Zdenek Samuel
Senior SW test architect and Branch Office manager at CertiCon a.s.- Claim this Profile
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Mirek Kren
I've known Zdenek for many years, and we both were given a chance to grow our career within Kerio organization. Zdenek is an incredibly capable manager, with a thorough understanding of his functional area, always willing to learn. He created the QA team for Kerio, later automated our tests, managed to multiply the testing capacity without increasing the size of the team and helped to implement the quality first approach. Zdenek does not stagnate; keeps improving the quality of not only the products but his team's output. He will mentor, motivate and lead his team to adopt new technologies and modern principles to get better and faster result.
LinkedIn User
I was at school, when I first met Zdenci. And we together started my carrier in IT. He was my team leader for all my time in Kerio Technologies. Zdenci is great team leader, not only focused on work results, but also building great team and team environment. Sometimes he was like my carrier father - giving me opportunities how to grow up and learn new things in IT. He know a lot about QA & testing. You could met him on CzechTest - testing conference in Czech republic, where he was as a speaker, multiple times. Zdenci isn't only testing IT professional. He also successfully managed other project in Kerio - for example moving on new issue tracking system, automation of release process and students projects too.
Mirek Kren
I've known Zdenek for many years, and we both were given a chance to grow our career within Kerio organization. Zdenek is an incredibly capable manager, with a thorough understanding of his functional area, always willing to learn. He created the QA team for Kerio, later automated our tests, managed to multiply the testing capacity without increasing the size of the team and helped to implement the quality first approach. Zdenek does not stagnate; keeps improving the quality of not only the products but his team's output. He will mentor, motivate and lead his team to adopt new technologies and modern principles to get better and faster result.
LinkedIn User
I was at school, when I first met Zdenci. And we together started my carrier in IT. He was my team leader for all my time in Kerio Technologies. Zdenci is great team leader, not only focused on work results, but also building great team and team environment. Sometimes he was like my carrier father - giving me opportunities how to grow up and learn new things in IT. He know a lot about QA & testing. You could met him on CzechTest - testing conference in Czech republic, where he was as a speaker, multiple times. Zdenci isn't only testing IT professional. He also successfully managed other project in Kerio - for example moving on new issue tracking system, automation of release process and students projects too.
Mirek Kren
I've known Zdenek for many years, and we both were given a chance to grow our career within Kerio organization. Zdenek is an incredibly capable manager, with a thorough understanding of his functional area, always willing to learn. He created the QA team for Kerio, later automated our tests, managed to multiply the testing capacity without increasing the size of the team and helped to implement the quality first approach. Zdenek does not stagnate; keeps improving the quality of not only the products but his team's output. He will mentor, motivate and lead his team to adopt new technologies and modern principles to get better and faster result.
LinkedIn User
I was at school, when I first met Zdenci. And we together started my carrier in IT. He was my team leader for all my time in Kerio Technologies. Zdenci is great team leader, not only focused on work results, but also building great team and team environment. Sometimes he was like my carrier father - giving me opportunities how to grow up and learn new things in IT. He know a lot about QA & testing. You could met him on CzechTest - testing conference in Czech republic, where he was as a speaker, multiple times. Zdenci isn't only testing IT professional. He also successfully managed other project in Kerio - for example moving on new issue tracking system, automation of release process and students projects too.
Mirek Kren
I've known Zdenek for many years, and we both were given a chance to grow our career within Kerio organization. Zdenek is an incredibly capable manager, with a thorough understanding of his functional area, always willing to learn. He created the QA team for Kerio, later automated our tests, managed to multiply the testing capacity without increasing the size of the team and helped to implement the quality first approach. Zdenek does not stagnate; keeps improving the quality of not only the products but his team's output. He will mentor, motivate and lead his team to adopt new technologies and modern principles to get better and faster result.
LinkedIn User
I was at school, when I first met Zdenci. And we together started my carrier in IT. He was my team leader for all my time in Kerio Technologies. Zdenci is great team leader, not only focused on work results, but also building great team and team environment. Sometimes he was like my carrier father - giving me opportunities how to grow up and learn new things in IT. He know a lot about QA & testing. You could met him on CzechTest - testing conference in Czech republic, where he was as a speaker, multiple times. Zdenci isn't only testing IT professional. He also successfully managed other project in Kerio - for example moving on new issue tracking system, automation of release process and students projects too.
Credentials
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ISTQB - Foundation Level
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardJun, 2019- Nov, 2024
Experience
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CertiCon a.s.
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Czechia
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior SW test architect and Branch Office manager
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Jul 2020 - Present
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Senior SW Test Architect and Department Manager
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Jan 2018 - Present
Responsible for leading 10+ testers.
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Senior SW Test Architect
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May 2017 - Present
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Kerio Technologies
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of QA
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Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Main responsibilities:- Creating a vision and overall QA strategy for whole Kerio company- Creating and leading QA team including automation team (max. 13 people).- Test strategy, test planning, resource allocation for projects- Providing information to Project and Product managers about quality of all products- Creating and leading customers' and partners' testing programs (beta testing, field testing)- Hiring, Coaching, Mentoring- Budgeting: People, HW, SW, travel, conferences, education- Owner of the Release processQA / testing activities:- Testing the products from the security, networking, messaging area.- Functional, Exploratory testing- Black-Box, White-Box testing- Testing in agile teams- Reviewing business requirements and technical specificationsAdditional responsibilities and activities:- Regular presentation at Czech universities (ZCU, CVUT)- Presentations at conferences: CzechTest- Cooperation with University of West Bohemia (student's projects, leading bachelor and diploma thesis)- Organizing of internal TechSummits and Hackathons
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QA Manager / Team leader
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Jul 2004 - Apr 2016
Main responsibilities:- Creating and leading QA team including automation team, documentation and release team (max. 20 people).- Test strategy, test planning, resource allocation for projects- Providing information to Project and Product managers about quality of all products- Creating and leading customers' and partners' testing programs (beta testing, field testing)- Hiring, Coaching, Mentoring- Budgeting: People, HW, SW, travel, conferences, education- Owner of the Release processQA / testing activities:- Testing the products from the security, networking, messaging area.- Functional, regression, user acceptance, performance testing- Black-Box, White-Box testing- Exploratory testing- Testing in agile teams- Reviewing business requirements and technical specifications- Test design (test cases writing) Additional responsibilities and activities:- Regular presentation at Czech universities (ZCU, CVUT)- Presentations at conferences: CzechTest, Agile Prague- Cooperation with University of West Bohemia (student's projects, leading bachelor and diploma thesis)- Organizing of internal TechSummits and Hackathons
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Technical support engineer / tester
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Jul 2001 - Jul 2004
Solving customer's issues with Kerio products from the security, networking, messaging and VoIP areas.Testing Kerio products before release.Reporting bugs discovered during the testing process or by our customers and partners.Presentations at exhibitions for our business partners and customers.Creating and leading the technical certification of Kerio business partners.HW/SW evidence.
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Education
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1995 - 2001
Západočeská univerzita Plzeň
Master's degree, Financial Informatics and Statistics, Distributed Systems and Computer Networks
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