• 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.

Position: Quality Assurance Team Lead / Lead Performance Testing Engineer Duration: Oct-2016 - Nov-2019 Tasks and achievements:

• 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.

Position: Senior Performance Test Engineer Duration: Aug-2012 - Oct-2016 Tasks and achievements:

• 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.

Position: Performance Test Engineer Duration: Nov-2011 - Aug-2012 Tasks and achievements:

• 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.

Position: Software Engineer Duration: May-2011 - Nov-2011

Position: Software Engineer Duration: Mar-2008 - Dec-2009

Education:

University: Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU) Degree: Master's degree Faculty: Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance Years: 2004 - 2009