Andrey Sokolov
Portfolio
Paynet
● Worked closely with development and project management teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software. ● Planning the department's budget for the quarter, year. ● Communicated regularly with stakeholders to report on quality metrics and status of testing efforts. ● Detection, documentation and tracking of defects. ● Managing a 6-person QA team - training, assistance, resource planning, performance tracking. ● Drawing up individual development plans, holding managerial meetings with team members. ● Analizing of existing processes and initiatives to improve them in accordance with the needs of the team. Achievements: Created a QA department from scratch. ● Organization of the hiring process from scratch. ● Hired 6 middle+ level specialists. ● A healthy working climate has been created in the department - 1-1 meetings, reviews, team building are held. ● All specialists have passed the probationary period. ● Improved quality processes by implementing testing tools and methodologies, resulting releases pass without critical bugs. ● Before my appearance, the release cycle was unstable, statistics on bugs were not kept, releases were released without testing. ● A release cycle has been formed and adjusted in mobile applications and infomats. ● Thanks to communication with the business, resources were allocated for test infrastructure and software for the team.
VK
● Detection, documentation and tracking of defects. ● Manual exploratory testing of frontend, backend, native mobile applications. ● Solving incidents through technical support. ● Work with autotests - launch, crash analysis, writing (Java + Cucumber). ● Managing a 3-person QA team - training, assistance, resource planning, performance tracking. ● Drawing up individual development plans, holding managerial meetings with team members. ● Analizing of existing processes and initiatives to improve them in accordance with the needs of the team. ● Participation in the selection of quality assurance specialists of any level, conducting technical interviews - and making decisions on refusal or inviting candidates for final interviews. Achievements: ● In 3 months, I made management decisions and was able to raise the Pass Rate in the team's area of responsibility to 70% (from 20%). ● Formulated quality metrics in the team and analyzed the work of employees (using eazy bi). Disciplinary measures were applied to some employees, which increased their personal efficiency and increased the speed of value delivery. ● Organized the training of team members and helped them overcome the fear of the code, which resulted in a noticeable improvement in efficiency and productivity in automation. ● Formalized the feedback process, increased employee motivation, which helped employees to take the initiative in common team and inter-team activities - this led to the generation of ideas that could speed up testing in the team, to better resource planning. ● Organized the quality assurance process in a large integration project with an adjacent team, accompanied as a manager - a quality assurance team was formed by the contractors under my general management, significant defects were found at the testing stage, which were eliminated. Initially, testing by contractors was not intended.
HeadHunter
I was a lead tester on two major projects - relocations jobs.tut.by on rabota.by and jobs.day.az on h1.az. ● Manual functional exploratory testing of the backend and frontend in a cross-functional team (2 frontenders, 4 backenders). ● Automation in Java (Java + a self-written framework similar to Selenide + TestNG). ● I solved tasks as the last line of technical support, analyzed bug reports and user requests, prioritization and bringing the bug fix to release. ● Participated in the elaboration and decomposition of business tasks, interact with customers. ● Participated in the adaptation of the onboarding program for testers. ● Participated in the selection of testing specialists - from reviewing resumes to conducting technical interviews. ● Conducted managerial agile activities (periodically) - daily rallies, retrospectives.