QA Automation Engineer

Developed and maintained Java-based automated tests and built smoke, sanity, and regression test suites for fintech products. Performed full-stack testing across UI, API, and database layers for copy trading, PAMM, trading robots, and administration panels in a microservices architecture.

Tested REST and gRPC APIs during a monolith-to-microservices migration, validating business logic, permissions, and inter-service communication. Validated financial data with complex PostgreSQL and MySQL queries; supported test environments, GitLab CI pipelines, Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure, and end-to-end defect localization through logs and service analysis.

Improved QA processes by migrating test cases to Allure TestOps and introducing AI-assisted documentation workflows.

Designed and developed a test automation framework from scratch for an internal reporting platform, increasing automated test coverage. Integrated automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines and implemented test-report visualization with Allure.

Configured quality-gate processes, including SonarQube, SAST, Git branching strategy, code reviews, and mentoring. Automated QA reporting through database logging and integrations with Jira and Confluence APIs.

Developed and migrated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy and Bash for microservice builds, deployments, and automated test execution. Also worked on ETL and Hadoop data validation, security validation, Qlik Sense BI systems, and troubleshooting distributed environments.

Created UI automation projects for web and desktop applications, enhanced the internal TAG framework, and configured Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Developed automated tests for microservice architectures using REST APIs, JSON/XML formats, and integration protocols.

Automated asynchronous service interaction scenarios involving Kafka and IBM MQ. Refactored automated tests to reduce flaky-test occurrences.

Conducted onboarding for junior QA engineers and performed code reviews.

Supported release and deployment processes for banking systems in test environments and performed post-deployment validation. Localized integration and configuration defects across applications, databases, and operating systems through log analysis and troubleshooting.

Worked with test data and databases by writing SQL and PL/SQL queries, preparing test environments, and implementing data-anonymization processes. Automated environment validation and monitoring with Bash, Shell, and Windows Batch scripts.

Configured infrastructure monitoring in Zabbix and worked with Oracle DB, Siebel CRM, Linux/Unix, WebLogic, and Windows Server.