Senior QA Engineer

Описание

KATSIARYNA HANCHAROVA

SENIOR QA ENGINEER

Summary

QA engineer with over 9 years of experience. Strong experience in coordinating activities of a test team as well as mentoring new QA specialists.
Performed the following roles on the projects: QA Engineer, QA Team Lead, Business Analyst, Performance QA Engineer; company level roles: Resource Manager, Mentor
Wide experience in working with a distributed and co-located team, as well as working as a single QA engineer on a project.
Experience in requirements gathering and analysis, documenting and tracking changes to requirements. Vast experience in creating and maintaining up to date different kind of documentation (Test Plans, QA Metrics, Test Cases, Checklists, Functional Specifications, Mock-ups, Diagrams, Bug Reports, Test Result Reports).

Area of Expertise

Types of testing:
Functional, GUI, Compatibility, Regression, Exploratory, API, Performance, Integration, Localization, Installation, Database, Mobile, Usability
Type of projects:
Web-based apps, Desktop apps, Mobile apps
Programming languages:
Java
Databases:
MS SQL Server
IDE and tools:
IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Postman, Fiddler, VirtualBox, MS SQL Management Studio, Selenium, JMeter, Windows Performance Monitor, PICT, Enterprise Architect, Zephyr for JIRA, JIRA Xray, MS Visio
Software Construction and Design:
SQL, XML/XSL/XSLT, XSD, UML, JSON
Operating systems:
Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS
Project tracking and bug tracking systems:
JIRA, Mingle, Confluence, Azure, Trello

Experience

March 2022 - now
Senior QA Engineer
Project:
Company provides services to many insurance companies within the UK, the USA, Australia, and Canada. An external service supposed to be used by the customers of the pet insurance companies to buy pet insurance policies.
The team is responsible for the service doing its development from scratch. The service is in the active development stage. It allows pet insurance customers to go through the Quote & Buy questionnaire and to be proposed with the proper pet insurance policy to buy. There are 3 sub-teams - UI and 2 API teams, responsible for development, manual testing, auto-test creation.
Team:
1 ADC, 8 Developers, 1 BA, 2 QA
Participation:
Created test documentation (Test Strategy, Test Cases, Checklists);
Collected and analysed QA metrics;
API testing (Postman);
Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Integration testing;
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, refinement and estimation meetings.

December 2019 - February 2022
Senior QA Engineer
Project:
The goal is to gain a competitive advantage over competitors in the UK, North American and European markets by creating a new native app for telematics tracking, for iOS and Android, and SDK that can be potentially licensed to third parties.
Team:
1 ADC, 2 Android Developers, 2 iOS Developers, 1 BA, 1 QA
Participation:
Created test documentation (Test Strategy, Test Cases, Checklists);
Collected and analysed QA metrics;
Mobile testing (Android, iOS);
Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Compatibility testing, Integration testing, Localization testing, Accessibility testing;
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, refinement and estimation meetings.

September 2018 - November 2019
Senior QA Engineer
Project:
The major goal of the application to create a new, easy to use, intuitive UI for the Guarantee Registration which adheres to the Customer brand and style guide to maximize the user experience across the whole ecosystem.
Team:
1 PM, 1 DC, 1 BA, 6 Developers, 2 QA, 2 A-QA
Participation:
Created test documentation (Test Plan, Test Cases, Checklists, Test Result Reports);
Collected and analysed QA metrics;
Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Compatibility testing, Integration testing, Permissions testing;
Mobile testing (Android, iOS);
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, refinement and estimation meetings;
Coordinated activities of manual and automation test team.

October 2017 - September 2018
Senior QA Engineer
Project:
The product is used for sharing images and videos on the Internet. The product consists of desktop application, mobile web application, Android and iOS applications. Project includes redesign of main pages for desktop application, ads and analytics for all applications along with updates for core functionality.
Team:
1 PM, 3-5 Developers, 1-2 QA
Participation:
Created test documentation;
Functional testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Compatibility testing;
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, discussions;
Mobile testing (Android, iOS).
May 2017 - September 2017
Senior QA Engineer
Project:
The product goal is to optimize hiring by pre-qualifying applicants for tax credit programs and making that data available to employers during the hiring process. The project consists of a web application, which receives data and PDF documents from other web applications, and allow to process received data, sign and download PDF documents.
Team:
1 PM, 1 BA, 3 DEV, 1 QA
Participation:
Performed manual functional testing, GUI testing, compatibility testing, mobile testing;
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, discussions;
Created / Updated Test Plan (using Confluence); analysed and documented defects (using JIRA); created Test Cases (using MS Excel).

