Zbyszek Mockun
Clan Head / Engineering Manager at Wunderman Thompson Technology- Claim this Profile
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Michal Kaftanski
Zbyszek is an inspiring leader and head of QA. Highly recommended and a valuable person.
Daniel Smith
Zbyszek made a fine addition to the team being very hard working, bringing new techical abilities in to the QA department and being able to learn a complex application (in the face of less than perfect legacy documentation) in a short space of time. His knowlege of test automation in Selenuim was a significant and welcome addition to the QA team's capabilities (taking over a significant amount of that work from the dev team), and his ability to interact with the applications at the CLI/database level (on both Linux and Windows servers) meant developers were able to spend less time doing investigative work following a bug report. In doing manual testing, in addition to the usual functional bugs, Zbyszek provided a number of fresh insights on usability issues by thinking as a user might outside of any (in most cases very limited) scripted steps or documentation we may have provided. Another skill that may well prove useful to future projects was his ability to install, configure and migrate our existing spreasheet based set of regression tests into the open source test management tool Testopia. Above all though, what I appreciated the most was the incredible rate at which he was able to get through an assigned set of manual regression tests - with the occasional questions coming through via Skype even at his early days on the project reassuringly indicating that he was covering everything and clearly not cutting any corners.
Michal Kaftanski
Zbyszek is an inspiring leader and head of QA. Highly recommended and a valuable person.
Daniel Smith
Zbyszek made a fine addition to the team being very hard working, bringing new techical abilities in to the QA department and being able to learn a complex application (in the face of less than perfect legacy documentation) in a short space of time. His knowlege of test automation in Selenuim was a significant and welcome addition to the QA team's capabilities (taking over a significant amount of that work from the dev team), and his ability to interact with the applications at the CLI/database level (on both Linux and Windows servers) meant developers were able to spend less time doing investigative work following a bug report. In doing manual testing, in addition to the usual functional bugs, Zbyszek provided a number of fresh insights on usability issues by thinking as a user might outside of any (in most cases very limited) scripted steps or documentation we may have provided. Another skill that may well prove useful to future projects was his ability to install, configure and migrate our existing spreasheet based set of regression tests into the open source test management tool Testopia. Above all though, what I appreciated the most was the incredible rate at which he was able to get through an assigned set of manual regression tests - with the occasional questions coming through via Skype even at his early days on the project reassuringly indicating that he was covering everything and clearly not cutting any corners.
Michal Kaftanski
Zbyszek is an inspiring leader and head of QA. Highly recommended and a valuable person.
Daniel Smith
Zbyszek made a fine addition to the team being very hard working, bringing new techical abilities in to the QA department and being able to learn a complex application (in the face of less than perfect legacy documentation) in a short space of time. His knowlege of test automation in Selenuim was a significant and welcome addition to the QA team's capabilities (taking over a significant amount of that work from the dev team), and his ability to interact with the applications at the CLI/database level (on both Linux and Windows servers) meant developers were able to spend less time doing investigative work following a bug report. In doing manual testing, in addition to the usual functional bugs, Zbyszek provided a number of fresh insights on usability issues by thinking as a user might outside of any (in most cases very limited) scripted steps or documentation we may have provided. Another skill that may well prove useful to future projects was his ability to install, configure and migrate our existing spreasheet based set of regression tests into the open source test management tool Testopia. Above all though, what I appreciated the most was the incredible rate at which he was able to get through an assigned set of manual regression tests - with the occasional questions coming through via Skype even at his early days on the project reassuringly indicating that he was covering everything and clearly not cutting any corners.
Michal Kaftanski
Zbyszek is an inspiring leader and head of QA. Highly recommended and a valuable person.
