Tell me about yourself - Sept 6, 2022

[NastassiaH]

Hello, my name is Anastasia, originally i'm from Belarus, I have lived in the USA for 7 years.
I have studied "Economics in manufacturing organizations" in Belarusian state economic university and have a bachelor degree in that field.
My previous job was an administrator in optics, and part time like a master optician. There i also have administered the site of their online store.
In the US i help my husband to run his own business in a car sales. But i wanted to become independent from everybody that's why i decided to find something to do by myself.
Unfortunately i found out that my degree in economics is useless in the US, and i decided to try something new.
QA is the fastest start in an IT career, and the easiest way to understand the process that is happening in that industry, that's why i have chosen it.
From 5 years I see myself in the QA profession at least like a middle in testing and acquiring knowledge in programming languages, i always wanted to move forward and improve my knowledge.

[deepskhandelwal]

Hi, my name is Deepika. I did my Masters in Human Resource Management and Post graduate graduate diploma in Banking Operations. I worked in banking industry for more than 8 years in India. Later we moved to USA and due to visa restrictions I was busy in home making for 4 years.

After my GC I started looking out and started working as a teller 6 months before.

Finding issues in the applications always inspired me and that was the reason I participated in Bug Bash events in the bank and got my bug bounty awards as well.

I was also called by the bank to be the part of UAT for all the new features launched in the FINACLE and other banking software used in India.

When I joined here in the bank, I started finding issues and started reporting it to my manager. Looking at my interest she suggested me to switch my career in QA and here I am.

In 5 years I see myself as a QA manager.

[Olga_256]

I graduated from university in Belarus as a Master of Law. I worked as a lawyer for 5 years at badly paid job until I felt burnt out and quit my job.
I never thought to be in QA profession until I came to US and I was looking for a paperwork job in US, but I got a call from a recruiter who offered me a 3 months QA contract.
In 5 years, I see myself as well-experienced QA engineer on the way to becoming QA Director.

[amurat01]

Hello everyone, my name is Anna.
I was graduated the University degree in Service and Tourism, and University degree a Physical Education & Sport. I have 5 years of experience in Russia as a swimming coach and 2,5 years I worked in the US as a Sterilization Assistant.
I really enjoyed my job, but after when my baby was born, I could no longer continue to work there.
In my opinion, work in QA is very in demand and necessary in the modern world, since the internet takes up most of our time and life in general. This work requires attention and precision, since I am a very diligent, hardworking person and I like to understand the details, I am sure that it will also be interesting for me. In 5 years, I want to learn the intricacies of this industry and become professionals in it.

[Eorfanidi]

My name is Elena. I have a BA degree in Investment Management and currently working at Tesla as an Operations and Sales Specialist. I have over 4 years of Sales and Delivery experience with Tesla and actively contributing to the achievement of the company. I gained a lot of knowledge and experience in the management field, as well as am a great team player. . Seeking new experience and learning new skills, that is something I enjoy, taht is why I decided to expand my experience towards QA Engineering. QA engineering is very appealing to me, because I enjoy IT culture and it has lots of room for growth and development.
I’m someone who loves learning about new tech and trends, so in the next five years, I see myself as having established strong knowledge on what’s new and passing the skills to the new talents. I believe success and positively impacting others, play hand in hand.

[Olgla]

Hello! My name is Olena.

I have Master's Degree in Aviation. I graduated from National Aviation University.
I was an Air Traffic Controller
The main duties were:
-Constant monitoring of Air Traffic
-Preventing collisions between Aircraft
-Providing Information service
-Providing Emergency service
As well as communication with adjacent sectors and other Units.
I decided to change my profession after my Maternity leave.
That job required night shifts and I chose to stay at home with my child at nights.
And my friends always told me that I have some abilities to mention different types of errors and possible improvements for different things including web sites, procedures and so on
So QA is the most suitable job for this.
I hope that in 5 years I master all my skills to the utmost level and will share my knowledge with other people. I think that it would be possible on the Lead position or as a QA Manager

[a1site]

Hi there!
My name is Manuk, NY.
I'm from The Country of Georgia.

