United Kingdom

QA Engineer

Specialist’s degree

Nataliia Burmei

Lead Quality Engineer

Usability Testing

Critical-thinking

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Postman

GitHub

Jira

Swift

Trello

REST API

Selenium

HTML

Docker

JavaScript

WordPress

Jenkins

Miro

Notion

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Experienced T-shaped test engineer who continuously searches for challenges. 
My role is split between three areas. First is to make sure my squad has all quality tools, process, knowledge and support they need to deliver great quality software. Second is to lead technical initiatives within tech and test engineering community to improve quality, to optimised delivery and measure impact. Third one is mentoring people, helping to grow their technical knowledge and confidence.

Achievements: 
- Established the new continuous testing process to help team remove the bottleneck with testing
- Increased the test coverage of natives apps that helped teams to move to weekly releases
- Integrated tests into continuous deployments tools
- Successfully delivered quarterly epics for technical improvements and product delivery
- Designed and set up post release monitoring for complex projects
- Developed the learning program for Test Engineers to become confident and independent contributors to native automation
- Identified the inefficiency in regression testing, developed optimised process and implementing it
- Facilitating brainstorming, implementation sessions either with technical or cross functional teams

Technology:
- Swift, Bitrise, EarlGrey, XCTest, Fastlane
- Jenkins CI/CD, Maven, Docker
- API testing with TypeScript, JavaScript, Cypress
- Gatling stress and performance testing
Monitoring and Observability:
- Amplitude, Datadog, SignalFX, Grafana
Productivity tools:
- Miro, Notion, Slack, Jira
Development process:
- Agile; BDD; continuous delivery and continuous testing

During this time, I mainly worked on a separate project dedicated to financial well-being. It was a fully native experience. 

Achievements: 
- I set up strategy of quality and delivery. The strategy was simple - test and automate while developing the feature. Automation is part of delivery. Automation is freedom deliver fast. 
- I set up automation from scratch and onboarded the whole team
- I mentored the team to adopt a mindset of "quality at the beginning" and were able to release the native app weekly. It was successful project and definitely one of my favourite.

Technology:
- Swift, XCTest, Bitrise, Jenkins
- Javascript, Typescript (API testing), Cypress
- Gatling peformance testing(Scala)

Currently working on web platform fostering quality and continuous delivery and help classified business to move forward offering quality product to end users.

My role is to bring user stories from planning into production by designing meaningful tests, developing them and maintaining existing automated regression pack at the same time.
I never say ‘no’ to exploratory testing which helps to discover and learn more about platform.

To build a resilient and scalable testing framework I am using simple and easy ScalaTest to write API and end2end tests alongside with Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins for nightly test runs and Selenium Grid for tests parallelization. Maven or sbt tools to build our projects. Less often I would write tests using Java as applications are a mix of technologies - Java and Scala.

The other part of my role is improvements and initiatives. Co-organizer of Gumtree Tech talks 

Keywords: quality over quantity, quality software, happy users, exploratory testing, automation, Scala, ScalaTest, Play framework, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Maven, sbt, API, Postman, git, GitHub, Kafka

Role and responsibility:
• Overall testing sprint and release planning in Agile environment, people assignment across multiple projects and markets;
• Aligning testing planning and execution with the business specification to meet requirements and satisfy user expectations 
• Working with automation team to provide functional regression suite to cover crucial functionality
• Engaging in testing of web services to eliminate the testing gap
• Communicating closely with project managers and business stakeholders to ensure all significant phases of STLC, and the corresponding quality requirements are supported and met
• Creating the key assets of test documentation like Test Plan, Test Reports at all phases and ensure these are relevant
• Working with release management to ensure adequate support and planning is provided for all releases and feedback on quality is given before every Go/No-Go
• Carrying out regular retrospective sessions to generate continuous improvements through the testing community
• Managing team of Test Engineers across different locations, coaching and mentoring the team

- API, RESTful services, JSON, XML,
- Java; HTML, CSS
- BDD, Cucumber-JVM, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, Page Object Model
- Git/GitHub, SoapUI, Jenkins, Maven, SauceLabs integration
- JavaScript, E2E Protractor, Jasmine (learning curve)

Thomas Cook Belgium is one of the leading travel company in Europe which supplies the holidays around the world, flights and airline tickets to many European and worldwide countries.
eCommerce web platform for tour products sales. Complex integrations with mainframe backend’s and third party systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Analysis of functional inception documentation, defining the test case formats, transform functional requirements into testing documentation for further testing and  verification activities within existing systems
• Develop test documentation based on business and functional requirements; test cases execution and verification 
 • Emulate requested implementation and changes in the current or new components through object and relational models
 • Perform backend and frontend testing - integration, system, functional, UI, regression and smoke testing
 • Liaise with functional and business analysts on the customer’s side and software developers of both sides to specify and clarify the ideas and views of designs 
 • Tracking and investigating of defects and issues; reviewing and processing them in issue tracking system     
 • Cross-review of newly created test cases and ensure that existing ones are up-do-date with developed or already released functionality 
 • Prepare test closure reports; reporting of the work of quality to the stakeholders
 • Mentoring team members for any technical and architectural, QA/testing questions and issues

Project title: Finatek trading technologies 

myForex is an online trading solution with integrated back office, live charting, and technical analysis all in one and provide a full set of features for market players.
The following client interfaces as myForex Desktop, myForex Web, myForex Mobile and Client Reports Portal allow trader to easily reach the market at any time and place

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading testing activities and set up QA process on a project; 
• Writing test documentation (test plan, test suite, test case) based on business requirements, user stories and input from development team;
• Manual testing performed on front office (trading and dealing desk) and back office (administration console and reporting system) components
• Executed black-box testing: system, functional, GUI, regression, exploratory, smoke testing) and non-functional testing: usability
• Gathered testing results and generating testing report and providing it to customer

Nataliia Burmei🇬🇧