Дар'я

DARIA KOVNIR
QA Team Lead/QA Engineer
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) Kyiv, Ukraine

SUMMARY
QA Team Lead with 5+ years of experience in eCommerce product
development and 2.5+ years leading QA processes, release management,
stakeholder communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
LANGUAGES Experienced in building QA practices from scratch, mentoring engineers,
English Advanced
coordinating releases, and ensuring product quality across large-scale
international Magento 2 platforms. Strong expertise in functional,
Ukrainian Native regression, integration, performance, and API testing. ISTQB Certified.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
EXPERIENCE
心 Reduced production server
errors by 99% (2,000 → 17) QA Team Lead 01/2023 - Present
through systematic root SaM Solutions
cause analysis • Built and led the QA team from scratch: established test documentation
standards, release readiness criteria, and bug triage workflows.
√ Flagged a voucher database
• Onboarded and mentored new QA engineers; conducted QA interviews and
issue with 17,000+ records participated in hiring.
silently degrading platform • Coordinated QA across multiple release cycles; ensured adequate time and
performance resource allocation per release.
• Organized STLC processes across projects and actively assisted in sprint
口 Built QA processes and planning.
testing workflows from • Led end-to-end QA for Hyva theme rollout across 10 international stores,
scratch, including test covering full regression cycles on dev and staging environments.
documentation standards, • Tested full payment integration: guest checkout, 3DS Secure, save card flows,
refunds, and cancellations; triaged post-release regressions.
bug triage workflows, and • Coordinated automation initiatives including Cypress and Playwright
release readiness criteria regression suite improvements, helping increase regression coverage and
reduce manual testing effort.
Led QA across 10-country • Authored QA documentation (Confluence guides, post-release bug reports,
Hyva theme rollout with no go/no-go performance reports for stakeholders).
critical post-launch blockers
QA Engineer 07/2020 - 01/2023

★ Improved development-to SaM Solutions
QA handoff process by • Creating and maintaining test documentation, interaction and support with other
introducing structured teams and departments on the project.
testing artifacts and fix • Identifying and documenting bugs and defects, performing various types of
testing.
validation standards, • Performed manual testing of checkout flows: address validation, postcode logic,
reducing task return cycles payment restrictions, coupon behavior, shipping thresholds.
from 5–6 iterations to 1–2 • Wrote test cases, checklists, acceptance criteria, and bug reports; monitored
on average. developer fixes and confirmed resolutions.
• Performed functional, non-functional, regression, and exploratory testing across
web and integration layers.
CERTIFICATIONS • Provided regular test reports to development team and client representatives.
ISTQB Certified Tester
QA Engineer 01/2020 - 07/2020
Foundation Level
Freelance
February 2 0 2 4
• Writing bug reports, checklists, functional, non-functional testing, project
INTERESTS support at the launch stages

Music
Dance
Traveling
KEY SKILLS
QA Leadership & Process Management .
• Mentoring and onboarding QA engineers, conducting interviews, and
supporting professional development.
• Building and improving QA processes, release readiness criteria, bug triage
workflows, and testing standards
• Coordinating QA activities across multiple projects and release cycles.
• Risk assessment, release planning, stakeholder communication, and quality
ownership.
• Providing structured QA reports, release status updates, quality metrics, and
testing summaries to development teams, stakeholders, and management.

Testing Expertise
• Hands-on experience testing web and mobile applications throughout the
SDLC
• Functional, non-functional, regression, exploratory, integration,
acceptance, usability, and performance testing.
• Test planning, test case creation, checklist preparation, bug reporting, and
test execution.
• Cross-browser, multi-platform, desktop, and mobile web testing.
• REST API testing using Postman.

Technical Skills
• Understanding of SDLC/STLC processes and Agile methodology.
• Understanding of web technologies, client-server architecture, REST
APIs, API integrations, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Trello, Odoo, and QA documentation
management.
• Experience coordinating Cypress and Playwright test automation initiatives.
• Basic SQL knowledge for data verification and troubleshooting.
• Basic Git workflow understanding.

Domain Expertise
• 5+ years of experience in eCommerce projects based on Magento 2.
• Hands-on experience testing checkout flows, payment integrations, shipping
providers, promotions, subscriptions, and multi-store international platforms.
• Experience testing third-party integrations including payment providers,
shipping services, loyalty platforms, and external APIs.

EDUCATION

Marketing, Banking 09/2020 - 12/2021

Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Dnipro, Ukraine
Engineering and Architecture
Finance, Banking 09/2016 - 05/2020

Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Dnipro, Ukraine
Engineering and Architecture

TRAINING / COURSES
Software Testing Skillup Basic Web & SQL Skillup
February 2 0 2 0 May 2019