QA engineer Alexander Samarin

Experience skills

• Documentation: various types of technical documentation, i.e. test plan, check-list, test case, use case, etc.
• Bug tracking, logging & reporting.
• Defect & bug discovery, technical specification analysis.
• Various types of manual testing, i.e. functional, regression, usability, cross browser, Black\Grey Box Testing.

Technologies

• Web-technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, Firebug, PixelPerfect.
• Databases: MySQL - Bug-tracker: Jira, Redmine, Youtrack.
• OS: Unix-based, Windows.
• Others: VMWare, VNC, phpMyAdmin, Firebug, PixelPerfect, Postman, Selenium.

Working experience

• QA Engineer/Manual Tester, Aug 2012 - May 2016 (3 years 10 months), MarketGid (Kiev, http://marketgid.com | http://mgid.com): experience in various types of testing - Functional, Regression, Scenario, Client-server based, Web-based, Black\Grey Box;
• tracking bugs in Redmine/Jira, open defects fix and functionality validation;
• analyzing, writing reports & communicating results to colleagues & managers;
• preparing detailed test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios for each project;
• interaction with DB (MySQL).
• Customer Support/Service Desk Tester, Feb 2011 - Aug 2012 (1 year 5 months), MGID (Kiev, http://mgid.com): clients/managers requests and tech issues processing, system structure and general workflow consulting;
• troubleshooting, issue double-checks;
• specifications and other documentation composition, creating test plans/test-cases, pinpointing web-interface functional defects;
• tracking bugs in Redmine, open defects fix and functionality validation;
• HTML/CSS pages/widgets makeup, resolve problems from an end users perspective.

Education

Ukrainian State University of Finance and Trading (2007-2012), Master Degree of International Economics.

Personal qualities

• Ability to learn quickly, Responsible, Open minded.
• Languages spoken: English upper intermediate, Russian and Ukrainian (as native).