Dana Fischer

* Define, lead and manage quality assurance processes to maintain high standards and deliver defect-free products. * Define and implement Test Strategies & Test Concepts. * Oversee test management activities, including planning, execution, and reporting of tests. * Implement best practices in quality assurance and testing to enhance overall project efficiency and effectiveness. * Provide expert guidance and support to clients, helping them navigate challenges and achieve their project goals.

As a co-owner of VALLTECH, I specialize in Software Testing and Test Management consultancy. I provide comprehensive solutions and services, including test strategy development and quality assurance. My focus includes collaborating with prominent clients such as Usability Engineering Center s. r. o. on the Everifin project, delivering end-to-end testing services to ensure the highest quality product outcomes.

• Led QA team, mentored members, and managed quality processes. • Interviewed and onboarded new team members. • Reviewed client feedback, maintained motivation, and advocated for QA best practices. • Planned tests and tracked tasks using JIRA Xray Test Management Tool and Azure DevOps. • Identified risks and provided technical QA leadership. • Emphasized continuous improvement, automation, and defect resolution. • Contributed to product testing and QA documentation.

• Leading QA department, establishing quality testing system for products and processes. • Cultivating continuous improvement culture, conducting audits, and driving enhancements. • Managing client feedback, researched testing tools, and improved efficiency. • Overseeing defect lifecycle, including classification, impact assessment, and resolution. • Advocating test automation and risk management across cross-functional teams.

Quickly learned TFS as a reporting and test management tool. Creating and refactoring test cases. Working in a Scrum environment. Conducting E2E tests with Verwaltungsfrontend, Website, Cashdesk and Terminal.

Building up the entire testing environment by being the first ever tester in the company. Responsible for the whole test process from planning, through test plan development, execution&result reporting. Successfully introducing JIRA and TestRail, by managing and creating JIRA's workflow that was used by the entire company, alongside with creating and managing projects,roles,etc. Given the trust to create other key documents like: BRD Template, Desk Policy and Information Classification.

A period of maternity leave to bring up my daughter until she was old enough to start kindergarten

Testing mainly casino games like: Slots, Poker, Roulette and Black Jack. Successfully introducing TestRail as test management tool and training my colleague into using it too. Using Redmine as internal reporting tool, and JIRA as external reporting tool to win2day - main client of the company. Look for program bugs like: spelling mistakes, localisation problems (variations of the game are required for different territories), graphical or audio glitches, and also any copyright issues.

Provided support for design, execution and maintenance of quality process.Tested websites and web applications in different browsers and mobile devices.Helped with researching for new tools and solutions, like Verifaya Studio (automation tool) and used tools like Confluence, Redmine, JIRA, Sitebeam.Successfully replaced my expert in Silverpop colleague for 2 weeks and created the newsletters,importing specific client databases and sending them. Trained all teams in how to use JIRA: report, assign, workflow.

- Maintaining internal websites and webapps by programming in PHP - Client support

- Freelancing for multiple smaller projects where I executed test cases programmed by developers. - In order to achieve my daily tasks I used tools like Confluence and JIRA. - I offered support and helped the companies to improve their processes and products by providing support for design, maintenance and quality system processes. - In order to perform tests I worked on Unix, Windows and OSX systems.

Developing Mathematic functions for Casino Slot Machines in JAVA

- Learning and Familiarizing with PHP - Assisting in Software Development: Work alongside senior developers and assist them in developing software applications using PHP. - Collaborating with the Team - Debugging and Troubleshooting - Seeking Learning Opportunities