Position: QA Lead
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

Have Set up testing and QA processes in several projects from scratch. 
Have Sold testing as a service for several projects and start ups. 
Have Managed test teams up to 25 people.
Have Developed trusting relationships with clients when working on projects. 

I'm a leader, not a follower. 

"Errors pile up but accomplishments disappear. " (c)
Hello, my name is Yuri and I have over 20 years of practice in testing.
 
I was working with different domains and types of software products.
I have built testing process as for small custom desktop and several people in engineering, as big enterprise web solutions for payments systems, advertising portals with big distributed teams.
 
As a Test Lead/Manger, I understand that a product quality depends on many factors such as goals, collaboration and communication, project and test documentation, risks, planning, you named it.
To provide a product with highest quality it is very important to improve project processes, knowledge of customer’s business domain, communication between all participants, etc.
 
As a Principal QA specialist, I usually focus on effective cooperation in test teams and with development teams, abilities of each team member and can delegate activities and tasks in accordance to their personal and professional qualities. It helps to make testing fast and some love cost in time.

I'm a driver not a follower.