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Registration: 24.07.2024
Tatiana Repicheva
Specialization: QA
— 10+ years of QA experience.
— 7+ years of QA management experience, managing distributed teams up to 25 people.
— Strong Head of QA competencies: process audit, testing quality audit, product quality audit, implementing new approaches and tools, process optimization, tester grading and development. Author of own audit framework and methodology for assessing tester competencies.
— Strong personal traits according to Gallup methodology: Achiever, Maximizer, Focus, Responsibility, Learner. In work, I promote an engineering approach, study and implement new technologies, can and strive to think flexibly, not afraid of responsibility, focused on results and clients.
— Leader (not boss), pay great attention to team motivation and development, provide feedback. Build team work in such a way that the collective's work is as comfortable as possible for everyone, while keeping the team's focus on results.
— Communicate in the same language with business and development teams (owner of Pro-test.Studio business)
— Author of courses for beginner testers.
— 10+ years of QA experience.
— 7+ years of QA management experience, managing distributed teams up to 25 people.
— Strong Head of QA competencies: process audit, testing quality audit, product quality audit, implementing new approaches and tools, process optimization, tester grading and development. Author of own audit framework and methodology for assessing tester competencies.
— Strong personal traits according to Gallup methodology: Achiever, Maximizer, Focus, Responsibility, Learner. In work, I promote an engineering approach, study and implement new technologies, can and strive to think flexibly, not afraid of responsibility, focused on results and clients.
— Leader (not boss), pay great attention to team motivation and development, provide feedback. Build team work in such a way that the collective's work is as comfortable as possible for everyone, while keeping the team's focus on results.
— Communicate in the same language with business and development teams (owner of Pro-test.Studio business)
— Author of courses for beginner testers.
Skills
JS
QA management
Audit
Functional testing
Regression testing
Load testing
Integration testing
API testing
Test design
Project documentation
Methodologies
Work experience
Head of QA
since 09.2023 - Till the present day |Purrweb
JS, XML, HTML, SQL
● Analysis (audit) of quality processes in testing projects.
● Monitoring implementation of improvement plans in projects.
● Monitoring KPI performance.
● Resource planning, team formation (hiring/firing)
● Organizing internships, onboarding.
● Organizing testing activities (API, load, security, automation).
● Training and developing the team: assistance with training materials, manual and automated knowledge checks, defining grades.
● Defining QA standards and regulations.
● Planning QA department finances.
● Communication with other departments: HR, PM, Sales, Design.
● Reporting: on salaries, business performance, QA metrics.
● Built QA organizational structure, mentoring institute.
● Developed knowledge model, QA assessment and grading system.
● Established test automation from scratch in the company.
● Conducted training sessions for project managers.
● Developed a product segmentation constructor for the sales department and corresponding QA services.
QA Principal
08.2022 - 08.2023 |UULA
QA
● Establishing processes and standards for product testing (educational portal).
● Developing quality metrics.
● Team formation: onboarding, motivation, performance analysis of QA engineers, training and developing QA engineers Reviewing test documentation.
● Conducting lectures, quarterly knowledge assessments for QA engineers, mentoring, updating QA knowledge base.
● Researching and implementing new types of testing (load testing, security testing).
● Implemented employee evaluation process across different grades, developed a competency matrix.
● Implemented Qase.io as a test case management system instead of Xray.
QA Manager
06.2016 - 07.2022 |Blueberry consultant
TestLink, Allure, Qase.io, BDD-Cucumber
● Organizing the testing process for over 15 projects (web, desktop, mobile applications for medical institutions, ecom, fintech).
● Managing QA department: mentoring, recruitment, team motivation, organizing work, and creating roadmaps, resource allocation, performance review.
● Establishing effective interaction with senior managers and client teams (Project managers).
● Quality analysis of testing, collecting metrics, improving testing processes and team performance.
● Reviewing test cases (TestLink, Allure, Qase.io, BDD-Cucumber).
● Studying systems, testing requirements.
● Writing documentation for general use (Confluence).
● Reporting/bug tracking (PTS).
● Web and mobile application testing.
● Running automated tests, analyzing failures.
● Log analysis.
● Accelerated the testing process by 35% in key areas by reviewing all processes and eliminating ineffective testing approaches.
● Established effective department work, built processes, achieved independent work of testers on 10+ projects with minimal supervision.
● Formed a stable and strong cohesive team, turnover reduced to zero.
● Implemented automated testing.
● Introduced test case management practice.
QA Lead
08.2013 - 06.2016 |SoftServe
QA
● Developing and maintaining Test Plan and Test Strategy.
● Planning and improving QA process on the project
● Requirement analysis.
● Creating and maintaining QA artifacts and metrics (test coverage, test cases and test reports, defect statistics).
● Escalating issues related to project requirements (software, hardware, resources).
● Training, coordinating QA team of 5 engineers, task distribution, reviewing various QA team reports - Writing, maintaining, improving test cases.
● Attending regular meetings with stakeholders, discussing weekly status with project management.
● Documenting testing activities, including testing results, test coverage, necessary resources, defect tracking.
● Identifying and mitigating project risks.
● Prepared QA engineers team for ISTQB exam - Implemented load testing using Jmeter.
● Developed an adaptation plan and program.
● Optimized regression testing.
● Established interaction between QA team and developers/analysts.
QC Engineer
02.2010 - 08.2013 |ISD
TestLink, Allure, Qase.io, BDD-Cucumber
● Writing, reviewing, correcting, updating, and executing test scenarios for software based on requirement analysis.
● All types of manual testing.
● Analyzing program code to write testing scenarios.
● Assisting in developing Test plan and Test scenarios.
● Working with bug tracking system, preparing documentation, verifying defects and errors after fixing, writing test reports for company management or clients.
● Analyzing test results.
● Communicating with programmers and other stakeholders to explain/identify the causes of defects/errors.
● Estimating task completion time.
● Was the only tester on the project, learned to work autonomously, managed projects independently.
Educational background
Engineer
Till 2007
VSHPD VCSP Im. N.M. Shvernik
Languages
gbAdvanced