Александр Седых

• Integrated QA processes from scratch in Fintech startup.
• Taught developers the concepts of Test Driven Development.
• Managed feedback from volunteer testers and provided support to key clients.
• Tested web application and RNS parsers on desktop and mobile devices and different platforms/screen sizes. Automated mobile, web, API and backend testing with Selenium, Java, Appium, Javascript (Jest/Mocha/Karma frameworks) with unit and integration tests.
• Optimized tests for cloud Continuous Deployment pipelines (Amazon Web Services). Conducted load testing with Python scripts to find performance bottlenecks.
• Tested user experience with self-created UX evaluation techniques.
• After QA integration stability of Android application raised up to 99%.
• Found performance bottlenecks during load testing which were blocking up to 30% of maximum system's capacity.
• Stack: React-Native, mongoDB (NoSQL), React (web), PHP, Javascript, Appium, Node.JS, Java, Python

• Built the Quality Assurance department in 100+ employees company.
• Created distributed team of QA Engineers working with 10 concurrent projects.
• Test automation (web, mobile and API) with Java, Python, Ruby. Taught employees new automation techniques.

• Integrated tests in the process of CI (Continuous Integration - Jenkins, Bamboo).

• Built physical automated testing farm consisting of popular mobile devices with supported platforms for automated testing (Xamarin test farm analogue).
• Fixed existing automated testing suites for iOS and Android.
• Optimized the time needed for one automated suite to pass for iOS from 463 mins to 117 mins.
• Tested and validated data of App-to-Api interaction "on the fly" with advanced http-proxy.
• Stack: Calabash, Cucumber, Espresso, Ruby, Java

• Integrated Quality Assurance practices from scratch and conducted QA audit in the company's partner bank. Saved it from losing 100.000$ because of bug with pay-per-minute passport recognition service and eliminated the bug that blocked ~30% of new clients to order plastic. As result the plastic orders raised by 200%.
• Tested high-load web-service ("Uber with couriers") featuring GPS-monitoring, CRM for B2B/B2C/ERP and mobile applications (B2C/B2B) for Android and iOS.
• Automated web and mobile testing with Java and Ruby programming languages.
• Interviewed and hired candidates for departments, managed the team (5+ people).
• Built two departments from scratch - Software Quality Assurance and tech support.

• Load and functional testing of 2D MMO-shooter "Warside".
• Organized and conducted first alpha testing sessions (~100 players per session), collected and analyzed reviews from playtesters.
• Integrated Quality Assurance practices from scratch.
  Investigated technical incidents with server and client.
• Game successfully published via Steam Greenlight.

• Participated in group of self-employed professionals. Team was site-factory that is also provided option to create media content.
  I was QA one-man-department and been working by Kanban methodology.
  Biggest client - premium fashion brand Vassa&Co. Our group created network of promo-sites for new collection.

• Load and functional testing of 2D MMO-shooter "Warside".
• Organized and conducted first alpha testing sessions (~100 players per session), collected and analyzed reviews from playtesters.
• Integrated Quality Assurance practices from scratch.
  Investigated technical incidents with server and client.
• Game successfully published via Steam Greenlight.

• Was invited to test Postal 3 game (Running With Scissors studio) before the release in Steam because it was full of bugs and not likely to pass basic quality check in the Store department.
• From more than 7500 bugs found i highlighted critical ones to meet the release criteria.
• Load tested game for scenes/levels FPS drops, monitored overall and component-specific hardware load to maintain acceptable performance.
• Created user manuals, checked polygraphic promo materials for color range and printing quality.
• Organized and conducted hallway usability testing sessions.

Game was successfully shipped to Steam Store.

• Indie-games testing (>50 titles).
• Maintenance on projects from alpha to release stage.
• Optimization of Quality Assurance business processes.
• Developed strategy and methodologies for testing advanced Voice Control System for Playstation 3 games.
• Project coordination with China and US-based (UbiSoft) partners.
  
  

• Manual and automated software testing (web and cloud services, educational and gaming software).
  Issues tracking with standalone and online tools (Jira, Mantis, Redmine etc).
• Started as QA trainee, left as QA Lead.
• Shipped more than 200 commercial projects – from alpha to release stage.