Stepan Patryshev
Software QA Engineer

Contacts
E-mail: photostepan@gmail.com; phone: +359-879-853-538; Skype: happystepan

Career Summary
Expert in Software QA with 13 years in SQA Engineering, and 3 years in Software Development.

Skills

• Testing: Quality control process understanding; functional, system and integration, performance,

localization testing; test plans/cases development and execution, Gherkin.

ISTQB foundation level certificate.

• Testing tools: Performance Monitor, SOATest, SoapUI, RIT, TestComplete, QTP, ALM,

Mercury Quality Center.

• Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux, Android.
• Languages: Python, PHP, Java, C++, Delphi/Pascal, VBA, Progress 4GL; SQL.
• Databases: MarkLogic, Progress, MS Access, MySQL, MariaDB.
• Collaborative development tools: Jira, GIT, SVN, CVS, Confluence, SharePoint, Lotus Notes.
• Other Software: VMWare Workstation, HyperV, MS IIS, SolAdmin, HermesJMS, Eclipse,

Together Architect, Apache, Derive.

Work Experience

• July 2018 - Present. "MariaDB" (https://mariadb.com), Sofia. QA Engineer.

Testing column-oriented DBMS engine Columnstore for MariaDB.

Customer issues and defects investigating and reproducing.

• March 2017 - June 2018. "Luxoft" (http://www.luxoft.com), Sofia. Senior QA Engineer.

Tested Big Data service platform for financial risk management platform with lots of flows and source systems. System integration testing; regression testing of front- and back-end. Performance testing. RIT and Python scripts, SQL and XQueries. Monitored Solace queues in SolAdmin. Sent JMS-messages by HermesJMS. Prepared test data including XML. Verified fixes. Executed and developed test cases including Gherkin. Wrote test completion reports. Calculated test runs statistics from ALM by SQL and VBA. Prepared the platform for several releases.

• January 2016 - February 2017. "Luxoft", St.Petersburg. Senior QA Engineer.

• November 2015 - January 2016. Sberbank-Technology (http://www.sberbank.ru).

Lead Software QA Engineer.
Integration, regression testing of credit deals maintenance system. Developed integration test cases.

• April 2015 - August 2015. First Line Software (http://www.firstlinesoftware.ru).

Lead Software QA Engineer.
Tested loyalty system for a large passenger rail carrier.  Functional, regression testing. Customer issues root cause analysis. Web services testing. Wrote test cases and checklists.

Prepared the system for two releases.

• December 2008 - March 2015. Coddan Technologies (http://www.geolink-technologies.com) /

Applied Materials (http://www.appliedmaterials.com). Software QA Engineer.

Tested SCADA systems. Fix verification; identification and submitting of defects. Development and execution of regression test plans. Functional, UI and localization testing. Configured different products including equipment simulators. Administered simulators for testing environments including configuring and creation of virtual machines (VMWare and HyperV).

• June 2006 - November 2008. "EMC St.Petersburg Center of Excellence"

(http://www.emc.com/captiva). Senior QA Engineer.

Tested document capture and imaging client-server modules, installer (European and Asian localizations), and web services. Developed test plans and test cases. Functional, UI, acceptance testing. Wrote VBA scripts. Worked with VMWare Workstation, SOATest, and sniffers.
As a member of SW QA team I prepared for release several product versions.

• November 2005 - June 2006. "Borland Labs" (http://www.borland.com). QA Engineer.

Tested Eclipse plugin integration of requirements management system Caliber. Designed and implemented test cases for Java code UML modeling (round-trip engineering) in Together Architect.

• March 2004 - November 2005. "Alkor PayCash" (http://money.yandex.ru).Software QA Engineer.

Tested internet payment technology Yandex.Money. Designed and implemented test plans. Performed functional, load, stress, integration, recovery testing. I was acting as Head of Test Department, organizing and managing a team of several members.

Prepared for release several versions of system products. Trained 7 new software test engineers.

• August 2002 - March 2004. "Inactsoft" (http://hair.spb.ru/inact). Software Engineer.

Developed a platform for online streaming video. Major contributor to the product version 1 release.
Worked with: PHP, SQL, JavaScript.

• April 2002 - June 2002.  "Novavox AG" (http://www.smartphone.ru). Software QA Engineer.

Performed test plans and test cases for a communication platform, prepared product status reports.

• June 2000 - April 2002. "Computer Systems for Business International Eastern Europe"

(http://csbi.ru). Programmer.

Major contributor to significant improvements in a banking system, it was successfully launched in a large European bank. Worked with Progress 4GL.

Education

• September 1994 - February 2000. Master's degree from St.Petersburg State Electrotechnical 

University (http://www.eltech.ru).
Major: Computer Science, Computer-aided design (CAD).

Languages 

• English: Upper-intermediate.
• Russian: Native speaker.
• Bulgarian: Elementary (A2).

Key Strengths
Diligent, accurate, scrupulous.

Hobbies
Photography, music, travel.

August 27, 2018.