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Anton Hadzhiev

@antonhadzhiev

QA Tech Lead at Anakatech shaping testing for scratch games and slot software with AI-assisted test generation and risk-based regression.

Bulgaria

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What I'm looking for

I want to own quality end to end in a bigger setting and bring what I've built with AI-assisted testing to a team that wants it. Remote or hybrid matters to me - I have a young family.

At Anakatech, I work on scratch games and slot software as a QA Tech Lead. I set testing direction across interconnected projects, deciding what to cover and where the risks sit.

I lead through mentoring rather than a reporting line, helping QA engineers sharpen their judgment. I use Jenkins to spin up test environments and work across CI/CD.

I fine-tune AI in our QA practice to generate and review tests, close specification gaps, and support exploratory testing and mapping. I also scope regression runs from the git diff so changes are tested against what they can affect.

Before my current role, I held QA roles at Anakatech and Gameloft, including Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, and QA Lead. Finding bugs was never the hard part; I care about building systems and habits that keep them from coming back.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Quality Assurance Tech Lead

Current

Anakatech

Jun 2026 - Present (4 months)

Setting the QA standard and leading AI adoption across three delivery teams of an iGaming supplier (slot and scratch-card games for regulated markets).

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Anakatech

Apr 2020 - Jul 2026 (6 years 3 months)

Led a QA team of up to 8 and owned release go/no-go for UKGC- and DGOJ-regulated releases.
• Cut regression execution 50% (5 days to 2.5) by auditing the suite against production defects and stakeholder feedback.
• Owned release readiness across 1–4 week sprint cycles through entry and exit criteria and quality gates.
• Delivered compliant releases into UK and Spanish markets.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Anakatech

Jan 2018 - Apr 2020 (2 years 3 months)

• Tested scratch-card and slot releases on emulators and BrowserStack device farms: game mechanics, payouts, jurisdiction rules; later back-office systems.
• Helped build Cucumber BDD regression suites running in CI, shortening feedback on critical release paths.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Anakatech - Scratch games and Slot software

Sep 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 4 months)

Worked as Quality Assurance Engineer at Anakatech - Scratch games and Slot software.

QA Lead

Gameloft

Nov 2015 - Sep 2016 (10 months)

• Went from hands-on testing on real iPhones, iPads and iPod touches to QA lead across several concurrent release streams in three years, coordinating defect triage between development and production.