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Volha Tsiareshchanka

Volha Tsiareshchanka

Tampa,FL

Summary

  • 7+ years of hands-on work experience in IT as a Quality Assurance Engineer , QA Manager and Test Lead, Mobile testing of native (iOS & Android) and web applications;
  • Domain experience: E-Commerce, Fintech, Telecommunication & Media, Mobile/Web testing, Banking ERP/CRM;
  • Certification: ISTQB Certified Tester;
  • Performed the following roles: Manual Functional Test Engineer, Key Tester, QA Test Lead, QA Manager;
  • Functional Requirements elicitation/articulation/modeling/estimation and tracking;
  • Test cases and use cases creation, Bug reports creation;
  • Hands-on experience in testing (functional, mobile, web, installation, localization, compatibility, regression, end-to-end, usability, GUI, UAT), using different software testing techniques;
  • Test strategy & Test plans creation, creation of Test-Result reports and Release Notes;
  • Strong knowledge of core software Agile methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), tools and processes;

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Vise President - Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Full-time)

Citigroup Inc
01.2024 - Current

Project: Project Management System for Citi Bank (PTS)

Functions and responsibilities:

  • Managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), leading and support;
  • Project documentation creation & updating: Test-cases, Zephyr Test Tool documentation, Jira Defect log, Sign off document, Release Notes;
  • Daily Status Reporting;
  • UAT Sign off tracking;
  • UAT Release Opening & Closure;
  • UAT meeting hosting (Kick off, Business Status, Internal Status meeting with Dev/BA/QA Teams);
  • Test Metrics tracking and analyzing;
  • UAT Release scope managing, User Stories assignment for test cases creation;
  • Overseeing Defects log;
  • UAT access for Business Users;
  • Mentoring/Coaching newcomers, Knowledge Transfer

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Contractor)

Citigroup Inc
02.2023 - 12.2023

Project: Project Management System for Citi Bank

Functions and responsibilities:

  • Test-cases creation;
  • Test result reporting, project documentation creation;
  • Functional requirements analysis;
  • Defects creation and triaging, defect status tracking and reporting, Defect route cause analysis;

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Chadwell Supply Inc
12.2022 - 02.2023

Functions and responsibilities:

  • E-commerce website testing and bug reporting;
  • Functional requirements analysis;
  • Test-scripts and bug reports creation;

QA Lead/Key Tester

EPAM Systems Inc
11.2019 - 10.2022

Customer: Liberty Global Services, Business Information and Media

Project: Connectivity Mobile Applications Development: Implementation of iOS and Android App for in-home and out of home network connectivity for Virgin Media UK, Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone Ziggo Netherlands, UPC Poland, UPC Sunrise Switzerland (Cloud technologies);


Functions and responsibilities:

  • QA Management: leading the team of 12 QAs;
  • Estimation, prioritization of QA activities;
  • Risk/dependencies management: prioritization, risk-response strategy, risk tracking;
  • QA Interviewing, mentoring, onboarding of new members;
  • Google Play/Apple store tech validations testing;
  • Monthly delivery report creation, Test result reporting; Test Plans creation;
  • Quality assurance metrics tracking, analyzing of test results, team's performance tracking;
  • Team Meetings conducting: daily and retrospective meetings, demo for upcoming release;
  • Functional requirements analysis;
  • End-to-end functional testing, execution of different testing types: smoke, GUI, usability, localization, regression testing on Android/iOS platforms across multiple devices and browsers, web applications testing on JIT, Pre-prod and UAT, API testing;
  • Creation, maintaining and executing of manual test-cases, bug reports creation;
  • Defects Investigation, issues verification, UAT/Prod issues triaging
  • Environment: Jira, Zephyr plugin, Wiki, Android File Transfer, Android Studio, Xcode, Charles Proxy, Postman, Excel, Confluence, draw.io, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

WIMIX LLC
09.2017 - 11.2019

Project: FOREX mobile applications at Android / iOS platforms

Functions and responsibilities:

  • Functional testing of FOREX mobile applications at Android / iOS platforms;
  • Functional requirements analysis;
  • Test cases/check lists/bug reports creation;
  • API testing

Environment: MySQL, Charles, Postman, Firebug, PICT, Pushwoosh service, Firebase analytics, Selenium IDE, TestRail, Jira, iOS, Android, Windows

Education

Specialist’s Degree - Test Engineering

IT Academy
12.2017

Master’s Degree - Business Administration, Economics

Belarusian State University
07.2015

Bachelor’s Degree - Social and Pedagogical Technologies

Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank
07.2011

Skills

  • Testing tools (debugging & sniffing): Postman, Charles Proxy;
  • Dev Tools: Android Studio, XCode, Android Transfer, Itools;
  • Test-management Tools: Jira, Jira Zephyr, Confluence, Jenkins, TestRail;
  • Operating Systems: Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS;
  • Methodology: Agile & Scrum;

Certification

Certification: ISTQB Certified Tester

Timeline

Assistant Vise President - Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Full-time)

Citigroup Inc
01.2024 - Current

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Contractor)

Citigroup Inc
02.2023 - 12.2023

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Chadwell Supply Inc
12.2022 - 02.2023

QA Lead/Key Tester

EPAM Systems Inc
11.2019 - 10.2022

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

WIMIX LLC
09.2017 - 11.2019

Master’s Degree - Business Administration, Economics

Belarusian State University

Bachelor’s Degree - Social and Pedagogical Technologies

Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank

Specialist’s Degree - Test Engineering

IT Academy