LigaByte Team Member
Scrum Master Accredited Certification
Data Analysis with Python
Foundational Certification in Kanban (FCKB™)
Lua Basic
Engineer Learning Path
API Security Architect
Business English Certification Test (BECT)
Six Sigma Yellow Belt (SSYB)
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Learn SQL Course
Securing API Servers
API Security Fundamentals
Certification in Agile Scrum Essentials
EF SET English Certificate (B2 Upper Intermediate)
LambdaTest Software Testing Professional Certificate
Quality Management
Scrum Fundamentals Certified
Nikolay Nemkovych
QA Manager, Senior QAHi! I am a professional QA with 10+ years of experience. During my career in IT, I have worked in different positions: technical writer, SCRUM master, product manager, QA manual, QA manager, QA mentor, etc. I worked most of the time in the EdTech domain (6 years) and tourism (2 years). I have experience working both in large international corporations (8 years) and as a freelancer in startups (2 years). Now I mostly do mentoring and act as a freelance consultant or crisis manager for the testing departments.
Soft Skills:
+ building a testing process in a team from scratch;
+ transferring the team from Kanban to Scrum;
+ building a system of transparent metrics in the team;
+ speaking at internal IT conferences;
+ working in tandem with devrel to improve the company's reputation;
+ introduction of documentation standards for wikis;
+ leading demo for external customers;
+ conduct one-to-one/f2f meetings with QA to build their PDP's;
+ organization and conduct knowledge-transfer sessions;
+ onboarding, mentoring and training new QA;
+ conducting interviews and hiring testers;
Hard Skills:
+ Agile methodologies: SCRUM, Kanban, BDD, TDD, Scrumban;
+ Test Management Systems: TestRail, Qase, Test IT, TestY, Mantis;
+ Docs: Jira, Confluence, Notion, Tettra, Shortcut, etc;
+ REST API, GraphQL testing: Postman, Swagger;
+ Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB (DBeaver, SQLite Studio);
+ Message brokers: RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka;
+ Logs: Sentry, Kibana;
+ QA metrics: Grafana, Qase, Jira;
+ CI/CD: Jenkins;
+ Linux command line (basic commands: tail, grep, etc);
+ Mobile testing: Android Studio, Xcode, browserstack;
+ VCS: Git, TortoiseSVN;
+ C & Lua (scripting AI for Storm Engine & Clausewitz Engine games):
+ Miro, Figma, Chrome Dev Tools, New Relic, all other necessary software & utilities;
+ E-mail testing: customer.io.
I'm used to working with the best:
1. LightSoft (TopHotels) is a group of companies, ex top-1 in the tourism market in the CIS;
2. MIPT - top-10 technical universities in the world;
3. Skyeng is the top-1 international English school in the CIS market & top-3 EdTech company in the Eastern European market.
Best Skills
Experience
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Manual QA Team Lead
LigaByte+ Leading the full testing cycle, including API and web application testing;
+ Managing release processes, defining and controlling scope, conducting smoke/regression testing, and deploying releases to both test and production environments;
+ Writing and reviewing test documentation, and performing design reviews to ensure API compatibility;
+ Overseeing the deployment of tasks to production, diagnosing issues reported by support teams, and helping to identify workarounds;
+ Hiring and onboarding new engineers, providing mentorship, and developing QA processes within the team;
+ Managing external integration efforts with partner companies, including technical discussions, API contract development, and coordination of integration processes. -
Senior QA Specialist
Skyeng (2020 - 2022)+ organization, conduct and control of inter-team/inter-project testing;
+ building QA workflows within the team;
+ conducting demos and retros (inter-team, for business, etc.);
+ work with testing quality assessment metrics (Grafana);
+ work with logs (Sentry & Kibana);
+ the testing itself (manual, api, database);
+ presentations at internal meetings on testing (knowledge-transfer);
+ maintaining project documentation (Jira + Confluence + Qase/TestRail + Miro);
+ conducting interviews and selecting candidates for the positions of QA Junior, QA Middle, etc.;
+ onboarding, mentoring and training of new QAs in the company in general and on specific projects.+ -
QA/QC Manager
OpenEDX Platform (2016 - 2020)+ analysis of requirements and technical specifications for projects;
+ coordination and planning of work within a group of 3-5 QAs;
+ keeping statistics on releases;
+ recording of video guides, educational videos and screencasts;
+ onboarding of new QAs;
+ training (mentoring) of new QA juniors;
+ a review of the work of QA juniors;
+ writing test cases and documentation (Jira + TestY, Confluence);
+ complex testing (functional, regression, cross-browser, cross-platform, smoke tests, usability testing, etc.);
+ API testing (Postman);
+ testing Apache Kafka. -
QA Engineer
TopHotels Group (2015 - 2016)+ development of checklists and test cases;
+ maintenance and updating of internal testing documentation;
+ functional testing of releases;
+ regression testing;
+ smoke testing;
+ usability testing;
+ cross-browser testing;
+ manual testing;
+ processing and verification of customer complaints;
+ development of documentation standards;
+ maintaining an internal Wiki;
+ description of the functionality of our software for the client Wiki.