Summary
Irina Makarenko is a Quality Assurance Engineer in the Berlin area with 11 years of experience bridging software development and testing in banking, IoT/telemetry, and translation-management domains. She currently ensures product quality at DKB after earlier roles building SaaS microservices at Bosch.IO and managing Selenium-based test infrastructure at Plunet. With an academic grounding in computer science from Freie Universität Berlin and exchange study at the University of Copenhagen, she combines theoretical AI interests with practical test engineering. Irina is comfortable working across the stack—understanding Java microservices, automated test frameworks, and the operational needs of complex systems. Colleagues value her ability to translate formal CS concepts into robust testing strategies that reduce production risk. She brings a research-minded curiosity to QA, pursuing smarter automation rather than just higher test counts.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen