Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Processes, frameworks
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Oleksa Mashchyts

Oleksa Mashchyts

QA Manager/Team Lead, Educator
Lviv

Summary

  • QA Team Lead, QA Manager with 12 years of experience in enterprise apps: eCommerce, recruitment, staffing, documentation, eGovernment
  • PM in NGO projects
  • Strong skills in business and requirements analysis, a wide range of testing
  • Experience with SCRUM-like frameworks (3-20 people)
  • Experience with CMS (built from scratch, ContentStack, WordPress)
  • Experience with distributed teams
  • Love to face challenges
  • Friendly but explicit

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
21
21
Certification
2
2
Languages

Work History

Founder

QA Україна
07.2023 - Current

Community of Ukrainian testers specialists, informational educational portal

https://qaukraine.online

Mastermind (self-employed)

The Matrix space
Lviv
01.2022 - 06.2023
  • Building own educational project
  • Private mentoring

Career Break

Health and well-being
09.2022 - 12.2022

QA Team Lead/QA Tech Lead

P2H
Lviv
02.2022 - 09.2022
  • Leading a team of testers divided by multiple scrum teams
  • Work inside the team of Leads/C-level as well as inside the development teams (and between them)
  • Preparing and conducting job interviews
  • Personal development plans creation and support
  • Employees appraisal, salary reviewing
  • Creation of test strategy and distribution of activities within the teams
  • Monitoring the work on the projects
  • Solving team members work, technical and communication issues on daily basics inside of project teams and between them
  • Defining level of QA needed for each project
  • 1-1 meetings conducting, people management
  • Taking part in resource allocation, rotations and promotion between the teams
  • Proposing and supporting test documentation
  • Developing QMS system
  • Analysis potential projects, test approaches elaboration on pre-sale stage
  • Participation in skill matrix elaboration

Senior Software Testing Engineer, Team Lead

EPAM Systems
12.2020 - 01.2022
  • Leading the team of QAs
  • Test documentation creation
  • Enterprise web-based application testing
  • Working with SQL, NoSQL DB
  • FE/BE testing
  • Requirements testing
  • Planning
  • Fast releases supporting
  • Working with huge ecosystem integration
  • Conducting interviews with new testers
  • Onboarding, knowledge transferring for newcomers
  • Mentoring of testers and interns
  • Fully remote

Tools:

  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • TestRails
  • Postgresql
  • DynamoDB
  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Coda
  • Postman
  • Elastic Kibana
  • MS Teams

Independent IT Consultant, QA/QC, BA

01.2020 - 12.2020
  • IT consulting
  • BA, QA/QC activities
  • Creation of specifications
  • Planning dev/test activities, releases
  • Organization of documents storage
  • Business consulting

CEO, PM

NGO "Cultural Agency A"
06.2017 - 01.2020
  • Administrative, legal and accounting responsibilities, team leading, recruiting, negotiations, marketing, project management, SMM
  • Social activism, city festivals and people-oriented doings. Working with international funds and organizations
  • Ukrainian and foreign funds - small and big projects budget developing, reporting
  • Working with projects with budgets up to $300'000/year

QA/QC Engineer

Sigma Software Group
03.2018 - 02.2019

Responsibilities:

  • Web applications testing
  • Client/server testing
  • Statistics analysis
  • UI/UX testing
  • Test plan/strategy creation
  • Testing documentation creation (test cases, check-lists, traceability matrices, test-reports, bug reports, etc)
  • Executing test cases for functional, validation, end-to-end, and regression testing
  • Performing SQL statements for setting up data and retrieved data for tests
  • Examining logs, JSON/XML files
  • Test documentation review
  • Requirements analysis
  • Conducting demos to customer

QA/QC Engineer

TEAM International
09.2011 - 02.2018

Responsibilities:

  • Web applications testing
  • Client/server testing
  • Applications for mobile devices testing
  • UI/UX testing
  • Testing documentation creation (test cases, check-lists, traceability matrices, test-reports, bug reports, etc)
  • Executing test cases for functional, validation, end-to-end, and regression testing
  • Performing SQL statements for setting up data and retrieved data for tests
  • Examining logs, JSON/XML files
  • Test documentation review
  • Requirements analysis
  • Trained interns/juniors QCs

Tracking and stocktaking tools:

  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Mantis
  • ReQtest
  • Eventum
  • TestLink

Education

Web Design

Computer Academy "Step"
Kharkiv

No Degree - Computer Science And Programming

Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
Kharkiv

Secondary School - Computer Programming

Lyceum #174 "Professional"

Skills

  • Full set of QC/QA skills
  • Team Leading
  • Planing, metrics developing
  • Can work with any management soft (Atlassian family, others)
  • People management
  • Mentoring, teaching
  • Fond of processes (scrum) and business analysis
  • Strong background (eg can pickup any modern programming language quickly)

Certification

  • Python for Beginners
  • Building Your Team
  • Management Foundations
  • Agile Testing
  • Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader
  • Business Analysis Foundations
  • Jira: Basic Administration
  • Planning and Releasing Software with JIRA
  • Digital Body Language
  • Making Quick Decisions
  • Tips for Working Remotely
  • Project Management Foundations
  • Scrum: Advanced
  • Scrum: The Basics
  • Software Testing Foundations: Test Planning
  • Software Testing: Tools
  • CSS/CSS3 (SoloLearn)
  • SQL (SoloLearn)
  • HTML/HTML5 (SoloLearn)
  • Introduction to critical thinking (ВУМ online)
  • Communication tools for building reputation (Prometheus MOOC)

Processes, frameworks

  • SCRUM-like
  • Agile practice
  • Waterfall
  • Other SDLC

Interests

Music, cars, education

Oleksa MashchytsQA Manager/Team Lead, Educator