Position: Senior QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 7


Highly skilled and self motivated Senior QA Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience in web application testing. Specialized in functional(system, API, smoke, regression, UAT) and non-functional(security) manual testing. Committed to agile testing principles and keeping up-to-date test documentation. Mainly focused on server side testing(REST and SOAP APIs, third-party integrations).
My professional ambitions are to learn test automation(Pytest, Cypress), database testing and test the waters of DevOps(CI/CD, AWS).

Skills:
Agile testing
Requirements analysis
Test documentation
Functional(system, API, smoke, regression, UAT) testing
Non-functional(security) testing
REST and SOAP API testing(Postman, Swagger, Soap UI)
Chrome & Firefox DevTools
Git, linux commands
SQL
Test automation(Selenium, Pytest) - beginner
Python - beginner

Experience
-Solo QA for the team of 5 python developers. Established best practices of agile testing. Improved overall quality of functionalities released by the team.
-Functional and non-functional(security) manual testing.
-Mainly focused on REST and SOAP API testing(Postman, Swagger, Soap UI). 
-Tested integrations with third-party services. 
-Developed and maintained test documentation(test plans, test cases, checklists).
-Communicated with product managers to define requirements and acceptance criteria for the development team.
-Prepared test cases and acceptance criteria for the automation QA team.
-Took responsibility for not only testing but deployment, release and monitoring of one of the key services of the platform.
-Maintained automated tests for two services(Python, Pytest).
-Participated in deployment automation of one service. 
-Conducted root cause analysis of complex problems, insisted on their permanent fixes which later saved the company $$$.
-Created guides and step-by-step user manuals for internal knowledge base.