Csaba Kállai

Experience

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  Vector Kft

  Nov 2004 - Feb 2007

  IT Engineer
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  LogMeIn

  Feb 2007 - Nov 2014

  Tasks:- facilitating iteration meetings (preparing, moderating,postprocessing )- continuously monitoring and supporting the teams- removing the impediments which blocks the team- encouraging the use of Agile Engineering Practices within the development team- helping a team to deliver on time- helping to write and split user stories- helping the PO to maintain the product backlog- protecting the team against the over commitmentsThis job was a big challenge for me. I was a real newcomer. I immediately became a scrum master of two teams. But I think I was able to accomplish the challenge very well. Every feedback showed that. Show less Tasks:• people management (e.g. improvement assessment)• interviewing new candidates• determining and observing the development guidelines in the LogMeIn Central Automation• prioritizing and assigning tasks• designing test infrastructure• writing and maintaining automated tests• taking part of designing and developing the LogMeIn Automation Framework• designing and implementing tools for the manual QA• administration of JIRA tickets When I started the new job I immediately introduced the pair-review. We started the every week code reviews. The team was developing constantly. The members always gave positive feedback.Achivements of the team:- We introduced the page object pattern, because the maintenance of the exitsiting test cases was a real pain. Then we presented it to the other teams and it became the company level standard.- The team created a completely new solution for handling emails which were send out by the SUT. Then all the other automation teams started to use the solution.- The team designed web based toolkit for the manual testers to ease there daily work. E.g a folder content comparer tool which was used during the release process. Show less

  • Scrum Master

    Jun 2014 - Nov 2014

  • Engineering Manager, QA Automation

    Apr 2012 - Jun 2014

  • software engineer (ASP.Net)

    Feb 2007 - Apr 2012
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  GE Healthcare

  Sept 2015 - May 2016

  Tasks:- designing and developing a new custom automation framework (Selenium, Java, TestNG, Python)- designing and implementing UI automated test- creating CI build with ant script and Electric Commander scheduler- building up a new Virtual Environment (VSphere)- maintaining automated test cases Tasks:- facilitating iteration meetings (preparing, moderating,postprocessing )- continuously monitoring and supporting the team- removing the impediments which blocks the team- encouraging the use of Agile Engineering Practices within the development team - helping a team to deliver on time- helping to write and split user stories- helping the PO to maintain the product backlog- protecting the team against the over commitments

  • Test Automation Consultant

    Nov 2014 - May 2016

  • Scrum Master

    Sept 2015 - Dec 2015
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  Citi

  May 2016 - Jun 2017

  Automation Engineer

  Tasks:- developing the “CitiTools” homegrown MVC website- developing a windows service which used for data collection from other systems (e.g InfoVista, HPNA etc)- providing API (WCF, REST) for other departments- managing JIRA project of CitiTools- collecting the user requirements for the development- documenting the new release (release notes etc)- supporting the operation team- substituting my manager in Budapest

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  Dealogic

  Jun 2017 - Oct 2019

  Development Manager

  Tasks:- line management of the developers - facilitating the iteration meetings (daily, grooming, planning)- helping the PO to maintain the backlog- demonstrate the deliverables during the end of iteration reviews- doing usual scrum master tasks- interviewing applicants- holding scrum trainings- take part in the architectural decisions and the implementationI started as the manager of the Data Warehouse team of Budapest which was about to set up this time. Achievements of this team during this period are the following:- The team took over the tasks from a London based team and started to deliver instantly.- Speeded up the data load of the Warehouse.- Created a completely new monitoring system.After my first year at the company I took over the team of the alerting system.The team's greatest achivements are the following:- The key members left the team so we had to work on to keep the team together and hired new members who quickly became the new key ones.- Created a completly new cloud based hook email sender system.- Contributed to development of the brand new usage based home page of the Cortex website. Show less

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  K&H Csoport

  Oct 2019 - Jul 2020

  Scrum Master

  Tasks:- acting as a Scrum Master of 2 mobile development teams- delivering Agile/Scrum trainings- exposing waste, wherever it is found.- coaching Scrum teams during Scrum events- working out K&H Agile framework- working with all the stakeholders to setup and maintain a structured way to continuously improve the teams and product development flow

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  CRANQ

  Jul 2020 - now

  Tasks:- React/Redux based frontend development of CRANQ Low-Code platform.- Node.js based backend development

  • Senior Developer, Studio manager

    Dec 2020 - now

  • Senior Developer

    Jul 2020 - Dec 2020