Дар'я

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DARIA PYROZHENKO
PROFESSIONAL Business analysis, projects management, executing the operational side of ventures.
SUMMARY QA teams’ leading, QA process establishment into Software Development Life Cycle.
Communication building between multinational customers, internal teams across
multiple time zones, or in a local private environment.
Business, stakeholders’ requests and requirements elicitation.

SKILLS Software Development methodology’s: Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban).
Requirements management (SRD, BRD, RTM, BDD, requirements mapping).
Projects’ management tools (Jira, SimpleMind, Drawio, XMind, Zeplin, Miro, Figma,
TestRail, Confluence, Xray; Git, Jenkins).
Solid understanding of frontend technologies (HTML, CSS) and client-server
interaction principles.

WORK EXPERIENCE MANAGER ASSISTANT
03/2025 current job
Riverbank restaurant – Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Provide responsive customer support, planning, bookings via emails, and on site.
Multi-tasking, and micromanagement tasks on fast-paced environment.
Enhance the user experience by improving the front of house team’s workflows.

MANAGER (Chief Operational Officer)
05/2024 to 03/2025
VEAN TATTTOO UK LTD – Birmingham, United Kingdom
Managed the teams, warehouses’ stocks, customers’ base, operations of tattoo
shops.
Conducted negotiations with the international partners, investors, reaching
agreements.
Boosted the existing business strategy, analysed, and expanded areas for
development.

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER
10/2021 to 08/2023
EPAM Systems – Ukraine
Upgraded the QA testing methods: TDD; pair testing, BDD techniques into the
exciting testing strategy; participated in the white-box testing.
Introduced Agile ceremonies: technical Daily Scrum, 3Amigos session, Product
Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review.
Defined and ensured quality standards before each release, especially on the front-
end side (APIs, XML, HTML/CSS/JS).
Timely executed manual web, mobile functional, and non-functional testing
(integration, smoke, regression, user acceptance testing, etc.).
 BUSINESS ANALYST
02/2023 to 07/2023
EPAM Systems – Ukraine
Executed requirements analysis, elicitation, and clarification of new project's features
(user stories/cases, Epics, Tasks, Defects; Definition of Ready, Definition of Done,
Acceptance Criteria, BDD).
Projects’ documentation management (technical and business specifications,
instructions, requirements, acceptance criteria, user/business case).
Structured project’s information using Mind Maps, User flow, User Case diagrams,
‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ process maps, reviewed final designs.
Established the workflow: requirements prioritization, demo, UAT, scrum ceremonies
like sprint grooming, product and sprint backlog review, retrospective sessions.

BUSINESS ANALYST
03/2021 to 08/2021
NIX Solutions – Ukraine
Tracked software performance and usability to identify issues or areas for
improvement in the performance reports.
Executed requirements management: elicitation, analysis, and clarification.
Initiated updates to release activities and executed release management tasks.
Facilitated meetings, demo, user acceptance testing, development team
coordination, and staff organization.

QUALITY ASSURANCE MANUAL TESTER
06/2018 to 03/2021
NIX Solutions – Ukraine
Issues tracking and reporting using SQL querying, improving test technical solutions
by constant communication with the dev teams.
Optimized the software testing lifecycle: introduced RTM, pair testing, knowledge
transfer, backlog review, release planning.
Requirements elicitation, and customer’s communication support.
Developed and executed tests to validate the system.

EDUCATION Economics and Management Tourism studies – master’s degree, 2019
A.N.Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy

Physical geography and cartography studies – bachelor’s degree, 2017
V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University