Maxim Borisov

The tester is responsible for the final quality of the product the customer will use. A tester does not break the product, but builds the right process to create it. The QA-engineer's tasks include communication with users and developers, quality analysis, tool selection, error prevention, and continuous improvement of the process.

Key skills

• Manual testing, writing test cases, test design
• Testing web applications, APIs, understanding client-server interaction, working with DevTools, Postman
• understanding of databases, writing SQL queries
• Working with Git, working with multiple repositories simultaneously
• Working in Linux, working with tools for debugging the operating system and applications
• Autotesting web applications in Java using JUnit, Selenium, Selenide
• Testing load tests, security and usability tests
• Mobile testing of Android applications with Android Studio and Espresso
• Automating Frontend JavaScript testing with Puppeeter, Playwright, Cypress
• Knowledge of different types of virtualization and containerization, working with Docker and Docker Compose
• CI/CD processes: testing, building and delivering to different environments, working with Jenkins, Teamcity and Gitlab CI

Working tools

Git
The world's #1 version control system. Git allows you to work on your project code together without worrying about data loss or version conflicts.

Java
Java consistently tops the Tiobe programming language popularity index. You can use it to write autotests and later on to develop for any platform. Java is a good language to start learning programming.

Selenium
Framework (software library) for automating web browser actions. The most popular tool for testing web applications, giving autotests access to the browser.

SQL
Database management language.

JUnit
Test automation platform.

Docker
A software to automate the deployment and management of applications in containerized environments.

Postman
HTTP client for website testing. You can use it to make and edit simple or complex HTTP requests.

Jenkins
A software development process automation system. Its mission is to provide a process of continuous software integration.

Linux
The most popular operating system for the work of system administrators and DevOps engineers. The advantages of Linux are free, reliable, fast, convenient and various additional software.

Android Studio
The most popular development environment for working with the Android platform. It is publicly available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux.

Espresso
Framework for testing Android open-source applications, developed by Google. It allows you to perform sophisticated UI tests on a real device or emulator.

JavaScript
The most popular programming language for web application development. The only language supported on all devices and platforms by default. And thanks to Node.js framework it can be used on the server as well.