Nominated for “QA of the year” 2019 and 2020 awards. Perpetual-beta learner and Testing Professional with about 10 years of strong experience into frontend, backend, web services, data warehouse, performance, mobile testing and monitoring. My skill- and mind-set are mature enough to solve complex problems quickly and evaluate multiple solutions. I'm programming in the most popular languages (Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby) and am an expert with proven track record, in a wide range of frameworks and tools. I like to dedicate at least a third of my time to ground work, it helps me stay in shape and to find the root of issues I'm suppose to solve.
Also have led local and distributed, automation and human-driven testing teams. I have provided valuable expertise in CICD and DevOps practices for the management teams I have worked with. Test environments provisioning, scaling and management are all part of my daily routines. I work with significant project ownership over primary features of the company's products I have been entrusted with. Have educated young people and company employees in Software Quality Assurance workings. I commit to open source projects and am one of the Top Bulgarian contributors of StackOverflow community.
Since December 2016, as a freelancer I have successfully consulted and delivered complex projects for:
Chief Test Automation Architect at Crossover
Designed and implemented both Automation & Manual QA Pipelines. I have also created both Manual QA and Automation tester pipelines. Before I started the digital transformation, each candidate grading costs were around $50, after my Hyper Automation solution (based on regex and Natural language processing) was employed - only $0.25, which allowed the company to scale its business more than 20 times in a matter of 6 months. All this allowed them to move to new markets and multiplied the speed that we were able to process new candidates.
QA Consultant
Act as the QA Manager for web, mobile, backend, data analytics and data warehouse projects. Set clear standards for vendors. Initiate performance, unit and integration testing. Advocate DevOps. Actively develop unit and integration testing frameworks on AWS via Serverless framework. Rather than treating isolated issues and moving on, took a holistic approach to curing QA ailments. Administer comprehensive care. Advising from a big-picture perspective, ensuring that the overall health of a company’s QA stays strong. Engage and educate key staff members.
Test Automation Architect
Designed and implemented inhouse Monitoring platform and all needed Web, Mobile and Performance testing (Serverless) frameworks. All this, during a hiring freeze and serious budget restrictions.
SDET
Automating Media Web player also supporting dual desktop setup (Windows/Mac). I have introduced QA and GitOps good practices, which enabled faster releases of the complex application. Company was able to make significant impact in a $15.5 Billion, Sports player tracking and analytics market.
Automation Engineer
Architecture and design of an automation API for a construction factory, integrated into the existing production line. Developed an E-commerce bot, which was able to scan the stores and update the products where needed.
QA Automation Lead
Led the test automation of a proprietary web platform. The solution empowered location teams in their work to map all kinds of utilities infrastructure.
QA Consultant
Define the QA process and team structure at the Agile center.
QA Automation Lead
Led the testing and automation of the new version of the platform. The solution empowered sellers to trade and deliver their artwork all over the world.
Since November 2014, I have successfully delivered technical trainings for companies and learning centers. Some cources were dedicated to help testing teams looking to move into Automation role. We focused on programming basics, C#, Java, Python and Selenium.
Full featured, modern education platform. Focused on students' experience and provides modules for lectures, homeworks, tests and forum.
BitCI is a self-hosted Continuous integration system. There is only one current version of it, but it can be used for both private and public GitHub repositories.
NextGen testing framework, that empowers through set of guidelines or act as a thinking device, in combination with good practices and tools that are designed to help QA professionals test more efficiently.
Synthetic monitoring of your most critical journeys, for just a $1 a day. Real-time, so you know how your app performance is affecting your business.
The community honores a colleague who excelled with his qualities in the field of Software testing.
The community honores a colleague who excelled with his qualities in the field of Software testing.
