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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Combined with QA Manager duties. 1. Lead team through SDLC from creating prototypes to successful releases.2. Facilitated team agile activities and creating custom configuration for JIRA based on team's requirements.3. Gathered requirements from planning discussions and assisted with SQA project documentation and process creation.4. Managed day-to-day activities of onsite and offshore development teams.5. Worked closely with the application development, design and testing team to resolve technical issues to ensure overall quality of the software.6. Drove the quality of the product by advocating heavy testing prior to deploying new releases.

San Francisco Bay Area

At Organizer, my role combined elements of quality assurance (QA), project management and tech support. As QA, I was responsible for ensuring quality across Organizer's mobile apps ( Android, iOS) and web applications based on Google Cloud AppEngine. As tech support, I closely worked with the business team and clients to quickly resolve support issues. I was actively involved in the team’s workflow and assumed the Scrum master role, ensuring that the team works as efficiently as possible and constantly improving productivity.This is my first time working for an American company, and I am very proud of my accomplishments.1. Performed grey testing of Android/iOS, Web and backend deployed on Google Cloud Platform.2. Developed, Reviewed and Executed User Stories, Use cases, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Summary Reports.3. Performed RESTful API integration and Blazemeter-based performance testing.4. Managed and monitored automation tests in our java based framework.5. Performed QA releases sign off based on test suite execution and manual release preparation procedure.6. Was the sole owner of bug’s life-cycle in Zendesk, Fabric and JIRA. Worked with BizDev on bug identification, and status updates.7. Handled system health, data usage and performance monitoring using Stackdriver. Was a point of contact for data-related issues in Google Cloud storage and BigQuery.8. Liaison between PM, UI, Dev and Customer Support to drive and ensure product quality.9. Estimated and scoped testing for product roadmap.10. Performed user behavior and feedback analysis and created new user stories and enhancement tickets based on it.11. Set up new testing processes (including engineering testing) and improved overall logging infrastructure of the product.12. Was in charge of integration partners (via REST API) usage and error monitoring.13. Promoted proper testing procedures among developers to maintain agile environment.

Иркутская Область, Россия

BaikInfo Holding is one of the biggest Internet-resource and electronic media company of Siberian region http://www.irk.ru.Accomplishments:1. Introduced SCRUM with 2 week release cycle including proficient regression testing based on continuous integration, acceptance criteria validation. 2. Worked closely with international freelance design and engineering teams, performed budget monitoring. 3. Hired designers, SEO, front- and backend devs. 4. Planned and executed a product map. 5. Set up QA processes for start-up environment including junior QA training. 6. Provided guidance in creating test plans additionally performed compatibility/white-/grey-box manual testing.7. Established usability testing of the web-portal collaboratively with a contractor.

Иркутская Область, Россия

Courses: "Computer security", "Computer science basics", “Algorithm's theory”, “Object-oriented software development”, “Distributed system”. Didactics, training courses material development, advising. Diploma advising (20 students/8 diplomas with distinction).Additionally: Dean Assistant in Computer Science department Sep 2009 – Jul 2011Student research work advising.International conferences committee board membership. Department students’ research work planing. Student publication editing.

Иркутская Область, Россия

Project manager and QA Manager in Hewlett-Packard funded grant “Mobile grid platform for STEM subjects social learning and knowledge measurement”. The project is related to a new approach to education that allows learners to study at the convenient time and place using individual mobile devices.Accomplishments:1. Operational project management including requirements, stakeholders relationships, development and QA resources, release planning using SCRUM methodology.2. Own test plans and documentation that communicates the standards and procedures of QA.3. Chair scrum/defect review meetings with project team stakeholders to discuss issue found during testing and their current statuses.4. Management and leadership for direct reports with capacity to mentor and coach QA staff.5. Tracked and analyzed test results, team productivity and took corrective action.6. Manual black-, grey-box tesing of desktop and android components of the platform. 7. Internal alpha release planning and results collection strategy development.8. Results dissemination including taking part in HP International Education Summit in Deli, 2011.

Master'S Degree, Elementary Education And Teaching, Teacher Of Russian As A Foreign Language For Children

Certificate, Project Management

The program helps to formalize skills and gain experience applying the industry-standard terminology and guidelines defined in PMI's.

Postgraduate School, Mathematics And Computer Science

A research topic was «Multiagent intelligent situational analysis system development for regional-scope problem solving». The research.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 4,85/5

Activities and Societies: Computer Lab Assistent, Computer Science Department Students' Union LeaderGraduated with Honors. Diploma thesis.