Summary
Business Analyst and Product Owner with 20 years in software delivery and a technical engineering background that makes requirements precise, testable, and implementation-ready from day one. Career built on the full requirements lifecycle: from onsite client discovery and stakeholder workshops through to UAT sign-off and post-release upsell — across FinTech, iGaming, E-commerce, and Travel domains.
Equally comfortable as the sole BA in a zero-to-one product environment — defining MVP scope, building user journeys and permission models, sparring with designers on flows, challenging engineering on feasibility trade-offs, and owning DoR/DoD as living team artefacts. Actively building AI product management practice: completed ‘Become an AI PM’ (Latitude, 2026) and applied AI-augmented analysis in requirements generation, acceptance criteria definition, and process modelling.
The engineering background is a practical advantage: testable acceptance criteria written by someone who understands API contracts, data models, and CI/CD pipelines produce fewer interpretation gaps between business and development. Certified in requirements engineering (IREB CPRE-FL), product ownership (SAFe, PSPO I), and design thinking — with hands-on artifact delivery validated by client stakeholders at C-level.
Core Competencies
Requirements Engineering
- Full requirements lifecycle: onsite & remote discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews
- SRS authoring, use cases, user stories with testable acceptance criteria
- BPMN process maps, data flow diagrams, user journey maps, user permission maps, approval flow design
- Requirements traceability matrices — Certified: IREB CPRE-FL
Product Ownership
- Product backlog ownership and grooming, feature & epic decomposition
- Prioritisation: MoSCoW, WSJF, RICE, ICE, Cost of Delay
- Roadmap contribution, PI Planning participation (SAFe)
- DoR & DoD as living team artefacts, sprint goal alignment with business OKRs
- Certified: PSPO I, SAFe 6 Agilist
Design Thinking & Discovery
- Problem framing, user research synthesis, persona development
- User journey mapping, wireframe & mockup collaboration (Figma/Miro)
- Prototype feedback facilitation, MVP scope definition
- Certified: Design Thinking Fundamentals (SAFe / Scaled Agile, 2025)
AI-Augmented BA Practice
- AI-assisted requirements analysis, acceptance criteria generation, user story drafting
- Process gap identification, AI product management: prompts, agents, experimentation, evals, reliability loop
- Certified: AI Product Management (Latitude, 2026), AI Skills for Product Owners (SAFe 2025)
Stakeholder Management
- Facilitation of discovery and sign-off sessions with business stakeholders up to C-level
- Requirements presentation & defence, scope negotiation, change request management
- UAT coordination; cross-functional alignment with Engineering, DevOps, Legal, Compliance, and Design
Agile Delivery Integration
- Shift-left requirements practice: testability embedded at story level before sprint start
- Refinement facilitation, DoR enforcement, AC review with QA and Dev
- DORA and flow metrics awareness; Scrum, Kanban, SAFe — adapted to team context
Technical Fluency & Tools
- API contracts & REST basics, data modelling concepts, SQL-level data querying
- CI/CD pipeline awareness, test and engineering automation lifecycle
- Jira / Confluence (admin + automation), Miro, Figma, Azure DevOps
- TestRail / Zephyr (UAT management), MS Visio / BPMN notation
- AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Latitude platform
Domain Expertise
FinTech Business
Deep understanding of trading platform business models, payment processing workflows, and regulatory compliance requirements. Experience translating complex financial domain knowledge into product requirements and testable acceptance criteria.
Healthcare Requirements
Extensive experience eliciting and documenting requirements for clinical research platforms and electronic health record systems. Expert in navigating FDA/HIPAA-adjacent requirements and data integrity specifications.
E-commerce & Hospitality Product
Product strategy and requirements for billing systems, booking engines, and high-traffic consumer-facing platforms. Experience defining MVP scope, user journeys, and conversion optimization strategies.
iGaming & Sports Betting
Full requirements lifecycle for betting engines with complex business rules — odds calculation, settlement logic, stake limits. Systematic decomposition of combinatorial logic into testable acceptance criteria and data-driven verification frameworks.
Travel & SaaS / B2B
Requirements and product ownership for enterprise SaaS and travel platforms. Backlog structuring, DoR/DoD standards, and bridging product and engineering in absence of dedicated BA functions across multi-team ARTs.
