Position: QA Lead
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 4

7+ years of experience in testing bank core system (desktop)
4+ years of leading and managing QA team (from 6 to 23 people)
Career progression from Junior position through Team Lead to Head of QA Department
Implementation of test documentation managing system within the company (TestRail)
Formation of QA team (interviewing, onboarding and task scheduling) for new processing services system
Certified QA (ISTQB Foundation Level, in process of preparing to ISTQB Advanced TM)
Skills:
7+ experience in testing in the finance area
Experience in managing team of 20+ people

Technical skills:
		System development life cycle and testing life cycle (TLC, SDLC)
		Test Management Methodology, Agile (SCRUM, Kanban)
		Common Tools: JIRA, Confluence,  Bitbucket, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Teams
		QA Tools: TestRail, Toad for Oracle, PostMan, SoapUI, etc
		Business systems: B2, IS-Card, SmartVista
		Version control system (SVN, GIT)
		Basic knowledge of REST API architecture, Linux system and Web/Mobile testing
		Language skills: Ukrainian / Russian - native, English – upper-intermediate, French - Elementary


Work Experience:
QA\QA Team Lead\Head of QA Department
Aug 2015 - present time (since 2022, on maternity leave)              Alfa Bank Ukraine (www.sensebank.com.ua)
Key Qualifications and Responsibilities:
 - Performing ongoing QA tasks (manual testing)
 - Configuring test environment 
 - Writing of test documentation (including test-cases design, test plans, bug reports, test summary reports, test policy, etc) - Working with BD (SQL) - Performing ongoing QA tasks
 - Setting up and adjusting of QA processes (including design and improvement of Test Policy, Test Strategy and test documentation templates)
 - Releases test management
 - Team Management (20+ people)
 - Estimation test-effort
 - Organization of complex integration testing with joint projects and teams
 - Onboarding, Coaching and Mentoring newcomers