Position: QA Team Lead
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6

Proud mentor of three amazing QA interns, teacher at QA school, always happy to share experience and knowledge.
Passionate speaker at 10+ QA events.
Introduced and maintained Agile practices in 5+ projects, ensuring successful delivery and acceptance.

Domains: 
IoT, automotive and connected cars, metal forming, oil and gas, instant messaging
Certifications:
ISTQB Certified Tester, Advanced Level, Test Manager
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level
PSM 1 Professional Scrum Master 1
Education:
Bachelor of Software Engineering
Master of Economics
 
German: pre-intermediate
Managing dedicated QA teams of up to 9 people, dealing with workload and priorities to complete testing tasks on time and with highest results.
Test activities planning, estimation of testing efforts, risk and crisis management (JIRA, Trello, YouTrack. SmartSheet, MS Project).
Testing of web, mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Symbian), desktop (Windows, Mac OS X) applications on integration, system, end-to-end levels.
REST API testing (Postman, Swagger), Web Sockets testing.
Usability testing and UX analysis.
Creation of customized metrics showing QA and development team progress, happiness and efficiency, product release readiness, issues and risks.
Developing different kinds of documentation, including test strategy, test plan, test cases, user stories, acceptance scripts and product specifications, comprehensive project knowledge base, help sections and user guides.
Knowledge of Automotive SPICE, performing project audits and assessments, 
able to guide and maintain process improvements implementation based on gaps identified.
Customer care experience, including communication via social networks, beta-testing leadership.
Gathering and analyzing requirements to have the product features clearly defined, acting as a proxy product owner for the development team (UML, Contour).
Hiring, training, coaching junior QA staff, participation in assessments and reviews.

Project management skills:
Coordination of distributed cross-functional teams for 2+ years.
Planning, monitoring and control of software development projects (often multiple at a time), acting as a Scrum Master.
Primary customer contact point, including pre-sales activities and negotiation.
Will be happy to commit to a game-changing product development with a team of enthusiasts. Agile environment is desirable.