Position: QA Engineer / QA Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 8 years | English: upper

- built from scratch a great team of professional QAs which perfectly suites project needs;
- took an agenda of adding automation tasks to QA responsibility along a way without dedicated time for learning and made it with success (however every QA including myself started as pure Manual) - as a result we said goodbye to exhausting manual regressions and replaced it with regular automation jobs;
- aligned QA processes accordingly when moving from monthly to daily production deployments;
- managed switching QA team from Windows to Linux with setting up local environment on docker, organized knowledge sharing with dev teams;
- managed QA team involvement in a new ongoing complex project while keep supporting an old one;
- represented QA interests on different levels of communication with other teams and with higher management.
Master degree in computer science.
8 years of experience in IT branch: 3 years as QA Engineer, 1 year as Junior .Net developer and 4 years as QA Team Lead.
currently leading a team of 5 QAs on a project dedicated to social advertisement creation and management for huge agencies. 
Responsibilities:
- interviewing and mentoring of new team joiners;
- working closely with products, devops, architects, developers, client support teams;
- managing full cycle of QA tasks for new features starting from planning up to release for clients and monitoring in production;
- all kinds of test docs design (risks analysis, test plans, STD etc.);
- design and review of Cucumber scenarios for server side automation testing;
- working with selenium-based paid tool Testim.io for UI automation (visually recorded flow and ability to use customizable js actions);
- testing new microservices/integrations between components involved in the feature;
- using Postman, Swagger, Karate for API testing; 
- basic experience in AWS (ec2, dynamoDB, SQS);
- setting up/building local environment on Linux using Docker;
- working with complex DB schema (mySQL);
- experience in server/client logs investigation and root cause identification;
- conduct regular performance review for team members, helping them with goals setting and achievement;
- experience with Agile development (handling unplanned stories, allocating QA resources accordingly);
- experience in setting long and short term goals for the whole QA Team, evaluating the progress;
- experience in converting manual regression into automated one, which enabled one-branch development with automatic daily builds to production;
- experience in performing deep QA discovery in case of missing data in product specification;
- experience in writing simple specifications for the new functionality;
- experience in solving problems with underperformers, building growth plans and micromanage members in case of need;
- experience in managing several projects as well as cross-teams projects;
- collecting and analyzing QA-related metrics;
- performing bugs analysis: detecting similar patterns and root causes, defining appropriate action items;

I would be glad to join an interesting dynamic projects (preferably connected to science, healthcare, goverment, AI etc.) in a role of QA Lead/QA Manager.
I prefer warm atmosphere, open-minded people, compromise but not concurrency, planned company/project growth.
Would prefer to work in social, governmental or healthcare projects – something making a meaningful impact on global improvements. 
Managing people is my desire so I would prefer more managing tasks than QA routine work (however, I realize the importance of "going back to the roots" from time to time in order to set realistic expectations and understand team members needs).
Would be happy to use my basic German knowledge.