Igor Balagurov
Head Of Quality Assurance at Ozon Банк
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Balagurov is a Head of Quality Assurance with a decade of experience building and scaling QA organizations for high‑traffic fintech and consumer platforms. He leads Ozon Bank’s Fintech QA, having grown a distributed team of 200+ automation engineers and implemented processes that enable thousands of API E2E scenarios to run at scale with median runtimes measured in minutes. Comfortable across API, web, mobile, load and some security testing, he combines hands‑on automation ownership (test data management, mocking, impact analysis) with product and tech‑owner responsibilities for CI/CD quality gates. Previously he drove dramatic coverage and reliability improvements at VK and other companies, cutting flakiness to near zero and halving onboarding time for new QA hires. A member of the Heisenbug program committee and a conference speaker, he pairs technical depth with mentoring and organizational design skills developed through formal IT management training. He’s notable for turning complex, cross‑platform testing challenges into repeatable services that let developers and SREs localize issues without QA intervention.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate research without degree, Postgraduate research without degree at ITMO University
Russian, Английский
Github Skills (16)
selenide10
testing9
webdriver9
selenium9
browser8
e2e-testing8
automation8
python8
browserstack7
appium-android7
selenium-webdriver7
api6
pytest6
android5
ios4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ibalagurov/api_tests_example
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Example of api tests using pytest + requests
Contributions:41 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
apipythonapi-teststestingpytest
ibalagurov/heisenbug_piter_2018_example
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Demo of "one test for several platforms" approach: Web(Selenium) + iOS, Android(Appium) on Selene + Pytest
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
pythonappiumtestingappium-androidapproach
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