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Yahor Faliazhynski

Yahor Faliazhynski

Krakow,Lesser Poland

Summary

Quality Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience driving QA strategy, leading cross‑functional teams and delivering high‑quality solutions across insurance, legal, multimedia and telecom domains. Proven track record of managing distributed teams, optimizing QA processes and ensuring predictable delivery within Agile environments. Proficient with Jira, Azure DevOps, CI/CD and industry‑standard QA tools. Skilled in test strategy development, risk‑based quality management, release readiness and stakeholder communication. Adept at building high‑performing teams, mentoring engineers and aligning quality initiatives with business goals. Combines strong technical understanding with people‑centric leadership to elevate product quality and team performance.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Scrum Master / Team Lead / QA Lead / Project Coordinator

EPAM Systems
Krakow
2023.03 - 2026.02

Client: Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co

Domain: Life Insurance

Team: 20+ ppl

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinated distributed cross-functional teams, ensuring predictable delivery within SAFe.
  • Led requirement refinement, backlog grooming and scope clarification.
  • Owned QA processes: test strategy, estimation, defect lifecycle, API testing and quality risk management.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured adherence to Agile practices.
  • Delivered structured work progress reporting, risk logs and quality dashboards for leadership.

Team Lead / QA Lead

EPAM Systems
Krakow
2021.07 - 2023.03

Client: EIS Group

Domain: Life and Health Insurance (Insurance Platform Implementation)

Team: DEV 10+ (up to 50) | QA 5+ (up to 25) | BA 3+ (up to 10)

Responsibilities:

  • Led QA streams including planning, scope definition, workload distribution and quality risk assessment.
  • Designed test strategies, reviewed test designs and ensured coverage across functional, integration and API layers.
  • Managed defect lifecycle, estimation and test process optimization across multiple streams.
  • Coordinated cross-team communication, reporting, KPI tracking and release readiness assessments.
  • Supported CI-based deployments, contributed to automation scope definition and participated in interviewing.

Team Lead / QA Lead

EPAM Systems
Krakow
2019.12 - 2021.07

Client: Thomson Reuters

Domain: Legal Tech (Practical Law)

Team: 20+ ppl

Responsibilities:

  • Led QA teams across multiple Practical Law initiatives, managing planning, backlog creation and task distribution.
  • Drove test strategy, estimation, defect management and functional/UI/API testing.
  • Created automation roadmaps, regression calendars and cross-region test consolidation processes.
  • Improved visibility of regression results, automation progress and release readiness.
  • Supported CI optimization and participated in interviewing and onboarding QA engineers.

Key Release QE / QA Lead

EPAM Systems
Minsk
2017.03 - 2019.12

Client: Thomson Reuters

Domain: Legal Tech (PracticalLaw, WestLaw)

Team: 15+ ppl

Responsibilities:

  • Led release testing cycles including manual, automated, integration, UI and compatibility testing.
  • Managed automated test infrastructure (Jenkins CI) and implemented new automated scenarios.
  • Conducted OAT, UAT support, hotfix validation and production smoke testing.
  • Created test strategies, capacity plans, estimation models and risk/issue reports.
  • Coordinated test team activities and ensured high-quality release delivery.

Solution QA / Key Quality Engineer

Renaissance Capital / Thomson Reuters / Life Belarus
Minsk
2010.01 - 2017.01

Domains: Legal Tech, Multimedia, Telecom (GSM & Billing), Finance and Investment.

Responsibilities:

  • Delivered functional / NFR testing and maintained QA processes across noted domains.

Education

Bachelor - Radioelectronic Systems

BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATICS AND RADIOELECTRONICS
Minsk, BY

Skills

  • Test Management
  • Test Strategy and Test Planning Development
  • Defect Management
  • SDLC Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
  • Leadership & Cross-team Collaboration
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Risk Management
  • Quality Metrics & Reporting (KPIs, OKRs)
  • Shift-Left & Shift-Right Testing Practices
  • Test Automation Strategy
  • Mentoring / Developing Others

Accomplishments

  • Redesigned the QA workflow and introduced quality gates, decreasing release rollback incidents by 30% in the first year.
  • Established a shift-left testing approach, enabling earlier defects detection and cutting overall testing effort by 25%.
  • Introduced parallel testing practices, reducing end-to-end test execution time by 50%.
  • Restructured and standardized regression test library that allowed to increase the coverage of automated testing by 40%.
  • Introduced KPI-driven quality dashboards, improving stakeholder visibility.
  • Trained and mentored newcomers, improving their skills and contributing to team growth.

Certification

  • ScrumAlliance: Certified ScrumMaster, 2026
  • EPAM Systems: AI Literacy Program, 2024
  • ISTQB: ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), 2018

Languages

English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Polish
Intermediate
Russian
Native

Timeline

Scrum Master / Team Lead / QA Lead / Project Coordinator

EPAM Systems
2023.03 - 2026.02

Team Lead / QA Lead

EPAM Systems
2021.07 - 2023.03

Team Lead / QA Lead

EPAM Systems
2019.12 - 2021.07

Key Release QE / QA Lead

EPAM Systems
2017.03 - 2019.12

Solution QA / Key Quality Engineer

Renaissance Capital / Thomson Reuters / Life Belarus
2010.01 - 2017.01

Bachelor - Radioelectronic Systems

BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATICS AND RADIOELECTRONICS
Yahor Faliazhynski