Lilia Urmazova
| of making tech high quality.
Passing on expertise.
Passing on expertise.
- Engineer since 2001in Star Software, Exigen Services, Grid Dynamics, on numerous international tech projects as a Manual and Automation QA Engineer, AQA Lead, QA Manager.
2024–Present—ML Evaluation Engineer: AI QA Engineer; currently Senior Staff ML Evaluation Engineer at a major international tech company (project under NDA). - Mentor since 2004— hundreds of students have received their first job offers from different tech companies.
Lead of Internships at AI companies base86 🇺🇸, Jobsolv 🇺🇸, and SMTP 🇨🇦.
Head QA Mentor at Mentorpiece—the tech school that shows results (literally).
Leading Expert in free tech vocaional guidance; has dissuaded 1,500 people from pursuing a career in tech. - Instructorat the Luxoft Training Center; co-organizer of the corporate training center at the international tech company Grid Dynamics.
Speaker at the SQA Days, SQA Days EU conferences. - Author, co-author— of 30+ articles about tech 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 ITbecause 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 mentorbecause 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.
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