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DENIS TIKHONCHUK

QA Engineer
Gdansk

Summary

Obtain employment in the field of quality assurance that will allow me to use experience and knowledge, learn new technologies, expand my experience, and realize own potential.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior/Senior QA Lead

Kaseya
09.2020 - Current

Project and Role:

  • Web application provided security breaches and training to avoid phishing attacks with huge logic on back-end and a lot of 3rd party integration through UI and API
  • Directed day-to-day quality assurance department activities, establishing rapport with team members to facilitate effective communication and coordination.
  • Maintained compliance with industry standards and regulatory compliance during managed projects.
  • Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
  • Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient, and successful manual test cases for entire team.
  • Communicated directly with QA team to resolve user-reported problems and questions.
  • Coached and motivated 2-person QA team to develop competencies.

Project Manager/Senior QA Engineer

Mainsoft
01.2020 - 08.2020

Project and Role:

  • Mobile applications with different business purposes and Web solution for education.
  • QA/PM of the 2 projects in parallel
  • Worked with resource management (developers, design, etc.), iteration planning with the team, and general QA responsibilities
  • Full solution cycle, from design to final result
  • Applications delivered to Play Market and iOS store
  • A few new features were delivered during work time to the education web portal( E2E testing API testing)
  • Monitored project progress, identified risks and implemented corrective measures to acquire success.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams to determine timely delivery and compliance of project requirements.
  • Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.

Senior QA Engineer

Geomotiv
11.2018 - 12.2019

Project and Role:

  • Rakuten Paid Placement Platform - part of internal advertising project of Rakuten marketing platform, connected with a few other teams' products and 3rd party solutions
  • Tested of full production circle( E2E testing, API testing).
  • Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive quality assurance program to guarantee organization products met safety and quality standards.
  • Led test-driven development, functional integration and regression testing initiatives to determine effectiveness of web software.
  • Isolated issues by analyzing process steps, log files, and data inputs.

Senior QA Engineer

Digiteum
06.2017 - 09.2018

Project and Role:

  • Lumensmart – project related to “internet of things”, system of smart house integrated with web service. Also, backend collects, manages and sends data from all connected smart houses to one pool
  • Adoramapix – has been serving the needs of the photographic community for over a decade. Well known for the superior quality of prints and excellent customer service
  • OUP dictionaries – Incredibly diverse publishing program, which often surprises people who are expecting a traditional university press offering. Publish in many countries, in more than 40 languages, and in a variety of formats–print and digital
  • Tested of full production circle. Started from smart house panel creation and ended with verifying collected data on data pools
  • Tested of full production circle. Started from album creation and payment on Web/iOS and ended with album delivered to end user
  • Developed and designed of automated tests based on Schematron and XPath using Oxygen framework.
  • Executed test scripts, logged defects and worked to resolve issues noted in testing process.
  • Investigated customer complaints to take necessary corrective actions.
  • Monitored product quality at all stages of production process.
  • Executed test scripts, logged defects and worked to resolve issues noted in testing process.

Senior QA Engineer

Freelance
08.2016 - 02.2017

Project and Role:

  • Tested project based on management packs for Server administrating, health control (SCOM)
  • Released 6 management packs to Microsoft. Themes of management packs responsible for health of : DNS, DHCP, Cluster, BasicOs, NLB, ISS
  • Worked with remote testing environments, analyzed server configuration, analyzed event logs, switched server workflows to “unhealthy” state and verified how SCOM reacted on such changes.
  • Controlled development of test areas, systems test data and testing methods prior to implementing new systems.

Senior QA Engineer

Freelance
03.2016 - 08.2016

Project and Role:

  • Released from scratch a few mobile applications to mobile stores (iOS and Android)
  • Formulated of the testing process from scratch, development of reporting and checking forms
  • Cross platform and localization testing.
  • Facilitated process improvements to successfully decrease errors.
  • Escalated concerns about project and process quality, referring discovered issues to engineering manager for correction.
  • Partnered with senior management to analyze issues and find appropriate solutions.
  • Led problem-solving activities to quickly identify and permanently resolve quality and productivity issues.

