Position: QA Lead
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 7

As a Team Lead, I
- Initiated the creation of a PDP plan for all team members with a help of Technical Leads
- Set up regular 1-2-1 meetings with all team members, that allowed me to understand the mood of each team member, as well as the progress of his self-development and the relevance of the PDP plan, and also provide regular feedback
- Motivate team members and participate in evaluation of their professional achievements and performance
- Am the one who is accountable for release deployments
- Am responsible of sprint commitments and help teammates to reach the sprint goal


As a QA Tech Lead, I
- Reviewed and structured questions for QA interviews
- Created a feedback form for interviewed candidates, presented it to all interviewers, as a result the feedback became more detailed, structured and maximally objective
- Adjusted QA practices
- Proceed with PDP plans for all the QAs in different teams
- Improved skill matrix for QAs (grouped some of logically related items, added more detailed description), and also review filled skill matrix together with the QA for further grading
- Hold regular QA meetings, for what I seek for topics from QAs in all teams (problems, improvements, new approaches, standards for current processes)
Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban)
Task/Bug tracking: Azure DevOps, JIRA, Redmine
Test Management: TestRail, Zephyr, TestLink
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bamboo
WEB: HTML/CSS
API: Postman, Fiddler, Advanced REST Client, Charles
DB: MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
Admin tools: Linux, WinSCP, Command line, Scripting (bash)
Virtualization: Docker, Oracle VM VirtualBox
IDE: IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio
Version Control: Git (GitHub, SourceTree)
Other: Kibana, Grafana, Portainer, RabbitMQ, AWS
Team of professionals or people willing to become a pro, friendly agile environment in general.