Kristina Polynskaya

The primary responsibility for this position is the functional management of QA staff and QA practice management. Ancillary responsibilities include:

• Managing up to 60 on/off-shore QA full-time and contract personnel
• Managing and Leading Project QA teams
• Managing and Leading Manual, Automation, and Performance Testing teams
• Creating, Defining, Socializing, Executing, and Monitoring QA Processes & Strategies
• Conducting Interviews for Contract and Full-Time Staff
• Estimating QA efforts for project and support commitments
• Managing and establishing relationships with cross-departmental leaders
• Coaching staff on processes and procedures
• Coaching staff on career planning and creation of goals
• Leading QA team on complex integration or time-sensitive projects.
• Administrating TestRails and Browserstack

Performed as a QA Lead on multiple high-profile projects.

The primary responsibilities for this position included:

• Created Test Plans
• Led and mentored multiple testing teams of up to 15 on/offshore testers
• Worked closely with Product Owners on requirement gathering, identifying acceptance criteria, and analyzing edge cases
• Improved QA processes and created best practices
• Created/executed tests and reported defects
• Facilitated defect triage
• Defined QA Automation roadmap
• Managed Regression test cases
• Facilitated UAT and training for support teams
• Reported testing metrics to leadership
• Created Quality Assurance documentation
• Developed plans for production releases
• Created test scenarios and test data for post-deployment smoke tests.