Summary
Marina Liukkonen is a Senior QA Engineer based in Saint Petersburg with over 3 years focused on backend and API testing, plus a long history in banking IT and system support. She specializes in end-to-end REST API validation, SQL-driven data verification, Kafka message validation, log analysis (Graylog/Kibana) and creating isolated test environments with mocks to accelerate delivery. Marina combines hands-on test execution with CI/CD involvement and test planning, and has a track record of mentoring and onboarding peers across Scrum/Kanban teams. Her background in banking systems and earlier roles in DevOps-like support gives her a strong operational sense for incident triage and post-release monitoring. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic test design, root-cause analysis, and incremental process improvements under Kaizen principles.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English teacher in general education institutions, English teacher in general education institutions at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Economist-Manager, Economist-Manager at Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University
Software Developer, Software Developer at Saint Petersburg National University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics