NIKITA TALYKOV

A creative QA Engineer

QA engineer with 8+ years of professional experience in testing of different application: WEB, API and desktop. I get inspiration when people are happily using the products, quality of which I was responsible for.

Experience

Tinkoff Investment

QA Lead

01/2023 - Present

  • Leading of the QA team of 11 engineers in several cross functional team: develop QA process, goal setting, career planning
  • Organization and support of testing processes
  • Analyzing of teams performance and QA metrics. Fix problems and reduce process losses
  • Functional testing of back-end Tinkoff Invest system (Java + Spring + Junit5 + TestOps)
  • Performance testing of back-end Tinkoff Invest system (Java + Gatling)

OZON

Senior QA Automation Engineer

01/2022 - 01/2023

  • Functional testing of back-end of warehouse management system (Python + PyTest + TestOps)
  • Developing and maintaining automation framework
  • Develop QA process in my agile team and whole QA department
  • Conducting technical interview with candidates
  • Onboarding and mentoring of new employees

MAIL.RU Group

QA Automation Engineer

06/2021 - 12/2021

  • Developing automation tests (Python + PyTest)
  • Functional and integration testing of acquiring system
  • Involved in performance testing
  • Reduced the time for passing regression integration tests
  • Set up running integration tests in GitLab-CI for team's services

KASPERSKY

Test Engineer

04/2017 - 06/2021

  • Manual functional testing of content filtering components of Kaspersky Antivirus ("Web-AV", "Anti-Banner", "Do not track me")
  • Development of automated test cases (C# + Selenium WebDriver)
  • Development of automated tools to simplify manual testing process
  • Analysis of autotests runs results
  • Providing reports to managers and team members

Education

Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Information Security Specialist (masters degree)

2013 - 2019

Master degree and diploma with honours in information security. GPA 4.9 out of 5.

International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Certified Tester Foundation Level

2020

Certificate number: 76380

OTUS

QA Lead course

05/2022 - 12/2022

Successfully finished QA Lead course with graduation project: "Reducing Lead Time by increasing the transparency of the testing process for the development team"

Skills

Python

Python

C#

C#

Java

Java

Pytest

Pytest

Selenium

Selenium

Selenide

Selenide

Junit

Junit

Allure

Allure

TestOps

TestOps

Spring

Spring

Gatling

Gatling

REST

REST

HTTPS

HTTPS

GRPC

GRPC

GIT

GIT

GITLab

GITLab

Postgres

Postgres

SQL

SQL

Docker

Docker

Kafka

Kafka

VMware

VMware

Windows

Windows

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Mac OS

Mac OS

Jira

Jira

Quality control

Quality control

Bug reports

Bug reports

Test design

Test design

Slack

Slack

MS Teams

MS Teams

MS Outlook

MS Outlook

Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server

MS Visual Studio

MS Visual Studio

Browser DevTools

Browser DevTools