Liudmyla

Liudmyla Afanasieva
Business Analyst
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Summary:
Business Analyst with 2 years of commercial experience and 5 years in Software Quality Assurance.
Experienced in requirements elicitation, stakeholder collaboration and translating business needs into
clear functional solutions. A strong QA background allows me to identify product risks early, improve
requirement quality and bridge communication between business and development teams.

Skills:
BA: Requirements Elicitation, Stakeholder Management, Functional Requirements, User Stories,
Acceptance Criteria, Business Process Analysis, Process Modelling, Documentation, SDLC, Agile
Scrum
QA: Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, API Testing, Test Design, UAT, Defect
Management

Technical:
SQL, REST API, Postman, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Figma, Marvel, MongoDB, DBeaver,
Playwright, JavaScript

Tools:
Jira, Confluence, Trello
Work Experience

Business Analyst (Aug 2024 - Present)
QFinds - Full-time
- Analyse and document functional requirements
- Gather and analyse business requirements from stakeholders
- Prepare user stories and acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with Product Owner, Development and QA teams
- Participate in backlog refinement and sprint planning
- Support UAT and production releases
- Maintain project documentation in Confluence
- Collaborated with developers and QA throughout the SDLC

QA Engineer/QA Team-Lead (Nov 2021 - May 2024)
KSF Technologies AG · Full-time
- Performed manual testing of web and mobile applications (Windows, iOS and Android)
- Designed and maintained test documentation
- Conducted REST API testing using Postman
- Mentored junior QA engineers
- Planned QA activities across multiple projects
- Coordinated a QA team of 10+ engineers
- Reviewed test artefacts and ensured testing quality
- Collaborated with Project Managers and Developers to plan releases
- Participated in release planning
QA Engineer (Oct 2019 - Oct 2021)
QFinds - Full-time
- Performed manual functional testing of web and mobile applications
- Developed test documentation
- Developed project documentation
- Regression testing

QA Engineer (Oct 2017 - Oct 2019)
Lyceum "Keyschool" · Part-time
- API testing
- Positive/Negative testing
- Test documentation

Education

Professional Training

- 2022 — QA Team Lead Course
- 2022 — Project Management Course
- 2018 — API Testing (QALight)
- 2018 — SQL (QALight)
- 2018 — Postman (QALight)
- 2017 — Manual QA (Fishing Rod QA)

Kyiv Institute of Business and Technology (2013-2018)
Master's degree, Finance and Credit