Yuri Syuganov

San Francisco, California, USA
+1 (408) 256-1261 (voicemail)

I'm not lookging for a job now—happy with my current one.

Dear recruiter!

Please, please DO NOT CALL me during working hours. Use email instead! You'll receive the same reply: "I'm not available", but will disturb me much less. Thank you. And again: I'm not looking for a job now.

OBJECTIVE

This is a Software Quality Assurance Engineer's resume.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • 12+ years of testing experience: white-, grey- and black-box; test automation; performance testing
  • Been exposed to agile development practices in start-up environment and in huge international corporation with 2 weeks-3 months release cycles
  • Used numerous test cases and code repositories and bug tracking systems: CVS, Bugzilla, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager and wiki-s
  • Worked with IBM WebSphere; Bea WebLogic 7.0; Apache Jakarta/Tomcat 3.x/4.x, Microsoft IIS (5.0/4.0); Eclipse, VisualAge, Borland JBuilder; SQL, Java, PHP, Python, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX; tested SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and DB2 based applications on Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX and Windows
  • Worked with geographically dispersed organizations (West/East Coast in US; Germany; England; India). Excellent communication skills. Good team player.
  • Highly motivated self-starter with a BS in Computer Science and MS in Electrical Engineering
  • Tools used in work: Selenium, Robot-test, Rational Robot and RobotJ, WinRunner 7.0/6.0, JUnit, httpUnit, JTest, LoadRunner, Silk

WORK EXPERIENCE in the United States

since 02/09    Software QA Engineer, Recommind, San Francisco, CA, USA

  • Leading QA efforts for the Enterprise Search project: testing front-end and connectors
  • Automated browser-based testing of a corporate document repository search system, which allows to search documents through concepts, not only key-words, with Selenium and Robot-test
  • Created test plan and perfrom testing of Confluence and Sharepoint connectors, allowing effective search against documents in these document repositories
  • Created Python scripts for collecting from internet massive amounts of data for load and performance testing of crawler and indexing systems
  • Perform regular builds and releases testing on Windows and Linux platforms

02/05-11/08    Senior Software QA Engineer, Coral8, Mountain View, CA, USA

  • Created Server side testing automation scripts using in-house Python-based tool on Unix and Windows
  • Performed manual black-box and grey-box testing of a browser-based Portal product (AJAX, Flex, JavaScript, XML) with Servers installed on Windows, Linux and Solaris with MySQL and MS SQL Sever
  • Created test plans for 2-3 features per each two-three months release cycle, automated 60-70% of test cases, manually tested the rest, tested dozens of point-releases and perform weekly cross-platform and cross-browser spot-checking of GUI products (both thick and thin clients)
  • Used CVS, Bugzilla and wiki as a code repository, bug-tracker and test plans/test cases storage

03/04-02/05    Software QA Engineer, eBay, San Jose, CA, USA

  • Tested Kijiji - eBay's Classifieds project: contributed to the test plan, created test cases, performed manual black-box functionality, browser compatibility, usability and regression testing
  • Worked on white-box test automation of the main eBay site and its international versions:
    • debugged backlog of about a thousand of existing white-box automation test scripts, ran regression on more than 2200 of them;
    • created and maintained a list of white-box scripts failed during regression; approved, debugged and fixed about 900 of them
    • developed about 50 automated scripts on SellYourItem and Bidding areas for several international eBay sites;
  • Created a presentation introducing the entire process of white-box automation to internal QA organization. Conducted several trainings about the white-box automation process to the new local and international employees.
  • Worked with httpUnit, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager

12/00-03/04    Senior Software QA Engineer, Chordiant Software, Cupertino, CA, USA

  • Tested Chordiant Foundation Server, Java-based (J2EE) applications platform for CRM solutions on UNIX (IBM AIX, Sun Solaris) and Windows (2000/XP/2003) environments with IBM WebSphere and Bea WebLogic application servers
    • Performed server new builds installation and application deployment on AIX and Solaris boxes, functional and unit manual and automated testing
    • Developed test scripts for Workflow Engine testing: created graphs templates representing multi-level workflow processes, coded them in XML
    • Created testing environments: installed and configured application servers, directory server (LDAP/SunONE) and databases (Oracle, DB2)
  • Automated GUI testing with WinRunner - tested Windows application for generating dynamic HTML/JavaScript
  • Performed white-box testing of the Java APIs initially in Visual Age and later Eclipse development environments. Utilized JUnit for automated unit testing.
  • Was responsible for Test Lab configuration/setup, reghosting computers (with Symantec Ghost) for each test cycle
  • Worked closely with an engineering group located on the East Coast and in the United Kingdom
  • Transferred knowledge to the off-shore team after company management decided to out-source numerous engineering, testing and support functions abroad.

08/00-12/00    Senior Software QA Engineer, ActionPoint, San Jose, CA, USA

  • Performed manual and automated testing of the client and server parts of the application merging HTML view with XML Schema documents to create dynamic dialogs
  • Created test plan and performed compatibility Platform/OS/WebServer/Browser testing on WinNT/Win2K, Sun Solaris and MacOS. Installed and tested application with MS IIS (4.0 and 5.0), NES 3.6 and 4.1 iPlanet, Apache 3.1.12 with multiple versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator
  • Tested performance of server engine with LoadRunner and Java programs
  • Updated with Visual Basic existing and created new test cases for Java API testing to check returned values and functions behavior

06/00-08/00    Software QA Engineer (contract), Brio, Santa Clara, CA, USA

  • Performed installation and compatibility testing of the OnDemand Server -- the part of a complex application providing web-based access to a variety of legacy back-end databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and MS Access) with several http servers on NT (IIS 4.0 and 5.0; NES 3.6 and iPlanet 4.1) and UNIX boxes (Sun Solaris 7, 8 and IBM AIX) with several clients (IE 4.0, 5.01, NN 4.08, 4.73).
Lived in Russia till 2000.

EDUCATION AND TRAININGS

  • 2004 Extensive in-house training on white-box automation and all the aspects of testing of the huge international production e-commerce site with 100+ million registered users, eBay, San Jose, CA
  • 2003 WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD 5.0) training, IBM, Burlingame, CA
  • 2002-2003 several Oracle DBA courses, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
  • 2001 Java Development Course, Sun Microsystems, Cupertino, CA
  • 2000 Load Test Course (LoadRunner), in-house 2 weeks training, ActionPoint, San Jose, CA
  • 2000 Advanced Test Automation Course (WinRunner), in-house 4 weeks training, ActionPoint, San Jose, CA
  • 1989 MS in Electronics Engineering/BS in Computer Science, Institute of Electronics Engineering, Moscow, Russia

Last update: January 30, 2010