Trainee Engineer

Adamantium
01.2016 - 03.2016
  • Professional development courses in advertising area and RTB systems.
  • Developed campaigns, led design and tracked results.
  • Collected performance data on each promotion to better plan future events.

QA Engineer

IAC Apalon Apps
11.2013 - 12.2015

Project and Role:

  • Around 30 applications (Weather live, Calculator etc.) on different platforms
  • Internal company projects - advertising inside applications and financial part situated in web
  • Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, GUI, traffic and so on
  • Work different ways starting from manual testing of web site, which aggregates statistic data, to SDK testing with tools(XCode etc.).
  • Designed cucumber scenarios for automatic test
  • Worked with JSON standard
  • Participated in instructions design for other QA engineers
  • Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.
  • Verified releases for reviewing according to Guidelines for Apple and Google Play markets
  • Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.

QA Engineer

XBSoftware
06.2011 - 11.2013

Project and Role:

  • https://urturn.com/ - Social network with a lot of media content and with the possibility of evaluation. Web and mobile application
  • https://sankore.org/- Open source project focused on education with some feedback actions (e.gWhiteboard) , suitable for use by students, teachers, professors. Desktop application
  • https://www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com/- Commercial web portal intended for education, and Internet commerce various literature. Web and mobile application
  • Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android and iOS mobile devices.
  • Recommended changes and corrections to developers for optimal software performance and usability.
  • Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
  • Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.

Education

No Degree -

WEBDOC SA
Lausanne, Switzerland
09.2011

Associate of Science - Medical electronics, Engineering, Physics

Belarusian State University of Informatics And Radio Electronics
Minsk, Belarus
08.2007

Bachelor of Economics - Banking, Accounting, Economics

Minsk Institute of Management
Minsk, Belarus
08.2003

Skills

SKILLS SUMMARY

  • Mentoring
  • Team development
  • Test Plans, Cases & Processes
  • Non functional and Functional Requirements
  • Scripting & Documentation
  • Web, API, Mobile Testing
  • Regression & Negative Testing
  • UI & Compatibility Testing
  • Defect / Bug Tracking
  • Cross platform and cross browser Testing
  • Auto tests development
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Brainstorming Ideas
  • Acceptance Criteria

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Experienced user lot of bug-tracker systems(eg Jira, Assembla, Mantis, Target Process)
  • TestRail, Zephyr scale, Zephyr, Xray
  • Windows, MAC OS, iOS, Android
  • JMeter
  • JSON standard
  • SQL queries
  • gherkin, BDD, Cucumber
  • RTB guidelines, Apple Guidelines, Play market Guides
  • SCOM, WMM, Microsoft cluster, DNS, DHCP, Windows server 2012-2016
  • XML, Xpath, XLST, DTD
  • Schematron
  • Unreal engine 4(novice), Blueprints for UE4(novice), Unity(novice)
  • Postman
  • Cypress(novice)
  • Jenkins(novice)
  • PostgressDb, Mongo DB
  • Adb tools, Android studio
  • XCode
  • Charlesproxy
  • Itools
  • Git, Sourcetree tool

Hobbies

 Basketball, volleyball, sport games, board games, traveling 

Languages

Russian
Native language
English
Upper intermediate
B2
Polish
Elementary
A2

Timeline

Senior/Senior QA Lead

Kaseya
09.2020 - Current

Project Manager/Senior QA Engineer

Mainsoft
01.2020 - 08.2020

Senior QA Engineer

Geomotiv
11.2018 - 12.2019

Senior QA Engineer

Digiteum
06.2017 - 09.2018

Senior QA Engineer

Freelance
08.2016 - 02.2017

Senior QA Engineer

Freelance
03.2016 - 08.2016

Trainee Engineer

Adamantium
01.2016 - 03.2016

QA Engineer

IAC Apalon Apps
11.2013 - 12.2015

QA Engineer

XBSoftware
06.2011 - 11.2013

No Degree -

WEBDOC SA

Associate of Science - Medical electronics, Engineering, Physics

Belarusian State University of Informatics And Radio Electronics

Bachelor of Economics - Banking, Accounting, Economics

Minsk Institute of Management
DENIS TIKHONCHUKQA Engineer