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Yurіі Yеmеts
QA Lead | Senior QA Engineer
Location: Kyiv
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Telegram: @Yurashell

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
QA Lead / Senior QA Engineer with 9+ years of commercial experience in
software quality assurance across enterprise web applications, CRM systems
and B2B platforms. 4 years of hands-on QA leadership experience managing
teams of up to 5 QA Engineers, mentoring and onboarding engineers,
participating in hiring, planning QA activities, coordinating releases and
improving QA processes. Strong expertise in manual testing, REST API testing,
SQL/MySQL, risk-based testing, defect management, requirements analysis and
Agile delivery. Experienced in frontend and backend testing, CI/CD
environments, production issue investigation and cross-functional collaboration.

CORE COMPETENCIES
QA Leadership • QA Process Improvement • Test Strategy & Planning • Risk-Based
Testing • Test Estimation • Manual Testing • Functional / Regression / Smoke /
Sanity / Exploratory / Integration / UAT / E2E Testing • Web & Mobile Testing •
Frontend & Backend Testing • Requirements Analysis • Acceptance Criteria
Review • Defect Triage • Root Cause Analysis • Release Management • Production
Validation • Mentoring & Onboarding • Technical Interviews • Agile / Scrum

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Test Management: TestRail, Qase, Zephyr, Xray, Azure Test Plans
Issue Tracking & Documentation: Jira, Confluence, Assembla
API Testing: REST API / HTTP / JSON, Postman, Swagger
Databases: SQL / MySQL with JOINs + Subqueries
Version Control: Git, GitHub
CI/CD: Jenkins, TeamCity
Message Brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ
Debugging and Development Tools: Chrome DevTools, Firefox DevTools,
Fiddler, PhpStorm, Visual Studio Code
Logging & Monitoring: Kibana, Grafana
AI tools: ChatGPT, Сlaude, Gemini, NotebookLM

WORK EXPERIENCE

QA Lead – SoftSvit company (CRM project)
June 2025 – June 2026:
• Managed a QA team of 5 engineers
• Conducted technical interviews and participated in hiring
• Mentored QA engineers through onboarding and one-on-one meetings
• Planned Quality Assurance strategy, QA activities, estimations and smoke
testing
• Coordinated release validation and post-release testing
• Reviewed requirements and acceptance criteria with Product Owners
• Facilitated defect triage and root cause analysis

QA Lead – INFUSE company (B2B project)
November 2023 – May 2025:
• Managed a QA team of 3 engineers
• Built QA processes from scratch
• Introduced TestRail for test artifacts
• Performed API testing with Postman and SQL validation
• Initiated and implemented test automation to reduce regression testing
• Mentored QA engineers

QA Engineer – Revenue Grid company (CRM project)
June 2022 – September 2023:
• Performed cross-browser testing of web and mobile versions of Salesforce
CRM
• Analyzed automated test logs in Team City
• Created test documentation (test cases, checklists, mind maps)
• REST API testing
• Shift-Left Testing and task estimation
QA Engineer → QA Lead – Datassential company (food industry projects)
January 2017 – February 2022:
• Manual Frontend and Backend testing of enterprise web apps (~15 projects)
• Executed functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, integration, and user
acceptance testing
• Designed and maintained test cases from scratch
• Performed requirements analysis and clarified ambiguous requirements
• Validated REST API
• Performed MySQL queries for database testing and data validation
• Contributed to continuous improvement of QA standards and testing
processes
• Participated in release validation and post-release verification
• Coaching new QA engineers during onboarding
• Investigated production issues and performed root cause analysis

EDUCATION
✔ National Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Specialty molecular biotechnology, 2014 year

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ukrainian: Native
English: Upper-intermediate (B2)