lang-uk/recruitment-dataset-candidate-profiles-english huggingface dataset:
Position: QA Manager/ QA Lead
Category: Lead
Experience: 5 years | English: fluent

Implemented several new processes in a team (internally): 
- storing data in Spira (test cases/steps), which helped to process and review project related information more effectively and as a result provide it more quickly to a client;
- implemented measurement for each story which QA got in a sprint - 'story points'.
5 years of experience in IT company.
Delivering more than 10 successful projects (manual and automation testing).
Running team of 20+ members (managing part of the team remotely).
Applications: Jira, Internal Bug Tracking systems, Telerik, Spira, AgileZen (GreenHopper), MS Office.

Methodology: Agile (Scrum)
Looking for interesting projects, professional growth.
Position: QA Manager/QA Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 7 years | English: fluent


• 7+ year experience of software applications manual testing 
• Managing teams of manual and automation QA engineers 
• Test Integration into CI/CD pipelines 
• Knowledge of the testing fundamentals (test process, testing principles, the psychology of testing)
 • Knowledge of software engineering process, experience with client/server and WEB API testing
• Good knowledge of different software testing methodologies (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Kanban) 
Requirements gathering and clarification (BA skills)
Creation of test documentation and metricks  (test cases, bug reports, test plans, traceability matrices, check lists); 
• SCRUM Task estimation, sprint planning, optimization of testing process, reporting results of planning and retrospective meetings
Position: QA Manager/QA Lead
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

Experience working on Agile projects (SCRUM, Kanban), good knowledge of software testing methodologies and procedures and fair understanding of software development life cycle, spoken and witten English. Building a new QA strategy to change the operational method from manual to automation.
Leading the team of 12 QA Engineers: 
- planning test efforts within the sprint;
- putting needed estimations for the delivery of user stories;
- test-cases review;
- coaching new employees;
- testing web application for the Audit request;
- communication with the business analyst, architect and developers for the clarification of incoming questions;
- building a new QA strategy to change the operational method from manual to automation.

Over 15 years of work experience in IT as developer, QA Engineer, QA Team Lead.
Position: QA Manager/QA Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 7 years | English: upper

Creating API testing process, interviews on QA position for different teams, learned Docker methedology
Build QA process for 4 teams, Mentoring for QA Lead
Working with scrum team as QA lead. Managing 8 QA's team 
Experience with BDD (Cucumber), API testing (Postman, Swagger), Experience with JMeter and Gatling. Some experience with Jenkins configuration and Docker.
Company with big ambition, fast growing, with important project for million of peoples
Position: QA Manager\QA Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent


17 years in IT
12 years leading teams

Leading QA teams 10+ members
Creating teams from scratch

Coordinating projects; Mentoring junior team members. 
Requirements clarification and management; Environment management and configuration; Test documentation preparation; Deploying  test environment and support; Collaborating with product owners and end users;  People management; Participation in career plan development for the team;
Position: QA Manager\QA Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 5 years | English: upper

Managing distributed teams.  
Build testing processes from scratch and improve existing ones for the team.
Staffing, mentoring and growing employees
- QA team management 5-15 FTE (Create, Discuss, Prioritize, Estimate Introduce and control QA improvements and activities)
- Test planning and evaluation (Take responsibility for releases and planning, resolve issues on customer side)
- Running a testing process from scratch
- Issues workflows setup
- Setup continuous improvement processes
- Coordination and support of product version release, build  deployment, communication with DevOps team
- Hiring and training new QAs, organization of staff professional development
- Web project testing
- Mobile apps testing
- Agile methodologies
- Create different reports and statistic for customer
- Analyzing requirements, development documentation 
- Introducing process improvements: metrics, reporting, feedback loops
- Bug-tracking systems: Jira, Redmine, TFS
- Document management systems: Confluence, SharePoint
- Programing language: Java
- CI/CD: Jenkins, TeamCity
- Quality assurance toolset (Postman, Firebug, WebTools and etc.)
- Domain experience: Logistics (Canada), Oil&Gas (USA), Automotive (Germany)
The stable and successful company
Challenging projects
Interesting project with a good challenge to achieve it
Close cooperation and communication with the customer 
Regular business trips
Position: QA Manager, QA Lead, Engineering Manager
Category: QA
Experience: 9 years | English: fluent

As a QA Engineer, I became a knowledge holder on each project I joined after six months. 

As a QA Lead, I led four teams simultaneously. I managed all testing activities, including E2E. I have helped multiple team members to grow to senior positions. Created an automation framework on Cypress as a Proof of Concept and sold it to the client.

