Andrii Shavlovskyi

Engineering Manager at MacPaw | ex-SKELAR | ex-Genesis

Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

About

Experienced Engineering Leader and QA Head in IT product development. After more than 10 years in several IT development companies, I consider myself an expert in - engineering management, - agile transformation - SDLC process, - quality assurance, - CI/CD process, - test automation, - quality assurance process launches. Starting in 2019, I developed my expertise as well in agile software development modernization, transformation, and time-to-market optimization.

Experience

  • Software Engineering Manager at MacPaw 🇺🇦
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    * Provided engineering leadership to a cross-functional team * Drove transition to a new BFF-based architecture, significantly improved observability, and developed a robust rollback strategy for desktop releases * Owned the engineering backlog in collaboration with Product Managers, prioritized tasks to reduce bottlenecks, and aligned delivery with product strategy * Improved communication between the Desktop team and backend/platform teams to resolve dependencies and align releases * Drove a cultural shift towards incremental delivery and beta testing, enabling predictable weekly releases of the Setapp Desktop Client

  • Head of QA and Agile Practice at TENTENS.tech
    Jun 2020 - Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Head of QA and Agile Practice. TENTENS Tech by SKELAR at SKELAR
    Nov 2018 - Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 9 mos

    - Have built quality assurance process from scratch for the long term product - Have built & implemented a comprehensive test strategy that allowed to deliver high-quality product continuously - Driving the testing and delivering process according to a strategy - Have built automation process and architecture from scratch - All automation infrastructure and execution have been placed in a cloud - Experience in changing processes in development teams (SDLC). Responsible for changing. - Experience in Scrum processes implementation - Responsible for time to market minimization - Experience in CI/CD pipelines implementation and optimization - Support migration to continuous integration and delivery processes. - Assemble and leading efficient QA engineers’ team (manual, automation, and security) up to 15 person - Implementation of a test management system - Provide support and expertise on all test and quality assurance related subjects

  • QA Automation Tech Lead at Genesis Tech
    Aug 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Intro Pro (Ukraine)
    • QA Automation Engineer - BigData
      Mar 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Test automation for BigData components(Oozie; Flume; Hive; HDFS; HBase; NoSQL; Phoenix); Installing, configuring, running and reviewing BigData components; Analysis and review requirements and other project documentation; Web services testing (REST; JSON; XML); Test Completion; Test Cases (sets) development, reviewing and implementation.

    • QA Automation Engineer
      May 2015 - Feb 2016 · 10 mos

      Hadoop Workbench is an IDE for Hadoop family (big-data, cloud). The web-based application which create an integrated environment for create and control and managing and controlling Hadoop based Applications (Oozie, Flume, HDFS, etc.) as well as Hadoop internal subsystems Automation testing: Protractor (Jasmine, Chai), WebDriverJS;