Senior / Lead QA

На данный момент Senior QA Engineer.

Мои компетенции и опыт

Senior / Lead QA and Tech Speaker with 5+ years of experience, owning quality across complex, distributed systems. Combines strong exploratory testing expertise with pragmatic automation in Java/Kotlin and AI-driven QA (Context Engineering). Proven track record of driving Shift-Left practices, aligning QA with engineering and business goals, and leading cross-team initiatives that reduce regression risk at scale. Seeking a challenging opportunity to contribute to high-performing teams in a dynamic, innovative environment. Speaker on AI in QA (Podlodka AI Crew #2): "Context Engineering," video. Open to remote contract or permanent opportunities (B2B possible).

Senior QA Engineer | SDET | L10n Quality Owner @ inDrive

May 2025 – Till Now, 11 months

Company Overview: The second-largest ride-hailing company in the world.

Strategy: Architected and launched a unified, company-wide L10n/i18n quality strategy. Established corporate standards for quality gates, metrics, dashboards, and cross-team ownership across Backend, Mobile, and QA. Acted as a key connector to break engineering silos and prevent duplicated efforts in localization workflows.

Infrastructure Optimization: Spearheaded a major CI/CD refactoring, introducing GitHub Actions optimizations that reduced execution time for the largest workflows and improved overall pipeline stability.

Functionally coordinated L10n testing efforts for an international team of 9 engineers (in-house and offshore) and drove alignment between test environments and production.

Actively contributed to manual, exploratory, and automated testing using Java and Kotlin across backend and mobile platforms (Appium), including API validation and screenshot-based UI tests integrated into CI/CD.

AI & Innovation: Leveraged AI-driven tools to improve localization testing efficiency and coverage, applying industry best practices to support scalable, high-quality global product delivery.

QA Lead @ Ybot

February 2024 – April 2025, 1 year 3 months

Company Overview: An AI startup developing voice assistants for major нужен доступ к резюме home health providers

Embedded a shift-left approach and standardized QA practices, improving development speed and quality, streamlining project management, and achieving high sprint coverage with no high-severity production incidents

Built and executed comprehensive testing, including exploratory, automation (Java/Python), API, black-box, grey-box, EHR integrations, and UI testing for web and mobile applications in a challenging 7:1 developer-to-tester environment

Reduced testing time by 4x: regression from 8 to 2 hours and smoke from 2 to 0.5 hours with improved test cases and suites

Collaborated with ML engineers to define quality benchmarks for AI models pipeline and interaction metrics for voice assistants, ensuring high reliability

Led a remote Full-stack QA team, including recruitment, mentoring, and performance reviews, and established a skills assessment framework and employee grading system

Partnered with customer support to improve incident analysis, reducing resolution time and enhancing customer satisfaction

Scaled product quality from MVP to 1000+ active users

QA Lead @ Rocket tech

July 2023 – February 2024, 8 months

Company Overview: outsourcing/outstaffing serving leaders in fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, sports, etc

Promoted from QA Engineer (06/2023 – 09/2023) to QA Lead for outstanding performance and proactive leadership in process improvements

Embedded a shift-left approach and standardized QA practices across 10+ projects, improving development speed, quality, consistency, and streamlining project management, achieving high sprint coverage with no high-severity production incidents

Executed comprehensive testing, including exploratory, API, performance, CMS, UI, and localization testing across web and mobile, and introduced Playwright automation (Java/JavaScript/TypeScript) to boost quality and stability

Managed a full-stack junior QA team of engineers (hiring, mentoring, code reviews), fostering knowledge sharing, and launched a skills assessment and grading system that increased team performance

Led QA workshops for developer and non-tech teams, engaged stakeholders to align QA with business goals, mitigate risks, and set quality expectations - resulting in smoother project execution and higher client satisfaction