Position: CTO, Head of QA, Delivery Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

Started with 2 QA teams - 9 engineers and extended it to 10 teams - 45 engineers in 4 years to cover all company projects.
Delivered 5 month delayed project in 1 month after my assignment to the project as Delivery Manager.
Summary:
• 17+ years of experience in IT
• 12+ years as QA Manager/Head of QA (up to 10 teams and 50 QAs)
• Certified Scrum Master with knowledge of Kanban, Lean and 1+ year of practical experience
• Expert in effective process organization, audit, improvement and unification
• Strong people management and team motivation skills
• Mentor of managers, teamleads and QA engineers
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Lecturer at IAMPM(Quality Time), QA Group(Leadership) and BeetRootAcademy(Manual QA)
• Speaker at conferences QA Fest, ProQA, PM Day, SQA Days (+lots of internal trainings)
• Goal-oriented, self-motivated, analytical thinking, proactive, responsible and GTD

Key results on the latest positions – Head of QA / Delivery Manager:
• Managed up to 10 QA teams – 45 QA engineers (started with 2 teams and 9 QA)
• Changed QA mind from personal part to conscious team-member striving for a common goal
• Delivered 5 month delayed project in 1 month after my assignment as Delivery Manager
• Planned and optimized budget for the QA department with result dependent increases
• Set up the effective and unified working processes Scrum/Agile based for number of projects
• Implemented Operational Review reports with number of quality/project metrics in 20 projects
• Performed QA audit for all projects and control improvements up to 90% success rate
• Planned automation to cover critical functionality for continuous running of tests in CI/CD
• Count ROI of automation as saved manual man/hours, quality improvement and money
• Implemented Jira, Confluence and TestRail/Zephyr – setup everything and moved all projects
• Effectively planed QA team work in MS Project to fit the tight release dates without overtimes
• Gathering number of reports and trends for top management on project status and quality
• Highlight and remove all impediments in team’s progress - internal and external
• Interviewing Managers, QA leads, Test Engineers and QA automation
Find the position of CTO, Head of QA or Delivery Manager where I could effectively use my skills and grow as an expert.