As an Engineering Manager, I increased the QA team of the India office from 4 to 25 competent engineers. I mentored and coached engineers to become seniors, leads and principals. I successfully introduced Playwright as an automation tool for a few projects.
As an Engineering Manager:
- 40+ direct subordinates;
- Conducting semi-annual performance assessments;
- Managing and mentoring members of all seniority levels;
- Initiating new vacancies opening and making final decisions on hiring all levels of engineers;
- Projects staffing and resource management;
- Participating in the pre-sales activities of department-level services; 
- Making decisions on engineers' termination
- Supporting different services development in the company;
- Taking part in the company’s strategic initiatives;
- Suggesting improvements and implementing them.

As QA Lead:
- Leading four separate QA teams and managing all testing activities;
- Introducing Cypress as an automation tool and writing the framework for it;
- Conducting internal technical interviews;
- Conducting internal training for company QAs;
- Mentoring and coaching QAs;
- Providing technical consultancy to business users;
- Writing user guides and technical documentation.
Looking for the Engineering Manager, QA Manager or QA Lead position. Currently outside of Ukraine. Considering Poland or the UK for the relocation.
Position: QA Manager, QA Lead, QA/Project Coordinator, Manual Testing
Category: QA
Experience: 9 years | English: upper


Experienced QA specialist with strong management and leading skills, having over 8+ years with practical expertise in manual testing of desktop, web, mobile applications.
Working on Prozorro.Sale projects got experience as QA Manager.
Working on NDA projects got experience as QA Coordinator.
Working on LUXOFT projects got experience in desktop testing.
Working on ROGMAX projects got experience as QA Team Lead.
Working on Playtika and Huuuge projects got experience in mobile testing.
Working on Delphi LLC projects got experience with virtual and cloud service.
Participation in appropriate QA conferences to scale up skills and to keep abreast in the QA area.

Testing Area:
Acceptance Testing, Manual Testing, Black-Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Test Cases, Test Planning, UI Testing, Usability testing, Requirements Gathering, Grey Box Testing, Sanity Testing, Cloud testing, Negative Testing, Test Reports, etc.

Management skills:
Building QA team, QA processes implementation and continual improvement, Metrics analysis, Test strategy, Planning and forecasting, QA audit, Job description development, Roadmap development, Staff recruitment, Focus on delivering business values, Troubleshooting problems/challenges and bottlenecks, Supervising manual/automation QA team, Develop/implementation of onboarding/mentoring procedures.

Tools and Technologies:
Git, Jenkins, Postman, Swagger, Virtualization (Hyper-V, Azure, Vmware, AWS); Linux, Zabbix, Charles, JMeter, TFS, Jira, Zephyr, MySQL, HTML, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, etc.

Work Experience:

CustomerTimes
June 2022 – present, QA-Lead
Responsibilities:
QA team management

PROZORRO.SALE
September 2021 – May 2022, QA-Manager
Responsibilities:
 QA Audit, QA Consultation, Quality Management (manual/automatization)

HUUUGE
May 2020 – June2021, General QA
Responsibilities:
Testing mobile application 

LUXOFT
Nov 2019 – May 2020, Senior QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
Testing desktop and mobile app

ROGMAX
Oct 2018 – Nov 2019, QA Lead
Responsibilities:
Testing strategy definition, QA Plan building and risk management in the context of the QA
process

DELPHI LLC
Nov 2014 – Nov 2018, Senior QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
Testing web applications

PLAYTIKA
Jul 2013 – Sep 2014, NOC Engineer
Responsibilities:
Testing online games on social networks
Position: QA Manager, QA Lead, QA Tech Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent


Experienced QA Manager and Competence Lead skilled in: organization of QA processes from scratch, managing team of 10+ QAs, release management, Agile coaching, organizing of QA processes per each customer project, developing test and automation strategy for the projects; hiring and development of QA Engineers.
Certifications: ISQTB Foundation, Scrum Master, SAFe.
Other: German B2.
Position: QA Manager/QA Lead/Senior QA Engineer
Category: QA Automation
Experience: 10 years | English: upper

Experienced QA Principal/ QA Lead/ Senior QA Engineer with over 10 years of expertise in Agile implementation, testing, mentoring teammates, and teaching in Quality Assurance. Demonstrated success in owning and managing a couple of small projects in QA. Proven track record of leading a QA Team of up to 14 engineers.

Proficient in auditing existing tools and test scenarios to enhance processes and ensure optimal performance. Skilled in creating and maintaining functional automation tests, effectively streamlining testing efforts. Experienced in prioritizing and scheduling tasks, ensuring efficient project execution.

Recognized for establishing, communicating, and enforcing clear entry and exit criteria, ensuring adherence to quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle. Possess dynamic analysis techniques for effective verification and validation of products.

Additionally, successfully owned and executed small-scale projects in QA, showcasing strong project management skills and the ability to deliver high-quality results within designated timelines.

