Merjem Kulovic - Deljkovic

Experience

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  Purple Matrix

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2013

  Photo retoucher

  Photo retouching

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  ZIRA

  Jul 2013 - Apr 2014

  Junior Software Engineer

  Working on software development of the enterprise project using Java programming language, web services, SOAP and writing SQL queries and stored procedures. Bug reproduction and fixing, creating Jasper reports.

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  Authority Partners

  Jun 2014 - now

  As a Lead Engineering Manager, I oversee and manage a team of engineering managers and their subordinates while actively engaging as an engineering manager myself. My primary focus is on continually enhancing the organization's efficiency and effectiveness by ensuring timely resource allocation, improving work quality, fostering skill development, and achieving key performance indicators (KPIs) set by the Director of Engineering and Senior Officers.My responsibilities encompass various aspects, including leadership of both managers and their teams, performance management of consultants, allocation and reallocation of resources across teams, assessment of training and educational needs, decisions related to consultant contracts, promotions, salaries, bonuses, and the management of organizational changes. Show less Responsible for supervising employees, setting budgets and goals for projects, leading research and development projects, and checking the accuracy of the work produced under my supervision. Troubleshooting roadblocks throughout projects and solving problems that hinder project completion, as well as leading the development of new products and services. Coordinating and working with other departments within the organization to ensure project completion and the use of best practices. Leading a team of developers and QA engineers with the aim of fulfilling the company's strategic plans and monitoring the delivery of the project on time; Work with project managers on prioritization and task scheduling; Monitoring the progress of task execution; Monitoring the career development of all team members during the monthly skills assessment and annual evaluations of set goals; Communication with senior management; Regular biweekly meetings with team leaders and architects; Work with senior management on future strategic plans and goals of the company; Regular communication with the recruiting team and work on interviewing and hiring new employees; Show less Work with product owners, project managers, developers and QA engineers in all phases of the development process to ensure the quality of the code is delivered to end user; Development of test plans and ensuring their monitoring; Assigning work to QA engineers; Creating a bug report and setting priorities; Bug reproduction and writing clear reproduction steps; Checking that system performance, scalability and load requirements are met; Work with developers on cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis; Maintaining regression and monitoring to be performed regularly; Prioritizing test automation; Test automation using C#, .NET, nUNIT framework; Experience with Selenium, Protractor framework; Using JIRA, xRay, TFS, MTM tools; Knowledge of SQL and wiriting queries and stored procedures; Working in accordance to the Agile principles and SCRUM process; Show less

  • Lead Engineering Manager

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Engineering Manager

    Dec 2018 - now

  • Quality Assurance Engineer

    Jun 2014 - Dec 2018