Valeriia

Valeriia Yakubyshyna
Middle QA Engineer (General QA / Manual / Web & Mobile)
Lviv, Ukraine (Remote) | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») | Telegram: @valerie_bon | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація»)

SUMMARY
Middle QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience testing web (including PWA), iOS/Android and desktop products in EdTech
and healthcare. Skilled in test design, requirements analysis and testing complex integrations (payments, push notifications)
across platforms. Found and verified 500+ bugs and wrote 100+ test cases across projects. Experience with API testing
(Postman); investigate defects with browser DevTools, Kibana and MongoDB. Tested an AI assistant (GPT-based)
integrated into a mental health and meditation app, investigating the quality of its answers. Worked both in a large QA team
and as the only QA engineer on a product. Open to remote/hybrid QA roles.
Domains:
• EdTech – Wholereader and OceanLibrary (English library with courses for learning English), their web courses platform
(level-based English courses with multiple lesson types, group and self-study formats) and Search Widget (standalone
book search widget integrated into related projects)
• Healthcare – Sabender (360 Outspoken), mental health and meditation app
SKILLS
• Testing: Functional, API, regression, smoke, sanity, UI/UX, cross-browser and cross-device, mobile testing
(iOS/Android), desktop, PWA (installability, offline mode), push notifications, payments, accessibility
• Test design and documentation: Equivalence classes, boundary values, test plans, test cases, checklists, Gherkin
(BDD) scenarios, test documentation, test strategy, bug tracking, bug life cycle, bug reports, requirements analysis
• Test management and process: Jira, Xray (X-Ray), Confluence, Agile/Scrum, SDLC/STLC
• Automation: Playwright, TypeScript (basic), E2E tests for key user flows
• Debugging and data: Postman, Browser DevTools, Kibana, MongoDB, HTML/CSS (basic)
• CI/CD and version control: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, TeamCity, Argo
• Design and devices: Figma, BrowserStack, TestFlight
• AI tools: Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini
• Platforms and browsers: Web, PWA, iOS, Android, Desktop; Windows, macOS, Linux (basics); Chrome, Edge, Safari,
Firefox

EXPERIENCE
Middle QA Engineer, Solvve
07/2021 - Present | Lviv / Remote
Products:
• Wholereader and OceanLibrary – English library apps for learning English with books (web, iOS, Android, desktop)
• Wholereader and OceanLibrary Courses – web courses for learning English (web)
• Sabender (360 Outspoken) – mental health and meditation app (web, iOS, Android)
• Search Widget – standalone book search widget integrated into several related projects (web)
Responsibilities:
• Own end-to-end quality of 4 products across web, iOS, Android and desktop: smoke, functional, UI/UX and regression
testing on 4 browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox), multiple devices and operating systems.
• Test complex integrations (payments, push notifications) across platforms; verify iOS builds in TestFlight before release.
• Test Progressive Web Apps (PWA): installation to the home screen/desktop, offline mode and caching, push notifications
and responsive behavior across browsers, iOS/Android and desktop.
• Found and verified 500+ bugs of varying complexity and priority; investigate issues with browser DevTools, Kibana logs
and MongoDB data, giving developers precise and reproducible bug reports. Have experience with API testing in
Postman.
• Review requirements and Figma designs and help improve them before development starts; work daily with developers,
BAs and designers in Agile/Scrum teams (5 years in a large team with several QA engineers on an educational platform;
sole QA engineer on the mental health and meditation app).
• Use Claude Code in day-to-day QA and automation work.
Project: Wholereader and OceanLibrary (EdTech)
Web and mobile English-learning platform: library of books with courses for studying English.
Tools: Jira/Confluence, Xray, Browser DevTools, Kibana, MongoDB, Figma, BrowserStack, TeamCity, Git, GitHub,
TestFlight, Claude Code, Playwright, Postman.
• Perform functional, UI/UX, cross-browser, cross-device and accessibility testing of web and mobile applications across
reading, search, audio, articles, admin, editor and course features; verify functionality and permissions for admin, user,
student and teacher roles.

• Developed and maintained Playwright E2E tests in TypeScript for admin and editor features during application
refactoring. Understand how fixtures and helper functions work in Playwright; maintain test data, analyze failed runs and
take part in E2E code reviews within the QA team.
• Maintain test cases, regression suites and checklists in Xray; work with project and sprint test plans.
• Define test strategy, regression scope and release testing priorities; follow the bug life cycle and verify fixes; report
results, blocking defects, untested areas and release risks.
• Write and update requirements, acceptance criteria and Gherkin scenarios using AI assistance.
Project: Wholereader and OceanLibrary Courses (EdTech)
Separate web courses for learning English with library books and different lesson types, split by level from Beginner to
Advanced.
• Test lesson types (listening, reading, writing, flashcards, quizzes, note-taking) and group collaboration features:
discussions and messages inside a course group.
• Check course formats and access: open and closed, group, self-study and private courses; verify course structure and
content by level, from Beginner to Advanced.
• Maintain test cases, checklists and regression suites; verify fixes and report results and release risks.
Project: Sabender (360 Outspoken), Healthcare
Sabender (360 Outspoken) – a mental health and meditation app. QA assignments in 2023-2026: feature testing, a
dedicated regression sprint and release support.
Tools: Jira/Confluence, Browser DevTools, Figma, BrowserStack, TestFlight, Argo, Bitbucket, ChatGPT, Gemini.
• Tested new features and performed functional, regression, cross-browser and responsive testing, both as the sole QA
engineer and as part of a QA team.
• Tested an AI assistant integrated into the app that communicates with users based on pre-uploaded, topic-specific files;
investigated the quality of the assistant’s answers across different GPT models, creativity levels and other factors:
restricted topics, instructions, example answers and more.
• Participated in a dedicated regression sprint ahead of penetration testing carried out by an external company.
• Reported defects, retested fixes and communicated test results and outstanding issues; returned later in the year for
release testing and additional testing assignments.
Project: Search Widget (EdTech)
Standalone, ready-to-integrate book search widget used across several related projects: book categories, books from the
library and external resources, a search field, a results column and a content column where the user can open a found book
inside the library or on an external resource.
Tools: Jira/Confluence, Kibana, Browser DevTools, TeamCity.
• Tested the widget as a standalone product on a test stand and as an integrated component in the projects it is embedded
into.
• Checked book categories and books from the library and external resources; tested the search field, results column and
navigation to a found book.
• Investigated defects with logs and DevTools; reported issues and verified fixes.
EDUCATION
• English Language and Literature, Specialist (Master’s equivalent), 2009 - 2010 | Dnipro National University
• Translation, Bachelor, 2004 - 2009 | National Mining University
LANGUAGES
English: Upper-Intermediate (B2) | Ukrainian: Native | Russian: C2

CERTIFICATIONS
• Claude Academy: Model Context Protocol: Advanced topics; Introduction to Model Context Protocol; Claude Platform
101; Claude Code in action; Claude Code 101; Claude 101
• Inoxoft: Quality Assurance Course
• QATestLab: Certificate of completing the "Fundamentals of Software Testing"
• Lviv IT School: Fundamentals of Software Testing