Anna Kovalova

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About Anna Kovalova

Certified Quality Assurance Engineer with over 15 years of experience, including QA management, manual and automation testing activities. AI Enthusiast who enjoys testing and utilizing new AI tools for improved results. Experienced in working in office settings, with remote teams of freelancers, and with third-party software testing partners such as Testlio and Digivante. I excel in establishing QA processes from the ground up, as well as enhancing existing QA methodologies through my extensive background and industry best practices. Thrive in dynamic startup environments with ever-evolving requirements, global team members, legacy code, and complex applications. My strong empathy enables me to deeply understand clients' needs, motivations, and desires, fostering strong customer relationships and delivering effective solutions. With a high energy level, I consistently achieve work satisfaction, performance, and productivity. In addition to my professional experience, I have accumulated over hours of hands-on experience as a QA Engineer, QA Lead, and QA Manager on freelance platforms like Upwork. I have contributed to over 100 projects throughout my career and am eager to bring my expertise to your project. Let's Get Things Tested, Shall We? TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX - Test and Task Management Tools: Jira,TestRail, Zephyr, HP ALM, Azure DevOps (formerly TFS), Trello, Asana, Basecamp, monday.com- Software Development Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall- Test Automation: Selenium, Pytest, Katalon Studio, Cucumber, Postman, SoapUI, testRigor, Jmeter, Browserstack- Mobile testing: Android Studio, Vysor, Crashlytics, BrowserStack, Genymotion, xCode, TestFlight, Appium- CI/CD Platforms: Jenkins, Bitrise- Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab- Programming languages: Java, Python, MySQL- AI/ML: OpenAI API, advanced prompting, AI prompt injections, LLM fine-tuning- Other: AWS infrastructure services.