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Pavel Tkalin

Quality Assurance Lead
Stockholm

Summary

I am an experienced senior professional with a robust background in team leadership as well as quality management. I am skilled in adopting agile and value-driven approaches. I have a proven track record of effectively managing quality within complex portfolio components, including products, projects, and programs, leading to valuable outcomes. With over 13 years of experience in the digital quality ecosystem, I am well-prepared to deliver results.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
5
5
Languages

Work History

Digital Quality Assurance Lead

Electrolux
07.2022 - Current
  • Lead a team of geografically 5 engineers in Digital Quality Assurance.
  • Create and execute a quality strategy to align QA project goals with the department's objectives and enterprise quality strategy.
  • Owns quality for a portfolio of various digital services and managed quality within complex, multi-stream projects, which helped prevent losses and successfully passed necessary quality audits.
  • Working with overall stakeholder satisfaction, their estimates, and balancing different quality viewpoints and objectives
  • Defining, gathering, and reporting quality metrics, which resulted in a predictable, measurable valuable quality management process
  • Support hiring and onboarding of QA candidates; coached and mentored team members.
  • Manage product ownership practices for internal test tools


The results of these practices included an increase in the consumer star rating of our mobile app, a reduction in the service call rate, and the achievement of a zero-bug rate in the product environment.


Additional benefits included a faster time to market by removing quality bottlenecks and successfully passing European compliance audits

Senior QA Engineer

Electrolux
05.2018 - 06.2022
  • Collaborated with developers and product managers to identify and resolve software bugs.
  • Led end-to-end testing efforts for successful product launches. Enhanced product quality through effective test planning and execution.
  • Defined and managed test architecture within an ecosystem of IoT solutions, including mobile applications, cloud backends, hardware protocols, and machine learning.
  • Successfully developed test frameworks for mobile automation in Kotlin and Swift and backend API automation in Java Spring.

Project Portfolio Manager

BFA Asset Management
12.2011 - 05.2018


  • Lead IT Quality assurance function for the whole portfolio of financial services and reporting IT systems (for example, migration of mutual funds, risk system, and overall IT infrastructure from obsolete reporting system to advanced one).
  • Established portfolio/product management for IT and financial services & tools portfolio, resulting in the driving of implementation of a zero-bug policy for the enterprise infrastructure of information disclosure.


Education

5 year specialist degree - Business & Economics

The Graduate School of Management SPbU
Saint-Petersburg
06.2003 - 06.2008

Skills

IT strategy & innovation

Product ownership

Presentation skills

Learning & development

Quality assurance

Project management

Test management

Mobile test automation

Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Functionalskills

  • IT strategy & innovation, Intermediate, 3 to 5 years
  • Product management, Intermediate, 3 to 5 years
  • Presentation skills, Intermediate, 3 to 5 years
  • Learning & development, Intermediate, 3 to 5 years
  • Facilitation, Advanced, 6 to 10 years
  • Quality assurance, Intermediate, 6 to 10 years
  • Project management, Advanced, More than 10 years

Timeline

Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management

11-2024

Program management Professional

08-2024

Portfolio Management Professional

11-2023

SAFE 6.0. Product owner/Product management certificate

05-2023

Digital Quality Assurance Lead

Electrolux
07.2022 - Current

Project Management Professional (PMP)

12-2020

Senior QA Engineer

Electrolux
05.2018 - 06.2022

Project Portfolio Manager

BFA Asset Management
12.2011 - 05.2018

5 year specialist degree - Business & Economics

The Graduate School of Management SPbU
06.2003 - 06.2008
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