Daniel Polan

Experience

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  Reprografia, s.r.o.

  Sept 2006 - Jun 2007

  DTP graphic designer, IT technician

  Design, manufacture and installation of advertising, HW and SW management

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  Club 91, s.r.o.

  Apr 2009 - Dec 2012

  Video Production

  Providing film services from logistics through recording, to the final product for FLEET AWARDS events.

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  Nová Škola s.r.o.

  Apr 2009 - Oct 2010

  Team Leader

  Managing a team of eight, developing and testing electronic textbooks for primary schools.

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  Masaryk University

  Sept 2011 - Nov 2016

  Seminars Tutor

  seminars leader and mentor, author of study materials

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  Y Soft

  Jul 2012 - Jan 2017

  Member of a cross-functional team taking responsibility for some scrum master’s task and all testing tasks including UI automated tests development (Selenium, Python, Robot Framework).Later engineer and coordinator of test automation across 12 development teams. Developing test automation framework (Python), and partly touching tasks related to performance tests (JMeter) and CI/CD (Bamboo, VMware vSphere). Performing manual testing for new features and regular bi-monthly releases, setting up test dataand test environments (Windows, VMware vSphere, MS SQL, PostgreSQL), writing and maintaining product documentation, helping out support department.

  • Quality Assurance Engineer

    May 2015 - Jan 2017

  • Junior Quality Assurance Engineer

    Jul 2012 - May 2015
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  Czech and Slovak Testing Board

  May 2016 - now

  Running the organization on day-to-day agenda, strategic development, partnerships development, financial matters, etc. Leading activities to enable CaSTB to run a whole portfolio of ISTQB Exams in paper and online form across Czech Republic and Slovakia.Managing budget, spendings and sustainable financial models. Contributing to the organization strategy, managing the agenda of regular executive boards meetings and other legal duties. Driving various projects and events.Managing the certification process, contributing to the database of exam questions, etc. Contributing to the organization strategy, managing the agenda of regular executive boards meetings and other legal duties. Driving various projects and events.Author of exam questions for CTLF and CTAL modules as part of the international exam writing group. Author and reviewer for CTFL Agile extension question sets, translation specialist

  • President

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Treasurer & Exam WG Chair

    Nov 2021 - Jan 2024

  • Vice President & Exam WG Chair

    Nov 2019 - Nov 2021

  • Secretary & Exam WG Chair

    Oct 2017 - Nov 2019

  • Member

    May 2016 - Oct 2017
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  Adacta Fintech

  Feb 2017 - Apr 2020

  Taking responsibility for overall product quality by defining and improving the development, test and release process across development teams, mentoring people in testing roles, leading and participating on implementation of various tools (Jira, SonarQube, Prometheus and Grafana, API test framework built on JS, UI test framework build on Cypress, documentation portal. etc.) Building and leading a distributed quality engineering team, setting up test strategy and processes for the organization while still contributing to tests and tools for testing APIs and web UI (JS, Protractor, Cypress), performance (JMeter) and CI management (Git, TeamCity, GitLab).

  • QA Manager

    Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

  • Quality Engineering Team Leader

    Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
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  Alteryx

  Aug 2020 - now

  Maintaining Python test framework for cloud performance testing and handling the test infrastructure. Developing a Python-based solution for functional and performance testing of various databases and other data sources.Personally, I am responsible for performance test tool development, test design, test data, infrastructure and pipeline setup.Setting up a Test Strategy (process and technical details) for a new development project for integrations to 3rd parties Data Sources. Leading the Quality System Engineering team, developing and implementing shared quality solutions for development teams. Mentoring developers on quality criteria and processes. Doing everything that quality assurance and engineering takes in a development team

  • Senior Software Engineer, Performance & Cloud

    Sept 2024 - now

  • Senior Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure

    Aug 2021 - Sept 2024

  • Team Lead

    Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Quality Engineer

    Aug 2020 - Feb 2021