Nikita R.

QA Expert

QA freelancer with a Master's in Computer Science. Among the top 1% of expert-vetted talents on Upwork. 15 years of QA experience. I worked on core products for companies such as Swiss Re, Thomson Reuters, VeriFone, and Wolters Kluwer. I am available 40+ hours per week in your time zone. My services include: • Testing of web, desktop, and mobile (Web, Native, Hybrid, and Progressive apps) products on all test levels (component, integration, system, acceptance) • Functional testing • Non-functional testing: - Usability: Accessibility: UI, UX testing - Compatibility: Cross-browser, Cross-platform, Hardware compatibility, Operating system compatibility, Network compatibility testing - Performance: Load, Stress, Scalability, Volume, Spike, Endurance testing - Reliability: Resilience, Fault Tolerance, Recovery testing - Security: Penetration, Vulnerability, Security policy, Security audit - Localization and Internationalization testing - Data integrity testing - Data availability testing - Installation testing - Configuration testing - Response time testing - Resource utilization testing - Memory leak testing - Power consumption testing - Interrupt testing - Portability testing - External system integration testing - Availability testing - Maintenance testing - Migration testing - Rollback testing - Transaction integrity testing - Documentation testing - Workflow testing • Change-related testing (Impact analysis, Re-testing, Confirmation testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, User acceptance testing) • Automation testing (GUI, API, CI/CD) • Providing Documentation (Requirements, Test plans, Test strategies, Checklists, Test cases, Use cases, User stories, Test reports, Program and methods of testing, Traceability matrices, How-to and User guides) • Agile frameworks (Kanban, Scrum) installation and maintenance, including all responsibilities of Agile Coach and Scrum Master • QA Management (Pre-sale activities, Consulting, Auditing, Providing test strategies, Implementation of testing processes, Building QA departments from scratch, Team leadership, Resource allocation, Recruitment, Interviewing, Coaching, Mentoring, Resolving conflict situations, Motivation, Performance reviewing, Providing estimates and reports) • BA (Requirements elicitation; Mockups and prototypes creating; Acceptance criteria, BRD and FRD writing) List of tools: • Operating Systems: macOS, Ubuntu, Windows, Android, iOS • Bug Tracking Systems, Dashboards, Test Case Management Tools: ClickUp, Google docs, JIRA, Micro Focus Quality Center, monday, Notion, Qase, Redmine, Smartsheet, TestRail, Tosca, Trello, VSTS, YouTrack, Zenhub, Zephyr for Jira • Agile: Miro, Parabol, PlanningPokerOnline • Design: Adobe XD, Figma, InVision App, Zeplin • Automation testing: Android Studio, Appium, Selenium, REST Assured, Allure, Docker, Serenity BDD, JUnit, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse IDE, WebStorm, Gradle, Maven, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceTree, CircleCI, Jenkins, TeamCity, JMeter, Tomcat, Autoit, T-Plan Robot, BrowserStack • Mobile Testing: Bitrise, Firebase Crashlytics, Genymotion, Google Analytics, HockeyApp, InstallOnAir, OpenStf, Pgyer, TestFlight, Urban Airship, Vysor, Xcode, Yarn • API: APIMatic, Postman, Swagger • Browsers and Plugins: Chrome, Chrome Remote Desktop, DevTools, Lighthouse, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Omnibug, Opera, Safari, UC Browser, WhatFont • Communication: Email services, DingTalk, Discord, Google Chat, Google Hangouts Meet, Microsoft Teams, Rocket Chat, Skype, Slack, Whereby, X Spaces, Zoom • DB: Compass, Oracle SQL Developer • VPN and Proxy: Browsec, Charles Proxy, Cisco AnyConnect, Fiddler, Pulse Secure • Blockchain: Binance, BRD, Bybit, Currencycom, Electrum, Enjin Wallet, Ganache, Hardhat, Kraken, Metamask, MEXC, OKX, OpenSea, Poloniex, Remix, SkyHarbor, Truffle, Trust Wallet, Uniswap • Recording: Jam, Gyazo Pro, LightShot, Loom, Nimbus Capture • Others: AnyDesk, Azure, CallHippo, Cawemo, Confluence, Diagrams, Dropbox, Gamma, Helpshift, Hubstaff, Lightroom, Mailpit, MS Office, OBS Studio, OpenAI, PuTTY, Photoshop, TeamViewer, TempMail, Upwork, Virtual machines, WordPress, Wowza, XMind Hardware and park of mobile devices: • iOS: iPhone 16, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone 6 • Android: Samsung Galaxy M01 with Android 10, Xiaomi Redmi 9A with Android 10 • Desktop: Windows and macOS Note: Testing can be provided on any devices out of the list at your request