio, Behave, REST Assured, Cucumber, TeamCity, Jira, Firebug, Apache JMeter
Languages
C#.NET, C#, HTML, SQL, CSS, Python, PHP, Java, GraphQL, TypeScript, JavaScript
Frameworks
Selenium, Appium, Angular, .NET Core, AngularJS, SpecFlow
Paradigms
Test Automation, Testing, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Scrum, Agile, Manual Testing, Azure DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Unit Testing, Coded UI Tests, Continuous Deployment, Load Testing, Automated Testing, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
Docker, Windows, Linux, TestComplete
Other
Integration Testing, Automated UI Testing, REST API Automation, QA Leadership, Visual Regression Testing, Quality Assurance (QA), QA Testing, QA Automation, QA Test Plan Management, Regression Testing, Mobile App Testing, Zalenium, Applitools, Octopus Deploy, Selenium IDE
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