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About me

The big boss

Igor Goldshmidt on stage
“I help companies find the right path to quality.”

I'm a Quality Engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling quality functions in the Israeli technology industry. I work at the intersection of quality, automation, and applied AI — designing test strategies, release processes, and QA organizations from the ground up.

My approach is automation-first and systems-oriented: quality as architecture and process, not just defect-finding. Lately I've focused on how QE changes in the GenAI era — shifting automation ownership toward developers and applying AI agents pragmatically, not as hype.

As a quality freak and testing geek, I founded IGG Quality Expert Services — consulting, training, and process audits that help startups build testing processes matched to their business goals.

QA Leader | Manager | Big Boss

Where I've been

  1. Jan 2025 — present

    Principal QE Consultant · Fractional Head of QA

    Skipper Soft

    Consulting across multiple clients: TMS testing migration (Priority Software), a 6-month fractional Head of QA build (first QA Playbook — audit → strategy → hiring → process, trunk-based, automation-first, AI agents shifting automation to devs), and a QA/QC transformation program.

  2. 2024 — 2025

    QA Team Lead, Mobile

    Via

    Led mobile quality for a product chapter at the ride-pooling company.

  3. 2020 — 2024

    Senior QA → QA Team Leader

    Moovit

    Built the QA function from zero, led a team of up to 5, created the first automation framework (hands-on TestNG + Java), reached 90%+ backend API coverage, owned the release process with global Delivery, and built the first test strategy for autonomous-vehicle integration.

  4. 2012 — 2020

    Earlier roles

    Sweet Inn · Gett · AVG · Ness · NetSpark

    QA Manager, Senior QA, and QA Engineer roles — including managing a remote team at AVG Technologies.

Parallel tracks

  • IGG Quality Expert Services · since 2019

    QA/QE advisor and lecturer — advising R&D and engineering leaders, custom workshops and webinars.

  • Masa Israel Journey · 2022 — 2024

    Testing Course Academic Leader.

  • QrchestrAI · 2025 — 2026

    Independent research on Quality Engineering for agentic AI — 40+ discovery interviews and hands-on experiments.

Past employers

AVGGettMoovitViaSweet InnSkipper Soft

Expertise

Quality AssuranceAgile TestingTeam LeadingBuild Testing & Quality StrategyQuality Process AuditQuality ManagementWeb TestingMobile TestingTransportation System TestingTest Automation (Java / TestNG)Applied GenAI for QE

7,500+

LinkedIn followers

2018

Israeli Software Testing Cup champion

EU + IL

Conference speaker

Share my knowledge

Speaking at testing and QA conferences worldwide — serious topics with a fresh twist (and a few good stories).

Year Event Location Topic
2025 TestCon Europe Vilnius, Lithuania Quality Engineering in the GenAI Era
2024 Test Smarter — Israel Test Automation Summit Tel Aviv, Israel Transforming Automation with a Lean Startup Mindset
2024 QA Masterclass Webinar Online Mastering (Testing) Efficiency
2018 SQA Days 23 CIS How NOT to Test a Mobile App
Igor Goldshmidt presenting to an audience

Beyond work

Community

Founding-team volunteer (one of 10) at Ach Gadol and pilot lead for the Soldiers' Clubs program — built the first club and helped scale the model to five nationwide.

Teaching

Academic Leader of the testing course at Masa Israel Journey, and a regular lecturer and mentor for QA/QE teams moving from execution to strategy.

Always experimenting

From a home AI lab to agent skills — I test the tools on myself before recommending them. BA in Logistics Management (Bar-Ilan); a stack of QA, automation and security certifications.