Олена

Location: Lviv, Ukraine
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Olena Matsekh

Core Skills
• Team Management & Leadership
• Highly Perfectionist
• Quick learning and adaptability
• Problem Solving Skills
• Efficient working in fast paced environments
• Communicative Team player
• Use Cases Development
• Organized and Structured
• High sense of commitment and dedication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Roadmap Planning
• Client-Facing Communication
• Project Ownership & Delivery
• Strategic Thinking
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Scrum & Kanban expert

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Certifications
- ISTQB Foundation Level
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)

Career Summary
June 2025 – present | The Gradient – Business Analyst
Responsible for gathering and analysing business needs and translating them into requirements and solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, working closely with designers and project managers.
Key Responsibilities:
• Engage with stakeholders through different stages to gather, analyse and document requirements.
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive documentation including Epics, User Stories, Scope documents and Software Requirements documentation.
• Roadmap definition
• Collaborating with dev team to ensure timely and high quality delivery of releases
• Conducting internal Sprint Planning, Groomings and Backlog Refinement sessions
• Leading a team of designers to ensure the designs meet both user and business needs
• Ongoing features support through implementation process
• Monitoring of users feedback and market for insights and potential improvements
Tools: Confluence, Jira, Notion, Figma, Likalise, AI tools, v0
October 2023 – June 2025 | Appspace – QA Manager

Responsible for the definition of the QA strategy across cross-international teams and departments. Conducting product demos and onboarding sessions for customers. Analyzing customer needs and feedback and reflecting them into a valid of backlog items and requirements documentation. Leading the Accessibility initiative in the company. Responsible for team growth, career development, and KPI definition.

Key Responsibilities:
• Establishing and maintaining QA processes and workflows within the company
• Leading Quality Assurance teams (Manual and Automation)
• Managing client issues and feedback
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify potential product risks and best strategies
• Resources and budget allocation
• KPI definition and maintenance of QA department objectives
• Collaborating with Product team on Roadmaps and release planning definitions
• Project estimations and planning
• Conducting meetings with customers to assist with potential issues or doubts regarding product behavior
• Managing the scrum ceremonies within the QA teams
• Coaching and onboarding of Engineering team members
• Backlog management
• Engineering team resources allocation
• Leading Accessibility strategy within the company
• Definition of user stories and necessary requirements for the product
• Assisting engineering and design teams with clarifications during feature implementation
• Definition of the entire QA strategy, goals, and long-term growth path for the QA department
• Preparing key product metrics based on quality and customer satisfaction
• Organizing and leading post-mortem and retrospective meetings with stakeholders and engineering teams
• Ensuring daily task alignment across teams in different time zones
• Managed a team of outsource developers

Additional responsibilities outside of traditional QA management:
• Acted as Project Manager for the company-wide Accessibility initiative
• Managed all communications with a top-tier client, the largest accessibility user of our platform
• Conducted analysis and interpretation of client needs, converting them into epics, user stories, and timelines with estimated deliveries
• Owned definition of product scope for WCAG compliance and coordinated with external auditing agencies
• Managed training programs for Product, Design, and Engineering teams focused on Accessibility principles
• Followed up with clients on progress, delivery risks, and shifting expectations
• Directed internal and external engineering teams to ensure timely delivery
• Defined features requirements for development teams
• Conducted feature kick offs, groomings, planning sessions
• Defined testing strategy and managed the QA backlog specific to accessibility compliance
• Provided day-to-day support for customers regarding platform behavior and functionalities
• Led weekly customer triage meetings to track and prioritize urgent topics
• Presented product demos to customers

Jan 2022 – October 2023 | Appspace – QA Lead

Leading a team of 7 Manual QA Engineers and 2 Automation Engineers. Defined quality indicators, testing strategies, and team goals. Worked closely with Product and Management to define requirements and ensure smooth release delivery.

Key Responsibilities:
• Planning and managing all QA activities to ensure product quality
• Supervising Mobile and Web projects
• QA resources and budget allocation
• Defining strategy for Manual and Automation QA tailored to project needs
• Requirements definition with Product Owners for Scrum Teams
• Building and enforcing the Definition of Done
• Supporting and leading scrum ceremonies
• Signing off on development milestones
• Aligning roadmaps and execution with Product, FE and BE manager
• Managing customer-specific projects and releases
• Tracking objectives and team accountability
• Identifying risks and proposing mitigations
• Facilitating customer support on issue resolutions
• Tracking team goals and training needs
• Hiring and onboarding new team member
• Reporting on product quality metrics
• Improving QA practices across the company

May 2020 – Jan 2022 | Appspace – Senior QA Engineer / Scrum Master

Key Responsibilities:
• Conducted regression and integration testing
• Authored and executed test cases based on product requirements
• Participated actively in Scrum ceremonies
• Defined acceptance criteria and helped shape product requirements
• Provided support for client-reported issues across Web and Mobile
• Participated in sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives
• Managed build deployments and release hotfixes
• Conducted QA interviews and process improvements
• Mentored new QA team members
• Managed Scrum ceremonies for the QA team internally and dev team globally
• Conducted Daily meetings, Spring Plannings and Reviews, Team Retrospectives
• Managed sprint goals and commitments to ensure timely delivery
• Removed blockers and ensured team collaboration
• Led Accessibility testing efforts and strategy
• Reported and followed up with management

July 2019 – May 2020 | Bee Square Games – QA Engineer

Key Responsibilities:
• Developed and executed test plans and test cases
• Performed exploratory, regression, and user-acceptance testing
• Communicated application status and quality to dev and management
• Handled Customer Care reports and support
• Participated in agile ceremonies and requirement review
• Managed pre-release testing and builds distribution for iOS and Android

Aug 2018 – June 2019 | Product Madness – Live Ops QA Engineer

Key Responsibilities:
• Conducted client-server, exploratory, and post-launch testing
• Developed and executed test suites across multiple projects
• Performed API and client-server communication testing
• Supported casino-based games with manual testing
• Reported issues and followed up with development teams
• Maintained communication with global teams
• Reviewed technical design documents

Nov 2017 – Aug 2018 | Gameloft – QA Lead

Key Responsibilities:
• Reviewed requirements and technical specs
• Led a QA team of 25 testers
• Defined product quality standards and testing strategy
• Estimated and prioritized QA efforts and resources
• Performed and coordinated regression testing
• Oversaw bug tracking and debugging
• Managed external QA resources
• Delivered reports to HQ and game team
• Coached and mentored team member
• Set goals and conducted evaluations

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 | Gameloft – Senior QA Engineer

Key Responsibilities:
• Reported bugs and evaluated product quality
• Mentored and coordinated junior QA testers
• Handled requests from devs and POs
• Liaised with support and QA teams
• Tracked bug progress and regressions
• Performed IAP security testing and compatibility checks
• Managed a team of 3 junior testers
• Defines testing strategy for the product release