Qa Engineer Manual Testing

NATALIIA DANYLIV

Fort Lee, New Jersey *****

Mobile: 201-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

SUMMARY

A dedicated QA Engineer with 8 years of expertise in manual and automation testing, defect management, and CI/CD pipeline integration. Excels in high-pressure environments, consistently meeting deadlines and ensuring the delivery of top-notch results. Skilled in applying Agile (Scrum) methodologies by analyzing requirements and leveraging automation to enhance business processes and outcomes.

EXPERIENCE

BEGIN New York, NY

Feb 2020 – Nov 2024

EdTech E-commerce SaaS B2B B2C

Senior QA Engineer

●Delivered features with a 5-person Agile team on 2-week sprints, achieving over 95% sprint completion.

●Designed and implemented Cypress test architecture, optimizing test structure and maintainability.

●Built 300 automated UI tests using Robot Framework (built on Selenium lib), cutting manual testing by 40% and execution time by 30%.

●Built 150 automated UI tests using Cypress with JavaScript/TypeScript.

●Integrated Cypress tests with CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated test execution on every code push.

●Enhanced automation frameworks with object-oriented design principles, making them more scalable and maintainable for enterprise applications.

●Configured Cypress environment variables and fixtures for dynamic test data handling.

●Created over 25 custom commands reducing duplication by 35%.

●Implemented retries and intelligent wait mechanisms, reducing flakiness by 50%.

●Performed cross-browser testing with Cypress, validating application behavior in different environments.

●Hit APIs to support UI tests, such as logging in programmatically and creating users via API, significantly speeding up test execution and reducing dependencies on UI flows.

●Developed API tests with Robot Framework and SuperTest nodeJS library achieving 100% API coverage.

●Managed 100+ PRs via Git/GitHub and created Jenkins jobs to streamline testing and deployment.

●Manual Testing: Contributed to documentation and processes supporting manual testing, ensured features met product and design specifications, identified gaps in requirements and risks to user experience, and uncovered application behavior issues by testing edge cases, invalid inputs, and unexpected scenarios

●Wrote and executed complex SQL queries for manual testing, ensuring accurate data validation, integrity, and backend consistency.

●Ran weekly regression and smoke tests, catching 90% of critical issues pre-production.

●Tracked 200+ issues in Jira, resolving 80% within SLA by collaborating with cross-functional teams.

●I’m passionate about learning new systems.

Techno Pointer San Francisco, CA

May 2017 - Feb 2020

Software Consulting Firm SaaS B2B B2C E-commerce EdTech FoodTech

Software QA Analyst

●Actively participated in 50+ Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), ensuring alignment with team goals and timelines.

●Conducted 200+ functional, regression, smoke, GUI, and browser compatibility tests, ensuring seamless user experiences across 5+ browsers and multiple devices.

●Validated 100+ RESTful APIs using Postman with HTTP methods (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE), detecting and resolving 30+ API-related issues.

●Improved data accuracy by performing back-end testing on MySQL databases and writing 50+ SQL queries to verify UI content and database consistency.

●Designed 300+ test cases, documented defects, and tracked 100+ issues in Jira to resolution, ensuring adherence to quality standards.

●Delivered high-quality results across 15+ releases, collaborating with product, development, and design teams to meet deadlines.

●Analyzed requirements, created test data, and defined testing scope for 10+ complex projects, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.

EDUCATION

●Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

SKILLS

●Programming Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTM.

●IDE & Code Editors: WebStorm, VS Code.

●Bug Tracking Tools: Jira, PivotalTracker, DevStride.

●RDBMS: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL.

●Version Control: Git, GitHub.

●CI/CD Tools: Jenkins.

●Operating Systems: macOS, Windows, UNIX, Linux.

●Automation Tools: Robot Framework, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Cypress, Playwright, NodeJS, SuperTest HTTP library.

●Cloud Platforms& Containerization: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Docker.

●AI Tools: Tabnine AI, Perplexity AI.

●Testing Types and Skills: Manual, Automated, Smoke, Regression, Functional, Backend, Cross-Browser testing.

●Testing Skills: Debugging, Test Plans, Test Cases, STLC, SDLC.

References

●References are available upon request

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