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QA Lead with 9+ years building reliable release systems for high-traffic products (Trivago, Aldi). I blend hands-on coding (TypeScript/JS, PHP/Laravel, React, SQL) with quality leadership (risk-based testing, pipeline hardening, observability) to cut escaped defects, speed up delivery, and coach teams to write testable code. Recently: consolidated flaky suites, shrank CI time, and doubled safe release cadence.…QA Lead with 9+ years building reliable release systems for high-traffic products (Trivago, Aldi). I blend hands-on coding (TypeScript/JS, PHP/Laravel, React, SQL) with quality leadership (risk-based testing, pipeline hardening, observability) to cut escaped defects, speed up delivery, and coach teams to write testable code. Recently: consolidated flaky suites, shrank CI time, and doubled safe release cadence.

Gökhan Vural

QA Engineer, Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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QA Lead with 9+ years building reliable release systems for high-traffic products (Trivago, Aldi). I blend hands-on coding (TypeScript/JS, PHP/Laravel, React, SQL) with quality leadership (risk-based testing, pipeline hardening, observability) to cut escaped defects, speed up delivery, and coach teams to write testable code. Recently: consolidated flaky suites, shrank CI time, and doubled safe release cadence.…QA Lead with 9+ years building reliable release systems for high-traffic products (Trivago, Aldi). I blend hands-on coding (TypeScript/JS, PHP/Laravel, React, SQL) with quality leadership (risk-based testing, pipeline hardening, observability) to cut escaped defects, speed up delivery, and coach teams to write testable code. Recently: consolidated flaky suites, shrank CI time, and doubled safe release cadence.

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QA Lead with 9+ years building reliable release systems for high-traffic products (Trivago, Aldi). I blend hands-on coding (TypeScript/JS, PHP/Laravel, React, SQL) with quality leadership (risk-based testing, pipeline hardening, observability) to cut escaped defects, speed up delivery, and coach teams to write testable code.

Recently: consolidated flaky suites, shrank CI time, and doubled safe release cadence.

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Work Experience

Quality Assurance Lead at ALDI

September 1, 2023 - October 22, 2025

Coordinate the overall release process, ensuring deployments meet stability and quality benchmarks. Implement and maintain automation testing strategies to minimize manual intervention and accelerate delivery. Oversee real-time tracking and analysis of new features, identify issues, and optimize go-live readiness. Lead a cross-functional QA team, manage workload, and drive continuous improvements in workflow and communication. Built the QA function, led hiring, and contributed to scaling two software teams. Designed robust automation frameworks to support diverse product rollouts; tracked live platform exceptions and collaborated with developers to drive fixes. Managed end-to-end testing for critical features from user acceptance through production deployment. Led a migration from monolith to microservices, enabling migration of 40k+ hotelier subscriptions and 500k+ hotelier accounts without revenue loss.

Quality Assurance Lead at Trivago N.V.

September 1, 2023 - Present

Monitored and validated large-scale releases as part of the Business Studio QA team. Led migration from a monolith to microservices. Built automation frameworks supporting diverse product rollouts; tracked exceptions and drove fixes with developers. Managed end-to-end testing for critical features and ensured go-live readiness. Produced documentation and feedback loops for continuous process refinement. Contributed to QA team growth and hiring.