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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