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Todor Stavrev

Quality Assurance Team Lead (Scrum Master)
Sofia

Summary

Experienced QA demonstrating essential leadership with strong interpersonal skills. Possesses keen analytical and negotiation skills critical for cross-functional teamwork and business management.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
15
15
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

QA Lead/QA Manger

Fliff Inc.
12.2022 - 07.2025

- Define and implement organizational structures, roles, and responsibilities in collaboration with the Global Operations teams.
- Maintain alignment between Global and Regional teams, ensuring smooth communication, performance and delivery.
- Establish and implement internal KPIs and reporting standards, including Ops/CPR dashboards.
Design and maintain the Quality, Process & Training Management Blueprint in partnership with the Global Ops team.
- Develop and deliver training programs, including: training planning and preparation, new hire and ongoing training for customer-facing roles, performance management and action plans
-Participate in all phases of the project life cycle e.g. requirements review/analysis, test planning, test execution, and test reporting and assessment.
-Plan, monitor, and manage all testing activities throughout the lifecycle of a project.
-Prepare test plans through characterization of testing evolutions – system, integration, functional, performance, regression testing and user acceptance.
-Actively participate in process improvement initiatives by providing feedback on deployed process.
-Identify and mitigate project and/or test risks with escalation/delegation of issues to appropriate members of the project team.
-Manage test schedules, track and monitor distribution of work & effectively communicate test progress.
-Led cross-functional QA teams (manual & automation) aligned with Scrum methodology.
-Designed and developed a robust, maintainable test automation framework from scratch.
-Introducing AI into the testing processes
-Organized regular technical trainings and knowledge-sharing sessions to keep the team aligned with the latest industry tools, trends, and best practices.
- Document and track defects using issue tracking tools, ensuring clarity and detail in reporting.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and DevOps to embed quality at every stage of the SDLC.

QA Lead/Scrum Master

Efbet
12.2021 - 11.2022

- Own the quality dashboard, tracking metrics and KPIs such as code coverage, escaped defects, time to resolution and change failure rate.
- Create training programs, including: training planning and preparation, new hire and ongoing training for customer-facing roles,
- Performance management and action plans
- Define standards for system stability and response time and collaborate with other engineering leaders to ensure the standards are met.
- Analyzing the system and ensuring the test strategies align with the requirements of the development process.
- Researching new testing processes and technologies.
- Providing assistance with troubleshooting issues.
- Creation of QA team from scratch.
- Creation of Testing processes from scratch
- Create Test Automation with Cypress.
- API Testing with POSTMAN.
- Performance testing with Jmeter.
- Xcode used on a daily basis.
- Updating all bug databases with accurate information
- Use modern set of tools, frameworks, and technologies. AI included.
- Identifying bugs and creating reports to highlight the status of the software application
- Manual native and web testing (Vysor, browserstack, physical devices)
- Test cases review and Creation
- Creation of knowledge base documentation.
- Execution of Regression, Sanity and Smoke testing on a daily basis.

QA Lead/Agile Scrum Master

EGT Digital
06.2019 - 12.2021

- Define the test scope, priorities, and testing approach (manual vs automated).
- Review test cases, automation scripts, and defects.
- Mentor QA team members and work monitoring.
- Create of QA team from scratch.
- Create of Testing processes from scratch
- Integration of new features on a daily basis.
- Apply Scrum Agile Methodologies in day to day work.
- Work closely with developers to reproduce, triage, and resolve issues.
- Execute and analyze test runs – manual and automated.
- Test Cases creation and maintenance.
- Creation of Test Automation Framework.
- Execution of test automation and report analysis (Selenium)
- Backend API testing with POSTMAN
- Create test plans, test cases, and test strategies for specific projects or features.
- Guide, support and train QA engineers on the project.
- End to end testing of web and mobile apps
- Payments Gateways testing on every step of the integration process.
- Ensure adherence to regulations for different countries.
- Knowledge base creation and maintenance.
- Manual Android and IOS native app testing.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

