Olena Kovalov

• Responsible for delivering a cutting-edge web application.
• Handle various challenges, including addressing obscure spikes and conducting discovery on features to help define user stories.
• Actively research best practices to ensure the team follows the most efficient and effective methodologies.
• Developed and maintained automation tests with TypeScript and Cypress, as well as integration testing frameworks.
• Ensuring smooth integration into the CI/CD pipeline (GitLab) within a scalable, serverless, cloud-based environment featuring microservices architecture.
• Leaded Discovery effort
• Revisiting and helping to make a few corrections in the Test Strategy
• Supporting the Leadership Team in improving the process.
• Organizing testing process – the refinement of stories, providing clarification, making sure all QEs are efficient
• Architected reusable test frameworks for UI, Mobile, and API testing, emphasizing script reusability and maintainability.
• Introduced Quality Engineering standards and various automated testing types (unit, integration, service/API, and E2E) across different deployment phases.
• Developed automated solutions for test data creation, maintenance, and cleanup.
• Mentored and managed QA teams, fostering continuous learning and professional growth.

Projects:

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - Banking System

NCR - Back Office Hospitality

• As a POD Lead, facilitated QE work in every Sprint. This includes executing manual and automated regression tests, writing new feature manual/automated tests, and maintaining current test suites
• Revisited and implemented the test strategy to propose scalable test solutions and tooling at various levels of testing when more products were added to the project.
• Identified appropriate situations for implementing test automation, accounting for situations where automated testing was counterproductive.
• Designed standardized processes and protocols to continuously improve operational efficiency through positive iteration.
• Monitored emerging test automation frameworks, technologies and best practices for useful developments.
• Supported DevOps integration to align software development and information technology efforts.
• Validated production deployment changes, providing reports on discovered issues to the manager.
• Elevated code quality through participation in peer code reviews, providing constructive feedback to fellow engineers.
• Worked with client stakeholders to POC different solutions and provided recommendations regarding tooling.
• Adopted and refactored the Rest Assured Automation Framework.
• Developed scripts/reports for the Load/Performance testing using Jmeter/Taurus.
• Successfully reduced manual effort at regression testing. Coached a more junior member with test solution practices.

Projects:

NCR - Back Office Hospitality

Boardwalk - Natural Gas Transportation and Storage System.

T-Mobile - TMO SyncUp Tracker System

• Performed Functional, Smoke, UAT, Exploratory, Usability, and Regression testing in QA, and release environments
• Reduced defect rate by implementing robust test strategies and rigorous regression testing.
• Developed test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on business requirements and functional specifications documents.
• Minimized risk of production issues by proactively monitoring system logs and performing root cause analysis on reported incidents.
• Contributed to the development of high-quality software by providing feedback on design specifications and code reviews.

Projects:

Haemonetics - Healthcare - Hospital Portal Delivery

T-Mobile - TMO SyncUp Tracker System

• Developed custom IT solutions to address specific business needs, driving operational improvements and cost savings.
• Collaborated with other departments to help meet IT needs and properly integrate and secure systems.
• Constantly reviewing processes and identifying a way to improve efficiency & service, and proactively managing all areas of Technology within the company.
• Planning each stage of an IT project in detail and investigating how it can affect a business.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously with high efficiency in very tight time schedules.
• Track project milestones and deliverables, communicating with clients and coworkers as necessary to keep them abreast of the project’s progress.
• Collect and summarize information in preparation for creating and submitting status reports.
• Scheduled and led meetings related to current and upcoming information technology projects.
• Assessed risk factors and developed strategies for response.
• Assessed needs of current and potential customers by conducting surveys, directly communicating,
• and assessing the data received.
• Recruited, interviewed, and hired contractors and employees to work on IT projects.

• Working as a primary liaison with Customer Service, Business, QA, and Development teams for major releases, a recreation of customer issues, and subsequent patch testing.
• Re-engineered QA methodologies and processes that resulted in the establishment of complete traceability of requirements and enhanced test quality.
• Led various QA phases and performed hands-on testing.
• Directly interacting and partnering with clients regularly. Evaluating and gathering specific
• client expectations on QA.
• Performing internal audits at the project management level to ensure compliance with SDLC standards.
• Managing the automation test teams responsible for regression testing of the product.
• Responsible for performing goal setting and annual reviews for team members.
• Design and implementation of scalable, project-independent test automation framework.
• Development of clean, readable, and maintainable automation test code
• Provide regular reports on test execution, issues, and test script development to the manual QA and
• development team.
• Evaluate and introduce tools that will be used across the team or the company.
• Support and mentor other team members.
• Designed and implemented scalable, project-independent test automation framework.
• Created a custom test execution report that supports multi-threaded test execution.
• Built automation tests from scratch.
• Developed and executed Web Performance and Load tests using MS Visual Studio Enterprise.

• Implemented and maintained automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Java, JUnit, and Maven.
• Configured Maven for project automation and developed POM for Java projects.
• Led automated and manual testing for web-based insurance tools, analyzing frequent bugs and covering them with automation scripts.
• Provided automation strategies and JIRA reports, and assisted in improving Agile processes.
• Collaborated with PMs and BAs to refine requirements and develop test cases, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Conducted test execution, analyzed results, and tracked defects.
• Trained team members to expand expertise and improve project outcomes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve critical software issues, ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Executed test plans and scripts based on business requirements, ensuring compliance with Agile methodologies.
• Performed various types of testing including functional, exploratory, UI, and UAT. Documented test results and analyzed defects.

• Participated in multiple contract projects, performing functionality, regression, and UAT testing for various web and mobile applications.
• Executed test cycles and documented detailed reports using uTest.com tools.