About me 🧭

I'm a Quality Assurance engineer ✨ with more than 10 years in IT. Since July 2024 I lead the QA Center of Excellence at KapitalBank in Baku, Azerbaijan ❤️. I enjoy turning low-quality products into high-quality ones, improving development processes and speeding up time "to market".

My job is to ensure 🔍 that development testing processes are built in the most transparent way and provide features in the shortest possible time. In the aggregate, my job is to ensure that your product is of the highest quality.

What I'm doing 🛠️

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    Build processes 🔧

    I build testing and development processes both from scratch and improve existing processes

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    QA Web 🌐

    Quality assurance of sites at the professional level. Automation + Manual.

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    Mobile apps 📱

    Professional manual QA of applications for iOS and Android.

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    QA Backend ⚙️

    Quality assurance of backend at the professional level. Automation + Manual. Microservises and Mono architecture

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    Creating teams 🤝

    Create a strong team with a good atmosphere for solving complex tasks

Projects 🚀

  • KapitalBank

    KapitalBank

    KapitalBank is the largest bank in Azerbaijan, providing retail and corporate banking services and driving digital transformation across the region.


    Activities:

    • - Orchestrated the QA Center of Excellence roadmap for KapitalBank’s digital ecosystem.
    • - Built a suite of 20 quality and process metrics to govern every release.
    • - Turned an under-skilled QA bench into a high-performing guild via targeted workshops, internal courses, and process reforms.
    • - Mentored 10+ QA Chapter Leaders and halved release cycles through new governance rituals.

  • sDevives

    SberDevices

    SberDevices is a developer of smart devices. These are B2B and B2C devices for the ecosystem using voice technologies and having a virtual assistant aboard.


    Activities:

    • - Directed cross-functional QA squads for SberDevices’ smart ecosystem.
    • - Engineered enterprise-wide test strategy spanning voice, mobile, and backend services.
    • - Scaled automation platforms and observability for nightly green pipelines.
    • - Instituted continuous improvement cadences that elevated quality KPIs.
    • - Delivered executive-ready quality analytics and stakeholder reporting.
  • RoboCash

    RoboCash Group

    UnaBank digital Startup to create fintech & eComm ecosystem in the Philippines. Unabank is a business unit of RoboCash Group.


    Activities:

    • - Led five QA squads (11 engineers) across automation and manual streams.
    • - Built automation from zero for 12 of 22 services, shrinking regression by 50%.
    • - Deployed jMeter + Grafana load practice that lifted throughput by 35%.
    • - Authored enterprise QA strategy and governance for UnaBank launches.
    • - Elevated release discipline with transparent quality dashboards.

    Used in the work: JavaScript + Cypress, Java + RestAssured*, Charles, Postman, Qase

  • SkillBox

    SkillBox

    Skillbox educational platform focuses on new and much-in-demand professions.


    Activities:

    • - Designed flagship QA curricula adopted across Skillbox programs.
    • - Authored foundational learning paths and assessment rubrics.
    • - Delivered live cohorts and mentorship that boosted graduate outcomes.
    • - Produced masterclasses translating enterprise QA playbooks for students.

  • hedera

    Hedera

    The Hedera Governing Council is a fully decentralized and transparent governing body of independent, global organizations consisting of enterprises, web3 projects, and prestigious universities.


    Activities:

    • - Launched Hedera’s JavaScript/Cypress automation program from the ground up.
    • - Crafted modular end-to-end frameworks covering decentralized workloads.
    • - Embedded Cypress pipelines into CI/CD for continuous delivery confidence.
    • - Established high-signal regression suites guarding consensus services.
    • - Mentored engineers on automation craftsmanship and quality reporting.

    Used in the work: JavaScript + Cypress, Java + RestAssured*, Charles, Postman,

  • MailRu

    MailRu Group

    The City Mobile project (top 2 taxis in Russia). Development of platform services. City Mobile is a business unit of MailRu Group.


    Activities:

    • - Delivered 60% API coverage with Kotlin automation from scratch.
    • - Boosted platform throughput by 35% through load-testing insights.
    • - Embedded Scrum-aligned QA process into product delivery cadences.
    • - Built and scaled the QA team, coaching hires from junior to mid-level.
    • - Evangelized QA excellence via company-wide knowledge sharing.

    Used in the work: Vegeta, GHZ, Kotlin (API tests), YAML, Charles, Postman

  • Yandex

    Yandex

    Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning.


    Activities:

    • - Engineered resilient automated suites protecting Yandex web platforms.
    • - Designed reusable frameworks accelerating feature validation.
    • - Plugged automation into CI/CD, shortening developer feedback loops.
    • - Led performance benchmarking to tune mission-critical flows.
    • - Rolled out Hermione.js visual regression to lock UI fidelity.

    Used in the work: JavaScript, WebDriverIO, Hermione.js, YAML, Charles, Postman

  • bork

    BORK

    Bork is a manufacturer of home appliances, trading in Russia, CIS countries, and Poland.


    Activities:

    • - Engineered modular UI components powering multi-region ecommerce.
    • - Integrated front-end capabilities with backend APIs for seamless flows.
    • - Governed application state via Vuex to ensure consistent experiences.
    • - Tuned performance for high-traffic launches with rigorous profiling.
    • - Authored component tests that protected every release window.

