Elena Zhang

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Veeva Systems

San Francisco, California, United States

About

I love being productive and moving quickly and getting things done, and love the flow of doing it together with a team who feels the same way.

Experience

  • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Veeva Systems
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Quality Assurance for Veeva Vault CRM

  • Workday (8 yrs 5 mos)
    • Quality Assurance Engineer III
      May 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      - Bug Tracking & Issue Resolution: Found 510+ bugs, verified 840+ Jiras (including bugs & stories) over the course of an 8 year tenure at Workday - Team Leadership & Coordination: Spearheaded group tests, most recently a testing effort of 24 people, combination of tech leads, developers, QA, and PM for Program Flexibility, a new keystone feature - Security Testing: Assisted the Workday Security Pit Crew to investigate 90+ Jiras for security improvements - Adaptability & Cross-Functional Support: Recognized as a go-to QA engineer for quickly and reliably taking on projects across teams and feature areas; including serving as QA lead for a feature implementing logic from a 63-page Department of Education Financial Aid document - Feature & Technology Integration: Easily jumped into learning new features & technology, such as testing Workday Assistant (AI), and leveraging Tenanted Patch & Workflow tools for increased productivity - Testing Efficiency & Process Improvement: Designed and implemented seeded data solutions to enhance testing efficiency as part of the Persisted Data Team - Process Adoption & Innovation: Adopted new processes such as Test Case Reviews, Prev & Prod Testing, Root Cause Analysis, matrix testware

    • Sr Associate Quality Assurance Engineer II
      Nov 2017 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      - Verified one of the product’s first release candidate (RC) patches and tested a major code rewrite of a core feature - Mentored 3 QA engineers, guiding them through writing testing documentation, reading automation, doing peer reviews - Represented our product area as QA Lead for a multi-team core feature project - Served as scrum master for our team and facilitated scrum ceremonies

    • Associate Quality Assurance Engineer I
      Oct 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

      - Conducted manual tests for web and mobile applications, while collaborating closely with product owners and developers - Reviewed and verified automation written by developers in WATS (Workday Automated Testing System), including XML requests and unit tests - Developed tutorial documents to streamline the onboarding process for new QA engineers Participated in weekly cross-team meetings to review Patch Notes of bug fixes deployed into production - Was one of the first 15 QA’s on the Workday Student Team (grown to 58 QA’s in Feb 2025)

  • Church Plant Intern at Gracepoint Seattle
    Jul 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Founded new church and fellowship group for University of Washington students; membership grown to 70+ in half a year - Facilitate large event planning and execution (150+ people), including aspects of food, photography, and registration - Plan and coordinate weekly events (70+people), with small group discussions, venue, and food logistics - Maintain and update membership database of 400+ people, with new names added weekly - Presented a 90-minute “Effects of the Internet Age” workshop for 35+ college students

  • Student Affairs & Information Technology – University of California, Berkeley ()
    • Desktop Consultant
      May 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

      - Provided front-line, engaging technical customer support to 500+ department staff - Addressed 20-40 tickets daily through prompt emails, phone calls, and in person office visits - Interviewed, trained, and mentored the new team of consultants in job responsibilities and customer service - Documented and maintained installation, configuration, and troubleshooting procedures in the technical manual

    • Support Consultant
      Nov 2012 - May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

      - Guided the growth of Research Hub, a online project collaboration website service available to the UC Berkeley community - Directed marketing campaign from conception to execution to increase site usership by 2000+ users - Researched and created website demos to reach various audiences: students, directors, professors, scientists, student facilitators - Led team of three coworkers to brainstorm ideas, research audience, and deliver tailored presentations to audience twice a month - Created and managed Facebook and email outreach to increase user engagement in the university and develop brand identity - Executed fresh direct and relationship marketing as part of campaign to create brand awareness among students