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Lead QA Engineer
EmergnLead QA Engineer
Oct. 2023Riga, Latvia• Supervise cross-functional QA efforts across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with strategic testing goals and best practices. • Define and refine testing strategies, perform architecture reviews, and identify critical system components for focused test coverage. • Lead technical interviews and support the professional development of QA team members through mentoring and structured guidance. • Drive team performance by increasing delivery focus, monitoring progress, managing dependencies, mitigating risks, and removing blockers. • Actively contribute to test automation by writing and reviewing end-to-end test scripts using Playwright and TypeScript. • Conducted internal bootcamps and training sessions, including: - Playwright with TypeScript – practical hands-on automation training - Cybersecurity for Beginners – introductory course to raise awareness and baseline knowledge across teams • Collaborate with stakeholders on test planning, system analysis, and AI-assisted quality strategies, including contributions to security evaluation initiatives such as OWASP Top 10 alignment and early detection of high-risk areas using intelligent tooling.
Consultant and owner
SIA "VS Service"Consultant and owner
Jul. 2022LatviaProviding IT services, support and consulting.
QA Engineer
Ubiquiti Inc.QA Engineer
Mar. 2022 - Aug. 2023Riga, LatviaEnsuring quality for over a 1M+ times downloaded Ubiquiti Network/UniFi and Protect applications on Android and iOS/iPadOS. Network equipment setup and configurations, manual firmware installs, camera setup installs etc.
Lead QA Engineer
EmergnLead QA Engineer
Sep. 2021 - Feb. 2022
Senior Software QA Engineer
EmergnSenior Software QA Engineer
Dec. 2020 - Oct. 2021Riga, LatviaHolding new candidates technical interviews. Managing QA specialists from HR perspective. Onboarding and mentoring newcomers. Participating in developing and defining of career progression framework and testing strategy. Writing new test automation framework using POM, Cucumber - Selenide - Java - Selenium Grid with Allure reporting and Jenkins-GitLab pipeline for web frontend and backend regression test automation (before Selenium on Java) with SQL DB integrations. Performance tests using JMeter. Workflow using Agile Methodologies.
Test Lead for LuminorGroup
Wipro LimitedTest Lead for LuminorGroup
Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2020RigaResponsible for test planning and managing documentation in Confluence, test case creation in JIRA using Xray, risk analysis, test strategy, design, metrics, reporting. Manual web front-end testing across different OS, browsers and devices.
QA Project Lead
Ingenico GroupQA Project Lead
Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2019Riga, LatviaLeading international (India, Latvia, USA) automation test team. Organized Agile workflow using Kanban framework and project board in JIRA. Provided testing support for developer team during ongoing sprints. Had to review and analyze daily Jenkins test-run results. Investigate issues and update, review Cucumber scripts in GIT. Arrange regression test runs for requested releases.
Software QA Engineer
Ingenico GroupSoftware QA Engineer
Jan. 2015 - Jan. 201978 Gustava Zemgala avenue, Riga, LatviaPayment terminal api manual/automation software testing using cucumber with ruby, JAVA framework. Creating feature files to cover all new functionality and include in to automated test suite. Worked in Scrum methodology. Used GIT and SVN. Verifying EMV with UL Brand Test Tool, Host simulator and Automation modules.
It Developer
Nordea Bank AB Latvia branchIt Developer
May. 2014 - Dec. 2014Riga, LatviaDeveloping and improving core banking system. Implementing CRs in Temenos T24 using jBase Basic.
System analyst
The State Regional Development AgencySystem analyst
Nov. 2011 - May. 2014Rīga Supporting and technical managing GIS projects, requirements and documentation analysis, QA and software testing, SOA, SQL data mining, making reports, dashboards in xCelsiuss, e-governance, business user support.
Designer
Dcar.lvDesigner
Feb. 2011 - Nov. 2011Latvia, RigaMaking car designs, printouts and wrapping cars, bikes. Advertisements, billboards, car tuning - led lights, audio equipment. Participated in Baltic auto show "Auto Exotica 2011"
Multimedia redactor
Telegraf.lvMultimedia redactor
Jun. 2010 - Aug. 2010LatviaWas a video operator, scene redactor Adobe Premiere, making flash and gif, jpg (Photoshop) banners for website.

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