About

Vladimir Chistiukhin

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer


Greetings! My name is Vladimir, and I’m Your Fellow QA Engineer.

I’m a Senior QA Engineer with 10+ years of experience improving product quality across web, mobile and backend platforms. I work across the entire development lifecycle - from refining requirements and designing test strategy to coordinating regressions and signing off releases.

Over my career I’ve delivered QA for consumer apps (1.2M+ MAU), ensuring predictable, low-risk releases and maintaining zero high-severity production issues for 6+ months on a high-traffic product. I focus on preventing issues early, aligning testing with business goals, and giving teams the clarity and confidence they need to ship.

I’m comfortable building QA processes from scratch, mentoring engineers, and integrating AI/LLM-based tools to speed up analysis, documentation and test design. I thrive in environments where quality matters, requirements evolve, and a reliable product is key to success.

Based in Oviedo, Spain (remote global). Fluent in English, Serbo-Croatian, Russian.
Currently improving my Spanish (intermediate).

Take a look at the Projects I’ve had the privilege to work on, or browse my career Timeline.
Let’s stay in touch - connect with me on LinkedIn or drop me an email anytime.

Senior QA Engineer at Social Discovery Group

Feb. 2024 — Present

  • Ensured project quality for a user base exceeding 1.2 million monthly active users.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including both technical and business stakeholders.
  • Contributed to quality assurance processes throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Coordinated team efforts and activities during all phases of the development cycle.
  • Made proposals for optimal solutions balancing business requirements and team capabilities.

Senior QA Engineer at 4XXI

Feb. 2020 — Feb. 2024

  • Implemented quality assurance processes from scratch for multiple projects.
  • Adopted best practices through testing different approaches to pick the best ones.
  • Designed comprehensive documentation for testing purposes to cover the end users experience.
  • Designed detailed product documentation, contributing to a clearer understanding of project goals.
  • Proposed adjustments in the UI/UX experience to deliver the best possible user experience.
  • Effectively coordinated project teams, enhancing team collaboration during the development cycle.
  • Provided mentorship to fellow QA engineers, contributing to their professional growth.

Middle QA Engineer at 4XXI

Mar. 2016 — Jan. 2020

  • Helped in creating clear guides and plans for testing our product.
  • Took care of new features, reported problems, and made sure fixes worked.
  • Built and updated helper tools for testing purposes using toolsets.
  • Used the best methods to make sure our projects quality was top-notch.
  • Handled testing of the projects in deeper parts like APIs, databases, and logs.
  • Guided new team members and helped junior staff learn and grow.

Junior QA Engineer at FreshOffice

Jan. 2014 — Feb. 2016

  • Carried out tests to make sure everything in our product worked as it should.
  • Wrote test documentation and plans to check our product quality.
  • Learned and used the best practices in quality assurance.
  • Engaged in development process, provided feedback, and helping dev team do a better job.
  • Took part in meetings and discussions about our product, contributing from QA perspective.

QA Trainee at FreshOffice

Sept. 2013 — Jan. 2014

  • Helped business clients quickly and effectively with their technical problems.
  • Fixed data issues, making sure everything worked smoothly.
  • Found and reported software issues, supporting development team.
  • Supported dev team to help them solving problems faster and making the product better.