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Julia Kuchmai
QA Manager/QA Lead

Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Professional experience:
• 14 years’ experience in software testing and system analysis. Planning, designing and performing Functional, Integration, Compatibility, Security, Localization, Installation, UI, Usability, Performance, Stress, Load and Automation testing.
• More than 10 years managing, coordination and improving test process. Experience in budgeting, quality control, risk assessment, and communication with project stakeholders.
• Technology evaluation and business requirements analysis.
• Hands-on experience leading all stages of system testing efforts, including requirements analyze, testing process organization and release support.
• Strong background in user training and support documentation
• Having skills at effective realization of testing methods, quality control improving implementation and testing documentation writing.
• Strong people management skills.
• Managing and improving agile process.
• Performing of automated testing experience using different tools, automation web and load tests, preparation special performance tests for Web applications.
• Good attention to details.
• Well skilled in work with databases.
• System testing for telecommunication corporations, billing and scoring systems.
• Experience in software preparation for the Microsoft logo certification.
• QMS Internal Auditor certification (ISO 9001:2000).
Programming and test automation:
Java, C#, Jython, TypeScript, HTML, XML
TOAD, PL/SQL developer, SQL on a good level;
Test Complete, Selenium, MS Web Application Stress Tool, MS Application Center Test, J-Meter, Postman, InrtelliJ IDEA
DBMS:
Oracle 7-11g, MS SQL Server 7.0–2012, MySQL
Process design and collaboration systems:
Microsoft Project, JIRA (administration and user level), MS Share point (administration and user level), Wiki, Mantis Bug Tracker, Borland StarTeam, Visual Studio, MS Team Foundation Server, TestRail, AppTest and other
Other:
Windows – advanced user, Mac OS X - user
MS Office (all versions, all applications, advanced user), Visio, different browsers.

LANGUAGES:Native Ukrainian and Russian
Upper-Intermediate English
Elementary German
EDUCATION:2000-2005, Kharkov University of Radio Electronics.
Magister. Security of Information Technologies. Diploma with honors.

EMPLOYMENT:
• (2024 – 2025) CF "Angels of Salvation"
Work as Engineer
Responsibilities:
◦ Working with war victims
◦ Analysis and documentation of damage to housing
◦ Taking part in processes improvements, documentation management, interaction processes in a team of engineers Analyzing and improving process on different levels;

• (2022 - 2024) Start-up
Work as QA Engineer, Team Lead
Responsibilities:
◦ Managing and performing QA activities and providing status reports;
◦ Analyzing and improving process on different levels
◦ Taking part in organizing and improving wok processes
◦ Documentation management

• (2019 – 2020) A-MTOSS
Work as QA Manager/Automation team lead
Project Information: Billing system and its customizations, API framework for smart city project.
Responsibilities:
◦ Managing QA activities and providing status reports on different levels;
◦ Managing and improving agile process;
◦ Communications with stockholders and distributed team;
◦ Test planning and review;
◦ Auto tests planning and reviewing;
◦ Estimating QA activities;
◦ Interviewing and QA training;
◦ JIRA and test management system administration;
◦ Developing, reviewing and maintaining FAQ and “How-To” documentation.

• (2018 – 2019) Team International
Work as QA Manager
Responsibilities:
◦ Analyzing and improving process on different levels;
◦ Planning and reviewing test documentation;
◦ Taking part in test automation;
◦ Communications with stockholders and distributed team;
◦ Establishing interaction with different teams;
◦ Improving test methodologies, additional test tools and processes implementation;
◦ Taking part in project management;
◦ Test Documentation review and QA training;
◦ JIRA administration;

• (2017 – 2018) AXIOMSL
Work as QA Manager
Project Information: Regulatory Reporting, Risk Management, Data Management and Integration, Basel I,II,III (123), Alternative Investment Reporting, Broker Dealer Reporting, Operational Reporting, Transactional Reporting, Basel IV, MIS Reporting, Legal Entity Reporting, Liquidity Risk and Reporting, Regulatory Capital.
Responsibilities:
◦ Analyzing and improving process on different levels;
◦ Improving test methodologies, additional test tools and processes implementation;
◦ Taking part in project management;
◦ Test Documentation review and QA training;
◦ JIRA administration;

• (03/2017 – 05/2017) Source IT
Work as instructor of the QA training course

• (2011 – 2017) A-MTOSS, project MetraNet and its customizations
Work as QA Manager
Project Information: MetraTech billing system is the leading global provider of Agreements-based Billing, commerce and compensation solutions
Responsibilities:
◦ Managing QA activities on different levels;
◦ Taking part in project and release management;
◦ Providing status reports on different levels;
◦ Managing and improving agile process in teams;
◦ Leading CORE, sustaining and custom project’s QA teams (more than 20 members);
◦ Communication with client and dev teams;
◦ Test Documentation preparation and review;
◦ Risks and Requirements analysis;
◦ Estimating QA activities during development and regression activities;
◦ Interviewing and QA training;
◦ JIRA and ApTest manager administration;
◦ Developing and maintaining FAQ and “How-To” documentation.
Achievements:
◦ Building complex QA team from scratch;
◦ Releasing seven Core product versions and few custom upgrades;
◦ Providing knowledge transfer to team members and their training;
◦ Providing knowledge transfer to Indian team;
◦ Issues preventing on different levels.
◦ Established effective relationships with product and top management.

