Yuliia Zhdan

Experience

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  JSC "STS"

  Sept 2005 - Jan 2008

  Economist
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  Pillar Group B.V.

  May 2007 - Aug 2015

  Senior Planning Economist
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  Brain Academy, LLC

  Sept 2015 - Jul 2016

  Junior QA Engineer
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  GlobalLogic

  Aug 2016 - now

  Fintech domain (Simcorp company)1) Lead the teams using standard Scrum ceremonies2) Collaborate with POs and tech/quality management to ensure the consistent delivery of quality software each sprint3) Ensure that all product goals are met (scope completed on time). Drive development team to stay focused on their Sprint plan to accomplish the Sprint goals.4) Ensuring that processes and agreements are documented and followed. 5) Setup the processes on a all product line from scratch:- Onboarding process - have written from scratch for all product level.- DoD - have written from scratch for all product level, Wiki doc was created and presented and approved with customer.- Defect Management - implemented Defect policy for project and approved with customer.- Deployment process - The continuous product release process was created from scratch, agreed upon with all stakeholders and described in the appropriate Wiki documentation. - Team on Duty approach- Global Support: Reporting Defects to teams - implemented policy for coordination between Global support and product and approved all stakeholders.- Refinement Process - The main goal of this process - to find the best way to manage PI Backlog and define the whole feature refinement process. The process have been written from scratch for all product, Wiki doc was created and presented and approved with all stakeholders.6) Cover the operational part of the project (coordinating, planning, etc.).7) People Management (feedback sessions, 1x1, work with motivation and promotion help etc.) 8) Onboarding all team members for project in the shortest possible time.9) Facilitate all scrum meetings and win-win decision making among POs, Dev Teams, Stakeholders and Leadership Team. 10) Сonstantly coaching the team on best work practices and value based thinking and delivery and continuous improvement.11) Candidates Interview 12) Mentoring of newcomers13) Professional training and webinars for the teams Show less Fintech project (Simcorp company)1) Onboarding all QA engineers for project successfully and in the shortest possible time.2) Setup all testing processes on a new project from scratch: - coordination all processes with the customer. - creation and coordination Test Strategy. Design, creation and supporting all test documentation (Test Plans, test cases/scenarios etc.)3) Implementation the list of process improvements for the project: - implementation Defect Management - implementation Root Cause Analysis methodology, presentation, educated and coordinated.4) Test and Project documentation creation: - Defect policy, - Stories Life cycle policy, - DOD5) Test Coverage - implementation metrics and analysis of existing Test Coverage via autotest.6) QA activity planning (sprint/release activities)7) Analysis and validation of the system requirements.8) Сollection and analysis of test metrics9) Reporting to high-level management.10) Provide demos for new features11) Daily communications with customers and QA/automation /Dev/support teams from different locations (London, Denmark)12) Provide smoke, functional, regression, UI, integration, API testing for Desktop and Web based application. Manual testing.13) Mentoring of newcomers.14) Candidates Interview Show less

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Scrum Master/Project Manager

    Nov 2021 - Nov 2023

  • Lead Test Engineer, Quality Assurance

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2020

  • Software Quality Assurance Engineer

    Aug 2016 - Aug 2017