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Zavialova Svitlana

Position: Quality Assurance Engineer

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Summary:

Senior QA Engineer with 10+ years of experience in manual and automated testing across Healthcare,
Fintech, E-commerce, Crypto, IoT, and Logistics domains. Proven expertise in building QA processes from
scratch, leading distributed QA teams, and implementing scalable test automation strategies for Web, Mobile,
Desktop, and API platforms.
Strong background in SDLC quality governance, risk-based testing, CI/CD integration, and cross-functional
collaboration with product, development, and business stakeholders. Experienced in Selenium, Cypress,
Playwright, REST/SOAP API testing, and Agile delivery environments.
Known for improving release quality, optimizing QA workflows, mentoring engineers, and driving
continuous process improvements in enterprise and product-focused organizations.

Core Competencies:
• QA Leadership & Team Management
• Test Strategy & QA Process Setup
• Manual & Automation Testing
• REST/SOAP API Testing
• Web, Mobile & Desktop Testing
• CI/CD & Automation Integration
• Agile / Scrum / Kanban Methodologies
• Risk-Based Testing
• Requirements Analysis & QA Consulting
• Cross-functional Stakeholder Communication
• QA Metrics & Reporting
• Mentoring, Interviewing & Onboarding
Tech Stack:
Automation & Frameworks:
Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber, Gherkin
Testing:
Functional, Non-functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Integration, Acceptance, UI/UX, End-to-End Testing
API Testing:
Postman, SoapUI, REST API, SOAP API

Tools:
JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr, Charles Proxy, Fiddler
CI/CD & Version Control:
GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins
Databases:
SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DBeaver
Platforms:
Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android
Methodologies:
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, SDLC, STLC

Professional Experience:

Nova Digital
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
September 2024 till Present
Responsibilities:
- Established and managed QA processes to ensure consistent product quality;
- Led and mentored the QA team;
- Created and maintained QA documentation (Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Testing flows
descriptions);
- Conducted requirement analysis and participated in product onboarding workflows;
- Built and maintained an internal QA/BA knowledge base for cross-team alignment;
- Clarified, investigated, and analyzed business and technical requirements;
- Performed functional, non-functional, Smoke, Sanity, Regression testing;
- Performed REST and SOAP API testing;
- Defined and monitored QA metrics;
- Managed test environments, data preparation, and automation infrastructure setup;
- Participated in release planning, risk assessment;
- Maintained test automation frameworks and CI/CD integrations;
- Advocated for quality across the SDLC, promoting early testing and continuous improvement;
- Provided QA progress reports and quality status updates;
- Drove process improvements and implemented best practices for efficient testing and delivery

QA Consultant
November 2023 to September 2024

Responsibilities:
- Provide expertise and organize overall QA processes;
- Create the documentation (Test Plans, Test Strategies, Approach, Traceability Matrix, Audit);
- Requirements analysis, investigation and documenting;
- Onboarding process establishment;
- Knowledge base documentation creation;
- Business and technical requirements clarification, investigation and analysis

CodeIT LLC
Software Test Engineering Technical Lead
January 2022 to December 2023

General Responsibilities:
- Leading a Unit of 10 members (interviewing, onboarding, management, review, skill up assistance):
- Test process organization and control;
- Team members professional development organization and assistance;
- Test artifacts creation assistance (Test Plan, Test Strategy, Traceability Matrix, reporting);
- QA Unit processes enchantments;
- QA Unit Guides and Tutorial documentation creation.

Project Responsibilities:
- Provide expertise and organize overall QA processes;
- Provide expertise on Automation testing introduction;
- Requirements analysis, investigation and documenting;
- Create Test artifacts: Test Strategy, Test approach, Test Cases, checklists, defect reports;
- Perform functional and non-functional testing;
- Perform Mobile applications testing;
- Perform Web applications testing;
- Perform REST and SOAP API testing;
- BDD scenarios creation;
- Knowledge base documentation creation;
- Direct communication with the customer and reporting.

GlobalLogic
Senior QA Engineer
January 2020 to February 2022

Responsibilities:
- Requirements analysis;
- Testing documentation creation (Test scenarios writing for further Integration tests composing);
- Testing documentation review;
- Integration tests execution and results reporting;
- Dedicated verification environment configuration;
- Desktop application testing.

Oracle
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
June 2019 to January 2020

Responsibilities:
- Requirements analysis;
- Testing documentation creation (Checklists, Test Cases, Defect reports);
- Test cases review;
- Web application testing;
- Functional/non-functional testing;
- Feature Acceptance testing;
- Feature Manuals review;

GlobalLogic
Lead QA Engineer

March 2018 to June 2019

Responsibilities:
- Leading team of 5 QA Engineers;
- Planning and establishing Test process;
- Test artifacts creation (Test Plan, Test Strategy and Approach);
- Reporting;
- Requirements analysis;
- Project documentation composing and updating;
- Testing documentation creation (Checklists, Test Cases, Defect reports);
- Test cases review;
- Web applications testing;
- Integration REST API tests Collections creation, running and results analysis;
- Team members mentoring;
- End of Sprint demos presentation;

Automation Quality Assurance Engineer
Business Analyst

Responsibilities:
- Communication with stakeholders and business requirements gathering;
- Business requirements analysis and Use cases composing;
- User Stories creation;
- UI/UX and design layouts review;
- Project documentation composing and updating;
- Testing documentation creation (Checklists, Test Cases, Defect reports);
- Web application manual testing (Smoke, UI, Functional, Regression);
- REST API testing;
- Automation tests creation and execution (End to End);

eZLO Innovation
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Automation Quality Assurance Engineer
November 2017 to February 2018

Responsibilities:
- Web Application testing;
- Requirements analysis;
- Testing documentation creation (Test Cases, Checklists, Tasks, Bug reports);
- Smoke, Functional, UI/UX, SOAP API, Compatibility, Performance, Integration, Regression testing;
- Automation tests creation and execution;
- Embedded system testing;
- Interviewing candidates and mentoring.

Akvelon Ukraine
Quality Assurance Engineer (Middle to Senior)
September 2014 to October 2017

Responsibilities:
- Documentation and requirements investigation and analysis;
- Test cases and checklists creation and review;

- Test scenarios for automation implementation creation;
- Demo presentations preparation and recording;
- Functional, Compatibility, Integration, REST API, End-to-End, Usability, UI/UX, Smoke and Regression
testing.

QArea
QA Engineer (Junior to Middle)
May 2012 – September 2014

Responsibilities:
- Documentation and requirements investigation and analysis;
- Testing documentation creation (Test-cases, Checklists, Defect reports);
- Functional, UI/UX, Usability, Compatibility, Regression and Smoke testing.
- Web/Mobile (iOS and Android platforms)/Desktop applications testing.

LULU Software
Customer and Technical Support Representative
Junior QA Engineer
November 2008 – April 2012

Responsibilities:
- Customers calls and emails answering;
- Support documentation creation and management;
- Defect reports creation.

Education:
Higher Diploma in Philological Studies, Kharkiv Skovoroda National Pedagogical University (2003-2008),
faculty of Foreign Linguistics, English and Spanish languages.

“Step” the Computer Academy, “Manual Software Testing” course, 2012.

“Source IT” computer courses, “Automation Quality Assurance” course, 2017-2018.

Certifications:
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level
Certificate No. 21-CTFL-200560-12

Coursera
‘Learn Cypress UI test automation with real-time scenarios’
Credential ID: LDEUNTPW9LSP

Udemy
‘Playwright From Zero to Hero’
UC-5d7cda13-f170-4da9-ac97-50a01a3c7a6d

Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certification
Credential ID №LWB-ND278