Business Analysis & Product Management
Discovery, OKRs, requirements, GTM strategy (click to expand)
Product Discovery & Inception Facilitation
Design and facilitate a structured product discovery workshop to align stakeholders, define the product vision, and validate assumptions before any code is written.
Requirements Crisis Intervention
Step into a project where requirements are unclear or constantly changing, to document, prioritize, and establish a controlled requirements management process.
OKR Definition & Value Stream Mapping
Work with leadership to translate high-level business goals into measurable OKRs and map them to the value streams that will deliver them.
Market & Competitor Analysis for Product Strategy
Conduct a structured analysis of the market landscape and competitors to inform product roadmap decisions and identify new opportunities.
User Story Splitting & Refinement Coaching
Coach your product teams on advanced techniques for splitting large epics into thin, valuable, and testable user stories that can be delivered quickly.
Backlog Audit & Healthy Reset
Perform a deep audit of a neglected or chaotic product backlog, cleaning up old items, re-prioritizing based on value, and establishing a clear structure for future refinement.
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy & Launch Support
Partner with marketing and sales to define and execute the GTM strategy for a new feature or product, ensuring a successful market launch.
Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Definition
Facilitate the elicitation and documentation of critical non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability) that are often missed.
People Management
Hiring, onboarding, development, reviews (click to expand)
Hiring & Technical Interviews
Design structured interview processes for BA, Product, and Agile roles. Conduct competency-based interviews, case studies, and calibration sessions. 70+ interviews conducted across QA, BA, and Agile roles.
Onboarding & Offboarding
Build standardized onboarding programs that accelerate time-to-productivity for new hires, including 30/60/90-day plans, domain knowledge transfer, and stakeholder introduction maps. Design smooth offboarding processes to ensure continuity.
Personal Development Plans (PDPs)
Create individualized growth plans aligned with both team needs and personal career aspirations. Define skill matrices, learning paths, and milestone checkpoints to track progression from junior to senior roles.
1-on-1 Campaigns & Coaching
Establish regular 1-on-1 cadences with structured agendas covering career growth, blockers, feedback, and well-being. Use coaching techniques to develop product thinking, analytical skills, and leadership within the team.
Performance Reviews & Calibration
Implement transparent performance review cycles with clear criteria, self-assessments, peer feedback, and manager evaluations. Facilitate calibration sessions to ensure fair and consistent assessment across teams.
Engagement Models
Flexible engagement options for product, BA, and requirements work:
Discovery Sprint
1–2 weeksRequirements audit, backlog assessment, and stakeholder mapping. Identify gaps in acceptance criteria, DoR/DoD standards, and traceability. Deliverable: written assessment and action plan.
Embedded BA
1–3 monthsFull requirements lifecycle ownership — discovery workshops, user story writing, acceptance criteria with testable outcomes, UAT management, and requirements traceability matrix.
Product Setup
3–6 monthsBA practice establishment — traceability system, DoR/DoD implementation, backlog standards, and AI-augmented requirements workflows from zero to a self-sustaining team capability.
All engagements include: timezone flexibility (CET-aligned, EU-friendly), regular progress reporting, and structured knowledge transfer at completion.
