Senior Software Engineer in Test / QA Automation Lead
I build test automation infrastructure, CI/CD quality gates, reporting systems, and engineering practices that help teams ship faster without losing control over quality.
My focus is designing reliable quality feedback loops for engineering teams:
- test automation architecture
- CI/CD quality gates
- Allure reporting and test observability
- Dockerized test execution
- Selenium / Pytest automation templates
- flaky test diagnostics
- test data and environment strategy
- mentoring and QA engineering standards
I help engineering teams turn testing into an integrated engineering system inside CI/CD.
This usually includes:
- designing maintainable automation frameworks
- integrating tests into delivery pipelines
- improving visibility of test results and trends
- reducing flaky and low-signal checks
- building reusable templates and tooling
- mentoring QA engineers and automation specialists
A GitLab CI/CD reporting solution for preserving Allure history across pipeline runs and publishing trend reports on GitLab Pages.
Useful for teams that need:
- historical visibility of test results
- report publishing without external infrastructure
- GitLab-native artifact and Pages flow
- reusable reporting infrastructure for QA pipelines
Repository: https://github.com/aleksandr-kotlyar/gitlab-allure-history
A Python project template for multi-browser Selenium test execution in GitLab CI and locally using Docker.
The project demonstrates:
- Dockerized browser test execution
- Selenium test automation structure
- GitLab CI integration
- reusable automation project template
- local and CI execution consistency
Repository: https://github.com/aleksandr-kotlyar/python-gitlabci-selenium
A CI/CD testing cookbook with practical examples for Python QA automation.
Includes examples for:
- pytest execution in GitLab CI
- test artifacts and reports
- Slack notifications
- linting and quality checks
- Allure logging and attachments
- parallel execution patterns
- Azure Pipelines examples
Repository: https://github.com/aleksandr-kotlyar/python_and_gitlab
I contribute to Python testing and browser automation tooling, mostly around Selenium-based UI testing, CI reliability, release tooling, and project maintenance.
My contribution areas include:
- browser automation infrastructure;
- Selenium ecosystem compatibility;
- CI stability for browser-related tests;
- issue triage and regression investigation;
- release, packaging, and documentation improvements;
- user support for Python UI testing tools.
I prefer practical open-source work that improves reliability, maintainability, and developer experience for test automation projects.
I provide mentoring and consulting in test automation, QA engineering, CI/CD quality gates, Selenium/Pytest, and automation architecture.
Topics I usually help with:
- building maintainable test automation frameworks;
- stabilizing flaky UI tests;
- setting up CI/CD test reporting;
- improving Allure reports and test history;
- designing practical QA automation roadmaps;
- preparing for SDET / QA automation interviews.
Good QA engineering is not about adding more tests everywhere.
It is about building a system where:
- critical risks are covered early
- feedback is fast and reliable
- test results are observable and explainable
- flaky tests are treated as technical debt
- quality gates are explicit, measurable, and owned
- automation improves delivery instead of slowing it down
- QA strategy and test automation leadership
- CI/CD quality gates
- Test automation architecture
- Python / Pytest / Selenium
- GitLab CI
- Docker-based test execution
- Allure reporting
- Test observability
- Mentoring and engineering standards
QA automation lead, mentor, and Senior Software Engineer in Test.
My background combines hands-on automation engineering with QA leadership: building test infrastructure, defining CI/CD quality gates, improving reporting and observability, mentoring engineers, and turning testing practices into scalable engineering standards.