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senior
Registration: 18.07.2022

Maxim Mikhailov

Specialization: Scrum master/Agile coach

Portfolio

GE Power

• Integrated agile software development with a higher-level corporate project management methodology. • Facilitated PO in reducing backlog of 1500 items to manageable scope(about 150 PBI) in a 1-year project. • Facilitated PM in estimates of project time (enhanced burn-down chart) and risks. • Managed the reduction of the release regression testing cycle from 7-10weeks to 3-4. • Replaced obsoleted test plan of about 7000 test cases by controllable test suites. • Managed the reduction of the technical debt of 600 unresolved defects, and applied a zero-bug tolerance policy.

Motorola Mobility

• Developing SW modules (LabVIEW VIs) to control DVB Headend equipment. • Creating scripts using NI TestStand to automate testing. • Creating documents (test procedures, equipment instructions). • Lab support (incl. HW maintenance, troubleshooting). • Reviewing documents and code. • Communicating inside and outside the team, knowledge sharing.

RingCentral

• Together with the department leaders designed a management system to drive up to 50 non-project initiatives. • Designed hiring system: 20 accepted offers in about 4 months. • Explored and designed workflows for the department of about 70 people:10 cross-functional teams and several individuals. Assured the minimal set of common rules to support integration with other departments and efficiency onthe business level. • Configured 7 Jira projects most actively used by about 200 people: Scrum and Kanban boards, dashboards, workflows, fields, screens, roles, and permissions. • Together with the Lead Product Manager designed production issues management system. • Designed maintenance tasks management system based on the probabilistic method.

Skills

Agile Methodologies
Automation
Exploratory Testing
Functional Testing
HP Quality Center
Labview
LabVIEW
Localization Testing
Manual Testing
Quality Control
Rally Software
Regression Testing
Scrum
Software Quality Assurance
System Testing
Telecommunications
Test Cases
Testing Framework
Test Planning

Work experience

Scrum Master
since 02.2018 - Till the present day |RingCentral
Scrum, Kanban, Jira
• Together with the department leaders designed a management system to drive up to 50 non-project initiatives. • Designed hiring system: 20 accepted offers in about 4 months. • Explored and designed workflows for the department of about 70 people:10 cross-functional teams and several individuals. Assured the minimal set of common rules to support integration with other departments and efficiency onthe business level. • Configured 7 Jira projects most actively used by about 200 people: Scrum and Kanban boards, dashboards, workflows, fields, screens, roles, and permissions. • Together with the Lead Product Manager designed production issues management system. • Designed maintenance tasks management system based on the probabilistic method.
Software Tester
12.2010 - 11.2015 |Applause (uTest)
ICQ, Mozilla, NitroPDF, Yandex, AoL Answers
• Golden badge for functional and localization testing (5% of the 60k crowd). • 333 approved defects versus 13 rejected, 54 completed test cases. • Most valuable tester for 6 companies, 72 tested products: ICQ, Mozilla, NitroPDF, Yandex, AoL Answers, etc.
Scrum Master / Test Manager
09.2010 - 02.2018 |GE Power
Agile
• Integrated agile software development with a higher-level corporate project management methodology. • Facilitated PO in reducing backlog of 1500 items to manageable scope(about 150 PBI) in a 1-year project. • Facilitated PM in estimates of project time (enhanced burn-down chart) and risks. • Managed the reduction of the release regression testing cycle from 7-10weeks to 3-4. • Replaced obsoleted test plan of about 7000 test cases by controllable test suites. • Managed the reduction of the technical debt of 600 unresolved defects, and applied a zero-bug tolerance policy.
Test Automation Engineer
06.2008 - 07.2010 |Motorola Mobility
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• Developing SW modules (LabVIEW VIs) to control DVB Headend equipment. • Creating scripts using NI TestStand to automate testing. • Creating documents (test procedures, equipment instructions). • Lab support (incl. HW maintenance, troubleshooting). • Reviewing documents and code. • Communicating inside and outside the team, knowledge sharing.
Hardware Engineer
03.2006 - 05.2008 |NIIREK
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• Designing hardware: full-cycle – idea generation, BOM selection, creation of electrical scheme, PCB tracing, testing. • Developing FPGA firmware (VHDL) to implement network controller. • Developing PC software to operate the device.

Educational background

Computer Science
2000 - 2006
St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"

Languages

EnglishProficientRussianNative