Ievgeniia

Ievgeniia Kovrikova
Senior QA Engineer | QA Lead | AI Augmented Quality
Kharkiv, Ukraine | Remote | +38 963 453 509 | [открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация»)

Professional Summary
Senior QA Engineer and QA Lead with 12+ years of experience in software testing, Agile delivery,
and distributed team collaboration. Strong background in manual, API, and automation testing, with
growing expertise in AI assisted quality practices.

Regularly using modern AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and intelligent agents to
support exploratory testing, test design, requirements analysis, and defect investigation. Passionate
about continuous improvement, scalable QA strategies, and transitioning teams toward automation
and AI driven quality.

Core Skills
Manual and Automation Testing, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Acceptance, UI and Usability, API
Testing (REST, SOAP), SQL, AI assisted testing, Test Strategy, Test Design, Documentation, Jira,
Confluence, Agile and Scrum, Team Leadership, Mentoring, Stakeholder Communication, Risk
based testing, Continuous quality.

AI Driven Testing and Automation
Using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, and modern AI assistants to improve test
coverage and efficiency. Generating test scenarios, edge cases, and exploratory ideas. Supporting
debugging and root cause analysis. Enhancing requirement analysis and shift left quality. Assisting
automation strategy and quality improvements through intelligent tooling and data driven insights.

Professional Experience
Senior QA Engineer, AgVend (Remote, USA) - February 2022 - Present
Led QA activities, improved delivery processes, collaborated with distributed teams, and supported
automation and AI assisted testing initiatives (Python + Playwrite).

Senior Lead QA Engineer, JibJib Studio (Remote, Bangkok) - May 2020 - December 2021
Owned quality strategy, coordinated releases, improved Agile delivery, and introduced smarter test
approaches.

Senior Lead QA Engineer, Bookkeeping Express (Remote, USA) - Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Led distributed QA team, tested web and mobile systems, and improved documentation and
workflows.

Project Manager and Software Test Engineer, Cesium Solutions (Remote, Netherlands) - Sep 2016
- May 2017
Managed development and testing of visualization software and established QA processes.

Software Test Engineer, Akvelon (Office, Kharkiv) - Sep 2013 - May 2016
Functional and regression testing of complex enterprise systems with strong customer
collaboration.
QA Engineer and Scrum Master, A MTOSS (Office, Kharkiv) - Oct 2010 - Aug 2013
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured high quality SaaS billing platform testing.

Programming Engineer, HARTRON (Office, Kharkiv) - Oct 2005 - May 2008
Developed software components using C++.

Education
Masters Degree in Computer System Analysis, National Aerospace University KHAI
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, National Aerospace University KHAI

Languages
English Advanced, French Intermediate, Ukrainian Native