Konstantin Pletenev

About Me

Passion for testing and development, love to dig software and find the true core of problems

I am QA automation architect / QA Lead

For last 15 years im working across all levels of software quality, starts as manual QA and grow to Architect. I have an experience across different domains such as Fintech, Digital and Data analytics. My main speciality is backend and server testing, but im also good in frontend and mobile testing.

What I Do

Test automation architect

Help teams to develop test automation strategy from scratch, starts from unit testing and ends with proper Ci/Cd acceptance pipeline

Software engineer in test

I can develop test automation scripts across of levels of application development cycle

Test management

Have an experience with development test documentation and manage the whole QA process in an Enterprise and also startup kinda projects

Team leading

Can build and manage strong QA teams, have an experience as Product owner and scrum master in Agile development

Testimonials

Fun Facts

Projects delivered

8

Bugs found

Conference speeches

4

Interns raised

16

Resume

10 Years of Experience

Experience

2022 - Now

Wanna.fashion
(FARFETCH Group)
Latvia / Portugal

Head of QA

Activities: Responsible for planning and executing comprehensive QA operations including but not limited to Test Management and QA Resource Planning. Coordinated between different departments such as Product Management, Development, and Client Success Management. Led mobile testing initiatives on native iOS, Android, and Mobile Web platforms alongside conducting backend testing activities and Python-aided test automation.

Responsibilities: Tasked with orchestrating the QA department and its associated functionalities. Spearheaded efforts in building, hiring, and supervising a specialised team of eight QA professionals. Incorporated QA into the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes. Designed and managed the client support procedures and facilitated collaboration across hardware and software teams.

2015 - 2022

Accenture Baltic Latvia

Test automation architect

Activities: Test lead in several projects across different industry and tech stack. Mostly backend testing and Big Data. Team leading of several QA automation teams, from 2 people till 10 team size.

Responsibilities: Test automation architecture, team leading, reporting, risk assessments. Main responsibility is to provide test automation frameworks for all levels of testing, Acceptance, Functional, Integration, Contract, and E2E for whole services pipeline.

Project Experience:
  • Test architect, Banking backend
  • Team lead of test automation architect group. Microservice Backend for the bank.

  • Outstaff project manager, Banking backend
  • 50% as project manager for outstaff

  • Backend for Video on demand service
  • Test automation for Backend for all VoD services. Microservice architecture with Rest API services based on Springboot.

  • Big Data Analytics system for Accenture Video Solutions
  • Data transaction, calculation and analytics system for VoD service.

  • Data Layer for VoD service
  • Data transaction, transformation and storage

    2012 - 2015
    Adicom Systems Russia

    Automation QA engineer

    Key QA in the Agile Web development team. Work with public institutions of Russian Federation

    2011 - 2013
    Russian State Technological University Russia

    Professor’s assistant

    Activities and responsibilities: teaching students, controlling students, class works

    2011 - 2012
    DEEP 2000 Russia

    Manual QA engineer

    Software Testing "Queue Management System" (server and client software for the Internet Explorer 7-9), finding errors in a software, error analysis, solution proposals.

    Education

    2019
    ISTQB®

    Certified Tester Advanced Level

    Test Automation Engineering 19-CTAL- TAE-162484-06

    2013
    Russian State Technological University

    Master degree in Computer science

    2011
    Russian State Technological University

    Bachelor degree in Computer science

    Test Automation Skills

    Backend Testing

    95%

    Frontend Testing

    90%

    Big data

    85%

    Rest assured

    85%

    Selenium

    70%

    Cucumber

    100%

    Test management skills

    Test Approach development

    85%

    Test Plan development

    100%

    Allure

    100%

    Coding Skills

    Java

    85%

    Kotlin

    55%

    Python

    40%

    Spring

    75%

    AWS

    50%

    SQL/HQL

    50%

    Language skills

    English

    85%

    Russian

    100%

    Latvian

    30%

    HTML / CSS

    100%

    Portfolio

    My Works
    Selenium test automation

    Selenium test automation

    Test Automation

    REST test automation

    Test automation
    Telegram bot python

    Telegram bot python

    Telegram
    Telegram bot Kotlin

    Telegram bot Kotlin

    Telegram

    Contact

    Get in Touch

    +37I 2 655 43 I2

    Riga, Latvia

    konstantin@pletenev.dev

    Freelance Available

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