Overall, a results-oriented QA professional with a strong emphasis on process improvement, automation, and effective team leadership.
- Successfully implemented QA from scratch, ensuring effective QA processes and practices.
- Planned, estimated, coordinated, and controlled QA efforts throughout the release cycle.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to review, close, and agree upon quality metrics.
- Identified and defined areas of risk to calculate the overall project risk.
- Built and managed a high-performing QA team, selecting the right resources with the required skill set.
- Introduced, developed, and supported a couple of new frameworks for automation testing (UI/API/DB) of web applications, enabling end-to-end testing.
- Maintained positive relationships with cross-functional teams, including development, configuration management, program management, and product managers.
- Provided regular status reports to senior management, taking appropriate actions based on feedback received.
Position: QA Manager / QA Lead / Testing Manager
Category: QA
Experience: 5 years | English: fluent


Experienced Senior Testing Manager with a total of over 5 years in the QA industry including over 3 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products.

As Senior Testing Manager:
- Working with multiple clients to align and execute successful testing strategies, ensuring tight process integration
- Ensuring the quality of a Test Process by following recommended approaches established within the company as well as accounting client-side expectations
- Defining the testing strategy for the project as a whole
Identifying relevant scope, estimating needed work task efforts, preparing relevant test plans/mindmaps/materials/guides and tools, building a team, compiling meaningful end reports
- Identifying and solving technical challenges related to testing
- Proactively defining priorities based on the work backlog
- Understanding and working within the boundaries of the project’s success and financial metrics, such as margin, target utilization, NPS, and more
- Monitoring project’s quality KPIs and taking appropriate actions to improve them
- Leading and collaborating with Test Leads and the testing teams in 5 projects simultaneously
- Scoping exercises for potential clients
- Onboarding and mentoring fresh Testing Managers


As QC Project Lead in Ubisoft:
- Managing two teams of 12 and 4 testers on different game mandates on 6 platforms
- Short- and long-term planning
- Risk management
- Coordinating  interactions between QC and multiple stakeholders
- Providing testing status to stakeholders
- Validating major project milestones
- Managing team JIRA and Confluence
- Creating and managing TestRail Suites for validations and daily tasks
- Task and Validation reporting
- Compliance testing management
- People management:
  - conducting feedback sessions
  - onboarding and mentoring QA testers
  - setting up 3-12 months objectives
  - conducting exit interviews
  - creating individual development plans
  - conducting annual performance review process
  - managing conflicts
  - developing leadership roles in the team
  - people engagement
Position: QA manager / QA team lead
Category: QA Automation
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

I have extensive experience in all aspects of QA, working with customers, engineers and managers at all levels. Management of QA teams of 15+ engineers. Built many professional QA teams from the ground up.
An experienced manual and automation Quality Assurance engineer in the past - Denys has built a career of over 15 years. He has strong working knowledge in different areas like e-commerce, financial, medical, mobile apps, web frontend and backend testing. Denys is working on different levels of engineering from the first test scenario on project till final automated test runs on post-production stage. As QA manager he is able to drive and achieve the highest production standards through effective QA team management and agile QA processes. He is a very sociable person with a good sense of humor, loves guitar rock music and board games.
P.S. Sometimes he speaks about himself in the third-person point of view ;)
Interested in the position of QA manager, QA Leader. I have the ability and skill to produce discipline and process out of chaos, achieve goals, and do whatever it takes to keep quality at a high level.
Position: QA Manager, QA Team Lead
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: intermediate

Setup of testing processes from scratch. 
Management of QA teams in several projects within QA department (several projects at a time). 
QA consulting and tranings on software testing.
10+ years experience in software testing and QA. 
Testing of BSS/OSS systems and CRM systems (backend & frontend), different projects (telecom and banking). 
Management of QA manual testers team + automation team. 
Test strategy, work estimation, planning and execution control, budgeting, recruitment/interviewing, personnel trainings, personnel development plans and assessment. 
Strong knowledge of SW testing methodology and SDLC. 
IT processes optimization, QA activities: defining and implementing the procedures to improve software development process, testing efficiency and systems quality; reporting quality metrics, KPIs; IT policies and procedures preparation. 
Additionally - business analysis, system analysis, project management.
Interesting project/tasks with advanced technologies and development methods. 
Good friendly team, smart and motivated people, good management. 
Trainings and self-development opportunities. 
Competitive salary and social package.
Position: QA Manager, QA Team Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 7 years | English: upper

Yoda in mentoring and team-leading. ;)

Responsible, initiative, able to handle stress, good attitude in team building, excellent management skills (team building, problem-solving, relationships building etc.).

I have a huge experience of new QA members mentoring.

Certified Scrum Master.

Well-known with eCommerce, gaming, automotive, photography.
QA Lead
Senior Manual Testing QA

Short summary:
•        7+ years experience in testing 
•        5+ years experience in team leading.    
•        1.5+ years experience in eCommerce.    
•        English level - upper intermediate (spoken and writing).

