Andrew Grinchenko

Company Overview:

Wunderkind is a performance marketing engine that delivers tailored experiences at scale. Digital businesses use Wunderkind to remember who users are better than ever before, allowing them to deliver high-performing, one-to-one messages on websites, through emails and texts, and in ads at a scale that’s not otherwise possible. Wunderkind drives over 1 billion US dollars annually in directly attributable revenue for top e-commerce brands like Uniqlo, Sonos, and HelloFresh, often ranking as a top-3 revenue channel in their own analytics. Wunderkind is obsessed with ROI and aims to be the infrastructural interface between individuals and brands in a world where consumers choose what they want, from whom, and when.

Responsibilities:

• Served as technical liaison for a Team of over 30 people that included Backend, Frontend, and Mobile development, as well as Quality Assurance, Product and Support activities.
• Getting to know the assignment needs, shaping up the Team, and interviewing candidates.
• Streamlined project processes by implementing agile methodologies, resulting in increased efficiency and faster completion times.
• Supported and executed simultaneous delivery of various e-commerce and mobile projects.
• Identified risks early in the project lifecycle, developing mitigation plans to prevent schedule delays or cost overruns.
• Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
• Established clear lines of communication between stakeholders by creating detailed status updates that kept everyone apprised of critical milestones throughout each stage of the project.
• Processing all sorts of communications including Financials.

Technologies:

Golang, PHP, React, Flutter, GCP, AWS, Appium, Mobile Development.

Company Overview:

Dandi is an AI-native HR analytics platform that streamlines DEI, compensation, and workforce reporting. Launched AI-driven insights, automated reporting tools, and secure global data collection, enabling HR teams to turn raw data into executive-ready decisions in seconds. Dandi also provides the support businesses require to navigate the challenges of becoming fair and equal workplaces through a team of DEI experts and an extensive partner network. The company's goal is to improve business for everyone.

Responsibilities:

• Getting to know the assignment needs and shaping up a Team of 3 Principal level people.
• Helped shaping the Product Strategy.
• Processing all sorts of communications including Financials.
• Increased client satisfaction by building strong relationships and addressing their needs promptly.
• Maintained high client retention rate by providing exceptional customer service feedback addressing and anticipating Client needs.
• Managed a diverse portfolio of accounts, ensuring timely communication and effective problem resolution.
• Negotiated contract terms with the Client, securing favorable agreements for both parties.
• Established clear communication channels between clients and internal teams, ensuring seamless project execution.
• Cultivated long-term relationships with key stakeholders in assigned accounts, fostering trust and loyalty among Clients.

Technologies:

Scala, React, GCP, Microservices, Data Engineering.

Company Overview:

Beeswax offers the advertising industry's first Bidder-as-a-Service, providing media buyers ownership and total control over their media buying. It is a solution that is scalable, customizable and is a cloud-based programmatic bidding platform.

In 2021, Beeswax was acquired by Comcast's FreeWheel.

Responsibilities:

• Getting to know the assignment needs, shaping up the Team, and interviewing candidates.
• Successfully resolved escalated issues, preventing potential loss of valuable clients while maintaining positive relationships with all parties involved.
• Conducted regular account reviews to identify areas for improvement and ensure continued success.
• Negotiated contract terms with clients, securing favorable agreements for both parties.
• Cultivated long-term relationships with key stakeholders in assigned account, fostering trust and loyalty, which resulted in further assignments.
• Processing all sorts of communications including Financials.
• The assignment is current and ongoing, but transferred it to another SPM person.

Technologies:

Python, Django, ReactJS, AWS.

Company Overview:

The project is to build a SaaS platform based on AI/ML algorithms that will help identify patterns, trends, and insights between disparate datasets. These datasets were acquired via 3rd party companies and from our clients directly and were ranged from marketing, organizational, news, social and other types of data. New data was ingested on an hourly basis (as available) and the platform ran the AI engine again to produce updated patterns, trends, and insights. A core differentiator for the platform was that it ran hourly updates. The plan was to use ingested datasets from Twitter. The purpose of the platform was to enable both Executive, Mid, and Junior level associates at creative agencies and brands to do a better job identifying trends and insights that are relevant to their business and react to them in the branding, promotional and organizational decisions they make on a day-to-day basis.

Responsibilities:

• Activities and resource planning.
• Conducted estimation sessions with clear estimates preparation.
• Organizing and motivating project Team.
• Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
• Acted as an Associate Product Manager.
• Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
• Streamlined the QA workflow by automating repetitive tasks, increasing overall efficiency.
• Coached and motivated 2-person QA Team to develop competencies.
• Coordinated with developers to troubleshoot issues discovered during testing, expediting resolution times and minimizing delays in product release schedules.
• Identified potential product risks and developed plans to mitigate or eliminate hazards.
• Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product component against design standards and customer needs.
• Managing project execution reports and necessary documentation (as well as test documentation review).
• Achieved under-budget project completion through meticulous cost-control practices and vendor negotiations.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills by effectively managing diverse teams and maintaining high levels of motivation, even during challenging periods of significant change or tight deadlines.

Technologies:

• Python, Django, JavaScript, D3.js, AWS, EC2, S3.

Company Overview:

Team Lead of Test Automation on Media/Video syndication platform for Verizon Media (AOL \ Yahoo \ Oath). The main task of the Team is in the quick definition and implementation of automated tests that would be covering the heart of the product along with the main Portal and its critical use cases.

