# Galina Tymonina

> Senior Software QA | Test Automation Engineer at NGINX (F5)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/galinatymonina

•	15+ years of hands-on experience in IT including 8+ years of testing web and mobile applications
•	Experience working on Agile projects
•	Performing Functional, Regression, Smoke, Accessibility, CQC and CQA testing
•	Developing test documentation: test plans, test cases, use cases
•	XML/JSON creating, editing, validation
•	Test automation scripting using Python, Pytest
•	Developing Java, JS, VBA scripts to facilitate a more efficient and budget friendly QA process


TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Platforms:		        Mac OS, Ubuntu, Windows 
Programming:		Java, JavaScript, Python, XML, HTML, SQL, RegEx
Test Automation:	Selenium WebDriver, Pytest, Jmeter, Locust, Maven, JUnit, TestNG
Web Testing Tools: 	Google Chrome Developer Tools, Postman, Fiddler
Bug Tracking Tools:	JIRA (including using JIRA REST API), Bugzilla
Database:		        MySQL, PostgreSQL
Tools/IDE/VCS/CI:	Excel, Eclipse, LiClipse, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Komodo; GIT, TeamCity, Jenkins

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ NGINX
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Quality Engineer III @ NGINX
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior QA Engineer @ Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### QA Engineer @ Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Write automated test code to support agile team.
- Improve continuous integration workflow.

- Migrated automation framework from python 2 to python 3
- Converted framework from unittest to the pytest test runner
- TeamCity administrator

### Software QA Engineer @ Cengage Learning
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Led content validation task 
•	Developed Java, JavaScript, VBA, Perl scripts using REST API, RegEx to facilitate a more efficient and budget friendly QA process, to identify risks and make proposal to the content team
•	Provided analysis and validation of XML/JSON files for the features and activities of products 
•	Tested content and overall functionality of Math Educational products: content rendering and grading engine developed with HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash etc. for MTQ and Developmental Math projects
•	Performed Functional, Regression, System Integration, Build Acceptance, OS/Browser Compatibility, Smoke, GUI and Accessibility testing 
•	Participated in all steps of Bugs Life Cycle using JIRA bug-tracking system, including bug reporting, bug tracking, bug fix verification, bug closing or reopening along with creating JIRA Tasks 
•	Created different levels of test documentation covering content testing
•	Participated in daily Clue content/Content Engineering and Escal & Bug Triage meetings
•	Performed content deployment on QA and Staging environment using web services
•	Provided Tier 2 support for DevMath Project, reviewing and tracking production ESCAL tickets
•	Managed vendor defect tickets and coordinated external vendor testing

### Software QA Consultant @ uTest
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Tested Web and Mobile applications

### Software Automation Engineer, Director @ Unit-Service
Jan 2000 – Jan 2014
•	Provided functional and content testing of 1C software, both original packages and customized modules
•	Provided beta-testing of each new release “1C accounting” 
•	Communicated with 1C developers and tracked issues to closure
•	Assisted clients with automation of their accounting systems
•	Analyzed business requirements specific to client’s needs
•	Developed algorithms and customized 1C software for clients’ needs using internal script language similar to JavaScript and SQL-based queries
•	Deployed software solutions for retail stores


## Education
### Intro to Java and Java EE
Farata Systems

### Software QA
PCS

### Ukrainian equivalent of Master of Sciences in math, Probability and Statistics
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/galina-tymonina

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Last updated: 2026-04-01