Alona Kyriushko

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT ALONA KYRIUSHKO

Highly motivated and positive QA Automation Engineer with 8 years of experience in both Manual and Automation Testing of web-based Software Applications in Agile and Waterfall.Proficient in using automation tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, Rest Assured, and JDBC.Proven ability in developing hybrid Cucumber Maven and TestNG Maven framework that supports both Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD). Moreover, a framework that supports UI, API, and DataBase testing.Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) processes.Proficient in using automation tool such as Selenium WebDriver to develop automation testing scripts in Cucumber or TestNG/JUnit Framework and Maven as build tool.Excellent knowledge of OOP language Java implemented with IDE like Eclipse and IntelliJ. Using Excel to read and extract data (Apache POI) and Data Provider using TestNG. Experience in all testing activities including Requirement review, developing Test Cases, Functional Test Scenarios, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Environment Setup, Test Execution, Log defect, and Test Report.Experience with Continuous Integration and configuration management using Jenkins combined with GitHub version control. Experience in different types of testing such as Smoke testing, Regression testing, Front and Back-end testing, Database testing, API testing, Integration testing, System testing, Functional testing, and GUI testing.Active participation in Daily Scrum, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective.Actively involved in relational database testing using systems like MySQL and Oracle to develop and execute DML queries and used JDBC as an automation tool to validate and verify the data. Core knowledge of REST API testing and expertise in tools like Postman for building and testing APIs and Rest Assured Java-based library for automation testing.Excellent communication and team player skills, quick learner, ability to adapt to new environments quickly, strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.