Summary
Andrei Talashka is a QA-focused engineering manager with 9 years in software quality assurance and 3 years leading cross-functional teams, currently based in Krakow. He builds quality-first organizations through servant leadership, hiring and mentoring engineers, and embedding automated and manual QA practices into the SDLC. His background spans end-to-end automation for web, mobile, and IoT systems, from creating frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to reducing manual regression effort and improving release predictability. At Kaseya he scaled QA for complex file sync and backup products and owned delivery across web and agent clients, improving collaboration between QA, development, and support. Andrei pairs hands-on technical skills (Python, Selenium, Appium, CI tools, Docker) with process design and Jira/Confluence administration, often creating tools to speed test data preparation. He is notable for turning first-time automation initiatives into sustainable teams and for running internal bootcamps to raise QA competency.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Software Testing Engineer, Software Testing Engineer at IT Academy
QA Lead, QA Lead at OTUS Онлайн-образование
Automation Testing Mentoring Program, Automation Testing Mentoring Program at CDP Epam Systems
Technical writer, Technical writer at Protext.su
Bachelor's degree, Automobile roads and airfields, Bachelor's degree, Automobile roads and airfields at Belarusian National Technical University
Russian, English, Polish