Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
Hello! I'm a Senior QA Engineer with a track record of owning the full QA process, from test strategy and planning to automation, validation, and release quality. In fast-moving, high-uncertainty environments, I’ve stepped into QA Lead, Scrum Master, and mentor roles, helping teams raise the bar on quality and collaboration. I care deeply about how software is built; how teams communicate, how workflows scale, and how quality shows up in every part of delivery. I’m eager to keep growing and contributing to teams where quality matters.
Lead QA in a high-velocity team across diverse projects; own quality for parallel initiatives involving cross-functional and external teams, driving QA strategies, automation exploration, and short-to-long term quality goals. Created and streamlined CI workflows (GitHub Actions), significantly enhancing reliability in rapid delivery cycles. Co-developed company-wide guidelines on "Assessing Quality in AI/LLM Projects" alongside Quality Architect and technical coding standards alongside Principle Engineer.
QA Automation Engineer, Scrum Master, QA Mentor. Acted as QA Lead across two engineering teams, driving not only test coverage and automation, but also quality strategy, culture, and engineering process improvements. Supported Engineering Managers and Product leadership in refining workflows, delivery practices, and feedback loops to improve outcomes and harmony. Defined and executed long-term QA roadmap. Boosted unit test coverage from ~45% to 80%+ within 6 months, directing the creation of 200+ tests to resolve technical debt. Optimized CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), reducing run-time by 50% (35 → 14 mins). Delivered detailed QA strategies for 15+ mid-to-large scale initiatives, owning quality from planning to release and ensuring high-standard releases. Built Grafana and Jira dashboards to visualize delivery health, sprint success rates, and defect trends, improving team estimation confidence and alignment. Led a major initiative refactoring hard-coded selectors across multiple codebases. Acted as Scrum Master, streamlining team collaboration, ceremonies, and backlog refinement. Mentored interns/juniors through TopAcademy QA Mentor program.
Worked alongside a seasoned Senior QA Engineer and together, led our team on ongoing projects in quality and navigated technical quality debt. Developed integration and E2E automation tests using Playwright, unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and visual regression tests (Happo, Loki). Created test plans and conducted manual tests across devices using BrowserStack, and performed regular performance audits (Google Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights). Supported PM in analytics, creating dashboards with Google Analytics to measure feature success. Led team ceremonies including dailies, retrospectives and demos.
Completed training on Azure AI, Cloud technologies, and NLP. Developed an NLP-driven analysis tool on Azure, providing automated insights from user comments using language detection, translation, and sentiment analysis.
Supported hybrid cloud marketing and operations; assisted Cloud and Enterprise Group Director. Improved customer integration processes by analyzing data and demoing systematic tracking solutions to regional management.