Seasoned QA engineer with team leadership and management experience. Passionate for quality products and quality QA work! Proven success track record in both building a QA team from the ground up and in integrating into an existing team and growing it to a new level of quality and proficiency. Successful in building and maintaining vast automation coverage for new and/or legacy products. Agile mindset and working experience. My mission is to help QA teams create organized test infrastructure and build a systematic approach that deepens the technical knowledge of both QA and DEV engineers, enables early defect detection and ultimately allows for predictable product releases.

QA Engineer @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Senior QA Engineer/QA Manager @ Joined the QA team for Validation Authority as a Senior QA engineer and established a structured approach that re-designed the role of QA through early-stage discovery and analysis of defects and in-depth technical verification of defects. Stabilized automation executions and enhanced coverage to a fully automated regression and release testing that lead to consistently predictable release dates. Promoted to QA Manager in Jan 2013. Activities and responsibilities: - Technical QA Lead - working with the team through the whole range of activities: feature design, test plan creation and execution, automation writing, maintenance, execution. - Shaping the QA strategies and procedures to ensure compliance with the Axway quality goals. Reporting and metrics management. - Agile development - 10-15 minute long daily standups with 1- or 2-weeks long iterations. Close collaboration within a team of 3-4 QA and 4-5 DEV engineers. - Backlog meetings twice a week for backlog grooming - writing stories, triaging defects, scoping releases. - Personnel management - guiding, and growing the people, hiring, administrative work. From March 2011 to May 2015 (4 years 3 months) Senior QA Engineer/QA Team Lead @ Started as a Senior QA; lead hiring and establishing the QA team in the whole product line. Since July 2009 acting officially as a QA Team Lead for the functional QA team. Responsibilities: - creating, adjusting and executing the release test plans, test activities, resources and schedules according to project plan; creating, reviewing, and executing test design specifications; - triaging of defects;defect management; - guiding and helping in QA investigations; - identifying, defining and delegating QA tasks; monitoring and reporting their status to the QA and/or Delivery Manager; - QA control over build, project, and release management; - managing the test environments: applying uploads and resolving dependencies and integration issues with 3rd party software; - accounting for and/or supporting the QA team for dependencies with other departments; performing periodic 1/1 meetings, and performance evaluations, people management; administrative team related responsibilities From November 2008 to August 2010 (1 year 10 months) QA Engineer @ - Started as a Junior QA engineer on Email Firewall product (on Windows 2000/2003 w/ MSSQL). Worked for Continuous Engineering team, responsible for hotfixes, and patch releases. - Promoted to QA Engineer I in Mar '05 with main responsibilities in the core team of Email Firewall 6.1/6.2/6.3 and MailGate 2.5/3.0 (RedHat, SuSE w/ MySQL) products. - Promoted to QA Engineer II in Jan '07 and became part of a dedicated automation team - writing automation test cases with Jython (IDE Eclipse) and bash scripts for MailGate product; Working in Agile/Scrum methodology. - Since Mar '08 worked on Managed File Transfer product - server team; writing component level automation tests in Java w/TestNG From August 2004 to August 2008 (4 years 1 month) QA Engineer @ From October 2003 to July 2004 (10 months)

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science @ Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski From 1999 to 2003 Silvana Ilieva is skilled in: JIRA, Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Test Planning, Selenium, Java, TestNG, Ant, Test Automation, Exploratory Testing, Software Quality Assurance, XML, Quality Assurance, Subversion, Bug Tracking