Zlata Popelnuh
Senior Automation Engineer at The Craneware Group- Claim this Profile
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Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
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Estonian Professional working proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Iain Hunter
I worked with Zlata for 4 years at thinkWhere in both her capacity as QA Lead and as our very efficient SCRUM Master. As QA Lead Zlata can always be relied upon to thoroughly test all aspects of a feature, often turning up issues that the development team had missed. She always puts the customer first, and sets a very high bar for quality before letting any new feature ship. Upon being promoted to SCRUM Master Zlata very efficiently streamlined our existing agile "process" into a very tight and disciplined 2 week sprint, massively improving the team's productivity. As SCRUM Master Zlata was the personification of continuous improvement. By running fun retros with different ideas she would take feedback from the team to continuously improve our processes using tools like Jira. She introduced many ideas, boiling them down into a wiki page that the team could easily follow and get a quick overview of the current sprint and the RAG status of the sprint goals. I highly recommend Zlata in both her capacities and particularly as SCRUM Master where she continues to make a very difficult job look easy.
Iain Hunter
I worked with Zlata for 4 years at thinkWhere in both her capacity as QA Lead and as our very efficient SCRUM Master. As QA Lead Zlata can always be relied upon to thoroughly test all aspects of a feature, often turning up issues that the development team had missed. She always puts the customer first, and sets a very high bar for quality before letting any new feature ship. Upon being promoted to SCRUM Master Zlata very efficiently streamlined our existing agile "process" into a very tight and disciplined 2 week sprint, massively improving the team's productivity. As SCRUM Master Zlata was the personification of continuous improvement. By running fun retros with different ideas she would take feedback from the team to continuously improve our processes using tools like Jira. She introduced many ideas, boiling them down into a wiki page that the team could easily follow and get a quick overview of the current sprint and the RAG status of the sprint goals. I highly recommend Zlata in both her capacities and particularly as SCRUM Master where she continues to make a very difficult job look easy.
Iain Hunter
I worked with Zlata for 4 years at thinkWhere in both her capacity as QA Lead and as our very efficient SCRUM Master. As QA Lead Zlata can always be relied upon to thoroughly test all aspects of a feature, often turning up issues that the development team had missed. She always puts the customer first, and sets a very high bar for quality before letting any new feature ship. Upon being promoted to SCRUM Master Zlata very efficiently streamlined our existing agile "process" into a very tight and disciplined 2 week sprint, massively improving the team's productivity. As SCRUM Master Zlata was the personification of continuous improvement. By running fun retros with different ideas she would take feedback from the team to continuously improve our processes using tools like Jira. She introduced many ideas, boiling them down into a wiki page that the team could easily follow and get a quick overview of the current sprint and the RAG status of the sprint goals. I highly recommend Zlata in both her capacities and particularly as SCRUM Master where she continues to make a very difficult job look easy.
Iain Hunter
I worked with Zlata for 4 years at thinkWhere in both her capacity as QA Lead and as our very efficient SCRUM Master. As QA Lead Zlata can always be relied upon to thoroughly test all aspects of a feature, often turning up issues that the development team had missed. She always puts the customer first, and sets a very high bar for quality before letting any new feature ship. Upon being promoted to SCRUM Master Zlata very efficiently streamlined our existing agile "process" into a very tight and disciplined 2 week sprint, massively improving the team's productivity. As SCRUM Master Zlata was the personification of continuous improvement. By running fun retros with different ideas she would take feedback from the team to continuously improve our processes using tools like Jira. She introduced many ideas, boiling them down into a wiki page that the team could easily follow and get a quick overview of the current sprint and the RAG status of the sprint goals. I highly recommend Zlata in both her capacities and particularly as SCRUM Master where she continues to make a very difficult job look easy.
Credentials
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
MicrosoftJan, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Selenium Essential Training
LinkedInApr, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardMar, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
Scrum AllianceFeb, 2021- Sep, 2024
Experience
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The Craneware Group
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Automation Engineer
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Sep 2023 - Present
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Automation Engineer
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Feb 2022 - Present
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Digital Barriers
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Test Engineer
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Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
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thinkWhere
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Scrum Master and QA Lead
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Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
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Software Test Analyst
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Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
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Graduate Consultant/ Consultant
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Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
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London 2012
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Spectator Sports
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200 - 300 Employee
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Protocol and Language Team member
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Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
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Education
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University of Aberdeen
Geographical information sciences MSc -
University of Strathclyde
Geography BA