The Dark Side of QA: Leadership, OKRs and Being a Quality Hero — feat. Mariia Hutsuk (Zattoo)
MARIIA HUTSUK — Mariia Hutsuk — Zattoo
A QA lead on moving into leadership, empowering teams with OKRs and owning quality as a whole team.
Show notes
A QA lead on moving into leadership, empowering teams with OKRs and owning quality as a whole team. Mariia Hutsuk shares her eight-year journey from a Ukrainian internship and technical writing into QA, relocating to Germany and becoming QA lead of the B2B team at a TV streaming platform. She reflects on the value of ISTQB glossary knowledge, lean agile documentation over 40-page strategies, and empowering teams by putting ego aside. She explains how OKRs (from John Doerr's Measure What Matters) align developers and QAs on ambitious, measurable goals with confidence levels. She discusses automation choices (moving from Ghost Inspector toward Selenium/Java), TV quality priorities, and closes urging testers to be a 'quality hero' fighting for their own ideas. **In this episode:** - QA Leadership - Career Development in QA - Agile Testing - Test Automation - Test Strategy - Test Metrics &am