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Description

Experienced QA Manager / Practice Lead in software quality steering, QA organization transformation, and large-scale test strategy implementation. Recognized expertise in automation, team management, Agile coaching, and quality process optimization.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

SQUIREL (SNCF OUIGO)
Test Manager
October 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
Steering QA activity and test strategy across multiple web, mobile, and API scopes in an agile, international multi-project context. Managing a team of approximately 20 employees (Test Leads, functional testers, and automation engineers) with coordination of qualification, automation, non-regression, and quality monitoring activities.
Main responsibilities:
• Structuring and steering the QA organization
• Defining and implementing the global test strategy and QA processes
• Participating in annual performance reviews
• Recruiting internal and external employees
• Coordinating suppliers, IT consulting firms, and technical partners
• Steering functional, API, mobile, and automated test campaigns
• Managing priorities, planning, and QA team workload
• Implementing and monitoring quality KPIs and management reporting
• Coaching teams through change towards continuous improvement and ISTQB best practices
• Steering QA tools and environments (Azure DevOps, Katalon, BrowserStack, CI/CD)
• Coordinating with business, product, development teams, and external partners
• Designing and deploying AI solutions in testing: test case generation agents (Azure AI Foundry / GPT-4), RAG architecture, and AI-assisted script generation
TF1
Automation Test Lead / Test Tools
PRESS AND MEDIA
January 2023 - August 2025 (2 years and 7 months)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
In charge of selecting and migrating various test and automation tools. Assistant to the QA Manager and lead for automation engineers (Web, App, Backend, Smart TV, and ISP Box).

Test Tool Migration - Testrail to Xray (Jira).
Setup and configuration of XRay.
15,000 tests migrated for 8 feature teams
Coaching and training QA and product teams on the tool.
Test strategies, test plan organization.

Automation Practice
Implementing automation best practice rituals (peer review, peer programming…).
Community animation (one-on-one meetings, working groups…).
Implementing End-to-End tests.

Technical Project
Creating test framework (pipeline) from Jenkins to Argo Workflow.
Implementing AWS Secret Manager.
Migrating local GitHub to GitHub SaaS.
Team management Xray Automation QA testing Docker
lacoste
Test Lead
LUXURY GOODS
February 2022 - November 2023 (1 year and 9 months)
Paris 16 Passy, France
Setting up two new QA teams.
One team dedicated to projects and one agile team, later both teams transitioned to feature teams (6 teams, 12 QAs).
Setup and configuration of XRay (Jira).
Participation in team recruitment.
Test strategies, test plan organization.
Steering business and technical teams.

SIT (System Integration Testing)
Management and monitoring of system integration tests.
Organizing synchronization meetings between IT and business teams.

End-to-End Testing
Implementing end-to-end tests for the OMS change project.
Organizing test writing
Creating test campaigns (3 batches / 7 countries)
Bug tracking
Monitoring test execution progress
Steering with project managers
Communicating progress
Managing test teams (4 QAs + 10 BAs)

Management
Daily monitoring and support of teams.
Skill development of teams in agility.
Participation in the implementation of agile transformation.
Xray Team management