Valerii Ponomarov
Software Engineer In Test at ScyllaDB
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolValerii Ponomarov is a Software Engineer in Test with 12 years of experience building reliable test automation and backend tooling for cloud and distributed systems. Currently at ScyllaDB, he brings deep OpenStack expertise from significant contributions to projects like Tempest and Rally, where he improved test stability, pluggability, and benchmarking for real-world cloud components. His background blends Python backend development and QA engineering across Mirantis and SoftServe, focused on making complex cloud telemetry and APIs more testable and maintainable. Trained as a telecommunications engineer, Valerii pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic test design and a knack for refactoring brittle tests into durable, reusable suites. An interesting detail: he has hands-on experience fixing low-level CLI and REST client initialization issues in high-profile OpenStack test frameworks, improving test reliability for large-scale cloud deployments.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
pest10
api-rest10
rest-api10
openstack10
temper10
tempo10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
rest-test9
api-testing9
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/rally
May 2015 - Nov 2016
Rally provides a framework for performance analysis and benchmarking of individual OpenStack components as well as full production OpenStack cloud deployments. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Valerii primarily focused on improving the reliability and functionality of the OpenStack Rally project. They addressed a bug related to HTTP response codes, modifying the `get_from_manager` function and related unit tests. Furthermore, the user introduced new features like explicitly specifying users for scenarios, enhancing the flexibility of the testing framework. Additionally, the user contributed by adding support for the Manila project, including the creation of a benchmark for share listing operations.
benchmarkingopenstack
openstack/tempest
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Valerii primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the OpenStack Tempest project. Their contributions included fixing existing test cases, specifically addressing initialization issues in CLI tests and correcting v3 test server listings. They also refactored REST client tests and implemented pluggability improvements for exceptions, demonstrating a focus on test stability, and maintainability. These changes involved modifications across multiple test files, indicating a thorough engagement with the testing infrastructure of the project.
openstacktesting
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