About me

Denys Pavlenko is an Engineering Manager of Platform Engineering at Personio SE & Co. KG, enabling better organisations by providing the leading HRM platform for SMEs in Europe. Former Domain Quality Lead at Magento Commerce as a part of eBay Inc. QA Coach at StartIT Training Center for IT Specialists, where he helps talented people to start their new careers in IT. Speaker at QA Conferences, one of the QA Meetup organizers in Munich, Germany. By leading quality at several different companies with different setups, Denys will help you with defining the vision and identifying the right quality strategy based on the stage of product maturity. He has a solid understanding of the Testing methodologies, and hands-on experience with setting up scalable and automated test solutions. Denys does like sharing the experience and challenges of building up QA teams and QA functions from scratch, and the main pitfalls of moving from Quality Assurance towards Quality Assistance and Platform Engineering within the org. He's been coaching Quality Assurance Engineers from Junior to Lead positions for the last 9 years.

Mentor Skills and Expertise

• Career Growth
• Career Advise
• Management
• Platform Engineering
• Qa
• Quality Assurance
• Software Engineering
• Leadership
• Team Management

Companies

Testimonials

""Excellent mentoring session. Denys helped me a lot with the intended objective. I would definitely recommend him for his professionalism and friendliness.""

Luis Mendes

Software Engineer

"Denys really helped me with 1. Insights about microservices Contract Testing 2. Overall QA strategy in a microservices environment 3. Quality cultivating culture"

Serge K.

Quality Manager

"There were much more than 3 learned points. 1. SonarQube. . 2. Principles that I have to learn to be a good automation test engineer: 3. Denys has strongly recommended to read the Leading Quality book to be able to build successful QA strategies and push (sell) my ideas to a higher management level."

Iuliia Baranova

QA Team Lead

"The session was very helpful and I liked that we dived straight into answering my questions. The dissection of the topic, analysis, and provided feedback was great, especially with your advice being backed up by your experience. Thank you as well for recommending the books, I will order them soon."

Alexandru

Software Engineer