Альона

ALONA SARBASH
QA ENGINEER
Istanbul, Turkey | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») (telegram) | LinkedIn: Alona Sarbash

SUMMARY
QA Engineer with a Master’s degree in Computer Science Education and a strong foundation in quality
assurance methodologies. Experienced in requirement analysis, test case development, manual execution,
and defect tracking. Technically proficient in Playwright, Postman (API testing), Git, SQL, and Agile workflows.
Professional working proficiency in English, Turkish and Ukrainian, enabling seamless collaboration within
international teams. Passionate about continuous learning, workflow optimization, and delivering reliable,
high-quality software that meets both user and business expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Manual testing, Black/Greybox testing, Web/Mobile testing
Regression, Sanity, Smoke testing, API testing, GUI testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, Static
testing, Dynamic testing, Ad-Hoc
Test design techniques
Test documentation: Test plan, Test cases, Checklists, Bug reports
Knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Bug life cycle, Waterfall, Agile concepts knowledge (Scrum, Kanban)
SQL
Tools: Jira, TestRail, Git/Github, Unix Terminal, Postman, Playwright
Web Understanding (Client-Server Architecture, Chrome DevTools, HTML/CSS, XML, JSON)
JavaScript basic knowledge
OS: Windows

LANGUAGES
English: Upper Intermediate
Turkish: Upper Intermediate
Ukrainian: Proficiency

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Software Tester, Oct 2025–Present

Project: Huntd.tech
Creating permission table and Requirements Traceability Matrix
Developing test cases using test design techniques
Executing test cases in TestRail
Reporting bugs into Jira / Creating bug reports in Jira
Creating test report

Project: Conduit
Requirements reviewing with Product Owner (Story refinement)
Developing Decomposition
Developing and executing Test Cases in TestRail
Reporting bugs into JIRA
API testing using Postman
Creating automated tests in Playwright

Project: JPetStore Demo
Developing and executing Test Cases
Reporting bugs
Project: CoffeeCart
Creating automated tests in Playwright

Project: Handyman / Mova, IMDb, Evernote [Mobile testing]
Developing and executing Test Cases
Testing with Android Studio, Genymotion
Reporting bugs into JIRA

EDUCATION
Kharkiv Educational and Research Institute of the State Higher Educational Institution "Banking
University", Kharkiv, Ukraine
Master's Degree in Computer Sciences (with honors)
2014-2020

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
QA Course at Mate Academy (Manual QA)
GoIT (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Winner of the All-Ukrainian Student Research Competition in Financial and Economic Security
Management for the research paper ‘Improving the Information System for Ensuring the Economic
Security of Brokerage Activities.’ in 2018
Winner of Olympiad in Math, 2018
Author of research publications in international journals and conference proceedings covering
information security, cybersecurity of brokerage operations, and forecasting of indicator signals.
Participant in the ‘Dialogue for Peace’ Student Debates held as part of the President of Ukraine's
Grant Program in 2016