Certifications
Requirements & Product
- IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE-FL)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I) — Scrum.org
- Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist — Scaled Agile
AI Product Management
- AI Product Management Certificate — Latitude
- AI Agents Evaluation — Latitude
- Introduction to Model Context Protocol — Anthropic
- Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics — Anthropic
- AI Fluency Framework and Foundations — Anthropic
Business & Process
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt (SSYB) — 6sigmastudy
- Negotiation Associate (NCN-A) — NGstudy / VMEdu
- Corporate Sales Associate (SCCS-A) — SMstudy / VMEdu
SAFe AI Skill Badges (2025–2026)
- AI Skills for SAFe Practice Consultants
- Empowering Portfolio Leadership with AI
- Empowering Product Management with AI
- AI Skills for Product Owners
- Creating Effective Roadmaps
- Design Thinking Fundamentals
- Developing Product Vision and Strategy
- Prioritizing the ART Backlog
- Writing Effective Features in SAFe
Languages & Community
Speaker at Agile / QA / BA events (DataArt, EPAM)
Experience
Delivery Lead | SAFe Release Train Engineer
B2BROKER · FinTech / Crypto
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
- Embedded DoR standards with testable acceptance criteria as a prerequisite for sprint entry across 8 Agile teams — reducing late-stage requirement clarification and defect injection
- Facilitated PI Planning feature decomposition and dependency mapping; aligned engineering backlog to business OKRs and product roadmap priorities
- Maintained visibility of product value delivery through EBM metrics: PI predictability, velocity, and flow metrics reported to C-level stakeholders
- Built centralised delivery and quality knowledge base (Confluence): team onboarding runbooks, process standards, escalation protocols — reducing onboarding time by ~20%
Senior Scrum Master | Product Owner Support
Quintegro LLC · Enterprise SaaS / Travel
Jun 2024 – Aug 2025
- Supported product ownership function across 4 teams (30+ FTE): backlog structuring, user story quality review, acceptance criteria definition, and requirement traceability in the absence of a dedicated BA
- Introduced risk-based test automation prioritisation aligned to business impact — bridging product and engineering by translating business requirements into verifiable acceptance criteria from the first refinement session
- Partnered with Product leadership on roadmap alignment and backlog prioritisation (MoSCoW, WSJF); reported delivery and quality status to C-level via structured executive dashboards
- Enforced DoR/DoD standards across all teams, reducing requirement ambiguity entering sprints and cutting rework cycles by an estimated 15–20%
QA Lead | Business Analyst | Scrum Master
EPAM Systems · FinTech, AI, E-commerce, Travel
Jun 2019 – May 2024
- Operated as embedded Business Analyst across multiple concurrent client engagements: elicited, documented, and managed requirements from discovery workshops through UAT and release, interfacing with client stakeholders at product and C-level
- Produced full BA artifact set per engagement: user stories with testable acceptance criteria, use cases, BPMN process maps, data flow diagrams, user journey maps, requirements traceability matrices — all validated and signed off by business stakeholders
- Enforced shift-left requirements practice: embedded testability reviews into story refinement, catching 60%+ of ambiguity before sprint start and reducing late-stage defect injection
- Defined and maintained DoR and DoD as living team artefacts across 4 projects; aligned sprint goals to product OKRs through structured backlog refinement sessions
- Partnered with Product Owners on backlog prioritisation using WSJF and MoSCoW frameworks; contributed to roadmap planning and PI Objectives definition in SAFe context
- Conducted 50+ technical and BA discipline interviews; built requirements engineering standards and onboarding materials for the Spain Agile Unit
Senior Business Analyst | QA Lead | Project Delivery
DataArt Solutions · FinTech, iGaming, Financial Reporting, Clinical Research, E-commerce
Jul 2008 – May 2019
- Led end-to-end requirements management across multiple client domains: conducted onsite discovery workshops in Europe and USA, authored SRS documentation, managed requirement lifecycle from pre-sales through UAT, release, and upsell
- Produced full BA artifact suite per project: SRS, use cases, user stories, BPMN process maps, data flow diagrams, user journey maps, user permission maps, approval flow diagrams, wireframe collaboration, and requirements traceability matrices — all defended in front of client stakeholders and signed off before development
- Managed stakeholder relationships up to C-level; facilitated requirements workshops, change request reviews, and UAT acceptance sessions under fixed-scope, fixed-budget, and T&M contract models
- Applied IREB CPRE principles to shift requirements engineering left: testable acceptance criteria embedded at user story level enabled 90% regression cycle reduction on key engagements
- Healthcare / Clinical Research: managed highly regulated requirements under compliance constraints (data privacy, audit trail, approval workflows) — building expertise in regulated-industry documentation standards
What Others Say
“Evgenii designed and implemented a test automation framework architecture that was not just functional — it was thoughtfully built, scalable, and fully CI/CD-ready. Thanks to his approach, our team accelerated regression testing by 5 times while maintaining consistently high product quality. His proactive mindset and willingness to share knowledge allowed the team to avoid many issues. He was reliable, collaborative, an awesome team player and a true professional to work with.”
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Business Analyst | Product Owner | AI Product Manager
Full requirements lifecycle — from onsite discovery and SRS authoring to UAT sign-off — across FinTech, iGaming, E-commerce, and Travel. Covers AI-augmented BA practice, DoR/DoD ownership, backlog prioritisation (WSJF, MoSCoW), and testable acceptance criteria. Ideal for BA, Product Owner, and AI Product Manager roles.
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