Sandra Gonovska
Agile Software Manager
Skopje
Summary
Agile Software Manager and Scrum Master with a strong background in software engineering, Agile coaching, and servant leadership. Proven ability to manage and mentor diverse teams, ranging from junior developers to tech leads, ensuring high-quality software delivery. Passionate about Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement while removing impediments and optimizing team performance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Agile Software Manager
InScale
09.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Empowering Agile teams through servant leadership, removing impediments and optimizing performance
- Leading and mentoring a team of 12 developers with varying experience levels, fostering a culture of learning and psychological safety
- Planning, and controlling the project's scope, budget, and timeline
- Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure clear product vision, backlog prioritization, and alignment with business objectives
- Facilitating Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Identifying and removing impediments that hinder team productivity, ensuring smooth workflow and timely project delivery
- Driving technical excellence by working closely with tech leads to establish coding standards, conduct code reviews, and facilitate knowledge sharing
- Promoting DevOps, CI/CD, and test automation strategies to improve software quality and deployment efficiency
- Empowering Agile teams through servant leadership, removing impediments and optimizing performance
Product Owner
InScale
07.2016 - 09.2023
- Company Overview: Developing and managing detailed project plans, project schedules, and costs estimates
- Gathering client requirements using agile techniques such as story mapping and affinity sizing and creating user stories to be included in the product backlog
- Responsible for communicating the product vision effectively to key stakeholders and team members
- Working closely with the scrum team to refine backlog items and plan individual sprints
- Providing progress and status updates to stakeholders, in particular Clients and Project Managers
- Negotiating priorities with stakeholders to ensure that high value deliverables are identified and progressed to a high level of quality
- Managing delivery of scope, partners with delivery teams to ensure user stories are clear and resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently
- Developing and managing detailed project plans, project schedules, and costs estimates
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Endava
11.2015 - 07.2016
- Defining and creating test cases from analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications
- Producing automated test scripts, materials and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services
- Reviewing test results and adjusting tests as needed
- Create reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues, and provides insights into system quality and test case metrics
Lead Technical Consultant
InterWorks
08.2013 - 11.2015
- Lead, Manage and Drive test teams in Agile methodology in Product based company
- Managing team of onshore and offshore testers (2 years of onsite experience)
- Managing and executing custom support activities
- Preparing, reviewing, and executing manual, automation, and performance test strategies, plans, and cases
- Understanding new technology to design test strategy, test plans and test cases for its testing
Offshore Developer
InterWorks
11.2009 - 08.2013
- Understanding and analyzing Business, Functional, Technical requirements of the project/release
- Assisting senior staff in the design and development of testing procedures
- Preparing test plans for various stages of testing
- Triaging complex defects
- Coordinating testing activities on project/release level
- Assigning tasks to the team members and track to closure
Education
B.S. Informatics And Automatics, Computer Science -
University of Sts. Kiril And Metodius
North Macedonia 09.2005 - 09.2009
Skills
SAFe
Project Management
Scaled Agile Practices
Team Coaching
Servant Leadership
Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives
Stakeholder Collaboration
undefinedPublications
- Changes - Daily Reality and Necessity, 21st International Scientific Conference, Sandra Gonovska/Vladimir Gonovski, 2019, THE TEACHER OF THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE - KNOWLEDGE - International Journal No.31
- THE AGE OF AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT, Eight international scientific and applicative conference, Sandra Gonovska / Vladimir Gonovski, 2016, KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT BORDERS - journal Knowledge International Journal No. 12
Timeline
Agile Software Manager
InScale
09.2023 - Current
Product Owner
InScale
07.2016 - 09.2023
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Endava
11.2015 - 07.2016
Lead Technical Consultant
InterWorks
08.2013 - 11.2015
Offshore Developer
InterWorks
11.2009 - 08.2013
B.S. Informatics And Automatics, Computer Science -
University of Sts. Kiril And Metodius
09.2005 - 09.2009
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