13 year anniversary with Apriorit - a hard work or a big stage?

Came to Apriorit 13 years ago, being students of Applied Math department and banking department simultaneously. Now it looks very radical. I’d been studying with excellent marks whole 5 years of University. But I still cannot understand whether I want to work all my life solving complex tasks and sitting near PC or want to dance and be on the big stage :).

First steps

Apriorit company was very young. Quality Assurance in software development was young at least in Outsourcing companies. I remember my first driver - virtual file system driver in testing :) We still use it for driver projects: updated and re-implemented, and more stable comparing to the first version.

My first customer was a Korean company. From that time, I know that Korean Standards of Quality is one of the best in the world. It was hard but very exemplarily - a lot of use cases, a lot of nuances, a lot of BSODs.

First steps to a regular usage of MS Driver Verifier and WinDBG.

First fears and first lessons after BSOD on my physical work PC :) 

And remarks from developers: don't test on physical PC!!!

Several years we were gathering info about Driver Testing - I even wrote an article about this topic - https://softwareqatestings.com/driver-testing-tips/

As it was unusual to test a software which can not watch via black box testing.

Next period was related to Product Specialist activities

Researching news and features of competitors for our customers, understanding market of Cyber Security and Virtualization solutions.

Deploying all trial versions, setting up new test environment, virtual machines. I remember my test PC with 2Gb of memory and 3 VMs running simultaneously - sad ).

Regular monitoring of news about Microsoft and main players of our domains.

Project Management

A plenty of discussions with developers why cannot we make this feature faster?? Why did we implement the feature this way??

SMART criterias instead of JUST DO IT : )

Gantt Charts, MS Project, Mind Maps.

Neuro-linguistic programming.

First non-technical experience with customer-oriented position at the company - when customer’s interest is always higher than yours. And my fail-story which I use even now as one of example cases for Project Managers courses

R&D Delivery Management

How to keep balance between customer satisfaction and development team satisfaction? :)

Conferences, Calls, new projects and opportunities. New ideas.

Thanks to Apriorit for giving me a possibility to risk and bring ideas to live.

The Show Must Go On! )