Nikita Plotnikov is a QA Team Lead with a progressive career starting as a manual QA engineer and advancing through roles in automation and leadership. They held positions at various companies, including QA Engineer at nanoCAD and Epicor Software, and eventually led QA teams at OZON.ru and Lazada. Nikita is currently a QA Team Lead at Hubs, where they focus on building teams and defining QA processes. They have a strong commitment to improving release and QA processes, developing tools to enhance team efficiency, and mentoring QA professionals. Nikita earned a specialist degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET).