Position: QA Lead / QA Manager / Head of QA
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11


SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
- 3+ years’ experience as Head of QA(3+ as Lead QA; 12+ years in IT overall)
- comprehensive view of SDLC 
- developing, adapting and improvement of QA and release processes
- people assessment and mentoring
- implementation of automated testing
- writing test documentation: test plans, test strategies, test cases, check lists
- working with different development methodologies
- programming languages knowledge
- extracting data from databases
- upper intermediate English, both oral and written

WORKING EXPERIENCE:
06/2021 - current    Head of QA/Release Manager, NDA
QA management: 
- led a team of 10 QAs
- introduced best practices
- organised usage of test documentation
- started planned automation activities on regular basis
- improved performance of teams with unstable releases
- helped with organisation of load testing during important events
Release management: 
- stabilised release process
- added metrics to release process
People management: 
- grew two QA leads
- set up regular 1x1 meetings
Reporting to CTO
- built roadmap for testing processes development

06/2020 - 06/2021    Head of QA/Release Manager, Targetprocess
- led the team of 8 QAs 
- significantly improved(reworked) release process
- trained QAs as release engineers
- set and controlled release metrics
- facilitated automated testing to be done by QAs
- facilitated implementation of security standard SOK 2
- organised trainings for QA
- explicitly showed key results achieved in processes and planned work

07/2018 – 06/2020    Head of QA, Leveris
-led the team of 12 QAs (including automation QA) in the Minsk office
- coordinated assembly team (devs, QAs, OPS) for successful production readiness
- was a single point of contact for a client during UAT
participated as key QA in testing activities
played a role of Scrum Master regarding communication processes in the team
created onboarding plan for QAs
facilitated implementation of security standard ISO 27001