Vladyslav Babenko

Delivery leader

The single accountable quality authority for a multi-stream enterprise platform — test strategy, release governance, quality gates and client-facing risk ownership across web, iOS, Android and backend.

People manager

Resource Manager for a unit of 10+ engineers — hiring, onboarding, PDPs, performance check-ins, promotion readiness, succession, recognition and retention. I coach engineers through level-ups and certification paths.

Practice builder

Conference speaker, assessment committee head, technical interviewer, OKR captain and AI Champion advisor — building the QE practice well beyond my own account.

SME Feature Agent

And its production workflow

Turns a feature name into a business-readable summary, BDD scenarios and technical metadata, synthesised across 4 sources and published as pull requests, test campaigns and knowledge-base pages. Productionised as a 59-state, 16-assistant workflow — deliberately re-engineered down from a 49-state design to a single sequential chain, with a static validator gating every deploy.

Sprint QA Coverage Auditor

Audits every sprint against QA effort, automation and accessibility signals, identifies tickets missing required QA work and provisions the corresponding tasks automatically — read-only until an explicit 2-stage confirmation, closing planning gaps before the sprint starts rather than mid-flight.

Delivery Flow Monitor

Serverless service tracking ticket state transitions across the board, routing targeted notifications to the responsible engineer and team channel. Reports business-hours-only cycle time per status and surfaces linked pull requests — an objective view of where work stalls.

Path

• Apr 2021 — Present
  Quality Engineering Manager I · Key Quality Engineer, Team Lead
  Enterprise Digital Coaching Platform client under NDA
  The platform. On-demand, person-to-person professional coaching delivered at scale across web, iOS, Android and backend services, with global enterprises — Microsoft, AstraZeneca, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Kraft Heinz and Spotify among them — running workforce coaching programmes on it.
  My part. Single accountable quality authority across 3 parallel streams: authored the unified test strategy and the release quality gates Product and Delivery leadership use as standard readiness criteria, and built the metrics framework behind them. Plan, estimate and supervise every release cycle, act as the direct QA contact for client leadership, and line-manage a unit of 10+ engineers as Resource Manager. QA owner for the CTO's greenfield AI-first initiative targeting an October 2026 client pilot.
• Feb 2020 — Jan 2021
  Key Quality Engineer, Team Lead
  Group Insurance Benefits Platform client under NDA
  The platform. Administration system for a North American non-profit health and dental benefits carrier — microservices migration, rules-engine modernisation and a redesigned group-enrolment workflow.
  My part. Led QA for a delivery sub-stream, owning testing risk identification, reporting and mitigation inside the Agile process. Supervised daily execution for 4 manual engineers, set sprint estimates and test scope, and held full traceability across requirements, test cases, defects and automation results while validating microservice features and business rules on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
• Oct 2019 — Jan 2020
  Key Quality Engineer, Team Lead
  Biomedical Calibration Platform client under NDA
  The platform. Common platform plus radiology, pressure and biomedical calibration products for a global manufacturer of precision test and measurement instruments — the software that keeps hospital and laboratory equipment certified and traceable to standard.
  My part. Led testing across 2 sub-streams and reported quality risk directly to the customer. Directed daily execution for 3 testers, provided sprint-level estimates, controlled requirement-to-defect traceability, and grew product knowledge across the team while hands-on testing the Windows desktop application.
• Jun 2017 — Jun 2019
  Key Quality Engineer
  Unified Endpoint Management Suite client under NDA
  The platform. Enterprise endpoint management, IoT and cybersecurity suite for a mobile-security vendor — device provisioning, policy enforcement and secure application distribution for regulated enterprise fleets.
  My part. Created and maintained epic-level test plans and test strategy for assigned functionality, provided estimates across sprints and release cycles, and controlled traceability between requirements, test cases and defects — running functional and change-related testing across 5 desktop and mobile operating systems.
• Oct 2016 — May 2017
  Quality Engineer
  Ticketing Platform Modernisation client under NDA
  The platform. Legacy ticketing web application migrated to responsive design for a global live-events and venue ticketing provider — the tooling box offices and promoters use to manage inventory, pricing and sales.
  My part. Performed functional, non-functional and change-related testing inside a 30-person delivery team, and validated cross-browser and cross-device behaviour throughout the migration.

Also recognised as

• AI Champion and AI Practitioner — EPAM AI Maturity Team, for driving account-level AI maturity.
• Engineering Management Level 1 assessment passed — March 2026, against EPAM's engineering management competency framework.
• Speaker, EPAM.AI Conference 2025 — recognised by the CEO for insights advancing EPAM's AI-native transformation.
• Ace of Delivery and Delivery Excellence — for the TDS launch and the Microsoft accessibility assessment, run as two concurrent milestones.
• Remarkable Assessment Committee Head — orchestrated the Testing Level 3 continuous assessment committee, exceeding participant expectations.
• OKR Captain, AI Value Driver, Education Remarkable Contributor and QE UA AI Ambassador.
• Firefighter and Reliable Back-up — for production troubleshooting, and for holding the team steady through a leadership absence.

Giving back

I interview QA and engineering candidates, chair technical assessment committees for Testing Level 3 and Engineering Management, and advise AI Champion candidates across EPAM accounts.

I speak at community events — “AI-Powered Localization Testing with CodeMie” and “Start Exploring Your App Today”. I mentor engineers through certification tracks, ran the Cloud Agentic Explorers track at the EPAM UA AI Marathon 2025, and I donate blood often enough to have been named a True Lifesaver by the EPAM Donor Community.