From Assistant at tiny local company to QA Team Lead at global company
After graduating school I started studying Economics, Public Relations and in parallel helping out as an Office Assistant at Enterprise Support Center in my hometown. Later I moved to Riga where I kept my studies and was working as a Purchsing Manager at construction store network. The year 2007 was the turning point for me, when I decided to step away from what I was doing before and try myself in IT company. I joined Linedata as a Support Analyst. In year 2013 I decided to join QA team in the same company and starting from year 2017 I am leading Riga QA team.
I lead Riga QA team helping them out on their daily tasks.
My daily duties include:
- helping the team in Riga on daily tasks;
- report to QA Manager on team tasks progress;
- take ownership of more complex tasks and/or developed enhancements and make sure that tests are started and done in the right direction;
- expand suite of automated regression tests.
Getting positive feedback from end users
Product development and improvement is a long, but very exciting process. QA need to understand other people ideas, analyse the way how these ideas are implemented and whether these meet end user needs. Sometimes you need to argue, persuade, start everything from scratch multiple times. It is a real pleasure to look back at work that has been done till actual product release and hear positive feedbacks from people using that product.
Another exciting part is automation process. Manual testing of some areas may take weeks. The team is delighted when you manage to design a process that allows to run same tests automatically within an hour and that makes you feeling great, too.
Don't be afraid to run into something completely new for you.
Science, technologies and life in general change rapidly nowadays. You always have a choice to pass by the changes and keep to the good old practices or expore something new for yourself. Getting into something new may open previously unknown "worlds" and variety of new possibilities.
LGH Compliance enhancement
There was a new enhancement implemented for LGH application that helps users to control the trades they insert and positions they already hold based on the rules they define themselves. This enhancement was then integrated to other related products like Oder Generation and FMDesktop. It required (and keeps requiring as we keep adding more functionality to this) explicit testing knowing and understanding how the new compliance enhancement works and how the other calculations are done within LGH.
Another step here - I have managed to automate part of regression testing for this enhancement and there are even more ideas how to expand the coverage of the automated tests.
