Olga Asina

Built the delivery setup from zero, including YouTrack, epics, backlog structure, daily stand-ups, project charter, documentation, roadmap, milestones, and MVP scope. Created epics and tasks, translated product ideas into actionable work for design, frontend, and backend, tested iOS builds in TestFlight, and worked directly with founders on product and infrastructure decisions.

- Led a 9-person cross-functional team across frontend, backend, QA, design, content, and support, delivering products within the Masha and the Bear digital ecosystem.
- Coordinated development of several digital products, including the website, a Telegram-based game (Honey Farm), and an AI-powered short-form video generation service.

- Managed delivery for two client-facing digital products: a restaurant discovery platform and a luxury real estate website.
- Owned client communication, ran demos, gathered feedback, and translated business needs into actionable backlog items for design and engineering teams.
- Coordinated cross-functional work across design, development, content, and QA in a distributed team environment.

- Managed cross-functional initiatives supporting the launch and growth of online educational programs at the intersection of marketing and product.
- Coordinated stakeholders, timelines, and execution for webinars and one-off projects, helping teams align faster and make decisions more efficiently.
- Built communication workflows with external speakers and supported the launch of 8 webinars.

- Configured Jira workflows, automation rules to improve process consistency, visibility, and execution control.
- Coordinated delivery during an architectural transition from monolithic to microservice-based architecture.
- Helped deliver 2 public-sector contracts on time and prioritized functionality required to release 2 critical system modules.
- Hired and onboarded 4 team members

- Led day-to-day delivery, including sprint planning, backlog prioritization, daily standups, stakeholder communication.
- Built team interaction processes that helped the project meet release deadlines.
- Created documentation covering 80% of the project scope, improving knowledge accessibility and quality.
- Supported onboarding of a UX analyst, enabling faster product understanding.

- Coordinated software delivery activities, including roadmap planning, Gantt chart creation, requirements analysis, sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder communication.
- Managed day-to-day team execution through standups, reporting, task coordination, and project documentation.
- Supported delivery planning and team alignment across multiple project activities.

- Worked in a Java development role, building hands-on engineering experience that later strengthened collaboration with developers and technical delivery teams.

- Owned functional, regression, UI/UX, localization, web, and mobile testing across product releases.
- Partnered with developers and an external QA team to reproduce high-priority issues, improve defect quality, and support release stability.
- Prepared test documentation, build reports, and Confluence articles to improve knowledge sharing and quality tracking.

Led a UI-focused QA team, assigned work, and day-to-day coordination.
Developed test plans, test cases, and checklists; performed regression, performance, UI/UX, and localization testing.
Collaborated with partner QA teams, improved issue reproduction for developers, and prepared regular delivery reports.
Trained new QA specialists and created internal materials and lectures on software testing.

Pursued studies in English Language Teaching; degree not completed.

Earned a Diploma in Design & Information Technologies.