Leo Kolmanovsky

Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Thirty years of SQA technical/hands-on and leadership delivering significant improvements by manual and automated testing of databases, network, data centers, infrastructure, automation, hardware and performance testing.

Career Highlights

Test Case Management: Managing test cases with/without requirements/design docs.

Defect Management: Tracking, reporting and defect triage/management meetings.

Test Types: Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, System, UAT, Usability, Regression, Test data generation, Performance, Stress, Load, High Availability and Disaster Recovery testing.

Release Management: plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities.

Automation: Selenium Webdriver, PyTest, Integration using Jenkins, GitHub Actions.

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall

Test Planning: Scoping, estimates, strategy, plans, presentation, coordination.

Risk Management: Identify risks and plan best case approach for risk mitigation.

Implementer/Mentor of QA processes, techniques, standards in non-structured business cultures.

Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, MacOS, Python, Perl, Shell scripting, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Git, Bitbucket, CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Selenium, Segue QA Silk, Tsung, WebLoad, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, XEN, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, TestRail, TestLink, Bugzilla, FogBugz, JIRA, Jenkins, TeamCity, Puppet, Ansible, Enterprise, Nagios, eJabberd, Confluence, RabbitMQ, Kafka, WireMock, Postman, Cucumber, RESTassure, Kibana, Splunk, SonarQube

• Developed innovative testing strategies and streamlined processes with development activities to reduce testing redundancy & risks leading to 45% efficiency gain across multiple projects.
• 30% reduction in cost of poor quality via industry best practices.
• Experience in setting up automation frameworks for integration and regression testing activities.
• Defined best practices, test strategies and methodologies for Functional, Regression and Automation tests.
• Successfully managed a diverse range of projects from conception through implementation.
• Enhanced and standardized software defect life cycle management processes that helped to reduce downtime from bug detection to resolution with an estimated gain in time of ~3 weeks/project.
• Collaborated and established periodic requirement reviews by stakeholders to ensure requirements were well defined that lead to delivery of flawless applications in production.