Responsibilities:

• Test Automation scope and coverage proposition and definition, along with supervising the further implementation.
• Test Automation implementation and supervision within the core parts of the product.
• Automation of E2E flows testing.
• Automation of Integration Testing.
• Overall Team supervision.
• Streamlined bug reporting and tracking processes, resulting in faster resolution times.
• Identified appropriate situations for implementing test automation, accounting for situations where automated testing was counterproductive.
• Implemented end-to-end automation for Functional diagnostics, reducing test costs by over 50%.
• Increased efficiency of regression testing through the implementation of continuous integration pipelines.
• Monitored emerging test automation frameworks, technologies and best practices for useful developments.
• Business trips to USA and Israel.

Technologies:

Java, Ruby, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis, Selenium, Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, Cucumber.

Company Overview:

Development of embedded software for a medical device. Software has strong restrictions for safety and quality, power management, memory usage. Project scope includes tools and simulators development as well. Development of a sub-system of Clinical Research System (CRS) that is used to perform studies such as closed loop algorithm investigations.

Responsibilities:

• Led the Test Team of 10 people.
• Test Design, management and execution.
• Coordination between Dev, Test and QC Teams.
• Communication with key stakeholders.
• Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
• Promoted a positive work environment by fostering teamwork, open communication, and employee recognition initiatives.

Technologies:

PTC Integrity, IBM Rational DOORS, Seapine Test Track, Seapine Surround SCM, SVN, Android, XML.

Company Overview:

Bottomline helps businesses transform the way they pay and get paid. A global leader in business payments and cash management, Bottomline’s secure, comprehensive solutions modernize payments for businesses and financial institutions globally. Bottomline's LSM solutions are purposed to take control of legal spend, improve litigation management processes, increase efficiency, speed decision making, and drive successful case outcomes. Its main function is to provide services to American insurance companies. Currently acquired by Sedgwick.

Responsibilities:

• Test Design, management, and execution.
• Planning and managing regression process.
• Participation in Functional, Regression, Load and UI testing.
• Communication with Product Managers and key stakeholders.
• Championed best practices in testing, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the QA team.
• Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
• Enabled seamless integration of new features by thoroughly testing system components for compatibility.
• Boosted efficiency by automating regression tests using industry-standard tools and frameworks.
• Business trips to US.

Technologies:

Java, CSS, Jasper, Web Services, HP Quality Center, SVN, JIRA, Scrum.

Company Overview:

Development of embedded software for a medical system comprising two devices with wireless communication. The software and processes must meet high safety, quality, power consumption, and management standards. Creation of a fully automated test framework for this system. The entire process adheres to strict FDA regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Managing a Test Team of 8 people.
• Conducting requirements review.
• Performing Functional testing.
• Handling UI testing.
• Executing RF communication testing.
• Reporting bugs.
• Writing and reviewing Test Designs.
• Creating, reviewing, and executing manual Test Cases.
• Developing, reviewing, and executing automated test scripts (using an in-house JavaScript-based testing framework).
• Participating in knowledge sharing activities.
• Making business trips to the US.

Technologies:

• IBM Rational DOORS, Seapine Test Track, Seapine Surround SCM, SVN, JavaScript (Google v8), Ubuntu.

Company Overview:

CustomCD, a technology company, is the world’s leading provider of turnkey and SaaS solutions that enable fulfillment of fully-personalized on-demand media products. CustomCD creates end-to-end solutions for various vertical industries, such as download software and games, online photo and video services, hosted email providers, employee development and training, and movie and entertainment. Serving customers worldwide, CustomCD maintains fulfillment centers in Europe and the USA. CustomCD is owned by Digital River, Inc., (Nasdaq: DRIV), the world’s largest provider of ecommerce services for the computer software and games industries.

Responsibilities:

• Managing Test Team of 6 people and Billing Development Team of 3 people, as well as Support Team of 3 people.
• Mentored Junior and Middle Test Engineers, enhancing their skillsets and overall Team performance.
• Mentored three Support Team members.
• Streamlined testing processes for increased efficiency in identifying and resolving defects.
• Testing of Web and Desktop applications, Windows Services.
• Test Cases and Check Lists creation and execution.
• Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, UI and Security testing.
• Requirements gathering and analysis.
• Communication with production teams based in US and Germany.
• Communication with direct business Clients.
• Business trips to US.

Technologies:

Windows Vista, XML, JavaScript, MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 (C#), Web Services, NVelocity template engine, HTML, DHTML.

Company Overview:

Watterson~Prime StratQ.NET is a software solution and compliance rules update service designed for the specific business needs of mortgage banks and finance companies.

Responsibilities:

• Overall requirements analysis.
• Test Cases development, review and execution.
• Test Reports creation.
• Functional testing.
• Load testing.
• UI testing.
• Installation testing.
• Maintained up-to-date documentation of all Test Plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
• Identified critical bugs and worked closely with developers to ensure timely resolution, resulting in a more stable product.
• Managed defect tracking systems, ensuring accurate documentation of issues for efficient resolution.
• Tracked test reports and failures determined by root cause data trends.
• Optimized regression testing efforts through continuous improvement of test cases and methodologies.

Technologies:

Windows, Windows Servers, Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, C#, XML Web Services, MS SQL, Windows Forms, AutoIT scripting language.