Valentyna Kostiukevych

Available to hire

Language

English
Fluent
Polish
Advanced
Portuguese
Beginner
Ukrainian
Fluent
Russian
Advanced

Work Experience

QA Lead / Product Delivery Analyst at Devexperts
August 1, 2025 - Present
Led QA efforts for a complex trading platform (web + mobile) for Schwab. Managed a team of 5–6 QAs, introduced quality-first processes and SDLC improvements, shifted QA left, coordinated with product and engineering, and maintained release readiness.
QA Engineer at SmartPension
December 1, 2023 - November 1, 2024
Worked on a UK retirement planning platform integrated with government policies and financial forecasts. Initiated pre-refinement QA sessions, defined test scenarios ahead of engineering kickoff, led testing and created reusable test artifacts to improve regression coverage.
QA Engineer / Product & Billing Analyst at Cloudflare
July 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023
Owned validation and behavioral analysis of billing flows (checkout, upgrades, renewals, refunds). Conducted deep root-cause investigations using SQL, API payloads, and logs; built dashboards for live incident tracking; wrote custom reconciliation queries between Stripe, Salesforce and internal billing systems; improved test coverage and CI readiness.
QA Engineer / Product & Billing Analyst at Cloudflare
March 1, 2019 - May 1, 2021
Earlier tenure in Krakow, Poland. Validated and analyzed billing flows and supported incident response; enhanced regression suites, created test artifacts, and collaborated with product and engineering to ensure policy compliance.
QA Lead / Product Delivery Analyst at Devexperts
November 2, 2024 - May 2, 2025
Lead QA efforts for a complex trading platform (web + mobile) built for Schwab. Managed a team of 5–6 QAs, introduced quality-first processes, restructured SDLC to shift QA left, and improved test coverage, release readiness and cross-team collaboration.
QA Engineer at Smart Pension
December 2, 2023 - November 2, 2024
Initiated and led pre-refinement sessions for QA, defined test scenarios ahead of engineering kick-offs, and designed and maintained release-wide test plans in JIRA, Swagger, and Postman. Improved QA coverage and streamlined demos for stakeholders; enabled CI/CD readiness.
QA Engineer / Product & Billing Analyst at EPAM Systems
March 1, 2019 - May 31, 2021
Worked on enterprise-scale software solutions across domains with focus on QA process implementation, documentation quality, and regression stability. Built structured SDLC framework and mentored junior QAs; maintained test docs, test results, and bug reports; enabled knowledge transfer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2013
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2013

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services