Professional Summary: Seasoned QA Automation Lead with over 11 years of experience in software quality assurance and performance testing automation. I lead teams, streamline processes, implement efficient automation, and drive continuous improvement. My commitment to delivering fast, reliable, and comprehensive quality feedback, combined with a business-oriented mindset, ensures that my work aligns with the strategic business goals.

Work Experience:

Position: Quality Assurance Automation Lead
Duration: Oct-2023 - Apr-2024
Tasks and achievements:

Developed and maintained REST API functional testing framework using Python, Gherkin, and pytest-bdd, ensuring streamlined test automation.
Developed and maintained automated tests execution process providing comprehensive test coverage of a complex cloud-native product based on microservice architecture. Tools used: Gitlab CI/CD, Python, Bash, GCP, Terraform.

Position: QA Automation Lead
Duration: Nov-2019 - Sep-2023
Tasks and achievements:

Managed several distributed software quality assurance teams, growing them from one-person to two-pizza teams.
Successfully developed key individuals (team leads, senior engineers) through regular performance assessments, one-on-one meetings, and personalized development plans.
Initiated two testing teams from scratch, ensuring prompt and reliable delivery of test results for new projects.
Led fast-paced as well as slow background quality assurance projects.
Meticulously planned, defended, and managed the execution of the unit's software, hardware, and compensation budgets.
Streamlined the hiring and onboarding process across multiple quality assurance teams.
As a hiring manager and technical interviewer, actively participated in the hiring process.
Led over 100 interviews, bringing in the best professionals for the company.
Developed and implemented an automated performance testing framework, providing developers with fast, reliable, and comprehensive feedback about particular software component performance. Tools used: Python, Gitlab CI/CD, Bash, Lua, sysbench.
Moderated and actively participated in the internal performance testing community. Served as an expert and go-to resource in the performance testing and automation fields.

Position: Quality Assurance Team Lead / Lead Performance Testing Engineer
Duration: Oct-2016 - Nov-2019
Tasks and achievements:

Managed a distributed team of four performance engineers.
Led team and people management activities: daily meetings, agile planning, retrospectives, 1-1s, team building.
Mentored several successful performance engineers, ensuring their professional growth.
Managed team workload planning and control using JetBrains YouTrack.
Fostered knowledge accumulation and sharing using team knowledge base and internal community of performance test engineers.
Streamlined testing task acceptance and planning process, that led to an integration of regular performance testing into software development lifecycle of several products and reduced the count of performance incidents.
Adopted agile testing methodology that led to a fast team adaptation to the changing product development priorities.
Actively communicated with several projects' stakeholders to ensure transparency and traceability of the team's goals setting.
Participated in a hiring process as a technical interviewer.
Participated actively in several pilot projects as a performance testing expert that led to successful sales.

Position: Senior Performance Test Engineer
Duration: Aug-2012 - Oct-2016
Tasks and achievements:

Developed and implemented a performance testing process for the company's first flagship product, MP8, ensuring transparency and consistency of the product's hardware requirements using HP LoadRunner.
Developed, implemented, and automated a performance testing process for the company’s second flagship product, MP SIEM. This ensured the stability of the product’s performance and provided software developers with a fast performance feedback loop. Tools used: Python, TeamCity, Bash.
Organised, maintained, and streamlined the use of a virtualized performance testing laboratory on a VMware vCenter cluster.
Developed and maintained performance testing documentation, ensuring fast knowledge sharing and test results transparency. Tools used: Confluence.
Managed bug tracking using MS TFS, ensuring clear communication and traceability.

Position: Performance Test Engineer
Duration: Nov-2011 - Aug-2012
Tasks and achievements:

Actively participated in a series of Automated Banking Systems performance tests with deployment to a remote IBM Power computing cluster. That involved following activities and accomplishments:
Implemented performance test scripts using HP LoadRunner.
Ran performance test suites, collected and analysed systems performance metrics.
Analysed Oracle database performance issues using Oracle AWR, providing crucial information about performance bottlenecks.
Wrote comprehensive test documentation, including performance testing methodology and final performance testing reports ensuring result transparency.
Mentored two junior performance test engineers.

Position: Software Engineer
Duration: May-2011 - Nov-2011

Position: Software Engineer
Duration: Mar-2008 - Dec-2009

Education:

University: Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU)
Degree: Master's degree
Faculty: Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
Years: 2004 - 2009

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