Summary
Maria Anashkina is a Software Development Engineer in Test with eight years of experience specializing in Linux-based testing and automation for security and enterprise products. Currently at Kaspersky, she combines deep hands-on skills in CentOS/RHEL environments, CI/CD pipeline fixes, and Robot/Python and pytest-based test automation with a strong background in manual, integration, regression and stress testing. Her career spans security, web and embedded domains—from deploying complex server and mail systems to testing Windows and Linux integrations—underpinned by early firmware and web-interface development for ARM-based devices. Prior roles at Mail.ru Group and Kaspersky Lab show an ability to deploy test environments from dev branches, resolve merge conflicts across PHP stacks, and design test plans that align with agile teams. An associate professor of computer science, she brings an uncommon mix of academic rigor and practical delivery, often bridging documentation, test design and developer workflows. Based in Omsk, she is adept at translating complex requirements into repeatable, automated test suites that improve release confidence.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist degree, Information Technology, Specialist degree, Information Technology at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English