Summary
Alexandra Ivanova is a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable web and mobile products, including system-critical financial software and fast-paced startups. ISTQB Advanced certified, she has repeatedly been the first QA hire who lays QA foundations—defining risk-based strategies, actionable defect workflows, and maintainable automation integrated into CI/CD. Comfortable in English-first environments and fluent in French, she partners closely with Product and Engineering to make quality measurable and visible while prioritising what protects the user experience. Alexandra combines hands-on automation (C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, XCTest/Codeception) with pragmatic coaching—shifting testing left and enabling developers to own quality. As a founder of an e-commerce startup and a test-strategy coach, she balances entrepreneurial delivery with structured, data-driven improvements that reduce flakiness and speed releases.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at OpenClassrooms
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at New Bulgarian University
Engineer's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Telerik Academy School
Bulgarian, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian