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Lina Kaida

Greater Chicago Area, IL (***) *** - *334 *************@*****.***

https://codepen.io/PolinaK/pen/gRBXvM

www.linkedin.com/in/lina-k2020

https://gist.github.com/guestPK1986

Fully Work Authorized No Visa Sponsorship Required

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Software Quality Assurance Engineer Analyst with 7+ years of experience in functional and non-functional testing in large-scale, complex, full-stack systems, both Front-end and Back-end, applying Agile methodologies throughout STLC. Experienced in participating in Entire QA Life Cycle - Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process. Skilled in Database maintenance and manipulation, documentation/data analysis/creation/maintenance: workflow, test plans, test cases, defect reports, traceability matrixes, requirements, functional specifications, user stories, use cases, PRD, test reports, test data.

3 years of Remote working experience.

Key Skills:

Strong knowledge of SDLC, SQA, Product Analysis, Development, Deployment Process

Positive remote working experience with teams all over the world!

Great teammate, always looking for ways to engage and help to colleagues in all the aspects of testing, to achieve the best results within tight deadlines

Build acceptance, UI, UAT, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Cross-browser, code coverage testing

Excellent attention to detail, highly disciplined approach to quality assurance assignments

Patience, perseverance, discipline, flexibility, capacity for work

Open mind, thriving under stress and readiness to work hard to achieve project goals

Superior logical reasoning/analytical/statistical skills and mindset

Highly organized, good time management and communication skills

Proved record of analyzing project issues and determine root cause and appropriate solution for them

Commitment to Learning and Innovation!

Technical competencies:

Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS, Linux/Unix.

Communication with teams: Slack, Skype, Zoom, Outlook.

SQL queries in Oracle, MySQL databases

Version control: GitHub, TFS

Continuous integration: Jenkins

Data visualization: Tableau, Power Point, R studio

REST API tools: Postman, Swagger

Defect Management: HPE Agile Manager, HP ALM, JIRA, BugZilla

Tools: MS Office, JMeter, Jupyter Notebook.

Working knowledge of: Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, JSON

Automation tools and Frameworks: Selenium WebDriver, Maven, TestNG, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Testing Projects 2020

AWS testing: created, configured, reviewed EC2 instance, connected EIP, changed user’s data through the AWS Management console, modified network settings, hosted and configured Node.js web App on the AWS server, troubleshooted the environment health. Researched on Cloud Test Automation Lab using AWS

Performed statistical data evaluation and visualization, created plots and charts with Seaborn, Plotly, Matplotlib

Used R and main DPLYR functions for data analysis and transformation

Scraped Web Data using Rvest for Data Analytics, executing Rvest functions to pull data

Calculated descriptive statistical metrics in order to describe a dataset in basic R and created a data report files. Used R’s in-built functions for additional data quality metrics

Created Data Visualization plots in R

Utilized Python optimization libraries within JupyterLab to assess data for research purposes

Remote Equity Analyst, self-employed at Thinkorswim, Plainfield, IL 08/19 – 05/20

Attending morning pre-market meetings and weekly review/analysis Zoom meetings.

Back-testing strategies by writing custom scripts in Thinkorswim platform.

Perform technical and quantitative analysis to identify changing financial market trends and factors that impact risk.

Trade assets via multiple electronic trading platforms, short-term and long-term.

Conduct thorough analysis on macro/micro industry specific trends and their market implications resulting in strategy refinements.

Test Automation Software Engineer, Cognizant, Naperville, IL 11/18 – 08/19

Testing Financial pricing/billing and Insurance claim bundling applications.

Involved in team designing of test automation framework using Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, TFS for Apps ran on Application Servers as WebSphere and Tomcat.

Collaborating with automation team to design, develop and maintain automated test suites written on Java/J2EE

Utilized Jenkins for: Continuous Integration purposes, starting Jenkins jobs and checking the jobs statuses in automation pipelines; monitoring deployment, integration, batch processing jobs, build execution statuses.

Performed REST API testing

Developing and executing automation test cases for existing and new features and build test scripts for legacy areas of the product to reduce dependency on manual tests

Debugging code and reporting the results on a continuous basis to the tech lead

Providing investigations related to failing tests

Troubleshoot production issues related to data and SQL code

Actively participating in the continuous improvement of the automation strategy and framework

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, CN, Homewood, IL 10/17 – 11/18

Testing Precision Dispatch System within Positive Train Control Program to comply with government rules and regulations. PTC is a multi-faceted technology system incorporating GPS technology, network operations, and communications allowing train operators a clear picture of what lies ahead for them and their train.

•Working with in-house and abroad teams within Agile SDLC

•Managing assignments for the team of 8 testers on a daily basis

•Suggested few improvements to the STLC process

•Is involved in Sanity, Defect Retest, Functional Specific, Functional Combinations, Regression, Integration, Data/Code Drop, Simulation/Production Testing on the Windows platform

•Participating in gap analysis, test case internal/external review, scrum and defect triage meetings/discovery sessions

•Working with domain experts and developers to identify root causes of issues

•Responsible for: preparation, review of test strategy, test plan, test objective matrix, defect reports; creation, modification and test case execution; EOD testing status reports; educating new hires

•Test case/scenario writing and verification referring to the Code Server Logs

•Data warehousing using HP Quality Center ALM

Remote Software Quality Assurance Tester, Premium Soft Labs, Phoenix, AZ 03/15 – 10/17

Participated in an entire STLC lifecycle, daily standup meetings, sprint retrospectives, user story prioritization

Used Slack, Skype, Outlook to communicate to team members all over the world

Managed daily activities and workloads for ~25 remote testers for iOS devices; ensured QA functions comply with all required company and industry regulations; estimated, prioritized, planned and coordinated testing activities

Managed document control system including creation records as required

Managed bug-tracking system after collecting, analyzing data from app testing on device fragmentation

Software QA Tester, Dnepr-avia Inc., Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine 09/08 – 12/10

Analyzed requirements and provided functional, UI, regression, localization testing for the company website

Created and executed test scripts, verified test output against expected results

Issued defect reports using JIRA; retested defect fixes, tested internal structure and system logics, identified functional modules for testing

Performed cross-browsers testing and supported production implementation

QA Associate, Lactalis-Dnepr Inc., Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine 07/08 – 09/08

Participated in daily meetings with team of sales representatives, tester, developer, discussing the findings, quality issues, bug fixes, customer feedback

Generated weekly status reports to be sent to PM

Performed functional, exploratory, UI, functional, UX and regression testing

EDUCATION

BS of Science, Dnipropetrovsk National University, Ukraine 2008

Software Quality Assurance Testing Course, Los Altos Software Testing House, CA 2009

Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals, Duke University 2017

Financial Business Course, Harvard Business School, Online present – 09/2020

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Automation with Python, LinkedIn 2020

QuantConnect Python Boot Camp, Online 2020

Python Programming, Coursera, University of Michigan 2017

Cisco Certified Networking Associate, course by Cybrary.it 2017

Managing Big Data with MySQL, Coursera, Duke University 2017

Test Automation with Selenium, Los Altos Software Testing House, CA 2016

Achievements: Employee of the month of May 2019 (Cognizant); from a Quality Assurance Engineer after 6 month of work was given an extra title as Subject Matter Expert and was given responsibility to manage a team of 8 engineers (CN, 2018); Dnepr Girls Volleyball Championships (Ukraine), Finalist of All-Ukrainian competition of creative works 'The women world', at support of the Swiss bureau of collaboration in Ukraine (Top 30 from 500 participants, Ukraine).

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