Hi everyone!
I'm currently open to new QA leadership opportunities. With 8+ years in software quality assurance, including 4 years leading QA teams (up to 20+ engineers across 6 cross-functional teams) at an iGaming platform company and 3+ years in an outsourcing environment working directly with international clients, I've delivered 15+ full-cycle B2B/B2C projects and 100+ features to production with zero rollbacks.
🔍 Key areas of expertise:
✅ QA Leadership: building processes from scratch, test strategy, quality gates, hiring & mentoring 20+ specialists, career development
🌍 Outsourcing background: direct client communication on requirements, test results, and release readiness across 6+ international web/mobile projects
🧪 Manual testing: functional, regression, integration, API, smoke, exploratory, UAT (web & mobile)
🤖 Automation: Appium + pytest (built E2E suite from scratch), CI/CD via GitHub Actions
🛠 Dev & Ops tools: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Kibana, Coralogix, Sentry
📋 Test & bug management: Jira, TestRail, Qase TestOps, Allure Report, Confluence, Azure Boards
🧠 AI in QA workflows: requirements analysis, test case generation, log analysis, defect localization
💳 Domain experience: iGaming (5 years, high-load & transaction-critical) + sales, insurance, automotive, and education (via outsourcing projects)
📍 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
🧑💼 Open to: Remote / Hybrid / Relocation across EU
🗂 Background: QA Team Lead (iGaming, B2B/B2C)
🎓 ISTQB certified
🌐 Languages: Russian (native), English (C1)
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[email protected]📱 Telegram: @Ggvant
🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yegor-melnik
If you're hiring or know someone who is, please feel free to reach out.
I'd love to connect and hear more about QA Lead / QA Manager / Head of QA roles in iGaming, fintech, or product companies.
