Position: Senior QA / QA Lead / QA Manager
Category: QA
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 7

Experienced in creation of test documentation: Test Plans, Test Cases, Check Lists, Bug Reports, Mind Maps, Requirements, User Stories, Process Documentation and Pathways for newcomer's onboarding;
Have experience of creating, leading QA team (Have created motivation, evaluation and time-tracking processes for productive remote collaboration in a development team up to 25 members - 7 QA, 8 Developers, 4 Project Managers, 2 DevOps);
Strong knowledge of set up and administering Atlassian Services and dozens of Plug-ins for them: JIRA, Confluence, JIRA Service Desk, Bitbucket, Crowd, Opsgenie, Statuspage etc;
Knowledgeable about different testing approaches and methodologies (Agile, Kanban);
Have been implementing and monitoring progress of Manual testing activities within Web-apps, Android-apps, iOS-apps (Regression, Smoke, Security Testing, Localization, Load and Stress Testing with JMeter, Exploratory, UI, Acceptance etc);
Possess good knowledge of Web Applications Automation with Selenium, TestProject, BrowserStack;
Familiar with Firebug, GIT, Mercurial;
Strong understanding of CI Tools: Jenkins, Bamboo(creating pipelines & freestyle jobs, integrating deployments with JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, GIT;
Knowledgeable about agile (Scrum, Kanban);
Have a Basic knowledge of MySQL (PhpMyAdmin) and REST API testing.
— Leading of fast-growing team up with peak of 13 members in department. 
— Hiring, training and evaluating Quality Assurance Staff.
— Continious improvement of existing processes oberall in company as well suggesting new in order to save time, nerves and money.
— Had ownership of QA environments across all products. Working closely with the DevOps team to define the optimal solution for each product and project.
— Administering and setup of key tools/services Company use every day (Atlassian stack, github, gitlab, sonarqube, aws, gcp, slack, notion and many others).
— Providing leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation (js, playwright, postman tests) and Quality Assurance.
— Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement.
— Gathering and presenting testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders.
— Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional (TestRail, AIO Tests), performance (LMeter, k6, BlazeMeter), automation (Postman, mochajs, playwright)
— Handling of discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy. Being a first point of escalation that relates to Quality and Department. Escalations and conflicts facilitating
— Providing feedback for team mates after performance review. Creation and maintenance of PDP for QAs.
— Performing team meetings, team buildings, workshops, one-to-one’s to make QA Community of professionals healthier and productive
— Worked closely with Project managers, Development
Leading QA Team of 7 members (Creating Quality Control processes; Monitoring progress of execution and results analysis)
Set up and Maintenance of CI Tools, Atlassian Services, Test Management Services (TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, TM4J);
Automation of php-based Web Applications;
REST API Testing with Postman and Charles;
Integrating different Services for productive collaboration (Webhooks, Scripts and Bots)

Manual and functional testing, with an appreciation of automation.
SQL programming & database queries.
Assisting senior analysts with test planning and design
Test execution, with recording and analysis of results.
Completing various types of test and 
departmental documentation in accordance with company and team policy.