Tanya Savchuk

About Tanya Savchuk

I am a hands-on test automation lead with extensive experience in architecting and implementing comprehensive automated test solutions covering Rest API, Web UI, cybersecurity, backward compatibility, and localization testing.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Dell Technologies

   Aug 2019 — Present · Richardson, TX, US

   Led a team of test automation engineers for projects based on microservice architecture.• Successfully delivered 34 releases, on time and with quality, with a very low number of leaked defects.• Defined test processes that allowed team to eliminate manual testing and achieve 100 % test automation.• Defined and implemented automated test strategy for API, Web UI, security, backward compatibility, and localization testing.• Established automated cybersecurity testing of authentication, SQL injection, and Cross Site Scripting.• Trained members of test team on programming techniques and design principles, enabling their seamless transition to test automation roles.• Established coding standards and best practices in test automation, conducted code reviews and mentored junior team members to ensure high code quality.• Created scripts for performance testing, defined performance metrics to validate performance improvements.• Defined weekly regression runs, analyzed the results, led script maintenance effort, reduced number of flaky tests to under 4 %.• Expanded test framework feature set to enable test data generation, JWT generation, verifying file signatures, parsing Rest API responses and XML documents.• Established CICD pipeline for regression and smoke testing.• Served as a Security Champion: performed threat modeling, advocated for compliance with SDLC, reviewed results of static code analysis tools with developers, advocated for resolution of identified issues, resolved vulnerabilities found by automated tools such as SonarQube, Dependency Track.

Education

• Southern Methodist University

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics

  2006

• Southern Methodist University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics

  2002

Skills

• All Pairs Testing
• Algorithms
• Debugging
• Black Box Testing
• Test Planning
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• C
• Matlab
• Testing
• Software Development
• Python
• Accurev
• Numerical Analysis
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Embedded Software
• Octave
• Domain Analysis
• Software Quality Assurance
• Agile Methodologies
• Maple
• Xml
• Sdlc
• Test Automation
• Tortoise Svn
• Labview
• Hp Quality Center
• Integration
• Software Testing
• Software Engineering
• Lua
• Robot Framework
• Acceptance Testing
• Functional Testing
• Embedded Systems