Additional experience: vacancies describing, job interview performing (100+ interviews). Participating in different company's activities such as creating and modifying internal systems (examination, training and development courses, new membership mentoring, etc.).
Professional growth. 
Adequate management. 
Informal atmosphere.
Competitive salary.
Position: QA Manager/QA TeamLead with PM experience
Category: QA
Experience: 7 years | English: upper

- Head of QA department at NDA (client's company)
- QA Lead in a startup developing data analytics product for FAANG company
- Reconfigured QA process so that scope delivered per iteration has increased x2.5 times (while iteration duration has been reduced by 20%)
- 7.5 years of experience in QA industry
- 4.5 years in QA Lead/QA manager positions (leading QA teams of up to 10 QA engineers)
- Recent project management experience (7 team members + multiple stakeholders, startup environment, healthcare industry)
- Experienced with projects in different industries: travel, telecom, healthcare
- Experience in pre-sales activities, discovery phases
- Setting up QA process from scratch, solid experience in web applications manual testing, desktop applications testing, planning & estimation of QA activities
- Rich experience with QA/test documentation creation and maintenance (test plan, QA strategy, test cases, checklists, bug reports, test reports, release plans)
- People management, performance evaluations, 1-2-1 meetings handling, development plans preparation for QA specialists
- Experience with cross-browser/device/platform testing services: BrowserStack, AWS Device Farm
- Experience in Machine Learning projects
- Experience with HIPAA regulated projects (healthcare domain)
- Virtualization tools: VMWare, VirtualBox
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL
- Experience with REST and GraphQL API testing (tools: Swagger, Postman)
- Experience with CRM integration testing (Salesforce)
- Experience with payment system integration testing (Stripe)
- Experience with testing applications built over the CMS (Sitecore, Umbraco)
- Experience with requirements clarification & elicitation; change management process establishment
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing facilitation, support & management
- Experience with the establishment of a technical support process for applications released to a public audience
- Rich experience with project management tools - including setting up of work boards, workflows, backlog management for both QA and project team (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)
- Test management tool: TestRail, Azure Test Plan
- (!) Ability to WORK REMOTELY WITHOUT LIMITATIONS
- QA Manager position OR Team Leader for QA team of 5+ QA engineers
- QA process set up from scratch, early development phase, ideally - solution design/discovery stage
- English speaking environment

DONTs:
- Support/maintenance of legacy 
- Game products
- Pure automation implementation (management is Ok)
Position: QA Manager / QA Tech Lead
Category: QA
Experience: 8 years | English: upper

As a QA Tech Lead/QA Manager,
Project-related achievements: 
- Reimplemented the QA process and strategy to reduce the burden of manual testing. Test documentation preparation.
- Coordinating projects (metrics gathering, Managing scope, and schedule, Interviewing candidates, reporting to customer and senior management, 1 to 1 meetings, managing deliverable user stories, etc.)
- Leading QA team.
- Analyzing bugs from customers to prioritize functional areas for QA coverage.
- Requirements clarification and management; close collaboration with PdM and BA. Feature proposals. New features requests analyzing.
- Investigation of potential users needs;
- Working closely with automation and development teams to track and record automated areas.
- Reviewing test cases.
- Tracking and prioritizing QA tasks, reporting the results to the management team/whole company.
- Effectively defined the scope of regression testing based on the time/scope balance.
- Environment management and configuration;
- Deploying test environment and support;
- Collaborating with product owners and end-users;   
- Doing all the job QA Manager is responsible for :) 

Company-related achievements: 
- Participating in Center of Excellence meetings as a QA Lead representative.
- Scaling QA team; Interviewed, mentored, and trained more than 20 Middle+ QA Engineers.
- People management;
- Implemented approaches for assessing performance and knowledge of QA team members.
- Performed effective performance assessments for QA team members annually.
- Created a comprehensive 9-level grading system for the QA industry in a company.
- Developed a full cycle of long-term documentation for the Quality Assurance branch.
- On-boarding newcomers and mentoring junior team members.
- Responsible for the quality of multiple products.
8+ years of working in IT, 3+ as a QA Manager (20+ people) in distributed teams
Experience with Web and Mobile Native applications
Experience with Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Waterfall
Experience in implementing \ improving QA processes and documentation
Close collaboration with SMs, POs, PMs, Devs
Communications with Clients according to QA needs 
Recruiting/technical interviewing for QA teams
Implementation of a QA process in the delivery process (creating effective release notes, deployment activities, etc.)
Self-motivated, like new challenges, team player.

Proved in practice that the Quality of a product is one of the main components of the success for a company.
- Opportunity to reveal personal professional potential.
- Professional growth.
- Management open to suggestions for optimization of the development and testing processes.
- Possibility to work remotely.
- No constantly burning projects.