Switching from QA engineer to Project manager - level UP or DOWN?

Speaker
Yuliya Klyukovkina
Yuliya
Klyukovkina
Company:
Smile

Project manager in international company "Smile" with 6+ years of experience in IT. Worked as QA engineer (started from junior and got to QA Lead position). Currently have ~1 year of experience in project management. 

High technical education diploma, SM certification (by ScrumAlliance), listened to project management courses (provided by local organisation "WebAcademy"), tutor of mathematics and physics in the past. 

Started to work in Sevastopol local IT company as a junior QA engineer - php, simple CMSs (for 2.5 year). Continued in Kiev's Adyax office as middle QA > QA TL - drupal (for 3 years). Till current moment I'm taking the position of PM in Smile international company (drupal), relocating to Paris this spring to the head office.

Hope to be useful and interesting for drupal activists :)

https://www.facebook.com/klyukva
Presentation Description
Level
Basic
Language
en

I’d like to tell my story of career path with practical advice to those who is longing the same dream. Also I’m willing to describe benefits and pitfalls of such changes.

Please see below the approximate plan of my speech:

  1. Brief statistics data: QAs moved to PMs. Why?

  2. How to start? Practical advice based on my own experience.

  3. Cross the Rubicon. When you need to make your decisive step.

  4. Small tips for stress resistance and time management.

  5. Negative points of being PM.

  6. Conclusion.