Position: QA Lead
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Years of experience: 9


I am a result-oriented Quality Assurance lead with 9+ years of experience in the software testing field. I have specialized in process improvement and collaboration in order to enable my teams to meet the ever-changing requirements of a dynamic and agile world.
•	Work by SAFe, Scrum, Kanban methodologies
•	Project Transitions, Digital Transformation experience
•	Onsite experience in EU 
•	Additional hands-on experience in the following project roles: QA Manager, Release Manager, Scrum Master/Project Manager, Business Analyst 

Experience:
•	Organizing and controlling the testing process from business value perspective;
•	Coordination of Shared and Functional test teams, plan and estimate QA activities
•	Facilitation of communication across feature teams and POs to mitigate possible risks;
•	Organization and control of release regression testing
•	Release quality risk identification, disclosure and escalation to Release manager
•	Contribution to testing strategy, plan and scope of release testing
•	Assessing the progress and effectiveness of the release testing efforts
•	Being the primary point of contact between release manager, product owners, product managers and QA team
•	Presenting an aggregate view of testing plans and results to all stakeholders (PM, PO, Project managers, Release mgmt.)
•	Continuous improving of quality assurance on project (tracking metrics, review and optimization of current QA processes, participation and validation Communities of Practice meetings)
•	Organizing an effective process for Shared QA team (6 members). Manage backlog, control the tasks progress
•	Manage QA team resources required for release testing
I am a problem-solving person, who leads a team to real improvements in real products and increases the level of customers satisfaction. For me, it's important to develop and maintain productive and healthy relationship with team and customers, and achieve visible and measurable progress for the project.
Company needs to understand the importance of having quality assurance team for the project. 


Not interested in Automation Software Testing positions, but as a QA Lead I work closely with automation teams to set up priorities and improve quality of test coverage.
Do not disturb, if you work with Russian Federation.