Position: QA Lead
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 6

- recognized by a company and by a project for high performance and general contribution to company promotion and growth

- reduced UI/UX defect detection ratio on the current project where UI/UX was a client`s pain point 

- ran "a QA shop" of 30 QA engineers from 3 different countries. The solution that we have tested was successfully delivered into production and improved end-users satisfaction indicators by several times
 
- successfully cooperated with client onsite for 5 months, establishing joint testing activities;

- worked on internal error-handling tool creation and delivery for product company. It is still actively usable by MSO engineers

- passed QA Guru automation courses that allowed me to get deeper in end-to-end automation processes management (from requirements analysis and first automated TCs creation to transparent reporting of test run results)

- finished 6 months Leadership program that allowed me to be even a better leader for my current and future teams

-ISTQB Certified (Test Manager - Advanced).
Lead Software Testing Engineer (Manual), QA Lead (5+ years)

Main responsibilities on the current project:
- establishing effective QA processes and communication channels;
- reporting on QA activities progress;
- contributing to Agile ceremonies;
- preparing and executing test cases with a special focus on UI/UX best practices and/or other particular project specifics; integration testing;
- analyzing business needs, requirements and design to verify its consistency;
- presenting demo sessions to the client and managing feedback;
- junior engineers mentoring;

Main responsibilities on numerous previous projects:
- provided thoughtful leadership during system test, JIT, UAT, Production Support phases (organized an appropriate use of internal tools, established efficient testing and bugs reporting processes, participated in test documentation creation/update, planned QA resources development, onboarding and release);

- planned and controlled testing of web, client-server, cloud solutions, was responsible for the sustainability of testing processes, regular reporting to management;

- managed the process of regression scope automation;

- actively contributed to/initiated Agile ceremonies (participated in user stories valuation during scrum poker, QA demos, retrospective sessions, backlog refinement etc.);

- took part in external issues triage (defined dependencies between existing and new solutions, reviewed testware status, addressed customer concerns)

- prepared test documentation following company standards and field best practices;

- assisted Business Analyst to design and deliver a versatile solution;

- managed all channels of communication with customer from QA side, including direct interaction with stakeholders onsite (war rooms, knowledge transfer sessions and demos, supported joint testing activities);

- initiated QA involvement in analysis processes (requirements review, triaged UAT/Prod issues);

- performed functional and non-functional testing of implemented solution (prepared and executed both atomic and e2e test cases, compiled regression test suites, tested localization and security matrix, prepared test validation documents, supported installations of new releases, used SQL for data fixes and replication testing, widely used Putty/WinSCP to test Billing Engine, Postman/SoapUI/Swagger/Charles for API testing).
QA team should be present (at least 3 engineers up to several streams) -> I am not the only one working on QA side of the project

Not a support stage of the project in case of outsourcing. Client facing position  

Will also be glad to work in product company