Evgeny Tkachenko

“Evgeny Tkachenko joined the CCC Product Platform Team to lead our QA efforts and manage deployments and releases, and he showed his expertise immediately. He rapidly picked up the product workflow and feature details, the complexities of rights management and rights resolution, as well as the many integrations the product has with our commerce services, rights management services, works management, custom agreements, and many other services developed by several other teams. RightFind is a large and complicated product with a large development and QA team, and Evgeny worked tirelessly to prioritize and clear out the technical debt and accumulating bugs that were burdening the team when he took over. Evgeny worked with engineering management and our tech leads to lay the groundwork for modernizing our testing processes, improving quality and efficiency across the team, and led the efforts to spread these improved processes throughout the company. I would welcome Evgeny on any product or team I am managing. Chris Howard Senior Technical Product Manager Copyright Clearance Center ”

“I was fortunate to have worked with Evgeny Tkachenko on one of my products at CCC. Evgeny substantially improved our testing processes on our project by introducing test automation into our approach, and enforcing that automation tests be written during the development phase. He also worked with the technical lead and software engineers on the team to map out a feature-branching strategy where QA engineers and developers worked together on stories in separate code branches and validated before checking changes into the main branch, which helped us maintain a clean codebase and greatly improved the effectiveness of our development and qa teams. When Evgeny joined our team, we had over 600 open bugs in our bug tracker, and within 6 months he had whittled that number down to single digits. He continued to be diligent in keeping the number of tickets open to a minimum, and worked closely with Product Owners and dev teams to keep on top of new tickets and get them resolved quickly or closed as unnecessary so the team didn’t have to deal with a mountain of technical debt. Working with our test automation engineers, he designed an automated testing suite that allowed us to reliably regression test our application with every build, getting us further down the road to continuous integration. I relied on his expertise to effectively manage the offshore QA team and he handled that responsibility very well. I'd be happy to have the opportunity to work with Evgeny again; he was a great contributor to my team.”

“Evgeny and I have worked together for the last four years on a complex software project for Copyright Clearance Center in Danvers, Massachusetts. In my role as project manager/scrum master, I witnessed first-hand his exceptional skills in quality, automation, management, and leadership. The project we work together on has involved moving multiple legacy applications onto a new platform for the company. The project continues to add applications, and what started as one application about seven years ago has grown into six today. And what started as one right-sized scrum team is now two large scrum teams. The software applications use a complicated search and extraction feature in the backend to help our customers find and use copyrighted material easily in the user interface. Suffice to say these are tricky applications that interface with many other applications to provide full-service for our customer’s education and business copyright needs. In a short period of time, Evgeny became a highly valued subject matter expert for the team, product owners, and others throughout the organization, and he’s committed to continuous risk management and ensuring the best product output. Evgeny became a member of the team about three years after the initial start. At the time, we were drowning in legacy bug issues (nearly 600 JIRA bugs), and he took on the enormous task of categorizing, reviewing, and helping the team to whittle the backlog down to single digits. Credit for this huge accomplishment largely falls to his leadership and focus. He also co-led an effort to shift our team over to a true Agile process – one where software development and testing are done in parallel. The initiative introduced a feature branching process that allowed for faster development and testing – the result being higher quality output. It included a new process in JIRA that supports the initiative, and due to the success of the initiative, it’s been adopted by many other project teams at CCC. In addition, Evgeny was able to move the team to a fully automated framework for testing. Our software applications are close to 100% automated, and this is another example of his influence that set the bar for automation testing with other project teams in the organization. Evgeny has a top-notch work ethic and is just a great teammate with the ability to lead and collaborate with all functions. With his knowledge and skills, he’ll be an asset to any organization. ”

“I had a pleasure of working with Evgeny as an onsite lead of my QA team on several projects during more than 2 years. He is a great specialist who is always aware of the new mainstream technologies and approaches for software development and testing. We were using modern and cool approaches many of which were proposed by Evgeny and implemented with his support. He is a great leader who cares not only of the quality of the product he is working on but also of the people he is working with. Building good and open relations between the team members and in integrations with other teams is one of his strong qualities. I would highly recommend Evgeny as a specialist in Testing who may become the knowledge holder of the very complex solutions, build good stable processes and lead the team of specialists of different levels.”

“Although we worked on the different projects Evgeny was always for me the person to go to with all questions related to the test automation. Very solid engineer with advanced knowledge of the current QA tools, methodology and technologies. Good team player. Nice personality. Would be a great asset for any company!”

“I worked with Evgeny in 2012-2013 when he played a joint role of a QA / Release manager at Innova, the online entertainment company we both worked for. He also led the daily and retrospective meetings for our development team being a strong advocate for Agile practices and best available team self-reflection techniques that allowed us to be more conscious and focused on being productive and maintaining a good working culture. Evgeny is a very well skilled, knowledgeable and passionate engineer who is capable of leading people and producing value as an individual contributor. If I had a chance to work again, I'd go for it without a single doubt.”

“Eugene is one of the strongest and most advanced QA engineers.”

“I had a chance to work with Evgeny. Evgeny has great managing and technical skills. He is extremely good as a QA lead. He has strong knowledge of test procedures and a wide experience in test process development. He suggested and provided a new QA process on our project which is successfully applied. Great communication and leadership skills. It was easy to work and collaborate with Evgeny.”

“I am pleased to have worked with Evgeny as he is a great professional, very dedicated and outgoing. One can be sure that everything will be fine and right in time in the project, if Evgeny participates in it.”

“Евгений свое дело знает и умеет, а главное — понимает. Последнее распространяется далеко за пределы QA глубоко в проект, над которым вы вместе с ним работаете.”