Position: Senior QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 8

As a freelancer in Applause, I had been testing a lot of different products for different customers. Some were short and some long-term projects. For example, Dow Jones (products The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, etc), Audi, Payoneer. These customers awarded me the ‘Favourite tester’ at the platform and extended the contract every year, for 5 years in a row until I left.
Tools and technologies - Postman, Charles, DevTools, Swagger API, Jenkins, GitHub, Terminal commands, ADB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, JMeter, Redmine, Figma, TestFlight, Firebase, TestFlight, Xcode, JavaScript, Ruby, RubyMine IDE, VS Code, TestRail, Test management tool.

I've been working as a manual QA Engineer for the last 8 years. Since Dec 2022 started to work as a Manual / Automation QA engineer (50 / 50).
I tested dozens of different software applications in various domains: e-commerce, healthcare, entertainment, finances, education, music, gambling, and news. Respectively I worked with customers in different domains such as New York Post, Audi, Rolex, Nike, Payoneer, and others. 
Also worked on SaaS products such as Aircall, Magisto, Orbit Drive, Orbit Mail, Orbit Browser by Synchronoss technologies Inc.

I have experience in functional, backed, and API testing, working with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, bug-tracking systems, test management tools, writing/executing test cases, and applying various testing techniques. In addition, I have hands-on experience in Automation testing in Ruby (Appium, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver). 
I am a team player with excellent communication and soft skills. I have 6 years of experience working with distributed teams across different time zones so I understand the importance of communication and collaboration, and I am skilled at using various tools to ensure that remote teams work seamlessly.

Responsibilities in my last position:
- Release manager of new builds in AppStore and Play Store;
- Creating test cases, checklists, bug-reports, test scripts and high-level test plans;
- 3rd party integrations testing;
- Functional testing: regression, acceptance, smoke, exploratory, testing;
- Non-functional testing: localization, usability, performance, requirements testing; 
- Payment testing: Debit/Credit card, PayPal, Bancontact, Apple Pay, Android Pay;
- Backend, DB and API testing;
- Testing of the backend cache (Aerospike NoSQL DB and Elasticsearch);
- Monitoring and analyzing syslog logs via SSH and Sentry;
- Recording demo videos to demonstrate new features;
- Close collaboration with PM, stakeholders and development team every day;
- Creating and maintaining test automation scripts in POM with Appium and Selenium using OOP principles;
- Mentoring other QA Engineers;
- Suggested improvements for both manual and automation QA teams for better test coverage;
- Worked in a scrum team(Agile);