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Siarhei Akunevich

Kraków,Poland

Summary

Experienced QA Test Lead with expertise in functional and regression testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and business acceptance testing (BAT). Proficient in release management, planning release dates, and ensuring seamless end-to-end (E2E) testing processes. Skilled in test documentation, reporting, debugging, and SQL scripting within banking software environments such as Oracle and Sybase. Adept at stakeholder communication, feedback coordination, and delivering customer demos while leveraging Agile/Scrum methodologies to drive quality assurance initiatives. Committed to optimising software quality through meticulous testing strategies and collaborative team leadership.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior QA

Luxoft Poland
Krakow, Poland
12.2017 - 02.2025
  • Release Management & Control: Fully responsible for release control, overseeing the entire release process from planning to execution
  • Define release schedules, plan and coordinate release dates across the entire year, ensuring releases meet both business and technical requirements
  • E2E Testing: Plan, coordinate, and execute comprehensive End-to-End (E2E) testing for all new releases, ensuring all integrated systems and workflows function as intended from a user perspective
  • Customer Interaction & Demos: Coordinate and participate in customer demos, ensuring that business stakeholders, including senior leadership, are kept informed on progress and that their feedback is incorporated into the release plan
  • Lead and manage the QA team throughout the release cycle, ensuring proper testing is performed across functional, regression, UAT, and BAT activities
  • Plan, create, execute, and track all aspects of the testing process, ensuring deliverables are met and quality standards are achieved before release deployment
  • Work closely with business analysts and product owners to ensure that test cases reflect real business scenarios and address all requirements
  • Lead collaboration efforts with external and internal customers, ensuring that customer feedback is captured and integrated into test cases and release planning
  • Ensure full alignment with business goals, providing regular updates and feedback to stakeholders, including executives, during the testing and release phases
  • Actively manage and refine testing processes to ensure continuous improvement and increased efficiency during each release cycle
  • Conducted Functional and Regression Testing of banking applications, ensuring compliance with business requirements across all test phases
  • Managed UAT and BAT activities, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and timely defect resolution
  • Assisted in the planning and execution of E2E testing, validating those integrated systems functioned correctly in alignment with user expectations
  • Wrote and supported detailed test cases and scenarios, reflecting both user and business requirements
  • Participated in customer demos, gathering valuable feedback to improve application features and functionality
  • Developed and debugged SQL scripts to validate system data and functionality
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including developers and business analysts, to define testing strategies and ensure comprehensive coverage
  • Team of Test Engineers with strong business focus works as extension of UBS Team and involved into providing QA services for implementation of credit risk infrastructure
  • Technology and Skills: Apache Subversion (SVN), Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Office, SQL
  • Domains: Commercial bank

Manual Testing Engineer

iFuture Belarus
Minsk
08.2015 - 11.2017
  • Company Overview: This information is a trade secret until 2025
  • Manual software testing (functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, usability testing, etc)
  • Test activities estimation
  • Load testing
  • Localization testing
  • Development and edit automated tests to the project in C#
  • Staging tests
  • Acceptance testing
  • Integration testing of products on the production, content testing;
  • Integration testing (interaction with third-party applications, services)
  • Requirements analysis
  • Direct communication with development team
  • Creation and updating of test documentation (Confluence, Google Doc)
  • This information is a trade secret until 2025
  • Technology and Skills: Agile Methodology, Android, Atlassian Bamboo, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, C#, Git, IOS, JMeter, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NUnit, Scrum framework, Selenium, Selenium WebDriver, SQL, UNIX, Zabbix

Manual Testing Engineer

B2B-Center
Moscow
03.2013 - 04.2015
  • Company Overview: B2B-Center is an e-marketplace enabling corporate procurement and sale of a vast range of goods and services of various industries
  • Manual software testing (functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, usability testing, etc)
  • Rework of automated tests
  • Test activities estimation
  • Requirements analysis
  • Direct communication with development team
  • Providing and supporting test documentation
  • B2B-Center is an e-marketplace enabling corporate procurement and sale of a vast range of goods and services of various industries
  • Technology and Skills: Agile Methodology, Apache Subversion (SVN), Atlassian Bamboo, Atlassian Jira, Git, Microsoft Windows, Nginx, Oracle SQL Developer, PHP, Scrum framework, Selenium, TestRail, Waterfall Methodology, Zabbix

Data center engineer

CJSC "Sport-pari"
Minsk
11.2008 - 02.2013
  • Company Overview: CJSC "Sport-pari" is the first operator of electronic interactive games in the Republic of Belarus
  • Monitoring and administration of server systems (
  • Nix, win)
  • Technical support users
  • Elimination of accidents (including in cooperation GTECH Support (USA, Czech Republic, Poland))
  • Backing up your information
  • Test script execution on the server side, the correctness of the creation of financial reports
  • Create and conduct acceptance testing of new products developed by the third parties
  • Testing and commissioning of the products, developed by GTECH Corporation
  • Drafting on testing reports
  • CJSC "Sport-pari" is the first operator of electronic interactive games in the Republic of Belarus
  • Technology and Skills: Linux, Red Hat Satellite

Education

Certificate of Higher Education -

Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics a
Belarus
/2008 - /2014

Skills

  • Functional & Regression Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Business Acceptance Testing (BAT)
  • QA Test Lead
  • Release Management
  • Release Control
  • Planning Release Dates
  • End-to-End (E2E) Testing
  • Test Documentation
  • Reporting
  • Customer Demos
  • Feedback Coordination
  • SQL Scripting
  • Debugging
  • Agile/Scrum Methodology
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Banking Software (DB Oracle, Sybase)

Languages

Russian
English
German

Custom

Senior QA Engineer

Timeline

Senior QA

Luxoft Poland
12.2017 - 02.2025

Manual Testing Engineer

iFuture Belarus
08.2015 - 11.2017

Manual Testing Engineer

B2B-Center
03.2013 - 04.2015

Data center engineer

CJSC "Sport-pari"
11.2008 - 02.2013

Certificate of Higher Education -

Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics a
/2008 - /2014
Siarhei Akunevich