Vadym Afanasyev

SUMMARY

10+ years overall automation experience, both frontend and backend.
5+ year of team leading experience.
3 years of management experience
5 years of RM experience.
Using such technologies, frameworks, tools: Java, rest-assured, Selenium WebDriver, BDD (JBehave, Cucumber, Concordion), SerenityBDD, rest-assured, JUnit, Hamcrest, AssertJ, TestNG, Maven, Ant, Spring, git, Jenkins CI, JetBrains TeamCity.
Was working on team leadership, test automation, requirement analysis, test reporting, test strategy definition.
First 4 years was working on automating tests using hardware descriptive languages: VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog.
10 years of Scrum experience.
English: C1

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan-2017 - Till now (Mar-2021)

Testing Team Leader, EPAM Systems, http://www.epam.com

Customer: Business Information and Media

Project: Back end application based on microservices architecture for the customer provisioned equipment in terms of smart tv applications

Tasks performed:

Test team leading
Automated test frameworks creation
Automated test creation
Test strategy definition
Reports creation
Participation in staffing and interviewing new team members
Test management

Environment:

Postgres SQL, Casandra, Elastic Search
Serenity BDD, JBehave, rest-assured,
JUnit, Hamcrest, AssertJ, Wiremock, Jira/Bitbucket/Confluence
Java, JUnit, Maven, git

Apr-2016 - Dec 2016

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer, EPAM Systems, http://www.epam.com

Customer: Customer: RBS, The Royal Bank of Scotland

Project: Back end application. Processing FX Spot transactions. Greenfield project – replacement for legacy system. Integration with Bank-wide strategic persistence platform

Tasks performed:

Automation framework creation
Automated tests creation
Resilience testing
Load/Performance testing
Database migration testing
Functional testing
Regression testing

Environment:

MSSQL, Data Fabric based on MongoDB
Git/Atlassian Stash, Maven, JMX/MX4J, Intelij Idea
Java, Spring, BDD (Concordion)

Jan 2015 - Mar-2016

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer, EPAM Systems, http://www.epam.com

Customer: Thomson Reuters

Project: TR PLC Canada

Tasks performed:

Extending current BDD automation framework (Cucumber, java, Spring) with the PLC Canada part;
Wriritng test documentation - test strategy, test plans;
Manual testing;
Interaction with dev team;
Estimatiting testing efforts, providing test reports.

Environment:

Oracle Database
Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Jenkins CI.
Java, Selenium WebDriver, BDD (Cucumber), Spring, Maven,

Dec-2010 - Jul-2014

Test Automation Engineer, GlobalLogic

Customer: Carbonite Inc.

Tasks performed:

develop and run automated use cases for the web portals in terms of general automation framework.
analyze documentation, create use cases for the user-stories, do a functional and regression testing (both manual and automated) and give a QA approval for the stories and releases.
responsible for testing of a whole unit of functionality.
participated in daily scrum video calls and planning meetings.

Environment:

Selenium WebDriver, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Ant, Jenkins.
Agile, Scrum, Java

Mar-2008 - Dec-2010

Senior SQA Engineer, Aldec Inc

Tasks performed:

As a Senior QA Engineer, I was responsible for testing of the project. Developed test plan, test cases. According to the tool specifics, wrote automated use cases. Participated in discussions of feature details implementation.

Environment:

Aldec Riviera Pro

Apr-2007 - Mar-2008

SQA Engineer, Aldec Inc

Tasks performed:

As a QA Engineer, I developed automated tests for functional, regression and smoke testing. Each test was not a user scenario, but a hardware description module written in HDL languages + script to run that using tool that was tested.

Environment:

Aldec Riviera Pro, Aldec Active-HDL, Aldec SFM

EDUCATION

2002-2008

Odessa National Polytechnical University

Specialized Computer Systems
Master