Responsible for the day-to day running of the Research & Development subcompany in our company group with a particular emphasis on sales and business development. Making sure that the business continues to grow by way of developing new clients whilst maintaining its existing customer base.Directly leading the Product Development for the Digisec Group and Vedal Media.Overseeing and decision making in: - UI & UX Design- Development- Quality Assurrance- Handover to stakeholders or 3rd partiesAdditional duties within the company group:- Strengthening the IT infrastructure through to implementing new technologies- Performing routine audits of systems and software- Managing payment & fraud services- Doing data analytics to offer better understanding on different business scenarios and projections- Manage the IT budgets and expenditure on hardware and software.- Managing multi-disciplined teams and resolving any conflicting priorities- Involved in planning & organising the organisation's activities to achieve targets- Reviewing current organizational effectiveness and making recommendationsfor improvements.

I am making a substantial contribution to the future growth of thecompany. My team and I are responsible for all corporate marketing, researching and planningcampaigns, including the delivery and results for a key strategic initiatives.Duties:- Developing a marketing team to implement strategy & delivering on objectives- Carrying out effective research & intelligence into competitor products & other trends- Identifying key marketing opportunities- Making sure that campaigns run to deadline and on budget- Setting the scope, implementation, management & review of marketing campaigns

Project management- Managing 5 software projects simultaneously- Managing developer team of 3-5 developers.- Managing design team of 1-3 UX/UI specialists and designers.- Managing QA team of 1-3 QA automation engineers and manual testers.- Making sure that projects are delivered by the deadlines by constant RISK ASSESSMENT, RESOURCE PLANNING and PIPELINING deliverables FOR CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION for the development team, design team and QA testing team USING AGILE, SCRUM AND SPRINT METHODOLOGIES while being transparent towards the management with constant reporting and updates on statuses. Additional tasks- Leading and/or doing Business Intelligence investigations- Identifying and fixing payment related defects and investigating fraudulent transactions- Architecting new features- Achievements:- Led the development and launched 2 new brands for the company including an online casino while working closely with 3rd party backend and game providers and development teams- Create and enforce the company's workflow regulating the information and task flow between departments. - Configured, mapped and documented all our payment routing and processes through PaymentIQ.- Built the development workflow from scratch, including work and task tracking and reporting using Scrum and Sprint project management methodologies in JIRA.- Led the integration of several payment solutions, new features, version updates and 3rd party tools including but not limited to Wirecard, Paypal, CCbill, Astropay, Userengage, Hotjar etc.- Led multiple company wide Business Intelligence investigations on revenue fluctuations, reason of acceptance rate changes in specific regions, identifying and eliminating chargeback reasons

Quality assurance management- Managed 1-3 QA testers including senior QA automation engineers and junior manual QA testers as well - Led the planning and development of all required changes for the GDPR- Create and configure test environments for testers- Built test documentations and test plans- Created user stories for UX tests- Regulated testing processes and reporting flow- Created easy to use reporting templates for in house reporting- 2nd level technical support both in house and for clients- Created documentations of all feature implementations

As a QA tester i worked on:- Performed functional tests, creating test plans- Performed manual tests- Evaluated and documented failures, faults and defects, checking fixes- Cooperated with the development team- Provided second line support