Senior QA Project Manager, Exactpro. Alyona began her professional career as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer and was later given the responsibilities of a Test Lead in Exactpro. She has led software QA projects involving various technologies utilised by firms in the financial markets industry globally — a leading European multilateral trading facility, one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in OTC financial and commodity related products, a premier technology solutions provider, a leading global rates and multi-asset clearing house and a multi-national central counterparty. She has also managed software testing of LSEG’s FPGA-accelerated Market Data Dissemination platform. Alyona successfully combines her project work with research in several areas and has multiple publications, including two with the IEEE Computer Society.