ELMAS' CV
ELMAS OZGE CODA
SENIOR QA ENGINEER • TEST AUTOMATION • PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Profile summary
Accomplished Senior QA Engineer and Product Manager with 11 years of progressive experience delivering enterprise software solutions across GCC and international markets. Directing test automation frameworks, API pipelines, and cross-functional Agile teams while maintaining rigorous release standards. Dedicated to bridging product strategy and technical execution to ensure scalable product reliability and operational excellence.
Career highlights
Test Automation Frameworks: Maintained a 335-test Playwright UI automation suite featuring sequential execution, session-reuse authentication, and failure-triggered screenshot or video capture.
API Testing and Pipelines: Built a Postman and Newman API automation pipeline compiled from custom YAML definitions and integrated directly into GitHub Actions CI and CD workflows.
Team Leadership and Mentoring: Managed a team of 3 engineers while operating as sole quality assurance owner for the Central operational platform and holding additional testing ownership across the Mercury Portal.
Professional Certifications: Earned the Scrum Fundamentals Certified credential and the ISTQB Certificate Foundation Level.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs end-to-end software delivery within a lean Agile team, combining dual responsibilities across product management and quality assurance. Coordinates product strategy, engineering workflows, and mining operations to translate complex field requirements into structured technical capabilities and maintain rigorous release standards.
- Maintains a 335-test Playwright UI automation suite featuring sequential execution, session-reuse authentication, and failure-triggered screenshot or video capture.
- Builds a Postman and Newman API automation pipeline compiled from custom YAML definitions and integrated directly into GitHub Actions CI and CD workflows.
- Achieves 85% plus automation coverage across API and UI layers using Selenium, Playwright, Appium, and Postman, cutting regression cycles by 70% plus.
- Designs and structures the product backlog in Jira, prioritizing work items according to business value, operational impact, and technical dependencies.
Directed quality engineering across an organization comprising eight Agile teams, serving as the sole QA authority for two distinct products including a SaaS course-authoring platform and an artificial intelligence roleplay application. Handled the complete testing lifecycle from requirements analysis and test strategy design to release validation, defect management, and final quality sign-off.
- Established and ran a weekly regression cycle executed every Tuesday ahead of Wednesday release cadences to catch release-blocking defects and validate production readiness.
- Tested a multi-tenant SaaS platform for block-based learning content, validating end-to-end authoring workflows from creation through publishing and learner consumption.
- Designed test coverage for prompt and context adherence, validating whether artificial intelligence characters consistently held configured personas and behavioral constraints.
Directed software quality operations across the full product development lifecycle from initial MVP delivery through ongoing releases, holding sole quality assurance ownership for the Central operational platform and additional testing ownership for the Mercury Portal.
- Mentored team members and onboarded new hires on test design, tool usage, API testing, and regression planning while scaling the department from 2 to 7 engineers.
- Built and maintained Postman collections to perform REST API testing and automation, validating status codes, payloads, headers, and schemas against Swagger documentation.
- Completed 100% of assigned Xray test execution responsibilities within sprint commitments while maintaining end-to-end requirement traceability in Jira.
Directed functional analysis, requirement translation, and defect management workflows for cloud-based enterprise systems across multiple banking environments. Managed client coordination, support ticketing, test execution schedules, and reporting deliverables for stakeholders.
- Tested Genesys Cloud and Genesys Engage contact-center environments, validating omnichannel customer-interaction workflows across voice, video, chat, and email.
- Executed functional, integration, regression, smoke, sanity, and performance testing using JMeter, Postman, Selenium, and SQL-based database validation.
- Prepared technical reports and cost-estimation models using business, project, resource, and delivery data to support project planning and management-level decision-making.
- Executed full mobile regression suites taking one week per cycle across iOS and Android for major quarterly releases, run in parallel with new-feature testing.
- Conducted third-party integration testing with external technology partners Ericsson, Huawei, and Sony, validating cross-system data exchange.
- Built the Requirements Traceability Matrix from scratch in Excel, establishing traceability from business rules to test execution and defects.
- Directed the migration of requirements and defect tracking from Microsoft TFS to Jira, managing stories, tasks, bugs, and epics.
- Executed penetration testing and vulnerability assessments using Burp Suite and the OWASP Top 10 framework, covering authentication, authorization, session management, input validation, and injection testing.
- Owned performance engineering using Apache JMeter, designing and executing load, stress, concurrency, and endurance testing to identify scalability limits and regressions.
Education
Computer Engineering | Ankara, Turkey