Elena Mazikina
Status: Permanent Resident
(sponsorship is not required)
Cell: 202-***-****
Email: **************@*****.***
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
References Available on Request