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. I also love to explore domains vigorously and find weaknesses.

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

$whoami
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.
$ls ~/side-quests/
gamedev/ chefs-odyssey poker-for-bored-devs/ idle-game-wip/
$cat languages.txt
Turkish (native) · English (fluent) · German (learning, B1→B2)
$echo $STATUS
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
live
Sidecar Poker
Tiny poker game for bored devs waiting on Claude. Because idle hands need idle cards.
TypeScript Gimmick
in progress
Chef's Odyssey
Horde survivor game where you fight waves of kitchen nightmares. A hobby project born from too many cooking shows and too many roguelikes.
Unity C# 2D
planned
Idle game
An idle/incremental game. Concept brewing — details incoming.
TBD

human

🐕
Dog person
Katya is one of the biggest joys of my life.
🍳
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