Summary
Piotr Gackowski is an ISTQB-qualified Senior QA Engineer with 14+ years of end-to-end testing and quality management experience across mobile, web collaborative publishing, and finance domains. He has led multinational testing efforts and process rollouts in Poland, China, Canada, the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Finland, including creating a system-level test process for a new Android phone and maintaining a 50,000-test-case repository. As a QA/Quality Manager he built onboarding and mentoring programs, introduced SMART-driven quarterly goals for testers, and served as defect manager on large-scale projects, including work for a top-20 US web property serving ads at scale. Known for hands-on automation (Selenium, Java, TestNG, Jenkins) and strong training skills, Piotr has delivered on-site coaching assignments in China and run dozens of public presentations, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and cross-cultural leadership. Outside of work he contributes as a Wikipedia administrator, underscoring his commitment to open knowledge and meticulous content stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Education License/Master of Science Teaching, Education License/Master of Science Teaching at Pomorska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna Pomerania
Technician Degree Computer Science, Technician Degree Computer Science at Centrum Kształcenia Ustawicznego w Chojnicach
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Politechnika Koszalińska
Polish, English