Software Quality Management

Oleg Tyulin, PMP

Northbrook, IL ***** 224-***-**** ac18mb@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/OlegTyulin

Software Quality Management

Increase Effectiveness of Software Development Organization by Adding Value to Cross-functional Teams

Goal oriented professional with experience in quality management, software development, vendor, project, program and product management in Retail, Telecommunications and Banking industries. Respected leader, adept at driving project success through motivating global teams of skilled managers, developers, and engineers to ensure superior work quality while adhering to strict timelines and addressing risks.

Possess expertise across all phases of software development lifecycle from requirements gathering through to implementation and support. Skilled in applying methodologies and standards to meet quality goals. Proactively examine existing processes and leverage enterprise tools to optimize project and test management and automation.

Effective communicator with colleagues and project stakeholders. Role model and mentor junior colleagues to motivate and promote professional growth of team members in support of organizational goals.

Team Leadership

Strategic Planning

Extreme Programming & Scrum

Budget & Planning

SDLC (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall)

CMMi, ISO 9001

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Test Management:

Inflectra SpiraTeam, HP ALM, Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)

Testing Tools/ Software:

Qualitia, Selenium WebDriver, SOAPUI NG, HP ALM, QuickTest Pro

Environment and Tools:

Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MS SQL, SDET, CI, CD, Oracle WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, WildFly, Java, HTML, JSON, Web Services, SOAP, REST, Team City, Maven, Jenkins CloudBees, AWS, VMWare, SVN, TFS, FlexNet Publisher, Toad, SQLyog, SSMS, Putty, DOORS, MS Visio, UML, MS Office suite, ClickTime, IBM Notes

Defect Reporting:

JIRA, Inflectra SpiraTeam, HP ALM, Bugzilla

Platforms:

Windows, Linux, OS400

Scripting Languages:

VBA, VBScript

Project Management:

Microsoft Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sears Holdings Corporation, Hoffman Estates, IL 2013 – Present

Senior Manager Quality Engineering

Manage and coordinate Loyalty Quality Program including definition of goals and test strategy, utilize client business requirements, constraints, dependencies and risk analysis. Own quality metric selection, collection and analysis and lead process improvement. Manage global cross-functional SDET team of 30+ and test environments. Establish and execute communication plan to engage and update stakeholders including real-time reporting. Lead sharing of expertise and adoption of industry best practices and standards. Work as product owner, administrator, and SME of Inflectra SpiraTeam ALM tool.

Reduced duration of testing phase by 50%, transforming several separate teams to SDET cross-functional geographically dispersed team covering all testing modalities and test automation.

Introduced test automation, employing Qualitia, and Selenium WebDriver, delivering labor savings equal to 700-man hours of effort per every round of automated regression suite execution and enabling sign off on release after last minute changes all in 1-day as part of continuous delivery initiative.

Dramatically improved effectiveness of manual and automated test management and real-time reporting by implementing Application Lifecycle Management tool for whole corporation and creating set of VBA scripts automating project planning and tracking routine.

TATA Consultancy Services, Lincolnshire, IL 2011 – 2012

Client: Walgreens

Project Leader, QA Automation

Directed automation framework development, project’s automation test strategy, established standards, and success metrics. Managed both onsite and offshore automation teams to define objectives and timelines and performed performance assessment. Communicated with project stakeholders providing updates and noting achievement of benchmarks. Administered HP Quality Center.

Increased automation team productivity up to 20% by implementing team performance report which increased visibility of team activities and progress on assigned tasks.

Implemented backup process for automation framework, reducing test script and data loss to zero.

Enhanced automation framework effectiveness by using HP Quality Center 10.0 to schedule test execution through remote test environment, sharing test status reports, and improving test data management.

VPIsystems, Holmdel, NJ 2000 – 2010

Director of Software Quality & Release Management (2002-2010)

Drove Quality Management system development based on CMM and extreme programming. Defined processes including test automation and led their implementation and improvement. Developed, collected and analyzed quality metrics about products, processes and projects. Led audits and ensured that teams followed processes through SDLC and reported to C-level managers. Managed staff hiring and training, workload priorities and performance assessment. Owned change management, release management and licensing products including development and support.

Transformed both Development (70+) and QA (22+) teams to customer-centric organization, delivering Agile QA service to 6 technical teams located in USA, Australia, Germany, and Belarus and following customized processes and specific release schedule.

Greatly enhanced efficiency of software development process, designing and deploying continuous integration system with web interface to manage build production, test environment, product deployment, automated testing, and reporting in single cycle.

Optimized test lab operation for 60 plus computers through environment virtualization from VM Ware.

Guided professional development program resulted in 4 QA Leads receiving promotions to management.

Reduced effort for license generation for 100+ customers by 20 times, implementing automated license generation system.

Previous employment with VPIsystems: Quality Monitoring Manager (2000- 2002)

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Master of Science (MS) in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Minsk, Belarus

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level

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