• (2010 – 2011) A-MTOSS, Security Framework
Work as Senior/Lead QA
Project Information: Framework that was designed to ensure high level security of Web application and perform monitoring and analyzing all security related events.
Responsibilities:
◦ Test planning and test design, requirements analyzing and estimation;
◦ Performing functional, regression, security, load, stress, volume testing;
◦ Test automation.

Achievements:
◦ Framework was successfully released and integrated in MetraNet product;
◦ I’ve received principal knowledge in web security area.

• (2009 – 2010) Software company, TrafficPro (Work Title)
Work as Senior/Lead QA Engineer.
Project Information: Complex solution for traffic analysis needs. Including gathering information about user’s visited sites, preferences on advertisements, custom redirections based on user’s preferences and overall statistics processing.
Responsibilities:
◦ Responsible for product delivery and customers feedback processing;
◦ Quality assurance process organization and QA leading;
◦ Requirements analysis, estimation and planning;
◦ Testing Windows and Web based applications;
◦ Responsible for product’s documentation creation and maintenance;
◦ Creating automated tests and organization 24/7 monitoring system.
Achievements:
◦ Rising team’s performance;
◦ Successfully managed and released R&D project;
◦ Reorganization project documentation and team process.

• (2008 – 2009) “Direct EDI”, EDI product customizations
Work as Senior QA in R&D team
Project Information: Direct EDI's Web-Based EDI System is specifically designed to provide trading partners electronic compliance requirements, both sending and receiving EDI documents.
Responsibilities:
◦ Test documentation and estimating;
◦ Testing Windows and Web based applications;
◦ Requirements analysis, project documentation review;
◦ Analyzing of competitor and possible clients to develop promo;
◦ Process organization and improving.
Achievements:
◦ High risky project was successfully released and sold;
◦ I’ve received great experience in business analyzing and created useful demo for clients.

• (2008) Ciklum, ASSET4
Work as QA Engineer
Project Information: Based on the world’s largest database of transparent, objective and auditable environmental, social and governance (ESG) information, the ASSET4 solutions provide an unprecedented level of information on the environmental, social and governance performance of major global corporations.
Responsibilities:
◦ Testing of Windows and Web based applications (performance, UI, functional testing);
◦ Test Documentation preparation, estimating;
◦ Requirements analyzing;
◦ Preventing bugs at the documentation level.
Achievements:
◦ Successfully perform different types of testing;
◦ Managed all the project’s tasks in time.

• (2006 – 2008) Validio Software, GMI\NetReflector Customizations, CustomCD
Work as Lead QA Engineer
Project Information: CustomCD provide burning on demand a completely personalized backup CD/DVD of the software a customer purchased and then shipping the CD/DVD directly to the customer.
Responsibilities:
◦ Communication with client and team (Skype, email, verbally);
◦ Test documentation preparation (Test plans, TC, Traceability Matrix, Test Reports, Metrics etc), requirements analyzing, project documentation review, estimating;
◦ Planning and managing test activities and team’s workload
◦ Responsible for different types of testing – functional, localization, regression, volume, stress, load, usability;
◦ Test automation and developing scripts for creating test data
◦ Packages and HotFixes installation;
◦ Collaboration with CORE engineering team [separate company];
◦ Splitting everyday tasks between QAs and merging received results into common report;
◦ New team members project training;
◦ Managing junior QAs after Company’s study courses;
◦ MS SharePoint administration;
◦ QMS (ISO 9001:2000) internal audit.
Achievements:
◦ I’ve managed to collect and sort all project and test documentation;
◦ We won big T-Mobile tender.
◦ About 10 QA were successfully trained;
◦ SharePoint was configured to satisfy all needs.

• (2005 – 2006) Validio Software, main project NetReflector
Work as QA Engineer
Project Information: NetReflector Inc. provides web-based marketing survey tools coupled with its InstantSurvey technology that enables organizations to gather online feedback from their customers, employees, clients and vendors. A number of projects with specific features have been developed for large clients such as Microsoft, Expedia, Macromedia, T-Mobile and so on.
Responsibilities:
◦ Test Documentation preparation (Test Plan, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix);
◦ Testing Windows and Web based applications, responsible for different types of testing that have been performed during my work on projects – functionality, installation, performance, smoke, UI, compatibility, localization testing, regression testing;
◦ Requirements analyzing and estimation;
◦ Preventing bugs at the documentation level;
◦ Preparation software for the Microsoft logo certification.
Achievements:
◦ A lot of logical issues were prevented;
◦ Successfully perform different type of testing;
◦ Managed all the project’s tasks in time