Maiia Talanchuk
About Maiia Talanchuk
Maiia Talanchuk is a QA Automation Engineer currently employed at Ciklum since 2021, bringing extensive experience from previous roles at Amadeus, Playtech, Luxoft, and Vodafone. She specializes in backend automation testing, utilizing a range of tools and technologies including Java, Selenium WebDriver, and various databases.
Work at Ciklum
Maiia Talanchuk has been employed at Ciklum as a QA Automation Engineer since 2021. In this role, she focuses on backend automation testing and utilizes various tools and methodologies to ensure software quality. Her responsibilities include developing auto-tests for microservice architecture and enhancing existing automation frameworks.
Previous Experience in QA Automation
Before joining Ciklum, Maiia worked at Amadeus as a QA Automation Engineer from 2019 to 2021. She also held positions at Playtech as a Senior Manual QA Engineer and Automation QA Engineer from 2016 to 2019, and at Luxoft as a QA Engineer from 2014 to 2016. Her career began at Vodafone as a Test Engineer from 2013 to 2014.
Education and Expertise
Maiia Talanchuk studied at The Institute of Graduate and Postgraduate Education of the University of Banking, where she earned a Master of Science degree in Banking from 2007 to 2012. She also attended the College of Information Systems and Technologies under Kyiv National Economic University, achieving a Junior Specialist degree in Economy of the Enterprise from 2004 to 2007.
Technical Skills and Tools
Maiia utilizes a variety of testing tools in her work, including Postman, Soap UI, JMeter, and SuperPutty. She conducts automation backend testing using RestAssured and JMeter, and is experienced with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB. Additionally, she employs CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitLab, and is familiar with web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, and JSON.
Automation Framework and Methodologies
In her role, Maiia supports and enhances an existing automation framework using Java, Cucumber, Gradle, Bitbucket, and Jenkins. She works within a SCRUM methodology and utilizes JIRA and Confluence for project management. Her expertise includes automation UI testing with Selenium WebDriver and the use of reporting tools like Allure, Grafana, and Serenity BDD Report.