Senior Software Test Engineer and QA Leader with over 12 years of experience delivering quality assurance, testing coordination, and release governance for complex software systems across fintech, telecom, defense, and security industries. Experienced in large-scale international environments, including high-security institutional programs, ensuring reliability and stability of mission-critical platforms. His career evolved from IT support to senior QA and test coordination roles, combining expertise in manual testing, automation, performance validation, and data verification with strong cross-team coordination. He frequently operates at the intersection of testing execution, quality governance, and delivery management to ensure releases meet strict quality and operational readiness standards. Experienced in coordinating QA, development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, managing defect lifecycle, incident tracking, release validation, and production stability oversight. He also contributes to resource planning, workload distribution, and operational reporting to provide management with visibility into system quality, risks, and delivery readiness. As a QA quality gatekeeper, he evaluates release readiness and escalates risks when quality standards are not met. Career highlights • Led testing activities for high-security EU institutional systems (eu-LISA) • Coordinated QA across distributed international engineering teams • Improved test coverage and automation initiatives at Westpole • Acted as Team Lead at Cognyte for large-scale video surveillance platforms • Long-term contribution to Milestone Systems in driver testing and performance validation Certified in Tosca, JMeter, SOAP UI, qTest, Playwright, and ISTQB. Holds NATO security clearance and brings strong expertise in quality governance, testing coordination, and mission-critical system delivery.…Senior Software Test Engineer and QA Leader with over 12 years of experience delivering quality assurance, testing coordination, and release governance for complex software systems across fintech, telecom, defense, and security industries. Experienced in large-scale international environments, including high-security institutional programs, ensuring reliability and stability of mission-critical platforms. His career evolved from IT support to senior QA and test coordination roles, combining expertise in manual testing, automation, performance validation, and data verification with strong cross-team coordination. He frequently operates at the intersection of testing execution, quality governance, and delivery management to ensure releases meet strict quality and operational readiness standards. Experienced in coordinating QA, development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams, managing defect lifecycle, incident tracking, release validation, and production stability oversight. He also contributes to resource planning, workload distribution, and operational reporting to provide management with visibility into system quality, risks, and delivery readiness. As a QA quality gatekeeper, he evaluates release readiness and escalates risks when quality standards are not met. Career highlights • Led testing activities for high-security EU institutional systems (eu-LISA) • Coordinated QA across distributed international engineering teams • Improved test coverage and automation initiatives at Westpole • Acted as Team Lead at Cognyte for large-scale video surveillance platforms • Long-term contribution to Milestone Systems in driver testing and performance validation Certified in Tosca, JMeter, SOAP UI, qTest, Playwright, and ISTQB. Holds NATO security clearance and brings strong expertise in quality governance, testing coordination, and mission-critical system delivery.WWWW…