Lilia Urmazova

25 years | making IT high quality.
Passing on expertise.

QA engineer since 2001

in Star Software, Exigen Services, Grid Dynamics, on numerous international IT projects as a manual QA engineer and automated QA engineer, QA lead, AI QA lead, QA manager.

Currently working as a Senior Staff AI-QA Engineer/ML Evaluation Engineer at a major international IT company (NDA).
QA mentor since 2004

— hundreds of students have received their first job offers from different IT companies.

Lead of internships at AI companies base86 🇺🇸, Jobsolv 🇺🇸, and SMTP 🇨🇦.
Head QA Mentor at Mentorpiece — the IT school that shows results (literally).
Leading expert in free IT vocaional guidance; has dissuaded 1,500 people from pursuing a career in IT.
Mentor

at the Luxoft Training Center; co-organizer of the corporate training center at the international IT company Grid Dynamics.

Speaker at the SQA Days, SQA Days EU conferences.
Author, co-author

— of 30+ articles about IT education (600,000+ views).
— 100-Year QA-Textbook — a free interactive textbook for learning QA.
— How to test AI applications — a free textbook.

Higher education

- Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (software development)
- Saint Petersburg State University (applied linguistics, Natural Language Processing).

I like QA

because this profession allows me to participate in the entire software development process from A to Z and also work and communicate with a lot of people at once.
I am a good QA mentor

because I am good at explaining complex things using simple examples, pictures, diagrams and tables.

Hobbies

— mountains. I go mountain hiking almost every weekend.
I also enjoy playing the piano and guitar.

In my 25 years working in IT, I have rarely hired course graduates. They have the knowledge, but lack the practical skills that employers need. That's why since 2016 I have been working on my dream — creating a 100% practical course without lectures, after which the maximum number of students will start an IT career.
Eight years later, the goal was achieved — in 2024 the number of students who obtained IT jobs exceeded the results of the average QA course by 4 (four!) times.

After that, the question arose: how can we ensure that anyone who is interested can verify that we are truly #1 in employment? After all, you can post anything you want on a website or publish glowing reviews on the internet.

This is how we became the only IT school that openly shows its results. Only Mentorpiece publishes lists of all enrolled students by name and the final outcome of their education for each one: which IT company the student now works for.

Using these lists, you can directly contact students from any study group to personally verify our employment records and ensure that they have been achieved without fraud. Mentorpiece's complete transparency gives you confidence that your money and time will not be wasted and that your IT career will truly begin.

Lilia Urmazova

Founder of Mentorpiece, a professional QA training school.
QA engineer since 2001, QA mentor since 2004.

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