Alyona Chernova Email & Phone Number

Kitchener, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

As the sole Test Automation Developer within a dynamic Quality Engineering team of six, I developed a test automation project from scratch. Building on my expertise in Java, I confidently delved into C# – a technology that was initially unfamiliar to me.Major accomplishments:- Initiated and developed a Test Automation framework that addressed our Quality Engineering team's specific challenges, helping the team perform their regular work efficiently. Notably, for a product moving… Show more As the sole Test Automation Developer within a dynamic Quality Engineering team of six, I developed a test automation project from scratch. Building on my expertise in Java, I confidently delved into C# – a technology that was initially unfamiliar to me.Major accomplishments:- Initiated and developed a Test Automation framework that addressed our Quality Engineering team's specific challenges, helping the team perform their regular work efficiently. Notably, for a product moving into a support stage, the framework enabled the complete elimination of manual testing, with a significant reduction in manual testing efforts for another product.- Conducted regular learning sessions on Test Automation, helping the manual QA team gain skills and knowledge to be able to read and understand TAF code, run tests on Jenkins, analyze the results, and troubleshoot failed TCs. Notably, some members developed the ability to independently make fixes, showcasing enhanced autonomy in Test Automation. Show less

Participated as a Test Automation Engineer in a big project in the HealthCare domain (USA). Distributed Test automation team included 15 engineers working on the same project located in USA, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. The main objectives of the project were to stabilize more than 2000 existing test scripts and to cover the remaining 30% of regression with autotests. • Developed and maintained automated test scripts and contributed to the testing framework• Worked on a project with… Show more Participated as a Test Automation Engineer in a big project in the HealthCare domain (USA). Distributed Test automation team included 15 engineers working on the same project located in USA, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. The main objectives of the project were to stabilize more than 2000 existing test scripts and to cover the remaining 30% of regression with autotests. • Developed and maintained automated test scripts and contributed to the testing framework• Worked on a project with frequently changing priorities• Worked well under pressure and a shortage of time• Participated in the code review process • Onboarded and mentored newcomers in the team. Major accomplishments:• Became the top 3 high performers in the team. This required high accuracy in implementing tests and thoroughly following code standards to pass the code review for each task from the first attempt.• Show less

Played the Test Team Lead role on one of the streams on a big project in the Transport Logistics domain for a customer located in Belgium.• Designed automated tests with a focus on code readability and maintainability• Coordinated with developers and product owners to produce stable, maintainable, and reliable automated tests• Analyzed test results, investigated, reported, and tracked product failures to improve the areas with higher defect trends• Supervised a testing team… Show more Played the Test Team Lead role on one of the streams on a big project in the Transport Logistics domain for a customer located in Belgium.• Designed automated tests with a focus on code readability and maintainability• Coordinated with developers and product owners to produce stable, maintainable, and reliable automated tests• Analyzed test results, investigated, reported, and tracked product failures to improve the areas with higher defect trends• Supervised a testing team of 4 QA engineers (both manual and automation). • Played POC (point of contact) role for the customer. • Onboarded and mentored junior QA team members. Major accomplishments:• For a period of time was assigned to a project in a support stage with the only developer (no QA team, no BA, no PO) to cover the most vulnerable scenarios with autotests. Since TCs were outdated it required lots of effort to gather information about the product piece by piece• When it was decided to split the application into two independent parts (both code and DB) it required only minor effort to split the test automation project into two independent projects. It was possible because of the architecture: good layers, low coupling between classes; Show less

Kazakhstan

Played the Test Team Lead role on a big project that included 3 independent streams. Collaborated closely with other team leads and PM.• Supervised a testing team of 6 QA engineers. • Assigned tasks and responsibilities. • Onboarded and mentored junior QA team members. • Maintained test environment (Web Sphere installation and support, builds deployment) • Automated regression tests, both API (SOAP UI) and UI (Silk Test). • Delivered weekly status reports to the… Show more Played the Test Team Lead role on a big project that included 3 independent streams. Collaborated closely with other team leads and PM.• Supervised a testing team of 6 QA engineers. • Assigned tasks and responsibilities. • Onboarded and mentored junior QA team members. • Maintained test environment (Web Sphere installation and support, builds deployment) • Automated regression tests, both API (SOAP UI) and UI (Silk Test). • Delivered weekly status reports to the stakeholders.• Provided on-site demonstrations for the customer (Tax Committee of Kazakhstan)Major accomplishments:• Introduced and implemented the idea of creating test data using the automation tool (since the process of creating a single taxpayer with tax declaration history took at least 40 minutes to do manually) • Introduced recurring sessions for training the Second-line Support Team to use the Test Environment and DB for dealing with Requests from customers. This decreased amount of requests that were transferred to the third-line support team (QA team) Show less

Kazakhstan

Played the Key Tester role in an integration stream of a project. This role required lots of collaboration with third-party teams.- Participated in documentation review to identify problems at the early stages.- Worked closely with the backend team.- Designed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on WSDL.Major accomplishments:- Introduced test automation for regression testing using SOAP UI which reduced manual testing efforts by 40%.- Effectively collaborated… Show more Played the Key Tester role in an integration stream of a project. This role required lots of collaboration with third-party teams.- Participated in documentation review to identify problems at the early stages.- Worked closely with the backend team.- Designed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on WSDL.Major accomplishments:- Introduced test automation for regression testing using SOAP UI which reduced manual testing efforts by 40%.- Effectively collaborated with stakeholders (from other companies) to conduct joint testing Show less

Kazakhstan

Participated in the governmental project called Portal of Tax Committee of Kazakhstan as a manual QA. Was responsible for:• providing timely validation and feedback for the new functionality using a combination of manual testing techniques• creating and supporting test documentation such as Test Scenarios, Checklists, and bug reports• participation in all types of SCRUM activities