MILA KOLTUN
address: **** **** ***, *** **, Brooklyn, NY 11235 • phone: 917-***-**** • email: ******@*********.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Quality Assurance professional with full SDLC and Agile background. Extensive experience designing, developing and implementing test plans, test scripts, test cases, and automating test processes for complex desktop, server, web-based and mobile applications including Android and Apple iOS. A team player with immaculate attention to detail, process improvement record and excellent communication skills
EXPERIENCE
M&E Systems (Cablevision, TRUINC IT™)
Senior QA Engineer Jun 2015 - present New York, NY
Lead the development of the automated and manual test scripts, strategies and plans such as Smoke, Functional, Backend, Black box, Integration, Regression for lifecycle testing of Cablevison NetCracker Application and TRUINC IT™ web-based Customer Management System
Conduct all Agile meetings with the development Scrum masters to review requirements and various functional modules of the application providing feedback, dividing the software testing workload and mentoring junior QA consultants to streamline and distribute testing efforts
Participate in the process improvement initiatives, root cause analysis of the defects to validate the integrity of Cablevision and TRUINC IT™ client products and associated upgrades prior to production deployment and successfully eliminate defect reoccurrence
Involved in the testing of iOS and Android mobile application releases and server-side web services
Prepare defect trend reports and define software release readiness criteria
Nature Publishing Group (Macmillan Publishing)
Senior QA Engineer Sept 2008 - Apr 2015 New York, NY
Led the functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing for Nature.com including on-line Nature Journals, Scientific Reports, Web applications, Apple iOS and Android mobile apps, multiple in house tools, web services, APIs, OpenSearch, and Commentary applications
Built the improved test strategy, created performance and regression test scripts, defined scalable test scenarios for software and data validation to perform automated and manual tests in a highly traceable and repeatable manner
Verified requirements testability, prepared defect trend reports and provided preliminary recommendations for each test suite for both user story driven and traditional approach
Presented comprehensive test strategy and execution plans to upper management, stakeholders, and development teams streamlining new product and feature releases
Honeywell International
QA Engineer Jan 2000 - Mar 2008 New York, NY
Managed all phases of testing for Honeywell hardware and software components ensuring the timely completion of all test plans based on business and technical requirements
Improved the efficiency, standardized and automated testing procedures of Honeywell Security and Custom Electronics, Digital Cellular Communication systems, Internet-based reporting systems, Remote and Alarm Processing applications cutting testing times in half and speeding up new product releases
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Agile and Scrum SDLC
NPG Training Sept 2012, New York, NY
Software Quality Assurance courses
Proworks Sept 2011, New York, NY
Load Runner
Hewlett Packard Sept 2011, New York, NY
In-depth MS Office and Excel
New Horizons Sept 2003, New York, NY
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Automated Testing: QTP, Selenium IDE and WebDriver, Firebug, Load Runner and Development Tools, Python
Defect Management: JIRA, Team Track, Star Team, Version One
Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix
Databases: Oracle 11g, 12c, MSSQL Server, Sybase, MySQL
Software: Eclipse, SCP, Putty, Microsoft Office Suite
SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
EDUCATION
B.S and M.S in Mechanical Engineering, Kiev Polytechnic University