Živan Šinžar
Endava

Biography

Živan is a senior test engineer with 10 years of general QA experience, currently working for Endava. His focus has been on team leadership and backend automation for RESTful web services in recent projects. He has gained experience by taking on different roles in development teams he has been a part of. He started with manual test execution, which quickly evolved into a business analysis role. The client recognized his ability to understand business needs and translate them into testing scenarios. To expand his knowledge and skills in technical positions, he took on roles involving frontend automation, backend automation, and performance testing. As he gained more experience, opportunities for team leadership opened up, but he always insisted on positions that required hands-on technical work as well. Recently, one of his projects required an ad-hoc solution to a resilience testing problem. By tackling the issues on that project, he gained valuable experience that he felt could be shared at the Hustef conference. Most of his experience is related to online market trading and online payment processing areas. The projects he has been a part of received great feedback from clients. Praises from these feedbacks were mostly attributed to the teams as a whole, highlighting the collaborative effort rather than individual contributions. He has always emphasized that goals cannot be achieved in isolation; teamwork is crucial. He consistently puts in extra effort to foster a high team spirit, recognizing it as an essential aspect of a successful team. He enjoys sharing his experiences and knowledge gained from handling day-to-day issues. Additionally, he values listening to others' struggles, as he believes that being a good listener and willing to try proposed solutions accelerates learning more than experiencing struggles alone. Currently residing in Belgrade, Serbia, father of a beautiful daughter named Žana and is expecting his firstborn son just before the Hustef 2023 conference.