Anna Khairutdinova

VKCO (VKontakte) is an international online media and social networking service over 500 million accounts. https://ads.vk.com/
People

• operated full circle of Human Capital Management at QA department
• coached team leaders personally and organized workshops for QA engineers
• acted as a company mentor. 9 people finished their mentorship with successfully achieving goals
• was the first to implement the OKR setting-goal system and - performance review and spred it to the other departments
• created strong QA community through various activities (testing championships, random coffee, English club, QA brainstorms)

Processes

• implemented consistent process of bug tracking
• enacted a new testcase system (TestOps)
• stimulated process of business documentation testing, boosted left-shift approach
• organized close interaction with customer support
• unified work planning and task estimation through the teams
• implemented incident management
• streamline the process for urgent unplanned tasks
• implementing Agile best practice and rituals: planning, retro, grooming, demo etc.
• organized from scratch performance and infrastructure QA teams
  implemented key QA metrics

Achievements

• organized from scratch end-to-end autotests as a manager
• decreased critical bugs on production from 100+ to 0 and kept it on the level less than 2 per month
• improved integral metric of release quality by 27%
• increased task estimation accuracy up to 80%
• reduced onboarding time by 30%
• the team has grown from 10 to 32 people

Yandex N.V. is a worldwide internet corporation with more than 20,000 employees. https://eda.yandex.ru/
People

• launched successful QA internship program
• coached 2 employees to external professional QA conferences
• headed regular trainings, workshops and events to the teams
• operated full circle of Human Capital Management at QA department

Processes

• organized automated testing from scratch as a manager
• engaged assessor and outsource teams to QA processes
• improved development processes as release manager and scrum master
• implemented key QA metrics
• optimized the testing model:
  • proposed new test-design techniques
  • transformed testcase model
  • added user-tours as a required part of regression testing

Achievements

• boosted time to market by 2 times with weekly release
• reduced defects on production by 40%
• formed a strong fullstack QA team
• made development processes at team structured, predictable and well documented (DoD, planning, release train etc.)
• made the regression run smarter and more flexible which reduces the time for testing by 2 times with the same results quality
• the team has grown from 11 to 50+ people

QIWI plc. is payment provider and financial service in Eastern Europe with service over 13 million accounts. https://qiwi.com/
Responsibility and achievements:

• made a transformation from outsourcing to product testing. Hired, onboarded and couched QA team (8-10 people)
• was a leading technical expert in testing mobile applications
• performed an extended role of release manager (from agreed plans with stakeholders to writing a release notes to apps market)
• spred QA practice to Dev-teams through master classes and trainings
• created and leaded “QA School” in company

Performed a full circle of mobile and web testing on different projects at Yandex (Disk, Mail, Market, Browser)