Milena Chikova
Principal Software QA Engineer at Progress
Bulgaria
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Top SchoolMilena Chikova is a Principal Software QA Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience at Progress, advancing from QA through senior roles to lead quality efforts since 2011. She combines deep domain knowledge from a strong academic foundation in Distributed Systems and Mathematics with practical expertise in testing complex, distributed and mobile-enabled software. At Progress she drives test strategy, mentoring, and quality practices that bridge engineering and product teams to improve delivery confidence. Known for methodical problem solving, she emphasizes automation, reliability, and scalable QA processes across long-lived product lines. Based in Bulgaria, Milena brings both technical rigor and institutional knowledge that help reduce risk and accelerate releases in large, evolving codebases. She pairs academic training with a career-long commitment to raising testing maturity and coaching teams to adopt measurable quality outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies, Master's degree Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiСОУ"Христо Проданов"
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
jquery10
widgets10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
dts10
kendo-ui10
telerik10
html10
mvc-application9
mvc8
sass8
webmail7
kotlin7
monorepo6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/DefinitelyTyped
May 2018 - Jan 2023
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
typescript
MilenaCh/test-release-project
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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