Віталій

Vitaliy Salikhov
QA ENGINEER
Kherson, Ukraine | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | Telegram: @doom_86ua | LinkedIn

SUMMARY
QA Engineer with experience in manual testing of web and mobile applications. Skilled in writing test cases and
checklists, and in functional, regression, and exploratory testing. Reported bugs in Jira, worked with APIs in
Postman, used browser DevTools, and validated data with SQL queries. Detail-oriented and communicative. Looking
for a QA Engineer position with room to grow towards test automation.

SKILLS
Testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke/Sanity, UI/UX, Exploratory, Cross-browser
Test Documentation: Test cases, Checklists, Test plans, Bug reports, Permission testing table, RTM, Test summary
report
Tools: Jira, TestRail, Confluence, Postman, Chrome DevTools
Databases: SQL (SELECT, JOIN, WHERE)
Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban), SDLC, STLC
Other: Git, HTML/CSS basics, Playwright
Soft Skills: Communication, Attention to detail, Critical thinking, Self-organization
Languages: Ukrainian (native), English (A2, High Pre-Intermediate)

EXPERIENCE
QA Engineer (project-based), July 2026 – Present

Project: Conduit, a blogging web application for publishing articles (a Medium-like platform)
• Created test cases and checklists for registration and authentication, article creation and editing, comments,
favorites, following authors, and profile settings
• Performed functional, regression, and exploratory testing of the web application
• Found and reported bugs in Jira, including critical ones, with steps to reproduce, expected and actual results
• Tested APIs (authentication, articles, comments, profiles) using Postman
• Validated data in the database using SQL queries
• Performed cross-browser testing and analyzed errors using Chrome DevTools
• Automated tests using Playwright
• Worked in an Agile (Scrum) environment: daily meetings and sprint planning
• Completed 524+ hands-on testing tasks during the course

Project: Huntd, a job search and application tracking platform with web and mobile (iOS) apps (team project)

● Worked in a team in a Scrum environment: sprint planning, daily meetings, and a Jira board with task
statuses
● Created a test plan covering the web application (desktop and mobile browsers) and the iOS mobile
application
● Designed test cases in TestRail based on the requirements for the web and mobile features
● Executed test cases in a test run and recorded the results
● Tested the implemented iOS app features (authentication, chats, profile settings)
● Reported 4 bugs in Jira, linked to the corresponding user stories, with steps to reproduce, expected and
actual results
● Collaborated with the team on test design documentation (permission testing table, RTM) and the test
summary report

Project: Conduit API testing (team project)

● Built a Postman collection for the Conduit REST API, organized into folders by feature (Articles, Profile,
Comments, and others)
● Created independent requests for the API endpoints (authentication, articles, comments, profiles) and
extended the list with additional requests
● Wrote automated tests for every request, checking status codes, response structure, and response data
● Covered both positive and negative scenarios (invalid data, unauthorized access)
● Used collection-level variables (url, passwordConduit) and generated test data in pre-request scripts
so each request runs independently
● Moved shared test logic into reusable helper functions to avoid code duplication
● Worked in a shared team Postman workspace and reported a bug in Jira

EDUCATION
Kherson State University 2004 – 2009
Specialist degree (equivalent to Master’s), Pedagogy and Methodology of Secondary Education. Ukrainian Language
and Literature

CERTIFICATIONS
QA Engineer (Profession certificate), Mate academy, 2026