What is your education:
University Degree, Jurisprudence. Siberia, RU.

What is your work experience:
Over 20 years experience in web-development. Self-taught.

Why career change:
It's the real way to change my life. Especially since I've been in the US for a year and have work authorization.

Why QA:
Since my background is the web development, it will be very easy for me to learn and start working.

How you see yourself professionally in 5 years:
I can answer after the start of work.

[Igor Primak]

Hello, my name is Igor Primak.
* I graduated from the University in 2010 with a degree in railway engineering
* I have worked in various positions on the railway for 12 years. For the last 2 years I have been working as an engineer in a passenger transportation company
* My current job involves searching for errors and inaccuracies, so I want to try myself in software testing to find errors to improve various products for users
* I like working on a computer and QA is attracted by the fact that this type of activity is not limited by age
* After 5 years, I see myself in a well-known international company with the ability to automatically test

[rus4u]

Hello, my name is Anton.
I have high school and some college education, I have also finished a lot of IT related courses online on platforms like Linkedin learning.
I have been working as IT Technician for the last 14 years.
I would like to start working as QA tester because I would like to try something new in IT and QA sounds something that I would be interested to do.
In 5 years time I see myself as an experienced QA Tester with some good Automation experience.

[AKS]

I'm Alex. I finished city college and started to work for a railway company as a railway worker. During this work, I interested in engineering work and started to help our engineers with their measurements and markup. And my Director offered me a scholarship to study at railway university.

After university, I worked for 2 years as a railway engineer - designing and constructing railway stations and ways. I learned excel on a good level and developed a few digital instruments for automatisation calculation and reporting. Also, we achieved an almost 50% reducing the time of repair with a traffic stop by optimizing a work schedule and increasing the availability of materials and equipment before the start of work

The one of biggest in CIS and Europe chemical fertilizers producers invited me to their Railway department as they started a global reconstruction of their internal railway tracks. I was responsible for reconstruction planning, tendering, quality checking, and overall working with contractors.
In two years we started a project for plant performance improvement with a global consulting company. I become a part of an internal team and in a few months, I led a Business improvement department. We achieved about a 35% increase in performance in 2 years.

After this, I took part in a 6-month project for our mining division. We developed an optimisation model to optimise сost price of the product by managing row material streams between 5 mines and 2 processing plants, the model took into account the cost of mining transportation and processing at each production step and performance constraints. After this project, I led a Business Improvement project for a Gold Mining company for 6 months.

And in 2019 I joined the Consulting digital project for the world's largest nickel mining company. We developed and implemented an integrated planning system for 5 underground mines. This system allowed an automated mining plan for 10 days by shift, getting orders for machines, collecting actual data and replan based on actual.
I was responsible for an optimisation model of this system. Led an integrated project of our system with dispatch systems at two underground mines, led QA team and 3rd line of support. As a result production in mining increased by 15%.

At that time I decided I want to work for this consulting company after the project. The key requirement for candidates was English speaking. I had 6 lessons per week for the first half a year. After this, I went to England to study at an English language school for a few weeks. And carried on my study with 5 lessons per week.

On August 2020 I started work for this consulting company as a consultant. A part of my work was a participant in developing our product. I wrote technical documentation for this system, created an interface, and led a QA team. After realising the first working version I led the trial implementation of the system in an underground mine. In business improvement projects I am usually responsible to implement digital solutions such as short interval control, digital checklists, integrated reports and others.

Now I decided that QA can be a good opportunity to find a job abroad. My goal is to move to the USA. I have a wide experience in digital projects and business improvement projects. It should help me to grow in IT as a person who is responsible for results in testing or developing products.

