Mikhail Pavlov

Background

About Mikhail Pavlov

20+ year experienced ISTQB-certified professional in software testing and quality control with proven leadership skills, motivated towards achieving goals and deadlines Test manager/lead hat- managed software testing for North America Telecom and the US airspace industry - drove a testing strategy development on a mission-critical healthcare project - experienced in managing 10+ members teams - functional and performance testing Consultant/Trainer hat - conducted testing process assessments for external organizations - established a company-wide training organization at Auriga - developed from scratch and conducted a training course in software testing fundamentals Test analyst hat: • Experience in testing of multi-tier client-server, web-based, and mainframe applications in telecom, airspace, healthcare, travel, e-learning industries; • Proficient in developing test strategies, test plans, and reporting test results; • Creating and working with test cases/procedures • Functional, exploratory, regression, integration, usability, data migration testing, UAT testing and analysis, Process and QA consultant and manager hat - participated in 4 official CMMI appraisals in roles of test lead, head of training organization, consultant and appraisal team member- implemented CMMI requirements in 3 organizations (Luxoft, Auriga, Credit Suisse Bank)- expert in high maturity practices and statistical approaches to process improvements. Specialties: Technical Skills - SDLC: waterfall/increment, RUP, agile (SAFe, scrum, lean, XP); ITSM/ITIL - OS: MS Windows family, Unix-like: Linux Ubuntu, Mac OS X, HP-UX (shell), AIX; MVS - Configuration Management: VSS, TFS, Subversion, LUXProject - Defect Management: Rational ClearQuest, Jira, Rally - Testing tools: HPQC, Selenium, SOAPUI - Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, VBA - DBMS: MS SQL, DB2, MS Access - Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL Other tools: Confluence, MS CRM, VMWare, Spoon, Slack, PostMan