Yana Kot

Management and coordination of the QA process for economic and financial software products, including accounting transaction recorders and reporting systems. Organization of the QA team's workflow: distribution of tasks, prioritization of testing activities, review of test documentation, and quality control of all testing stages. Ensuring the consistency of testing approaches, mentoring team members, and maintaining communication with developers, analysts, and project managers to deliver high-quality releases on time.

Active participation in the review and optimization of technical specifications to enhance software logic, usability, and overall performance. Focused on building efficient QA processes, improving product reliability, and fostering professional growth within the QA team through structured communication, planning, and continuous improvement practices.

QA Team Lead at Linkos Group (2025-05 – Present)

• Management and coordination of the QA process for economic and financial software products, including accounting transaction recorders and reporting systems.
• Organization of the QA team's workflow: distribution of tasks, prioritization of testing activities, review of test documentation, and quality control of all testing stages. Ensuring the consistency of testing approaches, mentoring team members, and maintaining communication with developers, analysts, and project managers to deliver high-quality releases on time. Active participation in the review and optimization of technical specifications to enhance software logic, usability, and overall performance.
• Focused on building efficient QA processes, improving product reliability, and fostering professional growth within the QA team through structured communication, planning, and continuous improvement practices.

QA Engineer at Madcraft (2025-02 – Present)

• Experience in e-commerce website testing, including both functional and UI/UX testing. Skilled in conducting manual testing to ensure website stability, usability, and responsiveness across different devices and browsers.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining technical documentation, including test cases, bug reports, and test plans. Experienced in identifying inconsistencies, validating product data, and collaborating with developers and designers to ensure timely fixes and improvements.

QA Engineer at Linkos Group (2023-06 – 2025-05)

• Testing of economic programs, in particular software of accounting transaction recorders. The software complex of the project consisted of two parts, in particular, a website and a desktop application, so I have experience testing both web applications and desktop applications. Testing the transmission of various data formats. Working with DevTools, Zabbix, Fiddler, Swagger, Elastic and others.
• Testing of projects that must be deployed on the user's local database (related to the electronic reporting standard for the exchange of credentials). Testing was performed on various operating systems, including Unix systems and Windows. Working with commands in Command Prompt (Windows) and Shell (Linux). Work with Postman, PostgreSQL, Dbeaver and others.

Master of Science in Economic Analytics – National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' (2024 – 2026)

Bachelor of Science in Economic Cybernetics – National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' (2020 – 2024)