How to deal with micromanaging architect
I have been moved to automation recently. I’m closely working with a QA architect who has more than 25 years of experience. He designed the framework and started to share in slack as zipfile-v1, v2 etc. Once I asked him whether we can switch to git so that collaboration will be easier. And he told me not to worry about pushing the code. So I followed his way, and started to use the file he shared. Then one day he pushed the framework to git along with the configuration files in the feature branch. He told me to push my changes once all the test cases are completed. I asked him whether I can push my changes with few test cases but he told me to push the code once I complete all the assigned test cases. So, I pushed my changes and he created PR. I tried to mask the config files and I missed one of them. One of the reviewers asked me to mask the config file as the last commit was from me. Another reviewer told not to commit these many changes in a single PR, 15 files and 3000 lines were pushed. When he saw the review comments he asked me to learn gitignore as if I have committed the config files and told me to commit fewer test cases and blamed me. While pushing the changes he told me to push my venv as well, but I didn’t push it as it was not logical to push venv to git. He said that if I push venv, anyone who cloning the repo can easily run the framework, they don’t have to install dependencies. His reasoning and way of working doesn’t help me in any way. If something breaks, blame is on me and if something works credit is for him. Have anyone of you worked with such kind of people. Please guide me on how to work with these kind of people
Other thing is that, daily he schedules call, which lasts up to 3 hours and sometimes even his calls doesn’t make sense. So I’ve to work late in the evening to compensate the time wasted in calls. Sometimes there will be multiple calls and no time to work. If I put lunch break or away, he still calls. If unable to reach out in slack, will call via mobile. When I was on sick leave he texted on WhatsApp to connect with him when I feel better. Please help me to deal with him