Jakub Sobolewski

Product Owner at Pragmatic Coders
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(386) 825-5501
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Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland, PL
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  • English Full professional proficiency
  • German Elementary proficiency
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Karol Kraśkiewicz

People like Jakub are rare to meet. Jakub expertly filled the roles of Quality Assurance Specialist and Scrum Master in our team. During those four years, we worked together, I was always impressed his proactiveness, communicativeness and above everything else, ability to make sane decisions during periods of increased stress. Jakub was a great asset to our team, and I believe he will make a difference for any team he will join in the future.

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Credentials

  • Product Discovery Practitioner PDP
    Product Discovery Pro
    Sep, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)
    Scrum.org
    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Erickson Solution Focused Coach Certificate
    Wszechnica Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
    Jul, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • ISTQB Certified Tester - Advanced Level Test Analyst
    ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
    Nov, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)
    Scrum.org
    Jun, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • ISTQB Certified Tester - Advanced Level Test Manager
    ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
    Jan, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation level
    ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
    Nov, 2013
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Pragmatic Coders
    • Poland
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Product Owner
      • Feb 2022 - Present

      What product or service? - X-raying client’s context, business, vision, domain and needs. - Usually a website or a mobile app or both to get market fit and verify the product hypotheses as soon as possible. What do I do? - I optimize delivered value and shorten time-to-market. - I am aligned with the needs of stakeholders to create tailored solutions. - I co-create product vision with clients and dev teams. - I'm deep in operations - I focus on the profitability of the venture and its cost optimization. - I maintain a business-oriented and client-oriented approach. Show less

  • HSBC
    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Agile Delivery Lead
      • Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

      What product? - Sub-sections of HSBC site. - APIs to support internal HSBC systems. What I did? - I was responsible for figuring out needs of business stakeholders and coming up with adequate value proposition. What product? - Sub-sections of HSBC site. - APIs to support internal HSBC systems. What I did? - I was responsible for figuring out needs of business stakeholders and coming up with adequate value proposition.

  • Future Mind
    • Poland
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Mar 2020 - Oct 2021

      What product? - Mobile App (iOS/Android) - Providing loyalty points (+ fresh/clean UI design + good looking pictures of products + catchy marketing phrases) for making purchases in each brand’s shop. - When you buy stuff, you get points, then you can exchange them for anything from a brand’s store product, plus you have lots of fun from using the mobile app itself. What I did? - Scrum Master is a flexible role and usually I engage myself in doing things I haven’t done before, so now I’m working more with the whole organization, co-founders, specific departments, client representatives, leaders, and teams. - I’m focused on tracking needs (expressed by any entity from above point), then when I prioritize them and when I’m aligned with all stakeholders, I provide a vision for improvement. After we are agreed on it I take responsi-bility for introducing the change in specific area or I pass it to other leader or entity, who/which might be better equipped (e.g. in domain experience, in having more time, or more understanding of customer or team). Show less

  • smartpatient
    • Germany
    • Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Jan 2019 - May 2019

      What product? - Mobile App (iOS/Android) serving as a reminder and personal organizer for taking pills/injections. What I did? - Clearly expressing vision, strategy and goals to the software delivery team. Both in a long-term and short-term perspective. - Cascading, reinforcing priorities (daily), which were already created and agreed on. - Keeping in touch with all product and project related stakeholders. - Supervising team cooperation, self-organization and how team reaches goals on their own. - Training people in being self-dependent and being able to come up with initiative and creative ideas. - Creating atmosphere of trust, safety, acceptance and freedom. - Creating space for innovative ideas to emerge. - Keeping focus on the meeting goal, keeping focus on the agenda, managing time-box, moderating discussions and what are required stakeholders for a given topic to reach given goal. - Switching teaching/leadership styles between answering questions/giving instructions and providing space for the speaker to figure out resolution himself/herself / coaching / stimulating / animating / operating only using a goal with lots of freedom. Show less

  • Fresha
    • United Kingdom
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Agile Delivery Lead
      • Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

      What products? - Web app for Beauty Salons and Barber Shop owners to manage their customers, appointments, invoicing and payment. Mobile iOS/Android app for Beauty Salons and Barber Shop customers to book an appointment, make payment, give feedback regarding service. What I did? - 80% Project Manager / 20% Scrum Master - Managing two teams (2x 8 people) and their software delivery in accordance with two other teams (2x 8 people). - Cascading and supervising Product Owner’s priorities onto Development Team. - Reassuring / reinforcing business priorities daily. - Removing and figuring out solutions for current blockers for software delivery. Show less

  • NOVOMATIC Technologies Poland
    • Poland
    • Software Development
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

      What product? - Software for physical machines in Entertainment industry allowing to play in e.g. roulette and/or fruit machine. What I did? - Doing whatever is required to nourish team's self-organization and adherence to Scrum values. - Aiming for the Scrum Guide, but not being the Scrum Police - Being servant leader, impediment remover, mentor, facilitator - Understanding that change is inevitable, but takes time and effort to be introduced What product? - Software for physical machines in Entertainment industry allowing to play in e.g. roulette and/or fruit machine. What I did? - Doing whatever is required to nourish team's self-organization and adherence to Scrum values. - Aiming for the Scrum Guide, but not being the Scrum Police - Being servant leader, impediment remover, mentor, facilitator - Understanding that change is inevitable, but takes time and effort to be introduced

