Ihor Kostrub

Barcelona, Spain · Manual QA Engineer and sometimes PM

Certified Manual QA Engineer / Software Quality Assurance Engineer with more thant 4 years of commercial work experience in manual quality assurance (startup and product companies)

• Experience in testing web-based applications in Agile / Scrum environment
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Bug Life Cycle (BLC)
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, GUI, Build Acceptance Testing, Cross-Browser Testing
• Test documentation creation and maintenance.
• Communication with product owners, support team, and customers.
• Good communication skills, ability to work remotely and independently as well as part of the integrated team.

Experience

QA Engineer

FlowMapp

• Introduced sprint planning, feature testing process, retrospectives at the end of the sprint, which improved team productivity, reduced product development time and reduced production errors (Youtrack)
• Designed, developed and maintained test cases for new and existing features in Qase app
• Covered 85% of legacy functionality with test cases
• Successfully led a remote dev team of over 10 members as Project manager

April 2020 - Present

QA Engineer

Pravo.Tech (case.one project)

• Conducted a review of functional and design requirements in Confluence, which reduced the number of possible bugs by time
• Streamlined test cases in TestRail, eliminating duplicate & outdated tests for faster regression testing
• Assured quality of public REST API data for external services & clients with Postman and Swagger
• Analyzed and reported on test results, including tracking defects (Jira) and providing regular updates to stakeholders
• Executed >200 test cases manually per each regression test cycle

April 2018 - March 2020

QA Engineer

FlowMapp

• Set up test standards to ensure the results meet functional and design requirements
• Designed test cases for front-end services from scratch to 100% requirements coverage
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects

January 2017 - March 2018

Project Manager

Brandivision

• Led a distributed team of over 10 members across various locations
• Negotiated with customers from Russia and, Kazakhstan
• Managed more than 12 projects in the field of e-commerce, banking, accounting, and auto parts suppliers. As a result, all customers increased the number of their order volume
• Set quality standards for developing web applications and, landing pages
• Wrote checklists and detailed test cases to check the quality of releasing applications

April 2015 - December 2016

QA Tester

Dinarys GmbH

• Conducted manual testing of web applications to ensure quality and functionality
• Developed test plans, checklists, and bug report to streamline testing processes and enhance product quality
• Ensured the accuracy and integrity of migrated data for a newly developed web application, employing an attention to detail and a focus on potential errors and inconsistencies

February 2015 - March 2015

Education

Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, Ukraine

Degree: Master
Specialty: Radio Physics and Electronics
September 2008 - July 2013

Certificates

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level V4.0
ISTQB Certificate ISTQB Certificate
Stepik.org - Test automation with Selenium and Python
Selenium Selenium
Stepik.org - Python Programming
Python programming Python
Stepik.org - Interactive SQL Simulator
Interactive SQL Simulator SQL

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Kanban
  • Test Management: TestRail, Qase
  • Bug tracking systems: Jira, Confluence, Youtrack, Trello
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • API: REST API, GraphQL
  • CI\CD: TeamCity
  • Internet: CSS, HTML, XML, JSON
  • Tools: Swagger, Postman, Developer tools
  • Git: Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket
  • Basic skills: Python, JavaScript, Playwright, PyTest, Selenium, Docker

Interests

Apart from being a Manual Quality Assurance Engineer and Project Manager, I enjoy photography. I have an analog camera (film) and a digital camera, which I always take when traveling.

In my free time, I like to watch movies or read new articles about testing. Also, I like to attend music events dedicated to heavy music.