Lead / Senior QA Automation Engineer

15+ years in IT — UI and API automation, performance testing, leadership, and production troubleshooting.

Senior QA automation engineer with broad experience in UI automation, API and integration testing, performance work, and team leadership. Comfortable across JavaScript, C#, Java, and Python, with cloud and relational databases. I troubleshoot production issues, find performance bottlenecks, recruit and lead SDET/QA teams, and build frameworks that catch defects early in the SDLC.

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Focus areas

JavaScript / TypeScriptC# / .NETJavaPythonSelenium WebDriverWebDriverIOPlaywrightPuppeteerRobot FrameworkREST / API testingCucumber / SpecFlow / BDDJMeter / load testingELK / KibanaNew Relic / DynatraceGrafanaOracle / MS SQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQLAWSJenkins / CI/CDAgile / Scrum / TDD / BDDAndroid & React (hands-on)

Experience

GlobalRelay

Lead SDET 2022 — present · Vancouver, Canada

Secure, compliant messaging, archiving, and information governance for financial services — capture, preservation, and analysis of email, IM, social, and voice communications.
Stack: Playwright, WebDriverIO, JavaScript, Jenkins, Jira, TestRail, Uptrends.
Lead SDET: evolved automation framework, cut flaky tests, improved coverage, performance assessments, hiring, testing strategy and standards, cross-team alignment, code reviews, documentation, mentorship.
Shift-left: reduced reliance on heavy E2E in favor of component tests and lower-level integration tests with mocks — more defects found before integration with other modules and less dependency on a perfectly stable environment.

Corinex

Lead QA Automation Engineer (from Senior QA Automation Engineer, 2020) 2020 — 2022 · Vancouver, Canada

Smart metering and broadband-over-powerline (BPL) infrastructure for utilities.
Stack: Python, Robot Framework, Selenium, AWS, JavaScript, Jenkins.
Built and led the QA automation function: interviews, training, KPIs, reviews, standards, client communication, on-site acceptance testing.
Led a team of three SDETs; delivered a functional framework approved by the client for acceptance testing.

Vision Critical

Performance Engineer 2016 — 2019 · Vancouver, Canada

Performance investigation across front end, back end, and database optimization.
Tools: WebPageTest, Kibana, Grafana, vSphere among others.

Vision Critical

Software Engineer in Testing 2013 — 2016 · Vancouver, Canada

Cloud customer intelligence / engagement platform — C# .NET, Selenium, AWS, JavaScript, SpecFlow.
Manual and automated testing; built a cross-team UI automation framework and regression scripts; API and mobile testing.
Delivered a framework still in use for regression testing.

EPAM Systems

Senior QA Automation Engineer 2013 · Ukraine

Senior test automation on client delivery projects.

DataArt Solutions

Senior QA Automation Engineer 2010 — 2013 · Ukraine

High-load OAuth 2.0 REST authorization service securing internal HTTP traffic for an international SOA booking platform.
Java, Eclipse, Jira, Cucumber — maintained and extended automation framework; built new framework and API automation.
Achieved roughly 80% regression coverage with automated API tests.

BCPWA society

Software Developer / QA Engineer 2008 — 2009 · Vancouver, Canada

Software development and quality assurance for a non-profit organization.

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Education

MS, Information Technology — Kharkiv National University (Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering), Kharkiv, Ukraine
BS, Information Technology — Kharkiv National University (Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering), Kharkiv, Ukraine
Certificate, Business Venture Program — British Columbia Institute of Technology, Vancouver, Canada

Certifications

ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (2023)

Blog

Testing Prompt Guard: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Evaluate It May 13, 2026
Prompt injection is a core security problem for LLM applications. This post explains what Prompt Guard is, why filtering untrusted input matters, and how to test classifiers with realistic benign, malicious, and borderline datasets—not only obvious jailbreak strings.
LLM Guard Testing: Guard vs Prompt Guard May 1, 2026
This post is about testing the protection layer around an LLM system.
AI in Test Automation for Software Development in 2026 Apr 29, 2026
AI is becoming a normal part of software testing, but it is not a replacement for test strategy, product judgment, or engineering review. In 2026, the strongest use of AI in test automation is as an accelerator: it helps teams create first drafts of tests, prioritize risk, debug failures, summarize evidence, generate test data, and maintain suites that would otherwise become expensive and brittle...

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