SBTech
08.2015 - 07.2019

- Review system specifications
- Create test plans and effective strategies
- Conduct thorough manual testing of software applications including functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
- Manage, mentor and support junior QA engineers by sharing best practices and providing guidance on testing processes.
- Test case design, test execution, and defect management processes.
- Develop and maintain reusable test assets and automation scripts (gherkin format)
- Take ownership of end-to-end quality for assigned releases or features
- Perform requirement analysis and ensure test coverage is aligned with business needs
- Perform simple SQL queries to verify data consistency
- Create and maintaining knowledge base documentation in Jira
- Analyze Automation results from report logs and log defects
- Identify bugs and creating reports to highlight the status of the software application
- Update all bug databases with accurate information


Quality Assurance Engineer

Lottotech
08.2014 - 08.2015

-Develop and creating test plans and effective strategies
- Analyse the system and ensuring the test strategies align with the requirements of the development process
Identifying bugs and creating reports to highlight the status of the software application
- Update all bug databases with accurate information
- Research new testing processes and technologies
- Provide assistance with troubleshooting issues to developers and Product Owners.
- Identify and isolate bugs and errors in code
- Work in cross-functional teams to ensure quality during a software development project
- Set quality standards
- Drive efficiency and innovation in the testing procedures
- Document testing procedures, testing progress and results
Interacting with clients to understand product or software requirements
- Provide feedback and assistance with software design

Education

Bachelor of Economics - Economics

Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis
Paris
09.2004 - 12.2009

International Software Testing Qualification Board - Quality Assurance

ISTQB Certificate
Quality House
02.2015 - 03.2015

Foundations Level - C#

Pragmatic Software Academy
Sofia
01.2017 - 02.2017

Certificate of Acknowledgement (as Lecturer) - Payment Methods Testing Guidelines

SBTech QA Academy
Sofia
01.2018 - 02.2018

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) - Software Development And Management

ScrumAlliance.org
Sofia
01.2020 - 02.2020

In-Depth Software Testing Training Course

Udemy
Online
05.2020 - 06.2020

Selenium WebDriver With C#

Udemy
Online
06.2022 - Current

Complete Cyber Security Course : Network Security

Udemy
Online
06.2022 - Current

Blockchain Complete Course

Udemy
Online
06.2022 - Current

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Software

Jira

Jenkins

Selenium Web Driver with C#

Windows

Linux

IOS

Android

Chrome DevTools

Confluence (Building knowledge base)

Content Management Systems

Postman

Affiliate Software

Git (version control and branching models)

Visual Studio

Swagger

Microsoft Office tools

Timeline

QA Lead/QA Manger

Fliff Inc.
12.2022 - 07.2025

Selenium WebDriver With C#

Udemy
06.2022 - Current

Complete Cyber Security Course : Network Security

Udemy
06.2022 - Current

Blockchain Complete Course

Udemy
06.2022 - Current

QA Lead/Scrum Master

Efbet
12.2021 - 11.2022

In-Depth Software Testing Training Course

Udemy
05.2020 - 06.2020

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) - Software Development And Management

ScrumAlliance.org
01.2020 - 02.2020

QA Lead/Agile Scrum Master

EGT Digital
06.2019 - 12.2021

Certificate of Acknowledgement (as Lecturer) - Payment Methods Testing Guidelines

SBTech QA Academy
01.2018 - 02.2018

Foundations Level - C#

Pragmatic Software Academy
01.2017 - 02.2017

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

SBTech
08.2015 - 07.2019

International Software Testing Qualification Board - Quality Assurance

ISTQB Certificate
02.2015 - 03.2015

Quality Assurance Engineer

Lottotech
08.2014 - 08.2015

Bachelor of Economics - Economics

Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis
09.2004 - 12.2009
Todor StavrevQuality Assurance Team Lead (Scrum Master)