Position: QA Lead
Category: QA
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

Grew QA department from 10 to over 70 team members.
Created and implemented QA department processes which allowed decrease time to production from 6 months to 2 weeks, increased the amount of critical bugs found in earlier stages by 80%, and reduced the amount of bugs in production by 65%.
Created and improved hiring and on-boarding which decreased hiring time by 5 times and majority of people hired and trained stayed in company more than 2 years.
Implemented automation of testing processes saving 8000+ men hours per year
Increased teams’ productivity by 60% by implementing several effective initiatives: QA Community, people management processes, training processes, monthly newsletters and recognition cards that gave people ability to grow professional skills faster and increase people's morale and job satisfaction.
Took active role in implementing Agile methodology (Scrum, SAFE) for 4 products and 16 engineering teams.
Recognized for enabling 70% increase in velocity by partnering across diverse groups and functions,  identifying potential roadblocks, troubleshooting issues, and driving operational efficiency improvements
Created testing team organization which allowed to gain better dev and QA ratio and increase product quality
Reduced by 75% automation time execution and  increased by 120% automation testing coverage by managing testing automation and improving test cases
Created statistics’ collection processes and improvements strategy implementation which allowed to improve processes and product quality faster based on real data.
Decreased testing time by using test case management, learning management and other testing and processes tools. 
Improved people knowledge sharing across the company by creating documentation spaces for testing, requirements storage and recruiters.
Energetic leader with overall 10+ years’ diverse experience in software development, FinTech, social network spaces and various web and mobile apps, including 7.5 years’ management experience of remote testing department. Experience delivering creative solutions in the processes optimization and automation spaces. Proven track record of successfully transitioning 4 different products and 16 engineering teams to Scrum and SAFE frameworks. Competencies include: 
- Software Program/Project Management 
- Cross team collaboration 
- Mentoring 
- People management 
- Process optimization and automation 
- Solutions Development 
- Agile Methodology 
- Risk management