[Vladyslav]

Доброго Всем времени суток!
Меня зовут Владислав я из города Днепропетровск(Украина),но в данный момент временно проживаю в городе Тромсё(Норвегия)!
У меня есть степень бакалавра в Юридической области, но к сожалению, а может и к лучшему я не работал по профессии по определенным обстоятельствам.
У меня есть опыт военнослужащего(пограничник) более одного года, работал в сфере обслуживания, а точнее Бариста в крупной Кофейной(Времена года) компании более трех лет, после я работал преподавателем в Автошколе(GOstar) более двух лет.
Крайняя моя работа в Украине : Управляющий мойки самообслуживания и подработка в Такси!
Я решил сменить профессию потому-что меня подвела к этому жизнь. В первую очередь всемирный карантин показал, что если быть привязанным к работе которая может закрыться на карантин- то тогда можно остаться голодным и не только. Второй толчок мне в спину произошел 24 февраля в Украине и когда мне пришлось вместе с семьей уехать из страны, Я понял и уверенно решил для себя, что хочу работать удаленно и находится при этом в любой точке Мира!
Почему QA- потому что это один из первых шагов благодаря которым я достигну своей цели!
В ближайшие 5 лет я вижу себя одним из основателей Стартапа, а возможно и основателем!
Как говорится ребенок родился и сразу не пошел!
Всему свое время - всему свой час!
Всем хорошего настроения!



Good day to all!
My name is Vladislav, I'm from the city of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), but at the moment I temporarily live in the city of Troms

[Ekaterina Arakelian]

My name is Ekaterina. I'm originally from Russia but now live in Montenegro.
In 2008 I had graduated from Vladimir State University with a bachelor degree in programming and mathematics.
But my work experience started with a position of IT consultant in warehouse logistics. My main duties were ... Next step of my career was about SAP: I participated in implementation projects of SAP module for warehouse management. With that position I had to ... And very last experience was in international project of transport management system implementation where I had to ...
By the time I got bored by out-of-the-box implementation: you are restricted with solution functionality, the implementation process is standard and has some steps that I'm not interested to join in. Furthermore my projects implied long-term business trips to be on-site.
Some time ago my husband had changed his career to QA engineer. And that triggered me to discover a different IT world of software development.
The most exciting project phases for me always were system configuration and solution testing. So I confidently took a decision to dive into QA.
In next 5 years I see myself as a valued experienced QA expert who also is fluent in test automation as I have all necessary skills, mindset and solid background.

[TetianaSyl]

Hello, my name is Tanya
* I have a master degree at Physical-Technique University, Ukraine
* My previous job experience in internet marketing. My task was to prepare sites for Google Ads and SEO promotion. In the process of work, I developed technical specifications for the creation of sites.
* I like the opportunity to work remotely and at the same time be part of a team, work on a common project. Besides, I like both logical tasks and a creative approach, I think that the profession of a QA Engineer corresponds to these parameters.
* In my previous job I used the technique of predicting errors, but I understood that I was not finalizing something anyway. I didn`t know how to correctly apply the theory to such problems. I released that I need to improve my skills at Software Testing.
* After five years I would like to be a project manager or Automated QA

[Dmitrii Tikhonov]

Hello, my name is Dmitrii.
I`m from Russia originally. And last 1.5 years I`m living in Metuchen, NJ.
I graduated from Academy of Public Service in Ekaterinburg with the bachelor’s degree of economics and management.
I have 15 years experience of work as manager of sales for big company in Russia.
After I moved to US and decided to became new career. New reality is absolutely different then previously. All the time I`m trying to improve my English skills. It`s not easy if you 41y.o. and you have never learned English)
The most reason to change my type of job is immigration. I think it is one of the best way find new good job.
So, in 5 years I`d like to be successful and demand manager in QA.

[Val Smo]

My name is Valentina Smorodin.
-Went to State University of Moldova, Accounting Major, unfinished due to moving to US.
-Worked in service and hospitality industry, currently I am Licensed Real Estate agent in Florida, also
work for Vacation Rental Company.
-2 of family members work in this field, doing Automation Testing. Seeing what they do got me very interested, and
I decided it is time for career change. Nothing is wrong with the job I have now. Time to grow!
-QA is an amazing opportunity to start my career in IT field.
-In 5 years I see myself at least as a QA manager, and be fluent in one or many programming languages.