Denys Mykhailenko

Participated in six freelance and remote projects as Delivery Manager, Project Manager and Scrum Master. Managed 8 middle size teams (30+ people) directly and through 4 junior project managers under Scrum and Scrumban methodologies. Gambling, ERP and mobile app domain areas. Steadily reduced delivery delays in 4 slot games through simultaneous process optimization. Many pre-sales. Managed regular on-time releases from discovery phase and first marketing release to new market expansions and seasonal events.

Managed Delivery pipeline of 15+ simultaneous real estate visualization projects on different platforms (web/mobile/desktop) with the Team of 40+ people, including 3 junior project managers and multiple third-party vendors. Regularly applied crisis management techniques to mitigate environment uncertainty. Solved issues raised by Sales Team and customers. Improved requirements refinement process. Mentored junior/middle QA engineers and junior project managers.

Managed 11 projects (design, mobile, web development, CRM, etc.) with 15 distributed teams (30+ people) and budgets up to $2.5M according to Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Led extensive communication with customers worldwide. Regularly performed crisis management and conflict solution. Coordinated system certification activities between developers and architects in different time zones. Increased company presence in one of the projects from 1.5 to 20 FTE in 4 months period. Performed PnL and budgeting.

Managed 15+ projects (mobile and VR games, VR applications, etc.) with 2 teams. Released 20+ games and applications to various markets. Performed full cycle of project management activities. Tested mobile games and applications, AR/VR games and applications for various mobile and VR platforms. Promoted quality assurance concepts. Mentored junior/middle QA engineers.

Participated in several freelance and remote projects as Project Manager, QA Lead and Senior QA Engineer. Managed various teams under various methodologies. Tested web-applications, software for mobile devices and other products. Provided consulting services for growing startup teams desiring to set up correct processes, performed testing of Big Data project involving Microsoft Business Intelligence, SSIS and SSAS, was a Scrum Master of several distributed teams of ~20 people total under SAFe methodology.

Lead the team of 10 people through the very tense project schedule. Regularly solved various process issues including incomplete requirements, corrupted deployments and so on. Interviewed new candidates to own and other teams. Supervised testing of backend part of enterprise scale web-based contract lifecycle management applications including cloud-based JBoss cluster, integration with several third-party components, RESTful API and various other specific features. Performed sprint result demos.

Quality Assurance: Performed various types of manual testing of web-based contract lifecycle management applications. Interacted with different teams to get the code developed, tested and deployed to production servers. Regularly substituted the QA Lead in leading the team of 8 people and managing 15+ projects.

Quality Assurance: Disaster management – picked up project not tested properly for six months. With two more QA under my command have been testing Server Console for firewall and antivirus applications. Also there was a console application for Windows Mobile OS. Created detailed test plans and scenarios, wrote system requirements, coordinated test activities with other project groups. Supervised training of international support service. Resolved support service cases.

Quality Assurance: Designed, developed and implemented testing strategy for SMS-triggered help service simulation system, performed adaptation of previously developed tools and scripts in Python and PHP, supported previous project.

Quality Assurance: Performed manual and automated testing (using C++ Unittest, TASTE, various automation tools for embedded software), performed minor bugfixing, created detailed test plans and scenarios, wrote system requirements, coordinated test activities with other project groups.

Performed surveillance and safety systems installation and maintenance, e-shop administration.

Implemented network maintenance and expansion. Performed technical support. PHP (support of sites, programming). Administration: Firebird databases, Windows 98/XP.

Quality Assurance: Performed manual and automated testing (using WinRunner, LoadRunner, QTP and such), created detailed test plans and scenarios, performed full lifecycle bug tracking, wrote system requirements, coordinated test activities with other project groups.