Position: Senior QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 4

2020 - 2022: Full responsibility for creating and conducting of QA strategy for a complex IoT network management platform. Besides planning and conducting of manual, regression, and smoke testing for the web platform functionality, created manuals and how-tos as for the proprietary device setup and troubleshooting, end-to-end testing env setup, advanced issue research and localization. Performed acceptance and compatibility testing for new firmware releases. Since February 2021, acted as the QA lead supervising and planning work of a team of manual QAs for the web platform, consulting automated and performance testing teams working in parallel, consulting manual QA teams working on other products under the same IoT vendor umbrella: firmware developers, mobile and desktop app developers.

Responsibilities:
1. Managing and planning tasks for QA team (2-4 team members in direct supervision; consulting an extended team of 10-12 QAs);
2. Participation in production release planning, taking full responsibility for production candidate regression testing and production smoke testing, planning QA resources
3. Review QA team test cases, QA documentation, individual performance;
4. Helping QA team with hard use cases, user scenarios, and complicated environment and tools setup;
5. Testing related software for compatibility with the main solution (firmware release candidates, firmware development builds, firmware hotfixes)  
6. Consulting of automated testing, performance testing, and security testing teams;
7. Extensive communication with external teams (product tech and business stakeholders, integration services, various development teams, DevOps teams) 
8. Working on individual development plan of account team members and other QA's of the company (mentorship)
9. Conducting performance reviews, project QA audits, candidate interviews (QAO activities)
2018: Mobile marketplace, consumer-oriented product
2019: Consumer mobile app (for climbers)
2019: Fintech web platform, consumer and business oriented: investment management, wealth and asset management, financial planning. Complex user permission management system, automated billing subsystem (proprietary billing system)
2020: Smart cross-platform mobile messenger, consumer-oriented product
2020 - 2022: Web platform for remote IoT network and device management, B2B product. Remote equipment setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting flows, complex user role and permission system, automated billing system (Stripe integration). End-to-end equipment configuration testing, issue localization and reporting for firmware, cloud, and platform development teams; supporting automated and performance testing teams. Since February 2021 till October 2022 acted as QA tech lead for the extended IoT solution ecosystem (web platform, device firmware development branch, desktop and mobile configuration apps)
2023 acted as QA Senior at fitness project(iOS, android)