Position: QA Director, Head of QA
Category: QA Automation
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- Implemented the new resource management system of people and projects. This helped with management and understanding of the project load and, in some projects, increased the revenue by ten times.

- Led the “corporate policy” project with the HR department. The “corporate policy” document and procedures have been implemented and helped the company to collect the knowledge of long-time employees, simplify and speed up the onboarding of new ones.

- Managed Team Leaders, PMs, HRs from different departments (a total of 5 people as direct reports). Created personal development plans for them, which led them to increase their skills, knowledge, and overall project results. Used coaching and mentoring approaches.

- Increased transparency of the internal processes by creating processes of the bonus and recognition schemes, salary review, and promotions.

- Created, updated, and maintained a QA skill matrix. Close collaboration with HRBP and Heads of Development.

- Improved the hiring funnel by five times (from 3 months to a couple of weeks) and significantly shortened the time-to-hire for QA Lead+ positions (from 3 months to 1 month).
Manager with 10+ years of experience in software development and testing in the cloud, forensics, virtualization, corporate security, fintech, HoReCa, and blockchain domains.

There are a few things that characterize me as a personality:
- Strong people management and leadership skills.
- High self-motivation and ability to motivate others.
- Proactive, results-oriented manager who can multitask, work under pressure and meet aggressive deadlines.
- Ability to define and communicate win-win strategies in different situations.