Lefty Balogh
Exploratory Tester
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLefty Balogh is an exploratory tester with 10+ years of experience uncovering subtle, high-impact bugs across telecom, fintech, HR, and big-data systems, from tiny two-core Windows servers to 1,400-blade production deployments and Azure-hosted Kubernetes clusters. He combines intuition-driven detective work with solid automation skills—writing Bash/Python scripts, using Robot Framework and TestProject, and integrating with CI/CD and backend data collection—to turn edge cases into reproducible tickets praised as "poetic" by peers. As a former team lead building a 50-VM RedHat/CentOS test cluster and an E2E automation pipeline, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic test planning and performance/robustness validation. Comfortable across Linux, Windows and RHEL VMs, he also brings documentation and training experience from large installations, and a background in language and communication that helps him craft clear, persuasive bug reports.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M. A., English, M. A., English at Eötvös Loránd UniversityExploratory Testing - Rapid Software Testing Applied with James Bach, Exploratory Testing - Rapid Software Testing Applied with James Bach at Rapid Software Testing - Satisfice IncDSE200x Python for Data Science, Final Project Score 33/33; Final Exam Score 17.5/20; Mini Project Score 15/15, DSE200x Python for Data Science, Final Project Score 33/33; Final Exam Score 17.5/20; Mini Project Score 15/15 at University of San Diego edX
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Github Skills (9)
vim6
command-line-interface6
heredoc6
shell6
linux6
bash6
python6
redhat6
scripting6
Github contributions (5)
leftygbalogh/UtilityScripts
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
leftygbalogh/WordOrderReverser
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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