Iana Grytsenko
Iana Grytsenko

Senior SDET | QA Automation Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 10 Oct 2026
Location
United States
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Unspecified
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Remote Only / Full Time, Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior SDET and QA Automation Engineer specializing in building maintainable, scalable test automation frameworks from scratch. I use Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, TypeScript, Java, and modern CI/CD practices to make releases safer and improve engineering quality.

I have deep experience across UI, API, contract, integration, component, smoke, regression, and end-to-end testing. My work includes developing Page Object Model architectures, reusable test utilities, parallel execution strategies, network interception, mocking, and robust test-data approaches.

I have worked extensively with cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven systems on AWS. I validate serverless workflows, microservice contracts, asynchronous messaging, retry behavior, dead-letter queues, idempotency, performance, and production resilience.

I integrate automation into delivery pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker, Maven, and Git. I also use reporting and quality-management tools such as Allure, Jira, Xray, HP ALM, and ClearQuest to provide actionable quality signals.

I am experienced with AI-assisted testing and developer productivity workflows, including Testim, Functionize, Testsigma, Claude Code, and Model Context Protocol servers. I have used these tools to accelerate test generation, diagnose failures, improve script maintenance, and support faster root-cause analysis.

I enjoy partnering with developers, product teams, and manual QA engineers to shift quality left and right. I have mentored QA engineers, conducted code reviews, improved automation standards, and helped teams adopt reliable testing practices throughout the SDLC.

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Experience

Career history

Senior SDET, Playwright/TypeScript Test Automation Cooley LLP, Legal Technology Department, Vanilla Next Gen

Rebuilt an early-stage Playwright and TypeScript automation project into a structured, maintainable framework with smoke and regression suites. Built end-to-end transfer automation for a multi-party fund-transfer SaaS platform, covering multiple user roles and online, offline, and hybrid workflows. Established a reusable Page Object Model architecture with 13 spec files, 23 page objects, and 12 helper modules in nine weeks.

Designed isolated offline and online test execution to eliminate cross-run dependencies and reduce flakiness. Built network interception for recording, mocking, and asserting API responses; expanded Azure DevOps pipelines for parallel execution across five desktop and mobile configurations; and automated lifecycle, data, e-signature, questionnaire, and participant-management validation. Resolved Azure AD B2C/MSAL session instability and used Claude Code with MCP servers to speed specification creation and failure diagnosis.

Senior SDET, Test Infrastructure and Frontend/Backend Automation California Community Colleges Technology Center (CCCTC)

Served as the sole automation engineer and built scalable test infrastructure from scratch across more than five product lines in a cloud-native AWS microservices environment. Developed Playwright and Cypress frameworks for component, integration, API, and end-to-end testing, including smoke and regression suites. Led a Cypress-to-Playwright migration that improved execution speed, parallelization, stability, and automated test coverage by 45%.

Created microservice contract tests and validated AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, retry, idempotency, DLQ, and asynchronous failure scenarios. Integrated Docker-based automation into Jenkins on AWS EC2, reducing regression runtime by 15%, and built parameterized jobs for manual testers. Implemented Allure reporting with PII masking and Xray/Jira traceability, correlated CloudWatch data with test results, and hired, onboarded, mentored, and reviewed work for two QA engineers.

QA Automation Engineer (BDD) Amtrak

Built and maintained BDD automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, and Watir WebDriver for consumer travel workflows, including trip planning, route search, booking, and station flows. Developed and maintained smoke and regression coverage for release readiness.

Refactored legacy automation logic to eliminate flaky tests, reducing false-positive failures by 60% and restoring CI reliability. Modernized broken test flows, managed Jenkins pipeline execution, and used Testim self-healing automation to reduce script-maintenance effort.

QA Automation Engineer (TDD) HiLabs (Analytics)

Designed a TDD automation framework using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Maven for a large-scale healthcare platform with strict compliance requirements. Delivered end-to-end, smoke, regression, integration, business-functional, system, and cross-browser test coverage.

Validated backend data using Oracle and JDBC, tested REST services through Postman and REST Assured, and verified response schemas and service contracts. Reviewed requirements, produced test plans and scripts, developed Cucumber automation in IntelliJ IDEA, and managed requirements and defects in HP ALM.

Education

Learning history

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)

Master of Science, Computer Science

Master of Science in Computer Science. Certifications include AWS Cloud Technical Essentials, Software QA and Test Automation Engineering, and Introduction to Agents (Mercor).

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