Elena Mazikina

Status: Permanent Resident

(sponsorship is not required)

Cell: 202-***-****

Email: ac7vrn@r.postjobfree.com

Address: Springfield, VA

Career Objective:

Software tester specialized in software validation and Quality Assurance(QA) seeking an entry level position in progressive organization with growth opportunities.

Core competencies:

●Extensive knowledge in software development life cycle (SDLC) and ability provide value throughout the SDLC phases.

●Ability to assist test planning by creating supporting deliverables such as test plans, traceability matrices and test impact analysis documents

●Ability to review complex software requirements and uncover requirements defects

●Ability to assist design and develop test cases using industry best practices

●Basic knowledge in SQL that can be utilized during backend testing

●Knowledgeable in 508 compliance testing

●Specialized in web and E-commerce testing

●Excellent knowledge in testing metrics and ability to utilize them in day to day testing activities

●Ability to report defects utilizing industry standard defect tracking tools

●Ability to effectively collaborate with project teams (development teams)

●Ability to work independently in a flexible environment

●Ability to adapt to changes and willingness to take on challenges

● Quick learner with great sense of duty, responsibility, punctuality, and teamwork

●Good analytical skills

Technical Skills:

●Testing Tools: Selenium IDE

●Bug tracking tools: JIRA, Bugzilla

●Documentation: Confluence, MS Office

●Browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

●Language: SQL (MySQL), HTML

●Operating Systems: MS Windows(7, 10), Mac OS X

●Methodologies: Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall

●508 compliance: JAWS, WAVE

Professional experience:

Target Labs, Inc. Vienna, VA May 2016 – Present

Software QA Analyst

Responsible for testing internal home design, remodeling web-based application and web-based voting system for the company:

●Created detailed test plans, test cases and test scenarios for different application

●Conducted smoke, functional, usability, regression testing manual mobile testing

●Designed and developed Test cases imn MS Excel

● Identified, analyzed, and reported defects/bugs utilizing JIRA as defect tracking system

●Tested applications compatibility on different platforms (Windows, Mac OS), browser versions (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome) and Mobile Devices (iOS)

●Wrote SQL commands to access for Database for backend testing

●Developed basic automation test cases using Selenium IDE

●Conducted system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) on later stages of SDLC

●Participated in meetings with internal/external stakeholders to understand requirements and helped prioritize organizational strategies and plans

●Created detailed Test plans, Test cases according to the business requirements, extensively working with Manual Testing in JIRA

●Performed functionality testing, GUI, regression, compatibility, usability testing, equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis

●Participated daily SCRUM meetings and assisted in retrospective after each sprint

Education

Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine 08/2005 – 06/2011

Masters Degree, Science

Training:

●Software Testing Fundamentals.University of Maryland. edx.org

●Software Testing Management. University of Maryland.edx.org

●ISTQB Foundation Level Certification.udemy.com

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/elena-mazikina-443634152

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