Position: QA Lead
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 8


Quality assurance & control of various web-based products, desktop, and mobile applications, including work with peripheral devices;
 Good understanding and experience with Agile methodologies (frameworks: scrum, kanban);
 Manual testing;
 QA management / QA processes implementation;
 Test planning, creating and maintenance of the test cases, checklists (incl. Test Rail, TestLink) 
 Advanced proficiency in test design techniques;
 Excellent experience based testing skills; 
 Root cause analysis & troubleshooting/collaboration with developers;
 Requirements gathering and analysis, user stories mapping, flowcharts, creating and managing epics/dev tasks; 
Perform demo sessions of the features to the internal team/business;
Can explain/show complex subjects flexibly to different audiences and help with making things done;
 Familiar with multiple tools, for ex: Web developer tools, Postman, Soap UI, JMeter, PICT, Wireshark, Fiddler, Charles proxy, Docker, different logs, emulators, simulators, VMware, Android studio, Xcode, VS code with extensions, other editors, CL, Git, own scripts (python, shell), SQL, Excel (advanced)
Can find, learn and apply new tools fast depending on the context;
 Test automation development and maintenance using Python & Selenium WebDriver (pytest) with End-to-End coverage and CI, Dart (for Flutter), and test data generation. 
 Issues tracking in Atlassian Jira, Redmine, and Jetbrains YouTrack;
 Strong team player with the ability to work productively and fast in both distributed and non-distributed international teams;
 Mentoring team members regardless of their Location (pref: English);


My job is my calling, and I am always glad to apply my inspiration and skills to influence the quality of the products I work with.

Current position for last six years: Lead QA in Scandinavian fintech company
- Not interested in Work limited with writing/managing automated tests only, need complex quality assurance activities