Tetiana

Kazanova Tetiana
Country: Ukraine
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Summary
Strategic QA Lead with 12+ years in Quality Assurance, including 6 years leading
multinational teams. Proven success in aligning QA processes with business goals,
managing risks, and delivering high-quality products on time.

Core Competencies
Leadership & Strategy:
● 5 years of experience in setting up and driving QA activities in Agile projects
● Team coordination (10 members, 2 teams)
● Ability to discover potential project risks, escalate them, and take corrective actions
● Participated in hiring, interviewing, onboarding and development planning for QA
team members.
Testing Expertise:
● Hands-on experience in grooming, planning, and test estimation processes
● Excellent skills in project requirements analysis
● Knowledge of testing theoretical bases, good understanding of testing types
● Hands-on experience with test design techniques (including Pairwise testing, State
transition diagram and table, Decision table)
● Experience with test documentation (traceability matrix, test design and test cases,
mockup, bug report) development
● Ability to locate, investigate and describe a problem
● Test design techniques (Boundary Values, Equivalent partitioning, Pairwise, State
transition, Decision table).
Tools & Tech: Azure DevOps, Zephyr, JIRA, TFS, Browser DevTools, BrowserStack, REST API,
Postman, SQL, HTML, CSS, SoapUI, WebStorm, DataGrip, Confluence, Google Analytics/Tag
Manager.
Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall.
Soft Skills: Mentored engineers, demonstrating strong collaboration and troubleshooting
skills
Languages: Ukrainian - native, English – Fluent.
Professional Experience
QA Lead | Luxoft

2020 – Present

Lead quality assurance activities for enterprise Oil & Gas solutions delivered by
geographically distributed teams.

● Led and coordinated an international QA team of 8–10 engineers
● Successfully supported 6 major production releases while maintaining high quality
standards and minimizing production risks.
● Defined and executed project QA strategy, contributing to a 30% reduction in release
defects.
● Introduced risk-based testing and planning improvements that reduced regression
effort by approximately 40%.
● Established proactive risk identification and escalation mechanisms, improving
release predictability.
● Mentored engineers, conducted regular 1-on-1 meetings.
● Introduced process improvements, and delivered clear reports to management.
● Worked closely with automation engineers to define automation priorities, review
automated test coverage, and optimize regression strategy.

Senior QA Engineer | Luxoft

2017 – 2020

● Actively participated in grooming sessions, analyzed and clarified requirements, and
estimated user stories.
● Designed test plans, traceability matrices, and test cases.
● Developed standardized templates for user story test plans and bug reports,
improving onboarding efficiency.
● Reviewed test plans and test cases of other manual QAs.
● Reviewed and certified automated test cases.
● Assisted developers in investigating issues from a testing perspective.
● Conducted the demo.
● Collaborated closely with Product Owners, developers, and QA peers.
QA Engineer | Platinum Services Ltd

2016 – 2017

● Conducted functional, regression, and exploratory testing for VoIP platform.
● Automated regression tests using Jasmine and Protractor.
● Communicated directly with developers to resolve defects.

QA Engineer | Mementia

2015 – 2016

● Delivered QA for e‑commerce projects (Magento).
● Performed usability, cross‑browser, and regression testing.
● Presented demos to product owners.

QA Engineer | Freelance / QA Group

2014 – 2015

● Supported insurance and mobile app projects (Drupal, Android).
● Developed test cases and executed functional and usability testing.

Internet Sales Manager | Kyivstar

2012 – 2013

● Consulted customers and managed online sales.

Education
MSc, Physical Chemistry — V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University (2009–2014)
MSc, Applied Economics — V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University (2013–2015)