  • Fimantic
    • Netherlands
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

      What product? - Web application for managing regulatory compliance of financial institutions and banks. What I did? - Fully remote work. - Serving as a Scrum Master for Fimantic startup Tiger team. - Providing consultation, coaching and supervising that the development team is using Scrum values and time-boxed, incremental process to produce software. What product? - Web application for managing regulatory compliance of financial institutions and banks. What I did? - Fully remote work. - Serving as a Scrum Master for Fimantic startup Tiger team. - Providing consultation, coaching and supervising that the development team is using Scrum values and time-boxed, incremental process to produce software.

  • Akamai Technologies
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scrum Master / Automation Specialist Lead
      • Jul 2017 - Dec 2017

      What product? - Website for creating, tailoring and managing administrative dashboards (like granting user access). You could use our templates for dashboards or have them tailored to see lots of different usage statistics of your apps either in tables or in charts or in different libraries or colors etc. What I did? As Scrum Master: - I spread Agile mindset across the Scrum team; - I coached team members about Scrum framework, I moderated meetings, I oriented team on what is the goal and I kept time-boxes; - I improved project teams’ processes and removed impediments (i.e. I reduced contact made with development team by people outside of the team); As Automation Specialist Lead: - I was responsible for whole testing effort and approach in the Scrum team; - I divided and assigned testing tasks; - I managed test priorities and coordinated testing side of the team (two other automated specialists); - I implemented API tests using Java and AssertJ, Retrofit2, Postman; - I made manual tests of Frontend and Backend applications to support Scrum team; Show less

  • The Stepstone Group
    • Germany
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scrum Master / Automation Specialist
      • Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

      What product? - Website for buying/renting real estates in Belgium. What I did? As Scrum Master: - I spread Agile mindset across the project team; - I coached team members about Scrum framework + I moderated meetings; - I improved project teams’ processes and removed impediments (i.e. I reduced contact made with development team by people outside of the team); - I reported risks related with overlapping roles (e.g. Product Owner that is in the same time development team’s Lead; As Automation Specialist: - I coded automated UI tests, restful API tests and E2E tests using Java/Selenium WebDriver and Protractor/Typescript; - I run database checks in SQL; - I made manual UI and API tests using Postman/SoapUI; - I made performance tests using jMeter; Show less

  • Roche
    • Switzerland
    • Biotechnology Research
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scrum Master / QA Lead
      • Feb 2012 - May 2016

      What product? - Google Suite browser gadgets; - Chrome extensions; - Administrative tools for operations on large number of user accounts (e.g. migration of Google Drive files from one user to another, or one domain to another); - Mobile iOS apps created for Roche employees; What I did? As QA Lead: - I was responsible for the whole Quality Assurance process in my project and I was managing team of 5 other QA specialists; - I managed hardware assigned to our QA team for testing applications (PC, mobiles, tablets, SIM cards) and I coordinated our holidays; - I was handling ad-hoc requests assigned to our QA team by the client (e.g. to forecast testing effort for totally new application we haven’t seen or touched yet); - I was arranging integration parties, I managed a budget for our QA team, I was taking care of team members’ career plans, project assignments, individual goals; - I was managing QA responsibilities and workload; As Scrum Master: - I supervised that the Scrum team adheres to Scrum according to the Scrum Guide; - I lead Scrum meetings, arranged them, defined meeting agenda, made meeting notes. I moderated meetings, kept time-boxes. - I coached Product Owner to place requirements, as simple user stories in advance (before Sprint Planning meeting or Backlog Refinement), containing list of acceptance criteria in Product Backlog and to prioritize those user stories; - I exposed team problems, conflicts and helped in resolving them; - I measured and tracked team's capacity and velocity across Sprints; - I removed impediments for the Scrum Team, I reached out to our management to suggest optimization in organizational structure that would improve collaboration for the team, e.g. dependencies on the other teams that are not included in the Sprint (like infrastructure or DevOps team); Show less

  • Samsung R&D Centre Poland
    • Warsaw Area, Poland
    • Quality Assurance Specialist
      • Aug 2009 - Aug 2011

      What product? - Set-top box software, user Interface and hardware; What I did? - I was responsible for quality of software development process in our project team; - I created, executed test cases and I reported results; - I performed exploration tests and user acceptance tests; - I reported software defects and I suggested improvements for both software and our team’s processes. What product? - Set-top box software, user Interface and hardware; What I did? - I was responsible for quality of software development process in our project team; - I created, executed test cases and I reported results; - I performed exploration tests and user acceptance tests; - I reported software defects and I suggested improvements for both software and our team’s processes.

Education

  • Warsaw University of Technology
    Master of Science, Telecommunications
    2006 - 2012

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