Project: Trading Platform - 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.

Projects: Vulnerability scanning and management suite, Security incidents and events management suite, Endpoint detection and response suite, Corporate portal, Internal NoSQL DBMS.- 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.

Projects: Vulnerability scanning and management suite, Security incidents and events management suite- 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.

Projects: Vulnerability scanning and management suite, Security incidents and events management suite- 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.

Project: Automated Banking System- 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.