Hleb Pashkevich

Company Overview: Finstek is a provider of advanced technology solutions for the financial markets.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End QA Leadership: Spearheaded testing processes by estimating, planning, and coordinating activities for both manual and automation QA teams, improving efficiency and reducing QA execution time across projects.
• Comprehensive Documentation & Test Strategy: Developed Test Plans, Test Strategies, and traceability matrices, ensuring thorough documentation and alignment with project goals.
• Diverse Testing Expertise: Conducted extensive testing across mobile (iOS, Android), web, and desktop platforms, specializing in Functional, API, Localization, GUI, Cross-browser, Cross-platform, and Regression testing using tools like Selenium WebDriver, Appium, BrowserStack, and Postman.
• Automation & Efficiency Enhancements: Optimized automation coverage for critical areas, reducing manual test execution time and streamlining regression testing by 50% through traceability matrices.
• Data-Driven Analysis & KPI Tracking: Collected and analyzed key metrics (e.g., defect rates, estimate accuracy) to measure quality outcomes and provided actionable insights to stakeholders for continuous improvement.
• Collaborative Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitated daily stand-ups, demos, and status meetings, fostering strong cross-functional collaboration with developers, project managers, and support teams to resolve issues promptly.
• QA Process Improvements: Enhanced test case creation, onboarding, and regression maintenance processes. Defined test case complexity guidelines to provide stakeholders with clear insights into testing scope.
• Compliance & Standardization: Updated quality control standards, methods, and procedures to meet compliance requirements. Implemented new rework procedures to standardize processes and streamline workflows.

• Supervised projects/sub-projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements and specifications.
• Developed and maintained comprehensive test documentation, including test plans, strategies, traceability matrices, checklists, and test cases in Jira.
• Conducted various testing levels (smoke, critical path, extended) and types (Integration, Regression, Sanity, System, UAT), with expertise in Localization, Mobile (iOS/Android), Compatibility, and Exploratory testing.
• Proactively identified, reported, and validated defects, while managing project risks and escalating issues as needed.
• Led triage sessions, coordinated with project managers, developers, and customers, and provided daily progress reports during test execution.
• Created and maintained Jira dashboards and Confluence homepages for enhanced project visibility and documentation.
• Collected and analyzed KPIs (e.g., estimate accuracy, defect rates, bug statistics) to evaluate project success and improve future testing processes.
• Mentored and onboarded new team members, providing knowledge transfer and prioritizing test execution.
• Reviewed and updated Entry/Exit criteria in collaboration with team leaders to ensure quality standards.
• Created detailed bug reports to prevent blocker, critical, and major issues, ensuring a transparent view of the QA process for stakeholders.