Filip Balák
Senior Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolFilip Balák is a Senior Quality Engineer with nine years at Red Hat, specializing in storage, cloud and security for OpenShift Container Storage and OpenShift Data Foundation. He leads test planning and automation for complex features like encryption, upgrades, monitoring and NooBaa multicloud object gateway, blending hands-on backend development with team leadership. His open-source work on the ocs-ci project demonstrates practical expertise in CephFS storage class testing, resilient test design and infrastructure-focused refactors that improve stability. Trained in systems engineering, he brings a systems-level view to validating distributed storage at scale and a knack for turning invalid or edge-case configurations into repeatable, automated tests.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Inženýr (Ing.), Systems Engineering, Inženýr (Ing.), Systems Engineering at Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
python10
cephfs10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
logging8
documentation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
red-hat-storage/ocs-ci
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:947 reviews, 211 commits, 415 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Filip primarily focused on creating and testing CephFS Storage Classes with invalid configurations. Their work involved developing test cases, writing templates for PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs), and adding fixtures to simulate invalid setups. They also refactored code, corrected typos, and incorporated best practices like using constants for PVC statuses and using `wait_for_resource` functions to improve stability. They demonstrated skills in both backend development, through the creation of code, and in test automation, with the creation of numerous tests and refactoring of existing test structures.
usmqe/usmqe-tests
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Tendrl automated test code
Contributions:595 commits, 92 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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