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Volha Kafanava

Volha Kafanava

Warsaw

Summary

Qualified QA Engineer with leadership background and 5.5+ years of experience in manual functional testing of Web, Desktop and Mobile applications in different business domains like online collaboration, insurance, news and media, study. Focused on the common success based on high personal responsibility, attention to details, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. Hardworking and meticulous with a passion for continuous improvement.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Team Lead

EPAM Systems, Inc
10.2022 - Current

Project: Android/iOS native mobile application with study content for students

Main responsibilities:

  • Maintaining of a well-organized, up-to-date library of regression test cases
  • Requirements analysis, release scope planning, estimation of QA workload
  • Manual functional testing for native mobile application on Android and iOS devices including mobile specific testing
  • REST API testing
  • Root cause analysis and documentation of defects, prioritization based on severity and impact on the end-user experience
  • Improving of test strategy and plan based on project needs to enhance software quality
  • Management of release test activities to ensure optimized test coverage
  • Distribution of tasks between QA team-members
  • Preparing of test result reports
  • Communication inside a team, with other project streams, customer stakeholders
  • Knowledge-sharing by training new QA Engineers on project-specific testing methodologies and tools

QA Engineer/QA Team Lead

EPAM Systems, Inc
01.2020 - 10.2022

Project: News and media native mobile application for Android and iOS

Main responsibilities:

  • Maintaining of a well-organized, up-to-date library of test cases, check-lists and regression suits
  • Requirements analysis, sprint planning, estimation of QA workload
  • Manual functional testing for native mobile application on Android and iOS devices including mobile specific testing
  • REST API testing
  • Integration testing with backend part
  • Root cause analysis and documentation of defects, prioritization based on severity and impact on the end-user experience
  • Management of release test activities to ensure optimized test coverage
  • Improving of test strategy and plan based on project needs to enhance software quality
  • Distribution of tasks between QA team-members
  • Preparing of test result reports, test coverage visibility (traceability matrix)
  • Support of communication with other project streams, customer stakeholders, conducting of daily meetings inside a team
  • Newcomers onboarding and mentoring

QA Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc
10.2020 - 12.2020

Project: Re-Engineer client's admin tool for enrolling, and setup of group insurance benefits.

Main responsibilities:

  • Creation of test documentation: checklist, E2E scenario
  • Manual functional testing of Web application in desktop and mobile browsers
  • Documentation of defects in Azure DevOps bug tracking tool
  • Performing of regression testing
  • Collaboration with other project streams for defect analysis and environment set-up

QA Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc
06.2018 - 09.2020

Project: a platform for online business collaboration and communication

Main responsibilities:

  • Creation of test cases
  • Manual functional testing for Web and Desktop application
  • Root cause analysis and documentation of defects
  • Performing of basic accessibility testing
  • Review and update of test documentation
  • Preparing of demo materials and participation in demo sessions

Education

Software Functional Testing Training

EPAM Systems
2018

Higher National Diploma - Custom Affairs

Belarusian State University of Transport
Gomel (Belarus)
2014

Skills

  • Test Case Design
  • Functional Testing
  • Mobile Testing
  • API testing
  • Defect Management
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • SQL
  • Test strategy and plan
  • Agile methodologies
  • Leadership

Tools

JIRA, Zephyr JIRA plugin, Azure DevOps, Android Studio, Charles Proxy, Swagger, BrowserStack, Browser DevTool, Zeplin, Figma, Firebase, Google Analytics, MixPanel, Segment analytics, Braze, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Excel, NVDA, Jenkins, Windows/Mac/Linux OS

Languages

Russian
Native language
English
Upper intermediate
B2

Timeline

QA Team Lead

EPAM Systems, Inc
10.2022 - Current

QA Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc
10.2020 - 12.2020

QA Engineer/QA Team Lead

EPAM Systems, Inc
01.2020 - 10.2022

QA Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc
06.2018 - 09.2020

Software Functional Testing Training

EPAM Systems

Higher National Diploma - Custom Affairs

Belarusian State University of Transport
Volha Kafanava