Valentin Lutchanka

Benalmadena, Malaga
Phone + 34 662 250 565

I am an open-minded and goal-oriented QA Lead Software Engineer in Test (JavaScript), that combines more than 12 years of customer relationship management, sales/service and office management in Sports industry with 5 years of experience in Information Technologies. Six Sigma green belt.


Experience

QA Automation Lead I with JavaScript

Verisk

On my current position I am leading the team of SDET and UAT QA analysts in API, UI and performance testing for Acceptance and UAT environments. Creation and maintenance of Automation testing frameworks - Playwright/Cypress and K6. CICD integration (Bamboo, K8S, GitHub Actions and Jenkins).

My area of responsibility is - Leading the QA team through the testing activities (manual and automation) in Agile environement.

I am proficient in Test plan creation and maintaining, defects tracking and test results reporting.

Strong practical experience in requirements analysis, test effort estimating, test design, test development, test review, test execution, test result evaluating and test reporting. Work in close communication with developement team under the discovered issues. Organizing and test running in manual and automation functional testing, API, performance, installation, regression testing. Proficient in test design techniques such as equivalent partitioning, boundary values analysis, pairwise method.

January 2023 - Present

Manual/Automation QA tester

Virona IT

I have gained extensive experience in remote collaboration for sports app development, working with a development team. I performed both functional and non-functional testing, covering smoke, regression, sanity, retest, UI/UX, usability, and localization throughout the testing life cycle.

My tasks included static and dynamic testing of the Application Under Test (AUT), updating test plans, creating test cases, reporting defects, and preparing test results reports. I proficiently handled positive and negative testing scenarios for UI, API, and functionality using tools like Cypress, WebdriverIO, Postman/Newman, and Mocha.

December 2018 - March 2022

Manager

club de Hockey Benalmadena

I have gained valuable managerial experience including customers relationship management, conflicts resolution, sales/service and office management in Sport industry.

May 2009 - December 2018

Freelance Web designer in the Netherlands/Spain

Duo Cantabile

Design, development and administration of corporate websites. Content management (EN). Post release support. IT system administration and maintenance.

September 2004 - December 2008

Education

University of Helsinki online

Test automation wit JavaScript internal practice
Practical University courses: DevOps with Docker/Full stack Open Containers, and Full stack Open CICD.
May 2023 - July 2023

EPAM University online

Test automation wit JavaScript internal practice
Practical internship course of automation testing with JavaScript using WebdriverIO, Cypress, Mocha frameworks, Postman API platform. Participation in various E2E and API automation testing projects.
June 2022 - November 2022

Postman online education platform

Postman student expert
Online course of proficient and essential techniques involved in building and testing API requests in Postman.
October 2022 - November 2022

Dutch Delta University

Bachelor of Business Administration
Three-year professional undergraduate course in Business Management.
September 2004 - May 2006


Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Workflow
  • Data driven functional and API automated testing
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging of single Page applications
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Soft skills

⭐ Apart from being a QA testing engeneer, I am an open minded, fast studying person with strong analytical skills.

⭐ Time management and increased responsibility.

⭐ I am a strong teamplayer with problem solving skills.

⭐ Conflicts resolution and decision making are my strong points.

⭐ When faced with challenging situations I prefer to act accordingly to DMAIC concept.