Даниил

DENIAL GURTOVOY
SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

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Hamburg, Germany

EDUCATION
SUMMARY

Junior Specialist Entry-level Manual QA Engineer with solid theoretical knowledge and practical skills
Degree in Software Engineering developed through self-study and real tool usage.
Practiced testing approaches using demo applications, public APIs, and simulated
College of Information Systems and
bug investigation. Strong motivation to grow into a confident QA professional
Technologies, Kyiv National Economic Basic understanding of REST APIs, request/response validation, and error handling
University. Familiar with Chrome DevTools and SQL for analyzing app behavior and checking
2016 – 2018 backend data
Studied the software testing lifecycle (STLC), Agile/Scrum processes, and team
collaboration principles
Detail-oriented, responsible, and eager to learn from real-world tasks
SKILLS Committed to improving product quality and gaining experience through practice
and teamwork

Postman, Swagger, Burp Suite,

SoapUI, TestRail, OWASP ZAP,
Self-Study & Practical Exercises (2023–2025)
Nmap, Jira, Confluence, REST,

JSON, XML, SQL (MariaDB, MySQL, Learning through hands-on practice, QA courses, and working with public tools.
Practiced manual testing on demo sites and open platforms
PostgreSQL), DBeaver, Git, GitHub, Explored positive/negative test scenarios based on user expectations
Learned to work with Postman for sending requests and analyzing API responses
macOS Terminal (CLI), QA vs QC,
Studied and wrote basic SQL queries for data checks (SELECT, WHERE, JOIN)
SDLC, STLC, OSI Model, Agile, Investigated frontend behavior using Chrome DevTools (console & network tab)
Reported mock bugs in structured format (description, steps, expected vs actual)
Scrum, Kanban, Fiddler, Figma
Studied SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum theory and applied in simulations
Followed Figma designs to learn UI testing basics
Trained with tools like Jira, TestRail, Git, Swagger, and DBeaver

LANGUAGE
I understand that most companies are looking for candidates with real team
Englisch - B2 experience. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the opportunity to work in a
professional QA team yet.
German - B2
However, I’m fully committed to becoming a strong QA engineer and have been
Ukrainian - Native learning independently every day — studying networks, protocols, models, and
creating my own test scenarios to better understand how systems interact as a
Russian - Native
whole.