Position: QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 5


Senior QA Engineer with 5 years of experience in the fintech industry. Hands-on experience in all stages of web- and client-server application development. Participated in the development at all stages of the SDLC. I worked with multiple Agile Teams in enterprise environment. Communicated with management, developers and support teams(internal and external). My strengths are effective verbal and written communication, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to quickly learn new technical concepts.

I worked as a manual QA tester on the FX trading platform for the top 1 country bank. In this project I was a member of an Agile team (~30 members) which was a part of a larger banking department (~500 members). I participated in the development process from the stage of prototyping to launch and continued analyzing feedback in production.

- Testing of back-end, front-end and third-party service integrations.
- Deep level research of submitted defects (Log analysis of all internal and external services and protocols; analyzing code in Bitbucket)
- Creation and support of gherkin syntax-based test cases
- Setup, execution and analysis report of auto and manual tests (Allure framework)
- Deployment and configuration of test environments (Docker, Openshift), work with different CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Docker, Gradle)
- Collaborated with analysts, developers, support, and product manager.
- Trained, coached, and supervised new staff members.

Worked as a Manual QA in an Agile team on various internal projects. I took an active part in creating testing processes, trained employees, and interviewed candidates.

Later I was assigned as a leader of a small QA team on a multi-component analytical web platform. I was responsible for developing of testing procedures by defining quality metrics and test strategies. To ensure productivity I set milestones and criteria to track timely progress.

- Manual testing of applications, utilities, web interfaces, trading platform plugins.
- Assisted in the development and maintenance of the project and corporate Quality Department procedures
- Process automation: creating and maintaining a load and demo environment, writing Python scripts for generating data
- Creating, maintaining, prioritizing and distributing tasks and bugs in Jira.
- Definition and analysis of quality assurance metrics, improving operational workflows