Berlin · QA Engineering and Leadership · 10+ yrs

Murat
Kuş

I make software ship reliably by building quality systems and gates that tell you what actually matters.

Mobile automation QA strategy QA Leader CI/CD Espresso · XCUITest · Appium · Playwright · AI in Test
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about

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Senior QA engineer based in Berlin.
Built QA orgs from 0→15 at Gorillas. Designed release governance at scale.
Hands-on with Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, Playwright, and the strategy layer above it.
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Turkish (native) · English (fluent) · German (learning, B1→B2)
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Open to roles · Berlin or Remote

experience

2023 – now
Freelance / Independent
GLS/NXT + others
Engineering lead support, QA strategy consulting, test tooling.
2021 – 2023
Head of QA and Engineering Leader
Gorillas Technologies
Built and Grew QA org to 15 engineers. Reduced support response 48min → 3min. Led through 2 acquisitions, whitelable extraction and app re-write
2018 – 2020
Senior QA Engineer
FromAtoB
Solo QA → hired and built the team. Analytics-driven test prioritisation.
2017 – 2019
QA Engineer
HelloFresh
QA lead for 25+ contributor project. Gave mobile testing and release management workshops.
2014 – 2016
QA Engineer
Monitise MEA, Istanbul
Mobile banking & airline apps. Built custom Appium Grid in Java.

projects

live
Maestro CI flows
Smoke + regression suite for a production mobile app. Adopted by the product team for release validation.
Maestro GitHub Actions iOS/Android
live
Flaky test detector
CLI that parses CI logs, categorises failures by stacktrace, flags non-deterministic tests for quarantine.
Java Bash CI logs
in progress
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This card is a placeholder. The honest answer is: I'm building things. Watch this space.
TBD
in progress
? — coming soon
More in the pipeline. Follow GitHub for updates.
TBD

human

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Dog person
Katya is one of the biggest joys of my life.
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Cook
Cooking is debugging with better outcomes. Turkish roots, global pantry (Berlin). I experiment till I get it exactly right.
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Mimos Küche
Side business cooking, baking, and catering. You can, from time to time, find me at Berlin Markets.

contact

me@murat-kus.com LinkedIn GitHub Stack Overflow