Niky, Quality Assurance
Vendavo
Niky’s task is to make sure that customers are satisfied with the final product, and that Vendavo delivers what was promised. Her main duties include manual testing. Niky is the intermediary between the customer and the developers, and she reports all the software bugs she finds to them. Niky joined Vendavo in 2015, but she has been a tester for eleven years already. She still enjoys her job as much today as she did when she started.
In her free time, Niky pursues martial arts, in particular Krav Maga. She likes to joke that this sport helps her gain due respect among her predominantly male colleagues. She also likes to travel and attend animal charity events.
Vaclav's work focuses on ensuring that our product integration is long-term supportable and efficient. This encompasses communication with implementation teams that focus on each product, manage customer expectations and communicate with engineering to prioritise ease of work and integration of our products.
Over 9 years, Vaclav considers his colleague's to be friends rather than coworkers. He does not turn down requests for help from his colleagues as he knows they can help him in return, as work at Vendavo is a team effort.
He spends his free time with family and sometimes does a little martial arts when time allows.
As UX designer, Hanna enhances the user experience by harmonizing both user and business goals, identifying areas of improvement, and implementing new features. She emphasizes the importance of taking a thoughtful and deliberate approach, especially when working on complex and high-loaded products. Rather than rushing to release new features, Hanna prioritizes building strong relationships with users, with the aim of improving the product's overall usability and enhancing the user's satisfaction.
Working with complex interfaces often involves working within constraints. In her free time, Hanna channels her creativity into physical projects such as designing clothes, creative photo projects, and organizing offline events for women in Prague. As a mentor and coach, she inspires and motivates not only designers but other people. Additionally, music serves as another creative outlet for Hanna, as she is skilled in exotic pole dancing, bachata, and playing the piano.
Tomáš leads a team of developers and QA engineers, and together they’re in charge of one of the company’s main products – Profit Analyzer. However, they’re currently working on something new. Tomáš started out as a programmer, but later he switched to the position of a Product Owner. He spends most of his time planning and communicating with his team, and, from time to time, he makes business trips to the US to meet the clients. Because he keeps in touch with the customers, he knows firsthand how they use the products and how the products help them succeed on today’s competitive market.
Tomáš truly appreciates the friendly vibe throughout the company. Vendavo is perfect for him because it’s neither a corporation nor a “punk” start-up. It ’s just about right. However, he can see the results of his work all around the world.
On weekends, he tries to leave the computer behind and switch to manual work at his cabin along with his family. Tomáš likes orienteering and even trains a group of children in Hradec Králové.
Company Introduction
Vendavo is a global SaaS company that helps its customers increase profitability through B2B solutions for optimizing prices, margins and determining pricing strategy. Its cloud-based AI-based pricing solution enables international manufacturers and distributors such as Ford, Avnet, Medtronic to manage, optimize and digitize their complex commercial processes. Vendavo offers much more than just software. Its proven processes, and passionate, experienced people accelerate value and drive profitable business outcomes for their customers. Headquater is in Denver, USA. There are three branches in the Czech Republic, where the main product development of the entire company is concentrated – in Prague, Ostrava and Hradec Kralove.
Who Are They Looking for
Freedom and flexibility go hand in hand with personal responsibility. Vendavo is looking for people who can handle the fact that no one tells them what time they have to be in the office at the latest and will not stand behind them (but will cover for them if necessary). They want passionate people in the team, who are not afraid to speak up and come up with constructive criticism or new ideas. What matters to them is what anyone can or is willing to learn. This is also why you can basically work from anywhere and you can combine work with different life situations. Technical specialists, such as developers, testers, UX designers and others, will find their opportunity in the company. Terms such as .NET, Java, Python, React, JavaScript, AWS, Azure, ML are familiar to them and they can appreciate the friendly company culture. The company also actively supports the involvement of women in IT because of cooperation with Czechitas. Some employees also help students by supervision of graduate theses thanks to active cooperation with universities.
Good to Know
Originally a small startup company has taken a big step forward. Because of growth and an international team, it has moved to much more efficient processes. But they still maintained startup energy and a friendly environment based on mutual trust. They are not often only colleagues, but also friends. Vendavo takes care for employees to have sufficient opportunities and access to education.
Flexible working hours and home-office are common. They make stay in the office more pleasant with refreshments, breakfasts once a week, and edible "surprise" once a week. They also like to spend time together on various joint activities, e.g. badminton, frisbee, bowling, movie nights... Vendavo also supports employees in their free time in the form of free entrance to the ZOO, sports competitions, organizing professional conferences and other activities. In addition to 5 weeks of vacation per year, the company also grants 4 days to recharge batteries and 3 sick days.
The company also pays attention to social responsibility, so offers employees up to two days off a year for charity events. Since communication in English is necessary in Vendavo, the company offers English language courses. Another benefits also include contributions to Benefit Plus, Multisport card, meal allowance, choice of mobile phone and laptop.