Kate Golovko

Experience

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  EPAM Systems

  Jul 2017 - Mar 2020

  Performed QA Team Lead role in Agile team:• Led a team of 4 QAs and contributed to the growth of team members: performed 1-2-1 sessions and organised knowledge transfer sessions;• Managed all testing activities to ensure the quality of a software product with complex businesslogic starting from test planning and test monitoring to test reporting;• Prioritised tasks of the testing team, reviewed requirements, provided QA estimations, analyseddefects to enhance the testing strategy, mitigated risks, defined test metrics and distributed tasks for QAs;• Represented the team on meetings with management and stakeholders, collaborated withmembers from other teams regarding QA scope, investigation and resolving of arising issues;• Coordinated onboarding process of team members and other QA Leads, reorganised theonboarding plan and learning materials;• Performed manual functional, API and mobile testing, wrote SQL queries and introduced new testingtechniques in the team, reviewed testing deliverables created by team members;• Headed initiative of introducing BDD automation testing approach to the project: coordinated PoC in manual and automation QA teams, successfully presented the results for stakeholders;• Facilitated cross-domain teamwork to enhance overall application quality and perform end-to-end testing, which resulted in reduction of intersectional bugs found on production;• Mentored QA engineers ensuring high level of their readiness to perform testing and technical tasks individually;• Hold and conducted interviews for QA Engineers. Show less Experience in different activities related to manual functional testing:• creation of testing documentation: test strategy, test cases, checklists, test matrix, decision tables, bug reports;• manual testing, API testing, mobile testing;• working in Scrum and Kanban teams;• analysis and refinement of requirements;• communication with customers, providing demo;• collaboration with developers to investigate root cause and with QA from other teams regarding arising issues;• providing estimations. Show less

  • Senior Software Testing Engineer, QA Team Lead

    Mar 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Software Testing Engineer

    Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
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  Teladoc Health

  May 2020 - Dec 2020

  Senior QA Engineer

  Ensured quality of healthcare software product by testing requirements and design mockups,performing API, mobile and functional testing and writing SQL queries:• Performed manual functional, mobile, smoke, regression, API, end-to-end, UI, cross-browser testing• Created and maintained test documentation (check lists, test cases, test reports) • Identified, reported, tracked, and managed defects using bug tracking systems (Jira)• Identified and prepared test data required for testing activities• Participated in Scrum meetings (planning, grooming, retro, demo etc.)• Provided QA estimations • Reviewed specifications and technical documentation in Jira, Confluence• Worked with database (MSSQL), Postman, Browser DevTool, HTML\CSS, JSON Show less

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  ISsoft

  Dec 2020 - Jan 2023

  Key QA Engineer, Senior QA Engineer

  Managed all manual testing activities in the team from defining a testing strategy and test planning toproviding testing results and analysing quality metrics of the product:• Improved the testing process in the team and coordinated testing activities in the team;• Coordinated weekly releases and deployments, created and managed release notes;• Collaborated with PM and UX/UI designer to redesign the product, created user stories andpresented the results for stakeholders;• Onboarded and mentored new team members, provided knowledge transfer sessions for team members from other teams;• Performed manual functional, smoke, regression, end2end, UI testing;• Created and maintained test documentation (check lists, test cases, test runs, test reports) in Test Rail, Confluence, Jira;• Identified, reported, tracked, and managed defects using bug tracking system - Jira;• Planned regression testing scope, performed regression testing and provided release status reports for stakeholders;• Collected QA metrics and monitored testing progress;• Provided QA estimations;• Reviewed specifications, mockups, technical documentation in Jira, Confluence, Figma;• Automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Cucumber and Maven;• Identified and prepared test data required for testing activities;• Participated in Scrum meetings (planning, backlog refinement, retrospective, daily meetings), presented the team's work on a demo. Show less

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  Coherent Solutions

  Jan 2023 - Nov 2023

  Key QA Engineer, Senior QA Engineer

  Moved to Poland within the same group of companies with the same position and responsibilities.Managed all manual testing activities in the team from defining a testing strategy and test planning toproviding testing results and analysing quality metrics of the product:• Improved the testing process in the team and coordinated testing activities in the team;• Coordinated weekly releases and deployments, created and managed release notes;• Collaborated with PM and UX/UI designer to redesign the product, created user stories andpresented the results for stakeholders;• Onboarded and mentored new team members, provided knowledge transfer sessions for team members from other teams;• Performed manual functional, smoke, regression, end2end, UI testing;• Created and maintained test documentation (check lists, test cases, test runs, test reports) in Test Rail, Confluence, Jira;• Identified, reported, tracked, and managed defects using bug tracking system - Jira;• Planned regression testing scope, performed regression testing and provided release status reports for stakeholders;• Collected QA metrics and monitored testing progress;• Provided QA estimations;• Reviewed specifications, mockups, technical documentation in Jira, Confluence, Figma;• Automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Cucumber and Maven;• Identified and prepared test data required for testing activities;• Participated in Scrum meetings (planning, backlog refinement, retrospective, daily meetings), presented the team's work on a demo. Show less

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  Interact Software

  Nov 2023 - now

  QA Lead