Oleksandr Shevchuk Email & Phone Number

Vinnytsya, Ukraine

Vinnytsya, Ukraine

Over the past 8 years I have succeeded as offshore Delivery Manager, Project coordinator, Scrum Master, Test team lead on variety of the projects for enterprise, retail and distribution, financial, media and entertainment domains.Experienced in building a Scrum team and deliver on commitments. Making sure right communication happens with the right stakeholders. Bring a newly formed group of engineers together and elevate it to a high performing team.My latest projects included taking the work packages, decomposition them to the shippable valuable to a customer and codable user-stories and delivery on committed velocity. Helped the project team to resolve any impediments and communicated timely to a customer any risks which helped to build mitigation measures and avoid issues and delays in delivery.

Gdansk, Pomeranian District, Poland

• Play key role in planning, monitoring and successfully releasing projects, in assigning tasks to testers.• Plan and execute the strategies for constant growth of professional and seniority level of the organizational unit.• Lead/mentor test engineers and share knowledge to make sure they meet technical qualifications required for their positions by the company.• Coach junior staff by helping them to make decisions, solve problems, manage meetings and set goals, provide feedback on testing-related tasks, delegate and assign testing responsibilities.• Assist in formulating QA standards and best practices, organizational policies and processes and strategic plans.• Assist in recruiting new staff (being certified EPAM interviewer), conducting interviews and evaluating potential candidates.• Ensure organizational resources are fully engaged in production projects.• Take active part in discussion and execution of company strategy and goals.• Able to work in multiple projects at the same time.

Hands on experience in development of the computer games for different platforms (desktop, mobile, social-web) and different game genres (casual HO/quests and puzzle, MMO/Social, gambling).Clear idea about all stages of game development, starting from concept design, to testing a product and preparation of marketing materials for promotion to the market.My responsibilities included the following points: description of a game concept (story, game plot, scenario, characters), design of the game dialogues, UI, composing of texts, description of game logic, specification for animation, sounds and music, cut-scenes, testing and support of dev/qa team on different stages of a project.I am an old hand in communication with game producers, project managers, Art-leader, artists and programmers at all the stages of development and testing.