Mike Levin Email & Phone Number

Prague, Czechia

• I'm the member of the Engineering Leadership team that leads the Engineering department of 250 engineers and managers. My key areas of responsibility are:
• General engineering management responsibilities: ownership and improvements of deployments, ownership of engineering cloud budget, leading internal engineering communications, talent management and HR and people.
• Management of QA functional department (up to 75 engineers in matrix structure)Introduced T-Shape QA fullstack approach and QA automation schools. It allowed faster test automation coverage and reduced bottlenecks.
• Accessibility of Wrike. Initiated and Drove the Accessibility project from 0 level to WCAG 2.1 AA level of compliance for the features in core Wrike experience. Accessibility became an integral part of all new.
• Management of Data Science /Machine Learning group (2-4 DS/ML engineers), stakeholder for ML product team, since 2020. Supervised the creation of ML/DS infrastructure and implementation of multiple product features.
• Management of Devops (13 engineers) after the leave of the previous manager, since 2023I successfully took the lead, established two new team leads, kept the team motivated and drove all the processes from quarterly.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

• QA department served as a part of matrix organizational structure with product teams and functional departments involved. QA director was a new role that was necessary for major reorganization & 2x growth (from 30 to.
• Reorganized the QA department with QA engineers working in SCRUM teams and established organizational structure with 4 new QA managers, new hiring and onboarding processes and new quality metrics.
• Made QA automation to be the cornerstone of the QA process with utilization by all QA engineers in all teams. It allowed engineering to eliminate 90% of manual regression.
• Led investments in test automation so it grew from 3000 tests to 40000+ tests with preserving test stability and flat cost of development. As stakeholder and project manager led the design and implementation of.

Saint-Petersburg

• Built, coordinated and evaluated performance of the QA team (up to 60 employees).
• Developed SMARTish goals setting skills among senior testers.
• Acted as a project manager on testing tools projects
• Cooperated with several project teams – yandex.mail, yandex.portal, yandex.mobile, yandex.media, yandex.geo.
• Implemented testing in projects, test-design, tune team processes.
• Decision making in test automation and its architecture.

Manual testing of web and desktop applicationstesting of documentation, coordination with product owner, release management, emergency support.

Master, Math

Education record

High school