Daniel Smith
Zbyszek made a fine addition to the team being very hard working, bringing new techical abilities in to the QA department and being able to learn a complex application (in the face of less than perfect legacy documentation) in a short space of time. His knowlege of test automation in Selenuim was a significant and welcome addition to the QA team's capabilities (taking over a significant amount of that work from the dev team), and his ability to interact with the applications at the CLI/database level (on both Linux and Windows servers) meant developers were able to spend less time doing investigative work following a bug report. In doing manual testing, in addition to the usual functional bugs, Zbyszek provided a number of fresh insights on usability issues by thinking as a user might outside of any (in most cases very limited) scripted steps or documentation we may have provided. Another skill that may well prove useful to future projects was his ability to install, configure and migrate our existing spreasheet based set of regression tests into the open source test management tool Testopia. Above all though, what I appreciated the most was the incredible rate at which he was able to get through an assigned set of manual regression tests - with the occasional questions coming through via Skype even at his early days on the project reassuringly indicating that he was covering everything and clearly not cutting any corners.
Credentials
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Mangement 3.0
-Nov, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
ITIL Foundation
-Dec, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
ISTQB Advance Test Manager
ISTQBSep, 2012- Oct, 2024 -
FCE certificate - First CErtificate in English is at Level B2
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)Jan, 2009- Oct, 2024 -
ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing Certificate
ISTQBAug, 2008- Oct, 2024 -
SEP Entitlements
devices, installations and electrical power networks about voltage no more than 1kVJan, 2004- Oct, 2024 -
CCNA Certificate
CiscoJan, 2006- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Wunderman Thompson Technology
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Clan Head / Engineering Manager
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Dec 2020 - Present
I manage a team of up to 60 people (scaled up even up to 100 by contractors, 3rd party, ...) , working from 6 locations, covering different roles like devs, devOps, QAs, TPMs, BAs, ... delivering several simultaneous projects for our clients.- R&D strategy and execution- presales support- programmes & projects governance throughout all their phases- build project teams- team health structure & scaling up/down possibilities- recruitment, development and performance review- cooperate with other Clans (Teams), help each other and deliver common goals- promote open sourcing, support local communities, build Wunderman Thompson Technology brand- support Practice House to develop and upskill talents, discover or create new technology trends, and share experience gathered as Global Head of QA- influence company strategy, member of different leading groupsOutside the Wunderman Thompson Technology- speaker on Polish and international conferences- community builder as co-founder/co-organizer of the first testing meetup PTaQ and TestingParrot podcast- independent consultant in the field of QA & testing, transformation and growth (from startup to mature Agile organization). Need help?
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Cognifide
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Clan Head / Engineering Manager
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Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
I manage a team of up to 50 people, working from 5 locations, covering different roles like devs, QAs, TPMs, BAs, delivering several simultaneous projects for our clients.project governance throughout all its phases- build project teams- R&D strategy and execution- team health structure & scaling up/down possibilities- recruitment, development and performance review - cooperate with other Clans (Teams), help each other and deliver common goals- promote open sourcing, support local communities, build Cognifide brand- support QA House and share experience gathered as Global Head of QA- influence company strategy, member of different leading groupsOutside the Cognifide- speaker on Polish and international conferences- community builder as co-founder/co-organizer of the first testing meetup PTaQ and TestingParrot podcast- independent consultant in the field of QA & testing, transformation and growth (from startup to mature Agile organization). Need help?
