Igor Balagurov Email & Phone Number

Saint Petersburg, Ru

Saint Petersburg, Ru

St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

Ozon.ru (NASDAQ: OZON) is #1 Russian multi-category marketplace.I am a part of Ozon Fintech's department developing the bank from scratch with B2B and B2C products. Responsibilities:• Managing Fintech QA department: hire, motivate, set goals, prioritize tasks in an agile environment, and provide performance reviews• Establish QA processes (based on uncompromised test automation, on-duties for resolving tests issues, and writing E2E scenarios in parallel with developing new features)• Playing product and tech owner roles for test automation services (test data management, mocking 3rd parties, collecting test coverage metrics and other QA staff for development and QA departments)Achievements:• Built from scratch distributed team of 120+ QA Automation engineers and helped 20+ people to transit from engineering to the team lead role• Developed from scratch tech solutions and processes for test automation. 90% E2E API, 80% Web, and 75% Mobile user scenarios are tested automatically and integrated into CI pipelines. • Continuously improving and developing new testing services and processes for scaling up. As an example: automated impact analysis for selecting only relevant tests for API, and test data management in background tasks helped to launch complex 6k+ E2E API scenarios up to 1000 times per day in a median of 10 minutes

Heisenbug is a QA conference with a focus on the technological aspects of testing.• Review and evaluate talks proposals• Guide speakers in their preparation for the conference

Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

Saint Petersburg Metropolitan Area

VK is the most popular social network at CIS with 97+ MAU. Part of Mail.ru Group (MAIL:LI).Responsibilities:• Interviewing, onboarding, 1-1, mentoring QA engineers, performance reviews, planning, setting KPIs• Setup QA processes: UI and API E2E autotests, Load testing, Functional testing from requirements to acceptance, autotests, and quality gates CI/CD integration• Improve test infrastructure (Introduce Selenoid+GGR, Allure TestOps)Achievements:• Decrease onboarding time for new QA Engineers by 2 times (providing test automation infrastructure and documentation• Test automation coverage improvement (from 0 up to 90%) to reduce regression bugs 2 times• Load testing decreased rollbacks 3 times

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Developed from the ground test automation solutions for VK projects: VK Pay(electronic wallet), internal performance review system and etc.Responsibilities:• API tests and Static code analysis with Integration in CI\CD• Interviewing candidates, mentoring colleges, technical documentation, code reviewAchievements:• 80% of regression bugs were found automatically• Test flakiness is less than 0.0001% (12-13k tests are run each day and failures which are caused by the flaky tests are usually not greater than 2-3 per week)• 2k automated tests were run in 15 minutes• Developers and SRE were able to read detailed reports and localize bugs without QA engineers • Automate some of OWASP's Top 10 API checks (based on the same test automation solution): rate limits, race condition attempts, privacy and etc.

Remote

Toptal is an exclusive network of top freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, and project managers.Responsibilities: QA Automation at the core team that develops the Toptal platform

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Uptick Labs is a US company from San Francisco with R&D in St Petersburg, that develops a cloud CRM platform (PaaS) powered by machine learning with microservices (and it made a pivot year later)Responsibilities:• Lead QA Automation engineers in different teams• Research and adoption of new tools\techniques for test automation• Interviewing candidates, mentoring new colleagues• Machine learning testing (pipeline, data consistency)• Maintaining CI/CD process through TeamCity• Scrum workflow, technical documentation, code reviewAchievements:• More than 500 E2E(iOS, Web, Android, API) independent tests were created which are run in several threads• Implemented approach with shared code between web, mobile and API tests (Developed from scratch cross-platform UI(IOS, Android, Web) and API(REST and GraphQL) E2E test framework assembled on open-source frameworks and libraries)• Test data creation with autogeneration for custom GraphQL schema as a part of configuration testing

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Санкт-Петербург, Россия

New Cloud Technologies is a Russian company, that develops complex high-load data storage and processing systems as well as electronic document editors. (http://ncloudtech.com/)Achievements:• Heavily refactored existing web UI test base which yielded in more than 3 times test runtime reduction (from 2,5 hours to 45min)• Make tests more reliable (from 30% to less than 1% tests are flaky) and independent (switching to generate isolate test data for each test through API)

Санкт-Петербург, Россия

Achievements:• Studied the main aspects of the hydrological calculation system(client-server web application) and wrote the smoke autotests• Set up scheduled daily health check test runs in the customer's environment through Jenkins

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