Taras

TARAS KATSORA
QA Engineer

Education:
2016-2020: National University «Lviv Polytechniс» Institute ofEnergy and Control Systems.
Specialty «Automation and computer – integrated technologies», bachelor’s degree.
2020-2021: Epam Java Autumn program

2020-2022: National University «Lviv Polytechniс» Institute ofEnergy and Control Systems.

Specialty «Automation and computer – integrated technologies», master’s degree.​

Experience:​
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06.2023 – 03.2025

Finmatic:
Provides a wide range of financial services for business owners, including individual IBAN, international
payments, and currency exchange. Supports cross-border payments such as SWIFT/ Target2/Sepa etc,
allowing transactions with a wide range of countries.​

01.2023 - 06.2023 - SalesForce
●​ America's most active dealmaker and leading commercial real estate finance, investment sales, and
retail leasing advisers. This project was built to help clients and brokers create deals with properties
and sell them.

12.2022 - 01.2023 - HealthCare

●​ Mobile in-home IV therapy and wellness services are administered by licensed clinicians, with a
range of wellness products shipped to you. The project is built on WordPress. This project is about
selling drips for people who want to take care of their health and stay in good shape.

06.2020 – 12.2022

Krypton:
●​ Funko is an American company that manufactures licensed and limited pop culture collectibles, best
known for its licensed vinyl figurines and bobbleheads. The company also produces licensed plush,
action figures, and apparel.
GoPreem:
●​ Preem is the first vertical social network for passionate cyclists, powered by a smart social+ app that
delivers personalized route, ride, and connection recommendations. Preem offers cyclists worldwide,
and the brands that support them, a new way to build community and enhance their cycling experience.
FGI:
Web browser testing of jewelry stores on the SANA platform. It is a B2B website where customers need
to request access to create an account. After approval from the admin side, a specific ID is assigned that
allows the customer to buy only certain kinds of rings.
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SmartCert:
●​ A website where clients can create templates with certificates for aviation and space shuttle parts. Boxes
with different parts for aviation are sent all over the world. These boxes have specific certificates with
information. These certificates can be created on this website for tracking purposes.

Zoodealio:
●​ An online real estate marketplace created to keep the agent at the center of the real estate transaction
while offering exclusive and competitive products to their clients.

02.2019 – 06.2020

Web browser testing of store websites on the Magento platform.
Product websites:
●​ These websites sell various meat products in Canada. The main functionality allows customers to build
a box with different kinds of meat and create a subscription for this order.

Hydroponic website for North American distributor:
●​ This website allows customers to purchase various tools for growing and caring for plants. Additionally,
customers can find information on how to care for their favorite plants.
Website with materials for home interiors:
●​ I provided accessibility testing for a website created for people with disabilities. The aim of the
website is to sell various devices for people with blindness and low vision.

06.2018 – 02.2019

Worked as a freelance tester, testing Android apps and web projects for customers from the US and Canada.
For example:
●​ I have been testing an application created for people who are fond of the “NBA.” This application
allows users to buy tickets for real matches, place bets, and watch live streams of current games. I
have also tested various web shops and mobile apps where people can buy health care products.

Technical knowledge:
Tools:
Postman Virtualbox TestRail
Charles Figma PgAdmin
Docker Browser Stack Local environment
TestNG Maven Google spreadsheets
Intellij IDE Github Swagger
Java HTML/CSS Git
Chrome Web Development Tools
WordPress Stripe
Attentive Klavio
Nomad GiftUp
Postgress
Skills:

Manual testing Smoke testing
Acceptance testing Regression testing Test Case Writing
Web Testing Cross Browser Mobile testing
testing (Android/IOS)
UI/UX testing Functional testing E2E testing

Bug tracking systems:

Jira Azure Asana

Responsibilities:
-​ Performed functional testing.
-​ Integration, smoke,black box,E2E and regression testing.
-​ Participated in Daily Scrum meeting and provide updates on QA tasks progress and discuss/follow
up on Critical defects.
-​ Participated in Clients meetings.
-​ Performed functional, integration, smoke, black box, E2E and regression testing.
-​ Wrote SQL queries.
-​ API testing.
-​ Participated in the User Stories Review/ Requirement Analysis and Walkthrough meetings with
Business teams, BAs and understand the existing and changing Business Requirements Provide
suggestions, feedbacks during brainstorming sessions based on previous experience.
-​ Get all the clarifications raised by self, testers answered by BA/Business team on time and have it
documented, and make sure user stories are updated accordingly
-​ Managed Test data creation Closely work with various teams such as team, Dev team, DevOps team,
Third-party vendors to make sure Test environments are up and running and test environment has the
latest codes available for testing
-​ Made sure all the required physical mobile devices, perfecto devices are available with the required
IOS versions and follow up with concerned teams if there is an issue.
-​ Participated in Daily Scrum meeting and provide updates on QA tasks progress and discuss/follow
up on Critical defects.
-​ Participated in Clients meetings.
-​ Provided Java Automation on projects.
-​ Performed functional, integration, smoke, black box,E2E and regression testing.
-​ API testing.
-​ Wrote SQL queries.
-​ Deploying branches from TESTING -> STAGING -> PROD.
-​ Verifying whether deployments are successful.
-​ Creating Automation scripts using Java + Selenium
-​ Working with BitBucket/ Jenkins
-​ Created image for pipelines in bitbucket
-​ Providing documentation
-​ Creating bug reports
-​ Participated in Daily Scrum meeting and provide updates