Andrej Podhradsky
Principal Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolAndrej Podhradsky is a Principal Quality Engineer with 14 years of experience driving test operations and quality architecture at Red Hat, currently coordinating QE for OpenShift AI and previously shaping managed services pipelines. He specializes in reliability engineering for cloud-native platforms, contributing to high-profile open-source testing like openshift/verification-tests where he improved OCM integrations, multi-AZ functionality, and test reliability. Known for bridging deep theoretical informatics training with pragmatic QA leadership, he has progressed from hands-on Java development and tutoring to leading cross-product QE teams for integration middleware and developer tooling. Based in Brno, he combines systems-level thinking with DevOps pragmatism, often focusing on environment configuration and flakiness mitigation that aren’t obvious from job titles alone.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Theoretical Informatics, Master, Theoretical Informatics at Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics
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Github Skills (10)
openshift10
test-automation10
ruby10
cicd9
cloud-computing9
jboss6
jboss-developer-studio6
cucumber4
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/verification-tests
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Blackbox test suite for OpenShift.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrej's contributions primarily involve modifying and maintaining the OCM (OpenShift Cluster Manager) interaction within the `openshift/verification-tests` repository. They've enhanced the `ocm` related test cases, updated the default version of the `ocm-cli` tool, and improved the multi-az functionality. Additionally, the user implemented a mechanism to optionally skip the OSD (OpenShift Dedicated) metrics wait, demonstrating a focus on test reliability and environment configuration.
test-automationtestingopenshiftrubyblackbox
apodhrad/reddeer
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
RedDeer Project
Contributions:301 pushes, 98 branches in 3 years 6 months
python
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