when: Januari 2006 – Ongoing
roles: QA manager (Marktplaats.nl), Senior QA Engineer (Marktplaats.nl), In Country QA Engineer (eBay.nl)

• Head of QA for Marktplaats.nl: As Head of Quality Assurance for Marktplaats.nl I have been responsible for extending the QA team into 3 teams: Functional team site, Functional team Admarkt and an Automation team.
  All teams are led by leads in the Netherlands where the teams themselves are located in the Ukraine.
  The QA team in total covers 15 QA Engineers dispersed over 3 different locations. Driving Test Automation to new levels by implementing Selenium Remote Control on a distributed environment with 7 automated test agents wich are responsible for over 50% of regression of the site.
  Driving the quality of work and workpace of the (offshored) QA team to achieve a consistent 80% and higher Bug Detection Percentage.
  Functional test teams are responsible for any new functionality pushed to site in a bi-weekly release schedule with an average of 120+ developer days in new functionalities per release where the Bug Detection Percentage of the Automated tests is steady around 50% and the overall Bug Detection Percentage is consistently above 80%.
  Senior QA Engineer for Marktplaats.nl: As QA engineer for Marktplaats.nl I was solely responsible for making the business aware of the need for testing and quality assurance. Up until 2006 no Quality Assurance or formalized testing was being done with Markptlaats.nl.
  Besides creating awareness and buy-in for Quality Assurance within Marktplaats.nl I worked on testing all projects going live to site, starting with a release cycle of twice a week which, under my guidance, was moved into once a week and then slowly but gradually into one release per two weeks.
• In my period as Senior QA Engineer I initiated the setting up of a formal test environment with a set of feature pools (e.g. environments for solely testing new features) and 2 staging environments (used solely for regression testing).
  Guided the move away from anthill as bugtracker, upgrading to Atlassian Jira, in which I defined workflows for Bugs, minor projects (2 day projects), Site Operations ticketing and many other uses.
  Together with the test manager at the time we started an initiative for offshoring part of testing to the Ukraine, where we hired 2 testers to begin and later on expanded with one more tester.
• In-Country QA Engineer for eBay.nl: As ICQA I was responsible for integration testing of all new functionality becoming availabe for eBay.nl site after the test teams in San Jose had tested the features already. Besides manual testing I was working on automated testing for eBay.nl based on an eBay own record/playback tool.