Summary
Igor Cherkasov is a results-driven QA Engineer with over a decade in IT and eight years focused on hands-on quality, performance testing, and team leadership. He has built and led engineering and IT teams across infrastructure, mobile and web projects, from designing distributed data centers and call centers to shipping cross-platform mobile apps and payment gateways. At MacroActive he architects performance test strategies and implements CI-integrated automation using Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Python and scripting to diagnose bottlenecks and improve scalability. Previously as Head of Software Engineering he delivered ERPs, billing systems and numerous integrations while guiding a 10-person team through full test automation and load-testing practices. Comfortable bridging ops and dev, he combines deep systems-level experience with test automation, monitoring and pragmatic process improvements. Based in Serbia with a background in international relations, he brings both technical breadth and an uncommon systems-and-people perspective to quality engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, International Relations and Affairs, Master's degree, International Relations and Affairs at Far Eastern State University
English, Russian