January 2015 - April 2017
QA Engineer / Senior QA Engineer
Project:
The product goal is to process user requests for life insurance policies and annuities. The project consists of several integrate web applications: public website, where end users can apply for life insurance policy on their own; web applications, where insurance agents help users to create application. Each application is validated depending on the desired life insurance product and personal information of the applicant, whereupon, the user or agent fills out PDF documents.
Team:
1 PM, 3-6 DEV, 1-3 QA
Participation:
Performed manual functional testing, integration testing, GUI testing, compatibility testing, database testing (MSSQL), performance testing (JMeter, Windows Performance Monitor);
Analysed, documented and updated functional requirements (using Confluence, MS Visio, Balsamiq Mock-ups, MS Excel);
Created / updated Test Plan (functional and performance), analysed and documented defects (using JIRA), created Checklists and Test Cases (using MS Excel), created Test Result Reports (functional and performance), created traceability matrix;
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, discussions;
Coordinated activities of a test team, performed on-boarding and knowledge transfer to new team members.

August 2014 - January 2015
QA Engineer
Project:
The product is used for scouring the market in search of the best deals from the UK's leading home insurance companies, so that users are able to review quotations from the country's top house insurance providers from the one page and sеlесtthe most appropriate one for them.
Team:
1 PM, 14 Developers, 5 QA
Participation:
Created Test Cases using all pairs testing technique (using PICT); updated Test Plan;
Created JSON files according to given schema and validated JSON files (using online tools);
Performed manual functional testing, integration testing, web services testing (REST);
Analysed and documented defects (using Mingle);
Actively participated in daily meetings, retrospectives, discussions.
February 2014 - August 2014
Junior QA Engineer
Project:
The product includes 2 separate sub-projects. The first one is a SharePoint web portal (several integrated websites) for Top managers, Account and Resource Managers to gather and present different kind of information, metrics and analysis data from different sources in one system. The product represents a mechanism for collaboration and document storage within the groups united on some basis. The second sub-project is a SharePoint website used to establish fully controlled processes of tasks life cycle and provide a possibility to track tasks statuses.
Team:
1 Project Manager, 2 BA, 10 Developers, 2 QA
Participation:
Worked on 2 unrelated sub-projects simultaneously;
Analysed and discussed functional requirements with BA;
Performed manual functional testing, integration testing;
Analysed and documented defects (using JIRA);
Created Test Cases (using JIRA plug-in);
Presented experience of working with JIRA plug-in for test cases to colleagues (using MS PowerPoint).

November 2013 - February 2014
Junior QA Engineer
Project:
The product goal is to provide translation and transportation services to the upcoming appointments, with further processing: storing, reporting, invoicing, sending proper notifications. The application consists of a group of standalone applications and several information web portals, which are connected through databases and web services.
Team:
1 Project Manager, 1 BA, 3 Developers, 1 QA
Participation:
Analysed and discussed functional requirements with BA;
Summarized and documented requirements (using Confluence);
Performed manual functional testing, integration testing, GUI testing, compatibility testing, mobile testing;
Analysed and documented defects (using JIRA);
Created Checklists and Test Cases (using MS Excel and MS Word).

May 2013 - Aug 2013
Junior QA Engineer
Project:
Web application used to assess and manage information security risks. It allows to evaluate the expected damage from the occurrence of information security risks, to evaluate and justify the necessity to allocate budget for information security, create report of risk assessment and create a risk treatment plan.
Team:
1 Project Manager, 6 Developers, 3 QA
Participation:
Created Checklists and Test Cases (using MS Excel);
Performed manual functional testing, GUI testing, compatibility testing;
Analysed and documented defects (using JIRA).

Education
Mechanical Engineering University
Mogilev, Belarus
September 2009 - June 2014
Qualification:
Information Technology Engineer
Degree:
Specialist

Foreign Languages
Upper-Intermediate level of English

Trainings
Basics of Gestalt Therapy (2020-2023)
Yandex School for Mentors (2020)
REST API Automation testing from scratch (2017)
Selenium WebDriver with Java (2017)
Performance Testing Mentoring Program (2017)
Email Correspondence (2016)
Java Training (2015)
Functional Testing Mentoring Program (2014)
Software Testing (2013)

Contacts
Email: kats.hancharova@gmail.com
Phone: +375336259471