Position: Senior / Lead QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 8

Established testing process on multiple projects from scratch. 
Performed audit of existing QA process, prepared a plan and implemented improvements resulting in increased quality of the application. 
Developed QA development matrix. 
Developed QA interview template. 
Developed tests for QA interviews. 
Volunteered as a mentor.
8 years of professional experience in the IT industry specializing in Quality Assurance;

Rich experience with different types of testing (black box, grey box, functional, regression, integration, ad hoc, etc.), focus areas and testing implementations; 

Experienced in mentoring, carrying out interviews, and personal development planning for QA staff, cultivation of QA culture and philosophy; 

Experience in leading and managing others, offering the appropriate balance of supervision and empowerment;

Experience in setting up testing processes, Jira flows, and work organization;

Experience in implementation and monitoring of various testing metrics and reports;

Wide range of software testing expertise and QA skills: 
- Creation and maintenance of QA processes and workflows according to various SDLC methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban); 
- Requirements analysis and clarification; 
- Design of test documentation (test suites, test plans, test cases, test coverage, summary reports, bug reports, release notes, etc.); 
- Planning test activities, providing estimation; 
- Support of test environments; 
- Evaluating test results and reporting to stakeholders; 
- Testing of: Web, mobile applications; Web services and APIs (REST API); Chatbot (NLP).
- Programming and Markup Languages: XML, SQL, HTML, JS
- Databases: MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle. 
- Bug Tracking/Test Management Systems: Jira, Redmine, ZenHub; TestRail, Zephyr. 
- Tools: Jenkins, DevTools, Postman, Swagger, SQL Server Client Tools, Toad, Notepad ++, Cypress.
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux.
Not interested in BI testing (ETL process testing).