Position: QA Manager / QA Lead / Testing Manager
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 5


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