Zbyněk Drápela
Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolZbyněk Drápela is a Software Quality Engineer based in Brno with five years of hands-on experience in test automation and CI/CD for cloud-native platforms. At Red Hat he focuses on improving release pipelines and test reliability, contributing to OpenShift release tooling and integration tests for KIE editor components. His work spans scripting infrastructure for AKS/GKE/ Azure integrations and stabilizing Cypress-based tests for complex BPMN editor scenarios, blending DevOps and QA expertise. He pairs a master's in Communications and Informatics with practical experience in debugging and extending CI jobs, making him effective at both pipeline orchestration and detailed test design. Notably, he has helped enable ephemeral testing environments and PR workflows in a high-profile OpenShift project, showing an ability to bridge developer needs and release engineering constraints.
5 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Communications and Informatics, Master's degree, Communications and Informatics at Vysoké učení technické v Brně
Czech, English
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
cypress10
scripting10
typescript10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
openshift10
bpmn10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
typescripts10
integration-testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-kie-tools
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Tools for KIE
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:59 reviews, 13 commits, 39 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Zbyněk primarily contributed to integration tests within the `vscode-extension-pack-kogito-kie-editors` package. Their work included creating and extending tests for BPMN editor functionality, specifically related to multiple instance subprocesses and user tasks, with a focus on implementation/execution, on entry/on exit actions. The user's changes involve modifying test files to cover new test cases, adding helper classes, and adjusting test configurations to improve test reliability. Furthermore, contributions extend to modifying configuration files for retries in Cypress integration tests and adjusting autocompletion tests, indicating a focus on improving test stability and completeness.
kie
openshift/release
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 24 PRs, 208 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zbyněk's primary contributions revolve around modifying and enhancing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure configurations for the OpenShift release process. They added and modified jobs for various testing environments, including AKS and GKE, focusing on the integration of ephemeral environments with Mapt. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to image availability and implemented changes to support PR workflows, utilizing scripting to manage dependencies, and incorporating Azure resources. Their work also involved modifying and debugging existing scripts to streamline the build and release processes within the OpenShift ecosystem.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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