Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
• Delivered 7+ large-scale government-regulated Central Youth Meta Privacy projects focused on parental supervision of FB and IG accounts in the US and internationally by developing collaborative and trusting relationships with SWEs, PMs, TPMs, QA leads, and testers
• Lead 6 QA teams of 5 and over 50 QA testers of offshore cross-teams (Canada, India, US/California) to deliver multiple complex projects under strict deadlines
• Recruited and built a new analyst team, mentoring them to be strong team players with the ability to make impact individually by demonstrating initiative and being proactive
• Saved program millions of dollars by managed large volume of launch blockers and critical issues fixes days before launch Produced $400k in annual savings by identifying efficiencies and organizing distributed knowledge transfer among team to manage learning curves and avoid overload/burnout
• Increased efficiency by 35% to beat deadlines through dependency identification and prioritization, issue resolution, defining outcomes and next steps, removing gaps and roadblocks, and implementing new tools
• Launched 60 features instead of the original 30 within the same deadline by accommodating scope creep
2018 — 2024
2018 — 2024
Chicago, Fulton Market IL
• Delivered 20+ multi-million-dollar Google media projects (CastSDK/NEST/SmartDevices/GoogleTV) and developed over 30 test and process improvements
• Led 4 QA teams (16 QA analysts) across several offshore testing cross-teams (California, India, London, Taipei) to to improve testing processes by organizing teams schedule, capacity, prioritizing tasks, resolving conflicts
• Build strong professional relationships with SWEs, PM, TPM, QA Leads, QA Analysts and other stakeholders, ensure progress updates get shared regularly, transparently in terms of mutual trust
• Increased test teams efficiency by 50% by bringing high performance resources, eliminating gaps and obstacles, implementing new tools, improving processes, overseeing dependencies, expedite training and KT
• Executed several quality projects at the same time by original deadline while handling scope changes to 35% of features requirements by pooling resources, expedite KT distribution allowed to stay on track within a schedule
• Saved millions of dollars by resolving critical issues before Prod release and minimizing defects in launch
• Developed detailed technical documentation for project and tests, estimated scope, time, schedule, and resources, defined deliverables and next steps, prepared weekly/bi-weekly reports, and gathered feedback
2017 — 2018
Mountain View, CA
• Recruited, built and lead new QA analysts team of 8 members (US, Mexico) in Google Search Platforms to triage large volumes of issues (1000+) coming from 10+ queues on daily basis
• Successfully launched 6 Google Search projects (AGSA and Android P) and created test improvement processes
• Implemented new triage processes to analyze, determine the essence, sort and deliver issues to the respective teams or engineers worldwide in a shortest term allowing to significantly improve quality of Google Search App
• Mitigated risks to company reputation and revenues by implementing debugging process to analyze crash logs based on given stack trace, identifying a root cause, and assigning to SWE before production release
• Developed detailed technical documentation allowing SWE to get their issues in a shortest time, which reduces the bugs fixit time by 50%, eliminates a huge amount of noise crash bugs coming into SWE queue daily, which reduces engineers issues backlog by at least 2 times
• Defined team’s goals, scope, schedules, tasks, deliverables, risks and dependencies, proactive collaboration with stakeholders and daily sync ups, utilizing new tools and processes amplified triage team efficiency by 50%
2016 — 2017
2016 — 2017
Lake Forest, IL
• Led QA testing team of 4 QAs and launched 20+ new features for Native, Hybrid and WEB based applications of Omron Blood Pressure monitors under Agile project management approach
• Introduced Charles Proxy tool for testing team allowing to run performance testing under different network bandwidth and simulators allowed to escalate testing coverage by 40%
• Utilized POSTMAN for API testing: build, test and modify APIs, as well as API test collections creation allowing testing team to set up test-automation, find undisclosed issues and significantly improve product quality.
• Created and ran Jenkins jobs via shell scripting for new builds, expedited deployment and readiness for next testing cycle, utilized SQL queries to communicate with data in the database
• Built strong work relationships with SWEs, PM and QA testers while collaborating regularly on tracking progress towards launch, set daily goals, task decomposition/prioritizing, project roadblocks removing
• Utilized JIRA for Test Suites/Test Cycles creation, execution, and tracking bugs and urgent fixes within Sprint
2015 — 2016
2015 — 2016
San Mateo, CA
• Led QA team to track and improve testing process to deliver high quality software for the heavy duty mobile devices of Japanese Mobile company Kyocera in Agile/Scrum environment
• Provided regular support, transparent progress updates and unblocking for SWEs, QAs and stakeholders teams
• Created detailed PRDs, Test Plans, progress and roadmaps trackers based on constantly changing technical requirements, scope, deliverables in Agile/Scrum environment within current or upcoming Sprint, providing performance feedback (successes/failures) on Sprint review and retrospective meetings
• Performed various hardware and software testing for various Android devices and Kyocera devices preinstalled apps under specific environmental conditions to achieve system performance stability
• Executed real-time network data collecting/gathering for measuring mobile-based RF performance using QXDM and QPST tools and performance testing by throttling Internet service for testing API calls via Charles Proxy
Education
Belarusian National Technical University
Bachelor of Science - BS
2003 — 2008
Stanford Continuing Studies
Computer Science & IT
2015 — 2017