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DARIA PYROZHENKO
PROFESSIONAL QA’ teams leading and testing process establishment.
SUMMARY Project management, business analysis, functional and non-functional testing.
Communication building between multinational customers, internal teams across
multiple time zones, or in a local private environment.
Executing the operational side of ventures, IT, private businesses’ management.

SKILLS Software Development methodology’s: Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban).
Continuous integration of Q/A into Software Development Life Cycle.
Test artifacts and documentation developing (test strategy, plan, test-cases, suit and
scenario, scripts, checklists, reports) via Confluence, Jira, TestRail, Jenkins, Trello.
CI/CD pipelines, version control.

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.
Timely executed manual web, mobile functional, and non-functional testing
(integration, system; exploratory, GUI, localization, UI; navigation, smoke)
regression, user acceptance testing; usability, accessibility, UX).
 BUSINESS ANALYSIS
02/2023 to 07/2023
EPAM Systems – Ukraine
Collaborated in the product’s enhancements with the business team.
Requirements analysis and elicitation, clarification of new projects’ features.
Project documentation management (technical and business specifications,
instructions, requirements, acceptance criteria, user stories, user/business case).
Established the workflow: requirements prioritization, sprint grooming and
planning, demo, UAT, product and backlog review, retrospectives.

BUSINESS ANALYSIS
03/2021 to 08/2021
NIX Solutions – Ukraine
Tracked software performance and usability to identify issues or areas for
improvement in the performance reports (Tableau, SQL).
Requirements validity and analysis (user stories/cases, requirements
documentations, BDD, requirements mapping).
Facilitated meetings, demo, user acceptance testing, dev team coordination.

QUALITY ASSURANCE MANUAL TESTER
06/2018 to 03/2021
NIX Solutions – Ukraine
Investigated issues to maintain quality standards, and improved test technical
solutions by communication with the technical 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 system functionality against specifications
(integration, system; GUI, exploratory, navigation, data migration, smoke,
regression, user acceptance testing; usability, accessibility).

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

COURSES English – fluent
Ukrainian – native
French – beginner