S8 E5: Nikita Federov, Qase

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Nikita Fedorov has been a tech guy all his life. He loves physics, and eventually decided to try out being a developer, starting out with PHP and doing it for 7 years. Eventually, he moved into leadership and management of engineering teams. Outside of tech, he into his side projects and playing video games, of which is favorite is the game Dark Souls. While he was an engineering manager, Nikita went looking for a good suite of tools to support manual testing. All of the tools he found were archaic, and looked like they came from the days of the mainframe. He decided to start building a tool that met his own need... and people liked it. This is the creation story of Qase. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I have hired Q engineers, so I was looking for test management solution to describe what we have.
0:10.0	But occasionally all of them were ugly.
0:12.5	They were from 90s with big print button.
0:15.4	Wow, how that could be possible in 2016.
0:18.6	So I've decided to build a tool by myself because I had necessary skills. I knew
0:23.6	what I want. I was building for two years after the day job, purchased first advertisement,
0:30.6	got first 100 users. There is no way back. I wanted to solve my own problem.
0:38.3	My name is Nikita Fedorov.
0:40.2	I'm KSia, CDO and founder.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing of the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was a pain.
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