Jiří VystavělQA Manager

DOWNLOAD RESUME
BIRTHDATE
20-02-1982
WORK AS
QA Manager
PHONE NO
+420 606 639 477
EMAIL ADDRESS
jiri@vystavel.eu

About Me

/Who I Am

As a Senior QA Manager with 8+ yrs experience with QA and Localization in gaming and telecom industry, I focus on delivering the highest possible quality within the given time and budget. While coaching Junior QA Managers to handle new projects, I still keep management of some of my original projects.

I work on constant process improvements/standardization and I try to motivate people in my team to do the same. I have 2+ years experience in project management (cumulative project expenditures exceeding 191 million CZK).

Keep scrolling down for more information.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

- George Smith Patton -

Specialties

/What I do and what I am good at

Below are my featured skills, specialties and certifications.

Specialties

  • • 8+ years experience with team leading (10 – 25 people)
  • • cooperating with and managing remote teams around the globe
  • • development, improvement, implementation and standardization of processes
  • • test strategy plans, test cases, test scenarios (HP Quality Center, Zephyr)
  • • bug tracking supervision (DevTrack, JIRA, Redmine, IBM Clear Quest)
  • • identification and analysis of requirements
  • • testing metrics creation and re-evaluation
  • • schedule planning, resource management

Certifications

– Spanish A 2.3 (Instituto Cervantes)

– Vývoj v prostředí Java

– SDL TMS Project Manager

– SDL TMS Translator

– Testování a řízení kvality software

– ISTQB – CTFL

– Certificate in Advanced English

– Theoretical Introduction to Agile and Scrum process

– ISTQB – CTFL – Agile Extension

Featured Skills

• Localization

• Internationalization

• Testing

• JIRA

• Test Cases

• Quality Assurance

• Project Management

• Video Games Localization

• Bug Tracking

• Project Planning

• Telecommunications

• Test Planning

Languages

100%Czech (native)
90%English (full professional proficiency)
50%German (limited working proficiency)
40%Spanish (elementary proficiency)

Statistics

8years of QA experience
33languages worked with
9101bugs processed
3080coffee cups

Resume

/My entire career

Education
2002 - 2007

Technical University of Ostrava

Faculty of Economics

Master's degree

Technical University of Ostrava Logo

Linköping University

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

ERASMUS Exchange

Linköping University Logo

2004 - 2005
Experience
Aug - Sep 2005

Czech LT

Electronic Arts (EA), Cologne, Germany

Localization of various game titles for the Czech market

DevTrack Manager / Senior Czech LT

Electronic Arts (EA), Madrid, Spain

Electronic Arts (EA) LogoCoordination of Czech Localisation team, recruitment participation (interviewing, assessment and selection of new hires), bug reporting tool management (DevTrack) for the project team team, participation on test cases creation, cooperation with DTP studio, European Compliance Certification Group, translation suppliers.

2009 - 2010
2010 - 2014

QA Manager

Avaya, Prague, Czech Republic

Leading onsite teams of 10+ people, cooperating with and managing remote teams around the globe, preparation of test strategy plans, test cases, test scenarios, schedule planning, resource booking for onsite linguistic testing, knowledge-transfer to new team members (test leads, linguistic testers).

Supervision over bug tracking, using Redmine, IBM Clear Quest and JIRA, HP Quality Centre for test case management, vSphere. Cooperating with engineers, project managers, vendor representatives, developers, system verification teams. Involved in process standardization and optimization.

Senior Localization QA Manager

Avaya, Prague, Czech Republic

Avaya Logo

Coaching Junior QA Managers to handle new projects, while still keeping management of some of my original projects. Working on constant process improvements/standardization.

Creating and re-evaluating metrics used for testing days estimations, working on measures to increase the average productivity.

Leading onsite teams of 10-25 people, cooperating with and managing remote teams around the globe, preparation of test strategy plans, test cases, test scenarios, schedule planning, resource booking for onsite linguistic testing, knowledge-transfer to new team members (test leads, linguistic testers).

2014 - Present
End

Recommendations

Few people have the opportunity to report to a manager who is also a coach and mentor —I am glad that I had this chance when I worked with Jiri in Avaya.
He is very efficient, self motivated and a great crisis manager but also real fun to work with. He knows how to value people in all levels, bring the best out of them and is a great motivation to the team.
I recommend Jiri highly as I know that he will never let anyone down.
Cigdem Cevrim, Senior Project Manager
Jiri has been a precious ally during our experience in EA.
He's been the Czech localization tester for the most important EA titles. Never ignoring his responsibilities on this task, he quickly gained on the field the role of coordinator de facto of his language team. He helped me not only organizing the resources and their tasks, but also managing every language-related issue could emerge during the daily duties. He demonstrated high flexibility and proactivity and a very good propension to Project Management.
Alessio De Fazio, Senior Business Developer
Jiri is an honest man with overwhelming professional qualities that were proved during demanding projects as his performance has always been target-orientated, his responsibilities has been fulfilled and all has been done with outstanding manners and somehow peaceful dignity. He proved himself to be a great advantage to the team, not only for his patience and teaching skills which were widely appreciated among the others, but furthermore was he able to develop his own way of working which later on became adopted by the rest of the team as generally accepted improvement and welcomed as both time and cost saving measures. For me - and I wish I had the chance to choose myself - he is one of the colleagues I would prefer to be surrounded in general. Helpful, experienced, wise, pro-active, responsible and keen on his work, that is Jiri as I see him and feel lucky to work with.
Lukas Kotrly, International Head of Localisation and QA
I am rather impressed by Jiri's professional and proactive attitude upon handling various tasks. Furthermore, it's a pleasant for us to team up with him to solve some complicated end users' questions sufficiently, thank you.
Marina Chen, SAV PRU Sales

 

Interests

During the never-ending pursuit to find the right work-life balance, I have ended up with following hobbies that keep my busy when I have some free time

1051Km run in 2017
54Golf HCP
43Km swum in 2017
102Km biked in 2017

Besides golf, running, swimming and biking, I love travelling and spending time with our two daughters.

Contact

/Get in touch with me