HLEB SHULHIN
Lead Software Testing / QA Engineer
Izmir
Summary
Lead Software Testing Engineer with over 6 years of experience in functional, GUI, localization, web services, automated, and mobile software testing and more than 3 years in a leadership role.
Specialized in web-application testing in Scrum projects.
Proven track record in improving test automation coverage and reducing manual testing efforts.
Scrum.org PSM I certified specialist with strong expertise in managing QA teams, developing test strategies, and driving process improvements.
Passionate with test automation.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Lead Software Testing Engineer
EPAM Systems
05.2019 - Current
- Managed QA team (workload management, onboarding/adaptation, interviewing, team mentoring and motivation, tasks delegation)
- Analyzed, tested and contributed to requirements
- Developed test documentation (master test plan, test strategies, test cases, checklists, bug reports)
- Reported test results to stakeholders
- Communicated with stakeholders on both EPAM and customer sides on daily basis
- Facilitated root cause analysis process, and Scrum ceremonies
- Led merger of several teams with different domains into one, setting up processes
- Adjusted regression testing strategy, focusing on affected modules and user behavior
- Worked on test metrics selection and improvement
- Automated test cases in REST API and UI layer (Gherkin, Selenium, Java)
- Performed test automation code review and test automation results analysis.
Software Tester
One Point Ltd.
09.2018 - 02.2019
- Performed functional testing (including rates calculation)
- Participated in UI/UX testing of web-application
- Took part in discussion of new features implementation with product owner
- Mentored Junior QA Engineers of team when transferring knowledge
- Performed regression testing after build releases
- Performed ad-hoc and exploratory testing of new features
Education
Bachelor of Management - Labor Economics
Belarus State Economic University
Minsk 09.2005 - 05.2010
Skills
REST API (Postman, Fiddler)
Java (Selenium, BDD Gherkin, Rest Assured, TestNG, Appium, Jenkins)
Apache JMeter
Kibana, Elasticserach
Testing (Functional, GUI, Regression, Web Services, Automated, Mobile)
NET (Selenium, NUnit, RestSharp, Specflow, Jenkins)
AI Prompting
Jira, Confluence
Git, CI/CD
Scrum
Power BI
Requirements Analysis
SQL
Test Estimations, Quality Metrics
Certification
PSM I
Accomplishments
- Achieved 80% of Sprints completed without spillovers due to in-sprint automation completion in time during a year
- Improved automation effectiveness in top buggiest components from 9% to 33%
- Reduced manual regression phase effort from 40 to 13 man-hours per regression Sprint
- The number of regression bugs was reduced to zero in the last fiscal year
Locations
- Izmir, Turkey
Timeline
Lead Software Testing Engineer
EPAM Systems
05.2019 - Current
Software Tester
One Point Ltd.
09.2018 - 02.2019
Bachelor of Management - Labor Economics
Belarus State Economic University
09.2005 - 05.2010