    Used in the work: JavaScript, Vue.js, bootstrap, YAML, HTML, SCSS, jQuery

  • dyson

    Dyson

    Dyson is a manufacturer of home appliances. Dyson Ltd is a British technology company that designs and manufactures heaters, bladeless fans, hand dryers and vacuum cleaners. It was founded in 1978 by James Dyson and has grown to be among the crème de la crème in its industry with thousands of customers in over 100 countries worldwide.


    Activities:

    • - Delivered responsive UI experiences across Dyson’s global storefronts.
    • - Accelerated delivery leveraging React and Vue component libraries.
    • - Optimized web vitals for premium product launch campaigns.
    • - Partnered with backend squads to streamline API integrations.
    • - Led iterative UX testing that elevated conversion and NPS.

    Used in the work: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue.js, Figma, Stetch, Photoshop

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    TechnoPark

    TechnoPark is the largest Russian consumer electronic retail chain by revenue and the first and the only publicly traded company in its market sector


    Activities:

    • - Defined QA strategy for TechnoPark’s omnichannel retail reboot.
    • - Built automation suites tightly coupled with CI/CD rollouts.
    • - Led cross-team quality councils that lifted product KPIs.
    • - Delivered executive QA reporting while coaching engineers.

    Used in the work: PHP, Codeception.php, Codeception.js, JavaScript, Figma, Stetch, Photoshop, Jira, Confluence ect

  • sber

    SberTech

    SberTech develop technology-driven solutions and products for our sole client, the Sberbank Group, to make its customer service more accessible, secure, and convenient.


    Activities:

    • - Authored end-to-end test scenarios for Sberbank enterprise platforms.
    • - Executed deep manual QA safeguarding regulated releases.
    • - Triaged complex defects with engineering for rapid resolution.
    • - Produced audit-ready QA documentation and knowledge bases.
    • - Led regression cadences that kept enterprise rollouts stable.

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Experience

  1. Head of QA CoE — KapitalBank

    Jul 2024 — Present

    - Leading the QA Center of Excellence for KapitalBank in Baku, Azerbaijan.
    - Scaling automation coverage and embedding the Zero Bug Policy metric across teams.
    - Mentoring QA leads and engineers to build a strong delivery culture.
    - Driving process improvements that shorten release cycles while keeping quality high.

  2. QA Team Lead — Sber (SberDevices)

    2022 — Jul 2024

    - Managing multiple teams, a total of 9 people
    - Implementation and support of the ZBP metric
    - Reduction of bugs on the product according to the ZBP metric by 65%

  3. Head of QA — RoboCash Group (UnaBank)

    2021 — 2022

    - Managing multiple teams, a total of 15 people in my team, Overall 6 team.
    - Development of autotests. As result 70% test coverage for main services.
    - Implementation load testing, jMeter + Grafana.
    - Organization of testing processes both from scratch and already built processes.
    - Builded a strong testing team.
    - Creation of strategy and test plans.

  4. QA Lead — Mail.ru Group (Citymobil)

    2020 — 2021

    - Covered about 60% of the API product with autotests on Kotlin.
    - In the results of the load test, it was possible to increase the throughput of services by 35%.
    - Trained 2 engineers from junior to middle level.
    - Organized the development process and implemented the testing process into it.
    - Formed a testing team. Processes were built from scratch and specialists were hired.
    - Speaking at internal conferences in order to improve the entire QA community in the company.
    - Hiring and maintaining a subsequent QA team.
    - Review of autotests and mentoring.

  5. SDET(Software Development Engineer in Test) — Yandex

    2019 — 2020

    - Implemented the testing process in the project.
    - Implemented a text documentation management tool.
    - I introduced the practice of writing yaml cases and autotests by developers, after which the speed of writing test scenarios increased by about 40%.
    - I managed to reduce the count of bugs by 25% by introducing the Zero Bug Policy methodology into the team.

  6. QA Lead — BORK & TechnoPark

    2017 — 2019

    - Implementation of the testing process in development (flexible, two-week Scrum).
    - Hiring from scratch and maintaining a QA team.
    - Trained 6 engineers from junior to middle and senior level.
    - Organization of the environment and the environment for autotesting, selection and configuration of the tool for autotesting.
    - The coverage of the BORK project with autotests is about 90%.
    - The coverage of the TechnoPark project with autotests is about 50%.
    - Review of autotests and mentoring.

  7. Frontend developer — BORK

    2017 — 2018 partime

    - Participation in the creation of a completely new BORK website.
    - Participation in the review.
    - Improving landing pages on the Technopark website.
    - Participation in the creation of StoryBook for holding.

  8. QA Engineer — SberTech

    2015 — 2017

    - Writing and passage of the test scenarios.
    - Identification and description of defects.
    - Preparation of checklists.
    - Providing reports on the completed testing.
    - Interaction with the development team to localize defects.

My skills

  • manual
    100%
  • Automation
    95%
  • Team building
    100%
  • Monitorings & Metrics
    95%
  • Perfomance testing
    60%
  • Management
    100%
  • Frontend development
    40%

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