Results-driven SDET/QA Engineer specializing in manual testing, API testing, and test automation using Python, pytest, and Playwright. Experienced in designing test scenarios, investigating defects, validating complex business logic, and building automated E2E test coverage.

My technical background includes backend testing, SQL, API testing, accessibility testing, CI/CD, Linux, Docker, and automated testing. I focus on combining strong test design with technical investigation to identify risks and improve product quality.

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Skills

You can find examples of the described skills in the Examples of my work section.

Testing

can perform manual functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, sanity testing, integration testing, visual/UI testing, API testing, accessibility testing and code review
can develop automated tests using Playwright and pytest, with Allure for test reporting
experienced with E2E, unit and integration testing
can verify fixes through regression testing and track defect resolution status
gained hands-on experience testing applications in professional and personal projects

Mobile & cross-platform testing

experienced in manual functional and visual UI testing on iOS and Android
able to test location-dependent functionality using GPS spoofing
experienced in cross-platform and cross-browser testing across iOS, Android, macOS and Windows, covering both web and native applications

Test analysis & design

familiar with functional decomposition of products, creating state transition diagrams and writing use cases
can apply equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis and pairwise testing to generate test input data

API testing

understand the differences between SOAP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC and WebSockets
gained practical experience through manual and automated API testing
can manipulate requests and create test cases using SoapUI and Postman

Accessibility testing

experienced in automated accessibility testing using Axe / axe-core
can validate accessibility of different application states, including forms, validation/error states, dynamic content and themes
able to integrate accessibility checks into E2E test scenarios

Exploratory testing

capable of using Whittaker's test tours and creating cheat-lists for testing web applications

Test documentation

can create test cases and checklists and know how and in which situations to use them effectively
able to prepare comprehensive bug reports and provide detailed session reports
experienced in communicating defects and test results with development teams

SQL databases

can write complex queries using subqueries
familiar with aliases and wildcards
understand the difference between joins and unions and can use them in queries
can use ORM and different DBMS

Python

can build a full-stack application using technologies such as ORM, DB, ASGI, WSGI and validators
can develop automated tests for applications using pytest
experienced with unit, integration and E2E test automation

Network

understand basic networking concepts
experienced with Cisco Packet Tracer for network simulation and configuration

CI/CD & DevOps

familiar with CI/CD processes and their role in the software delivery pipeline
can use Ansible for configuration management and automation
comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments

Tools

TestRail

know how to create test cases and test suites
able to run created test cases
know how to use dashboards and statistics

Jira and Redmine

know how to create bug reports
able to create projects and track their progress

API testing tools

Postman
Insomnia
SoapUI
HTTP Toolkit
Proxyman

Test automation

Playwright
pytest
Allure

Accessibility testing

Axe / axe-core

Browser developer tools

know how to test applications using console, inspector, debugger, network and storage sections

Virtualization software

able to set up and operate virtual machines using VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware, Hyper-V, Docker and Podman

Ansible

can write and run playbooks for configuration management and automation

Cisco Packet Tracer

can design and simulate network topologies and device configurations

Trello and Notion

know how to use Kanban boards and track project progress

Examples of my work

Wedding Site

A full-stack wedding website with guest authentication (JWT via HTTP-only cookies), RSVP forms. Built with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy 2, Alembic and a vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend.

The project demonstrates a complete CI/CD pipeline: Gitea Actions builds a Docker image on push and deploys it to production via Ansible and Docker Compose, behind a Caddy reverse proxy with HTTPS. Shows hands-on experience with Docker, Ansible and CI/CD automation end to end.

The DisExcel Project

My most advanced and up-to-date project — a FastAPI backend with async SQLAlchemy 2.0, JWT authentication with refresh token rotation and revocation, and a permission/group-based RBAC system. Includes layered architecture (web → service → database → models), Alembic migrations, and a full test suite (unit, integration, E2E) with pytest, pytest-asyncio and Allure reporting. Also includes Docker and Ansible configurations for deployment, Redis for caching and RabbitMQ for microservices.

Auth Project

A basic FastAPI authentication and authorization service, built without relying on the framework's built-in auth mechanisms. Implements JWT-based login, bcrypt password hashing, and a flat permission model with privilege escalation protection. A focused example of building authentication logic from scratch and understanding it deeply enough to test it effectively.

Nova Registration Form — QA Test Portfolio

A deliberately buggy registration form (HTML/CSS/JS, no backend) built as a self-contained manual testing exercise. Includes a full test plan, test cases covering boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning and pairwise testing, and detailed bug reports (with screenshots) for 7 seeded defects. Available in both English and Russian. Demonstrates an end-to-end manual QA workflow: test planning → test design → execution → defect reporting.

Playwright E2E Testing — Anonymized Case Study

An anonymized excerpt from an enterprise E2E automation project. The original project is proprietary, so company-specific data, credentials, URLs and internal implementation details have been removed.

The case study demonstrates Playwright and pytest automation using the Page Object Model, parametrized positive and negative scenarios, Allure reporting, password recovery flows, asynchronous email verification, dynamic security-question validation and cooldown/retry handling.

It also includes automated accessibility testing using Axe / axe-core across multiple application states, including the login page, password recovery form, security questions, validation/error states and dark theme.

Domain experience

Healthcare SaaS — tested billing modules and report templates for medical staff
Banking / Fintech — tested mobile banking applications on iOS and Android
Search engines — tested Yandex Browser, Yandex Maps and Yandex Games

Courses and Certifications

QA Manual, PASV — June 2023
Interactive SQL, Stepik — April 2023