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Registration: 15.04.2025
Anna Kogan
Specialization: QA Engineer
— As a former technical recruiter with a completed QA manual and automation development course, I am looking for a transition into QA.
— I am a detail-oriented and tech-savvy Junior QA specialist with a strong understanding of web testing.
— Quick learner with strong analytical skills and a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues.
— Eager to leverage my skills and rapidly adapt to new tools and technologies to contribute to high-quality.
I have experience in:
— Creating test documentation: checklists, test cases, bug reports, test reports.
— Conducting functional, non-functional, smoke, and regression testing.
— Mockup testing with Figma.
— API testing with: Swagger UI, Postman and Curl.
— Defect Localization: Identifying and isolating defects.
— Test Design Techniques: Pairwise, boundary values, equivalence partitioning, decision tables.
— SQL Knowledge: Simple queries, JOINs.
— Testing Theory & Methodologies: Strong knowledge of testing theory, SDLC, STLC.
— As a former technical recruiter with a completed QA manual and automation development course, I am looking for a transition into QA.
— I am a detail-oriented and tech-savvy Junior QA specialist with a strong understanding of web testing.
— Quick learner with strong analytical skills and a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues.
— Eager to leverage my skills and rapidly adapt to new tools and technologies to contribute to high-quality.
I have experience in:
— Creating test documentation: checklists, test cases, bug reports, test reports.
— Conducting functional, non-functional, smoke, and regression testing.
— Mockup testing with Figma.
— API testing with: Swagger UI, Postman and Curl.
— Defect Localization: Identifying and isolating defects.
— Test Design Techniques: Pairwise, boundary values, equivalence partitioning, decision tables.
— SQL Knowledge: Simple queries, JOINs.
— Testing Theory & Methodologies: Strong knowledge of testing theory, SDLC, STLC.
Skills
Figma
Swagger UI
Postman
Curl
SQL
SDLC
STLC
Work experience
Manual Junior QA (internship)
since 09.2024 - Till the present day |Relocate
Swagger UI, Postman, Curl, Scrum, Kanban
Relocate Startup: web application for relocators and travellers.
● Conduct functional testing (smoke, regression), non-functional (UI/UX, cross-browser).
● Develop and maintain detailed test documentation, including test cases and checklists, log and track bug reports.
● Work with mockups (Figma).
● Perform REST API testing: requests and response verification (Swagger UI, Postman, Curl).
● Creating collections for Smoke testing.
● Methodologies used on the project: mix of Scrum and Kanban.
Manual Junior QA (internship)
03.2024 - 07.2024 |Twnsnd Digital
Swagger UI, Postman, Curl, PostgreSQL, ClickUp, Scrum
A web application service for selecting platforms for creating chatbots and purchasing ready-made solutions for business needs.
● Analyse and test requirements.
● Provide constructive feedback on contentious issues.
● Create test documentation: test cases (Qase), checklists, bug reports and smoke test reports.
● Conduct non-functional (UI/UX, cross-browser), smoke, regression testing.
● Work with mockups (Figma).
● Perform REST API testing: requests and response verification (Swagger UI, Postman, Curl).
● Test databases: create, modify test data, and compare with API responses (PostgreSQL).
● Track defect life cycle (ClickUp).
● Methodology used on the project: Scrum.
Technical recruiter and sourcer
01.2010 - 10.2023 |Various Hi-Tech companies
CRM, Research, Analytics
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022.
Technical Sourcer / Recruiter for Gamedev at DataSakura.
● Global sourcing and reaching out for cold candidates such as: game developers (C++, Unity, UE), software developers (Java, Node, React), QAs, game artists and game designers from junior to team lead level.
● Creating and maintaining talent pools.
● Analytics (salary, game dev market talents trends).
● I use boolean search, custom search engines, groups and forums for sourcing.
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019.
Technical Recruiter for Advertising (digital) and Hi-Tech projects for Russian and Israeli companies.
● Sourcing, searching and interviewing candidates for advertising agencies (Most Creative Club) and for Hi-Tech companies (Notamedia, OORRAA, Continent-Express, Odoro (Israel)).
● Communication with hiring managers (to create job descriptions, identify key features and companies of interest).
● Sourcing via Linkedin, StackOverflow, GitHub, Telegram groups, social networks, job boards, recommendations.
● Analytics (salary monitoring) and references and after placement follow-up.
Positions: Junior to Senior developers(Java, PHP, .Net, Kotlin, Python), Project managers, Front-end developers, QA, Account managers.
Aug 2013 - Nov 2017.
Recruiter / Talent Acquisition at Actis® Wunderman (digital agency).
● Research, source candidates based on role requirements.
● Conducting interviews.
● Communication with hiring managers.
● Provide sourcing support to HRD.
Educational background
Hebrew philology (Bachelor’s Degree)
2005 - 2010
Moscow State academy
Languages
EnglishAdvancedRussianAdvancedHebrewAdvanced