Катерина

Kateryna Romanchuk
Senior Python QA Automation Engineer
| SDET | QA Lead
Location: Ukraine, Kyiv
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Linkedin: kateryna-romanchuk
Objective:
My objective is to join a professional development team and actively contribute to expanding automation test coverage.
Additionally, I aim to support the company by contributing to the test strategy, focusing on a shift-left approach and the
testing pyramid.

Summary:
●​ Website: https://www.katerina-it.com/
●​ Computer Science Background
●​ The primary programming language is Python
●​ Experienced Software Quality Assurance Engineer
o​ web - Selenium, Playwright
o​ desktop - Appium (Python)
o​ mobile Android - Appium (Python), UI Automator, and Espresso (Kotlin)
o​ mobile IOS - Appium (Python), XCTest (Swift)
o​ API (Postman and Python)
●​ Strong knowledge of auto-test creation, CI/CD
●​ Creating and improving processes, experienced Agile user

Languages: English B2

Education: 2005 – 2011 Ukraine, Kyiv. National Aviation University (Faculty of Computer Sciences), Institute of Computer
Technology. Department of Application Informatics.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

QA Automation Team Lead / Leading the QA automation team in the development of AI-driven tools for anti-money
Senior QA Engineer – ThetaRay laundering and transaction monitoring.
(Jun 2024 – Present) Responsible for planning test strategies, designing automation solutions with
Playwright, and ensuring continuous integration of tests (Azure Kubernetes Service).​
Achieved 75% automation coverage for all new functionality

Volunteer QA Mentor – Periodically conducting mentoring sessions on QA and test automation topics, providing
Projector Institute (Jan 2025 – support in solving various challenges
Present)

SDET Expert / QA Automation - Worked for a large Hong Kong-based IT holding that includes multiple companies.
Consultant (Mar 2020 – Oct Consulted on QA automation strategies for cybersecurity products across platforms
2023) (web, mobile, desktop).
-​ ExpressVPN - Built a scalable test automation framework and established robust CI/CD pipelines
-​ Kape Technologies using GitHub Actions and CircleCI. ​
-​ Chaos Theory - Won multiple QA hackathons and mentored QA team members.​
- Reduced regression test time from 4 days to 1 day.

QA Consultant / Python - Delivered client-focused Python solutions, including data extraction tools and backend
Engineer – GULP Schweiz AG systems. ​
(May 2019 – Mar 2020) - Developed web applications using Django and Flask, and managed deployments on
AWS.

Project Test Manager / Scrum - Dental healthcare.
Master – 3Shape (Jan 2017 – - Managed QA processes for web projects, focusing on integration and functional
May 2019) testing.
 - Led Agile ceremonies, ensured test documentation quality, and implemented
automation strategies using Python.

Python Software Engineer, SDET Worked on enterprise systems (ERPNext) using Python and JavaScript. Supported testing
– DigiThinkIt Inc. (Aug 2016 – processes and contributed to backend automation.
Dec 2016)

QA Automation Team Lead / Designed automated frameworks for backend testing in gaming applications.
Python QA Engineer – Crytek Implemented BDD testing practices and used Robot Framework with tools like
(Jun 2012 – Jul 2016) Cucumber and Jenkins.

Manual QA Engineer / Performed manual testing on various web platforms. Engaged in bug tracking,
Customer Support – XT Labs requirement analysis, and customer support for eCommerce projects.
(Feb 2010 – May 2012)

Manual Software Test Engineer Tested document management software for a government client, ensuring system
– Finport Technology Inc. (Jun reliability and functional accuracy.
2009 – Feb 2010)

Certifications:
●​ December 2020 - February 2021 IOS Swift Developer
●​ June - August 2018 Robo house. Smart House, Arduino Robotics
●​ April 2017 C# Starter (edu.cbsystematics.com)
●​ December 2014 – March 2015 Programming with C# for testers (software-testing.ru)

Awards and Achievements:
●​ Hackathon Winner, ExpressVPN - QA Department, 2021 (1st) & 2022 (2nd) places
●​ Guinness World Record Participant, Crytek, 2013 (Participated in setting a Guinness World Record for the most
players online simultaneously on a single server.)