Eugene Bondar

Senior QA Analyst and Automation Developer

Skilled IT Professional, QA Analyst and Automation Developer with 10+ years of experience in Software Testing, Development, and Consulting. Specializes in API testing, backend, ETL, and Data Management.

Skills & Proficiencies

  • Functional, Acceptance, Integration and Regression Testing

  • Backend testing and Automation (8y+) - Spock, jUnit, PyTest

  • FrontEnd testing (3y+) - Java, Selenium and Groovy/Geb

  • WebServices and API Testing Automation - Postman, UnitTests, pytest

  • BDD and TDD (TestDriven Dev) approach

  • Test frameworks development from scratch and maintenance

  • Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) testing, support and Maintenance

  • SQL and noSQL (Mongo) Databases testing and scripting

  • Linux (Unix), usage and administration (Bash Scripting)

  • Java/Groovy software development

  • Python development and scripting

  • Web Services development and testing

  • DevOps and CI/CD skills

  • Business requirements analysis and building use cases and testing scenarios and approaches

  • Networking (traffic sniffing and analyzing)

  • Jira, Git, maven, svn, Jenkins etc

  • Teaching and training, organizing workshops

  • Agile/Scrum software development process and approach

  • Internal technical support and training

Career Highlights

FDJ (Française des Jeux) Gaming Solutions - QA Analyst and Automation Developer (contract for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation) - Toronto, ON

(October 2019 - October 2025)

  • Acceptance and Integration Testing for OLG project in Sports Betting - Proline+, including web, retail and mobile app

  • Creating and managing test suites for the project (in TestRail)

  • Testing Automation for Web, WebServices and ETL needs

  • Technical Support and QA team support for various tasks, integration needs, data generation, training etc

  • End user demo, trainings and support

RBC - QA Analyst & Support - Toronto, ON

(Nov 2018 - Oct 2019)

  • Participated in internal RBC initiative for Behavior Driven Development implementation in QA processes, provided internal support and analysis, helped to establish BDD practice and usage.

  • Performed ETL tasks in scope of log files grabbing, analyzing and transforming into statistics

  • Participated in ETL/Integration project for DB migration and system integration between RBC internal systems and supplier solution

  • Technical and consulting support for various QA consulting, best practices, video trainings, tools selection and automation tasks.

  • Managed several integration and optimization projects.

Senior QA Analyst/Software Developer at QA Consultants, contracted by AT&T Canada (Toronto, ON)

(March 2016 - Oct 2018)

  • Worked with Dev and QA team for automation testing of video processing workflow, transcoding, ingestion, packaging and content delivering

  • Developed automation testing framework and rule execution engine on Java/Groovy/Python for validation of complex data entities represented in JSON files (that was tough!)

  • Regular Unit testing using Spock framework (Groovy, Java world).

  • Developed Jersey-based(Spring boot, CI/CD continuous delivery pipeline) REST microservices that worked as facade for integrating various internal resources and behaviour/integration testing

  • Linux and bash usage for everyday QA purposes and scripting

  • Databases - MongoDB, Mysql, Redis

Java Developer/Customer support and Data Onboarding at Thomson Reuters (Kyiv, Ukraine)

(June 2013 - December 2014)

  • Data Flow Monitoring and problem resolving

  • ETL - Web scrapping based on Java, parsing, processing, transformation and storing

  • SQL & Oracle Databases

  • Internal customer support

QA & Support Engineer at Sumix Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

(August 2010 - June 2013)

  • Customer support

  • Testing of web & desktop based Java Applications

  • WebServices testing

  • Customer technical support and troubleshooting

  • General networking and troubleshooting, traffic sniffing and debugging

Academic Narrative

Fanshawe College (London, ON, Canada)

January 2015 – August 2015
Information Security Management Graduate Certificate Program

National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” at Kyiv, Ukraine.

2008 – 2010
Master of Science in Computer Science
2004 – 2008
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science