Elena Sitdikova
Project manager at Quality Assurance
Project manager with experience in managing software testing automation projects, software quality enhancement, and involvement in large-scale software development projects aimed at improving passenger transport security.

Elena is the project manager for the "Quality Assurance" project. This project focuses on enhancing the quality of software for ground passenger transport, supplied with buses, electric buses, and trams to major state and private transport companies across many cities in Russia.

This project aims to prevent errors and defects in the products and avoid issues during the delivery of products or services to clients, which the ISO 9000 standard defines as "a part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled."

The project's outcome is the automation of the testing phase to ensure software quality: improving software development quality, optimizing the release version production process, controlling software version compatibility within interconnected projects, optimizing the decision-making process regarding the usability of release versions for clients, and ensuring optimal test coverage of the developed software.

Thanks to her serious STEM education, extensive experience in software development, and successful mastery of project management tools and domain knowledge, Elena has been able to build a competency base in software testing automation (knowledge bases for automated tests, automation engineer manuals, code quality requirements, code review rules, library usage rules, requirements for using specialized software code quality checks). She has also established a community of test automation engineers within the project, aimed at effective interaction, development, and use of test automation technologies among test developers, significantly enhancing their professional experience and testing quality, and consequently, the quality of the software produced.

With over 10 years of experience in information technology, Elena has also participated in several major IT projects:

- A project aimed at enhancing security, the quality of public transport services, and the economic efficiency of passenger transportation by urban ground transport.
- A project aimed at improving passenger information through audio and video notifications.
- A project focused on data transmission from video recording devices in the public transport video surveillance system.
- A mobile application project aimed at informing passengers about routes, schedules, and the movement of passenger transport.
- A project implementing SAP R/3 software for automating business processes in a large oil company, among others.

Elena is an expert in project management. Her analytical skills, ability to quickly master new domains when necessary, enthusiasm for tackling complex tasks and bringing them to logical conclusion, and making well-considered decisions contribute to the successful and active development of current and future projects.