As an Engineering Manager, I lead a dynamic cross-functional team of seven skilled engineers specializing in iOS, Android, and Backend development. Our team is one of the three engineering teams tasked with delivering the core customer experience in the Storytel app.My responsibilities:✓ Make sure the team delivers within agreed timelines with high quality.✓ Foster a culture of full responsibility, strategic thinking, and effective execution within the team.✓ Advocate and promote effective software development practices.✓ Establish close team collaboration with a product manager and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.✓ Ensure successful professional growth of team members by conducting regular 1 1s, goal-setting sessions, mentoring, coaching and feedback conversations with engineers to support individual growth.✓ Recruit engineers for my team and other teams.✓ Be an active member of staff engineers and engineering management group, contributing insights and efforts towards improving cross-team collaboration and ensuring smooth delivery of cross-team initiatives.

As the sole Test Engineer in a cross-functional team of 18 engineers, overseeing a significant part of the user experience across iOS and Android apps, a WEB-based CMS system, and corresponding microservices, I faced the challenge of leveraging my skills in a scalable manner.Under my leadership, the engineering team successfully: ✓ Created in-house test tools and capabilities. It helped to reduce testing time and make testing accessible for non-technical employees.✓ Introduced new ways of working in testing by establishing mandatory cross-platform collaboration in testing.✓ Initiated snapshot automated testing for iOS and Android apps.I significantly shifted engineers' perspectives by helping them recognize their central role as primary contributors and main parties responsible for software quality, which was recognized by my peer engineers in feedback sessions.

I was added to the team of highly skilled engineers to help implement the “shifting left” practice, where quality starts even before coding. I helped engineers analyze the requirements, oversee potential issues, find gaps, formulate acceptance criteria, and test the code.In my cadence with the team, I improved their quality hygiene by mentoring them in test techniques. The amount of bug fix was minimized, and the team could focus on new feature development.Key responsibilities:✓ Acceptance testing of the pull request as part of the “shifting left” approach✓ Mentoring engineers in testing techniques✓ Execution and maintenance of automated tests✓ Maintaining code dependency updates and supervising release process

I was hired as a Senior Software tester for a platform team within the organizational transformation initiative. The idea of the initiative was to introduce the dedicated tester role for every team in the organization in addition to the centralized testing team. During my cadence with the team, I established close collaboration of the platform team with the external QA team, which helped to reduce the communication loop and go faster through testing ceremonies. Key responsibilities:✓ Testing of the newly developed and existing functionality ✓ Requirements review in collaboration with the Product Manager✓ Communication with the team stakeholders✓ Processes standardization in the team✓ Documentation and knowledge base handling✓ Mentoring and coaching junior testersBusiness domain: mobile game development (gambling).Projects technology stack: Java, Java Script.Tools: Jira.

I joined the product team for EVALARM (https://www.evalarm.de/?lang=en) in May 2014 as an external software test consultant at the start of the product development. I have been responsible for end-to-end testing of the entire solution, which consisted of:✓ Web part (cross-browser functional testing)✓ Mobile application (Android and iOS functional testing)✓ API (integrations and functional testing)The product has successfully released in May, 2015 and is being actively marketed to potential customers.

I was part of a distributed Indian-Ukrainian QA team, responsible for the quality of payment transformation services. Key Responsibilities:✓ Testing of new and existing functionality✓ Test automation implementation and supervision for a series of services.✓ Requirements review in collaboration with Business analysts and software engineers✓ Standardization of the test approach✓ Documentation and knowledge base handling✓ Junior testers mentoring and coachingBusiness domain: middleware for banking (payment messages transformation and routing).Projects technology stack: IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Java, Oracle, Aix.Tools: Toad, Putty, HP Quality Center, GH Tester, Soap UI.

As part of a Ukraine-based test team, I was part of a quality assurance setup responsible for the seamless releases of various online retail solutions based on e-commerce platforms (GSI commerce, Enfinity Intershop platform). Key Responsibilities:✓ Requirements review in collaboration with Business analysts✓ Testing of new and existing functionality✓ Junior testers mentoring and coachingBusiness domain: e-commerce, professional services.Projects technology stack: Java, Oracle.Tools: Atlassian Jira, Zephyr, in-house automation testing framework built in Java.

As a hands-on leader overseeing three test engineers in a cross-functional team within a Ukrainian-German setup, I prioritized open communication with stakeholders, fostered strong collaboration with engineers and business analysts, and promoted effective teamwork to meet releases' deadlines.Key Responsibilities:✓ Testing estimation and planning, team management and leadership.✓ Requirements review in collaboration with Business analysts✓ Testing of new and existing functionality✓ 3rd line of support✓ Junior testers mentoring and coaching✓ Hiring and people managementBusiness domain: backoffice for gas stations product.Projects technology stack: .Net, MS SQL.Tools: IRS (in-house issue tracking tool), MS Project, MS SharePoint, Macro Scheduler.