Elena Rimskaya

• Testing backend ETL pipeline for platform team
• Writing automation tests to cover main flaws and new functionalities
• Creating scripts to help with environment setups and data collection.
• Ran initiative across all QA teams to improve existent framework (reliability, reporting, parallel execution, logging)
• Configured test framework for platform team in order to enable it for Jenkins runs. Worked with infrastructure and security team to build a solution for DB access.
• Created a separate project with tools so it can be built as a jar and utilized by all frameworks

03/2019 - 03/2021 (SmartThings)

Tooling team: Our team was creating tools and services for CICD pipeline and different testing solutions like: model based testing frameworks, API signature testing solution.

Responsibilities:

• Scrum master
• Owned development/maintenance of data management service used by QA and developers during testing to generate/clean test data. Service was implemented via Scala - Play framework.
• Creating model based testing solutions for SmartThings rules and capabilities (Java/TestNG)
• Onboarding and guiding different teams to API signature testing solution

DevWorkspase project: Web service for Partners to onboard devices and smartapps to SmartThings.
Responsibilities:

• QA lead for backend team
• Owned release process for all backend services
• Planning and prioritizing QA tasks Responsible for releases to production
• Automation for backend in built by our team framework in the previous project (Java/TestNG)
• Early participation in project/feature design review to plan QA work and request APIs/tools that can help in automation process
• Debugging and reproducing customers issues
• Working with developers to verify and release a fix
• Building different reports for my team: coverage of dev stories, APIs coverage

04/2014- 03/2019 (Samsung)

SAMI/ARTIK project: Home IoT platform for developers to build an IoT service. Later was merged with SmartThings

Responsibilities:

• Was also QA lead and had the same responsibilities as in DevWorkspace. But during this project we built from scratch our Java/TestNG framework and implemented all utils
• When we moved to SmartThings we had a ready to use framework that helped us to build regression very quickly for all existing services of DevWorkspace
• Also ARTIK had more than 100 micro services. My team was responsible for 20 services. We had regression for each service and UAT
• With this approach we were able to release any service at any time, which was my responsibility
• I built model based testing for Permissions and Rate limit. With these models we were able to add any new API to confirm they comply with requirements

Neustar project: Web service to identify geographical location of website visitors based on their IP address. Responsibilities:

• Participating in daily project status meetings, Monthly sprint planning and Sprint retrospection
• API performance testing using JMeter (nonGUI)
• Created and ran test cases and edge cases
• Functional and regression testing on Web services
• Created testing scripts using Python and Shell
• Bug verification and logging in Jira

Jetlore provided email targeting based on social data for e-commerce companies.

Responsibilities:

• Created, maintained and ran automated tests using Selenium webdriver and Python
• Designed and developed automated Jetlore API tests using SoapUI and JMeter
• Tracked bugs through Assembla ticketing system from bug discovery to final deployment to production
• Participating in daily project status meetings

Performed automation testing using QTP Test Automation tool

Performed manual and automated data testing