QA Engineer · Manual & API Testing
I'm Tala, a Junior QA Engineer with hands-on experience in manual and API testing across commercial and volunteer projects.
I have experience testing complex web applications, including CRM systems with payment integrations and role-based access control. I've worked across the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) — from requirements analysis and test planning to execution, defect reporting, and regression testing.
My main focus areas are:
- 🔍 Functional, regression, exploratory, and UI testing
- 🔌 REST API testing with Postman and Swagger
- 🐞 Defect identification, investigation, and reporting
- 🧪 Test cases, checklists, and test documentation
- 🛠 Browser debugging with Chrome DevTools
- 🔐 Basic security testing and SQL/XSS awareness
Currently, I'm expanding my skills in test automation, JavaScript, and Playwright to move deeper into automation and technical testing.
Aug 2025 – Jan 2026
- Tested booking and payment workflows
- Tested role-based access for User / Operator / Admin
- Performed REST API testing using Postman
- Created and maintained test cases, checklists, and bug reports
- Conducted functional, regression, exploratory, and UI testing
- Analyzed requirements and contributed to overall test coverage
Jan 2025 – Aug 2025
- Performed functional, UI/UX, and cross-browser testing
- Tested web application behavior across different browsers and screen sizes
- Used Chrome DevTools for debugging and issue investigation
- Created test cases, checklists, and detailed bug reports
- Worked with the team to identify and communicate product issues
| Area | Skills |
|---|---|
| Testing Types | Functional, Regression, Smoke, Exploratory, API, UI, Cross-browser |
| Testing Processes | SDLC, STLC, Defect Life Cycle |
| Test Artifacts | Test Cases, Checklists, Bug Reports |
| API Testing | REST API, Postman, Swagger |
| Debugging | Chrome DevTools |
| Security Basics | SQL Injection, XSS awareness |
| Mobile | Mobile testing principles |
Test Management & Documentation Jira · ClickUp · Trello · Confluence · Google Sheets
API & Web Testing Postman · Swagger · Chrome DevTools
Automation & Web Technologies Playwright · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · JSON
Databases SQL · MySQL · DBeaver
Design & Visual Tools Figma · Adobe Illustrator · Adobe Photoshop
- 🎭 Playwright
- 🟨 JavaScript for QA
- 🤖 Test automation
- 🔍 Advanced API testing
- 🧩 Technical debugging and test analysis
Udemy Postman: The Complete Guide – REST API Testing
Software Development Academy Software Tester · Sep 2024 – Dec 2024
Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs Master's in Computer Software Engineering · 2007 – 2014
🇺🇦 Ukrainian — Native 🇬🇧 English — Upper-Intermediate 🇪🇪 Estonian — Elementary
Check out my QA Portfolio for examples of test cases, checklists, bug reports, API testing, and other QA work.
Always learning. Always testing. Always looking for better ways to break things before users do. 🐞