Experience

Hemi Connect

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• QA Manager

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  As QA Team Lead manages and coordinates quality assurance processes and procedures within Hemisphere. Responsible of recruiting, on-boarding, mentoring, and managing the QA team. Besides being a people manager, participates in QA assignments as a hands-on QA Engineer. Actively participates in scrum process by allocating tasks to team members. Active sprint management. Sprint tracking, progress monitoring and task distribution timeline. Actively participates in following scrum progress and completion. Actively participates in sprint planning, mid sprint and retrospective meetings. Identifies and escalates all possible risks and bottlenecks throughout the Software Development/QA cycle, and proposes workarounds and resolutions. Defines quality standards and metrics for company products. Ensures all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking. Defines QA processes and collaborate with the team to put them into practice. Shaping sprint backlog. Daily scrum meetings (facilitates, herds, provides support for dev TL and seniors for following development scrum plan). Actively works with the dev team towards achieving sprint goals and overall sprint successful completion. Tracks, pushes and requests proper tasks creation, sprint rules following and meeting participation from all responsible roles. Conducts mid sprint, sprint planning and retrospective meetings. Support dev team to clarify goals and actions to achieve them. Helps with, tracks and removes blockers. Facilitates the team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.


HedgeServ
• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• QA Engineer

  • Apr 2017 - Oct 2017


Regulus Services LTD

• Business Consulting and Services

• QA Manager

  • Oct 2014 - Apr 2017

  Responsible for Quality Assurance over the whole cycle of development, implementation and support of company WEB projects. Activities and relevant competences applied: Performed Quality Assurance testing on a web based applications. Execute design, functional (on different devices), regression, sanity and performance testing etc. Creation of Regression and Sanity check test suit. Managed defect reporting utilizing Jira during all stages of testing. Managing, distributing and estimating tasks Basic knowledge in working with Selenium. Responsible for managing testing projects. Organize tasks, delegate assignments and supervise the QA team. Contributed ideas towards future website developments Description of proposals for improvements, marketing and business suggestions. Participate in Product meetings Participate in Management meetings Implementing new plug-ins, techniques and workflows in order to meet company’s needs. Preparing documentations, monthly reports.



VIVACOM

• Bulgaria
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Testing Specialist

  • May 2013 - Oct 2014

  Computer programs testing for BTC and its clients’ needs. Control and manging of projects (Device on Instalment, Ring Back Tone). Preparation of test cases, scenarios and data. Chooses and defines technology needs. Execution of the functional test based on business requirements Writing and executing automation tests (HP Load Runner, QTP) Reports bugs and manage bug lifecycle. Create and maintain necessary documentation. Makes basic administration, when required for testing (Install new versions, execute Oracle DB scripts). Unix - basic commands and shell scripts



Groupama Information Systems Bulgaria

• QA Specialist

  • Sep 2009 - Apr 2013

  Responsible for Quality Assurance over the cycle of development, implementation and support of insurance software. Execution of the functional test based on business requirements. Definition test plan according to business requirements and systems specification. Review, analysis and validation of the front and back-office processes implemented in life insurance applications Responsible for Quality Assurance over the cycle of development, implementation and support of insurance software. Execution of the functional test based on business requirements. Definition test plan according to business requirements and systems specification. Review, analysis and validation of the front and back-office processes implemented in life insurance applications



StangaOne1

• United States
• Food Production

• QA Specialist

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2009

  Analyzing insurance software specifications. Writing test plans and test scripts according business requirements. Testing, reporting and tracking bugs by Test Director. Analyzing insurance software specifications. Writing test plans and test scripts according business requirements. Testing, reporting and tracking bugs by Test Director.



Investbank

• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Specialist

  • Sep 2005 - Sep 2006

  Opening and closing accounting day, administrating Dacoms – core banking program, support other departments. Opening and closing accounting day, administrating Dacoms – core banking program, support other departments.