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Global Head of QA Practice
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Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
I managed a team up to 70 engineers, including outsourced engineers, working from 8 locations in 4 countries. who supports about 20 projects simultaneously. List of activities and responsibilities:- Member of Cognifide Leadership Group and impact on Cognifide Strategy- Governance on projects in all of the phases- Member of PMO group, improve processes, share lessons learnt- Team building strategy, keep health structure and outsourcing strategy (successful setup cooperation with few companies, which ensure quick scale up and down if necessary)- Manage different budgets (IT, training, integration, salaries)- Project resourcing based on needs/skills/challenges not numbers- Cooperation with other Practice Heads to implement company strategy, work as one engineering team and killing practice’s silos- Support Business Development activities (starting from pre-selling, RFI, RFP, project estimation)- Work as a consultant for our clients to help them build a strategy or solve specific and complicated problems- Takes care about the continuous development of QA Practice by RnD activitiesCoordinate process of open source Cognifide toolsAchievement (not mine but I am especially proud of) - Cognifide team won TestingCup2018
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Head of QA Practice
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Mar 2014 - Sep 2017
I manage team up to 50 engineers, including outsourced teams, which support about 20 project simultaneously.- Member of Cognifide Leadership Group- Member of PMO group- Outsourcing strategy (successfully setup cooperation with few companies)- Manage different practice budgets (IT, trainings, integration, salaries)- Cooperate with other Practice Leads and UK based office in improving different processes- Support selling activities (starting from pre selling, estimate project costs)- Work as consultant for our clients to help them solve problems- Projects governance and support for Project Managers- Owner of internal automation framework and internal automation tool (we have just started process of selling this tools to our clients)- Other activities as previously
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Head of QA Practice and Technical Project Manager
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Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
Since November 2012 I changed my position from technical to management. Except Head of QA Practice role (I managed team up to 25 engineers) I worked as Technical Project Manager for few projects.- Manage different project phases- Projects methodologies: Scrum and Kanban- Communication with clients (reporting , prioritizations, …)- Scope, deadlines, budgets negotiations with clients- Project teams up to 20 engineers
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Head of QA Practice and Senior QA Engineer
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Jul 2010 - Oct 2012
I managed QA team up to 15 engineers. My team supported several projects at the same time working in Agile methodologies (mostly Scrum or Kanban)- recruitment- resourcing- engineers appraisals- define goals and objectives for practice, translate business goals on practice level- define procedures, improve current process- meeting with clients- support for projects and QA EngineersI still worked as QA Engineer (about 50% of my time) – mostly testing Content Management System applications (Adobe Experience Manager, EPI Server, SharePoint). Additional tasks to previous role:- testing NFR requirements : performance (JMeter), accessibility
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Quality Assurance - SoftwareTest Engineer
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Jun 2008 - Jun 2010
I tested applications for medicine market which used Java and Oracle/MySQL/MsSQL databases. I was responsible for: - creating and executing test cases according to requirements - manage automation process, maintenance scripts - writing new Selenium scripts based on Selenium RS / Selenium IDE using Java and html programming languages and integration with Jenkins - prepare tests plans - support development team- co-operation with client (process improvement, bug prioritization, support)- Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
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Co-Founder and Administrator of suwalki24.pl portal
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2007 - 2015
Co-Founder and administrator of regional information portal -suwalki24.pl Co-Founder and administrator of regional information portal -suwalki24.pl
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CAPE Technologies
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Quality Assurance - SoftwareTest Engineer
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Nov 2006 - May 2008
I was responsible for testing Revenue Assurance applications for mobile companies. We used Java and Oracle DB technology. I was involved in whole process of creating and maintenance software. My main area of interest was whole process of test automation (strategy, programming, maintenance).- Automation: Ant, Cruise Control, Web Canoo, programming: XML, SQL- DataBases: Oracle- Operation systems: Windows, Linux- File Versioning / Bug tracking / Requirements and test cases management – SVN / JIRA and Bugzilla / Testopia
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Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)
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United States
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Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software tester for UMTS, CDMA technology
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Jul 2004 - Oct 2006
I was responsible for testing UMTS network architecture elements (particularly NodeB) and CDMA 2000 network element – new platform of base station. My main job was creating, reviewing and automate test procedures.- SixSigma and CMMi Level 5 principles- Transmission networks: E1, T1, ATM- Computer Networks – LAN/MAN/WAN- Mobile network architecture: UMTS, GSM, GPRS, EDGE- File Versioning / Bug tracking / Requirements and test cases management – ClearCase / ClearQuest / Doors- Programming: perl, C/C++- Operation systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris
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Education
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2018 - 2019
ICAN Institute (Harvard Business Review Poland
Management TM -
2009 - 2010
High School of Banking - postgraduade studies
Project Management -
1999 - 2004
Poznan University of Technology
Master of Science, Engineer, with degree: 4.5, Electronics and Telecommunications
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