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Artem
$110/hr
or
$120,000/yr
Active 2 hours ago
Test Automation Lead & Quality Engineering
Quality Assurance Engineer
Available for hire
Years of
experience
15+ years
Experience
level
Lead
Available
for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance
Available from
07 Sep 2026
I’m a QA and delivery leader with 15+ years in complex web products. Most of my work has been taking messy release processes and making them more reliable: clear quality ownership, useful test automation, and CI/CD gates that teams actually use.
Recent work includes moving custom automation from JavaScript to TypeScript and from Puppeteer to Playwright. Automated release validation went from 70+ minutes to about 15 minutes, while suite flakiness fell by about 90%.
I’m looking for a remote Lead-level role in quality engineering, test architecture, QA leadership, or delivery. I’m especially interested in AI and automation, web products, Web3 and finance, infrastructure and operations, travel, and drones. I avoid medical/healthcare and iGaming.
Skills
JavaScript
CSS
TypeScript
Scrum
Solidity
Vue.js
Node.js
Tailwind CSS
SQL
Web sockets
Cypress.js
Playwright
Docker
AWS
Vercel
Blockchain
GitLab
GCP
Software as a Service
Web components
REST
JIRA
Web3
Microservices
Supabase
OpenAI
jQuery
Bun
JSON
Three.js
Jest
Vite.js
Selenium
Jenkins
Mocha.js
JWT
ESLint
Puppeteer
Material UI
Responsive design
LAMP stack
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Firebase
Dynamodb
SQLite
Cloudflare
Git
GitHub
Figma
CI/CD
Test Driven Development
Web accessibility
ChatGPT
PayPal
Webhook
Kanban
E-commerce
Domain Driven Development
Single Page Application
Infrastructure as a Service
Smart Contract
Crypto
Generative AI
Large Language Models
HTML
Python
Bash
Java
Swift
Groovy
Firebird
FastAPI
Cloudwatch
Hugging Face
Homebrew
Unity 3D
Google Test
Employment History
Agile Delivery & QA Manager at
Informa
Current
2022
-
Now
Long-term client engagement via K&C since 2017. Lead QA management, agile delivery, and release operations for a multi-service B2B events and content platform.
Over a three-year period, coordinated quality across four projects and six QA teams, including four QA teams working in parallel on one project. Own quality input to API, E2E, visual, performance, load, and smoke coverage, CI/CD gates, weekly release readiness, and rollback-aware deployment checks.
Head of Quality Assurance at
Krusche & Company
Current
2021
-
Now
Set QA standards and quality practices across client engagements. Built and rolled out a five-level QA grading framework, role definitions, onboarding standards, and structured technical interviews.
Grew the QA practice by 500% over three years while maintaining more than 90% quality of hire. Mentor QA practitioners and support project leads on quality risk and delivery alignment.
Solidity Developer (part-time) at
Krusche & Company
2019
-
2019
Developed and tested ERC-20 Ethereum smart contracts using Solidity and Truffle, including work on the Save-Ideas proof-of-existence application. Deployed and tested on Ropsten and mainnet.
QA Lead / Release Manager at
Informa
2017
-
2022
Established the QA foundation as an 11-tenant CMS grew into a multi-service platform, building the test team from zero to three people.
Built custom JavaScript/TypeScript automation frameworks and led the Puppeteer-to-Playwright migration. Added API, E2E, visual, performance, load, and CI/CD coverage, along with automated release flows, quality gates, and rollback logic.
QA Process Coordinator at
Persha Studia (Wargaming.net)
2015
-
2016
Introduced shift-left QA practices and common standards across teams. Tracked defect density, coverage, execution rate, and release-readiness trends to give management a clearer view of quality and delivery risk.
Senior/Lead QA Engineer at
Persha Studia (Wargaming.net)
2012
-
2015
Led a team of four QA practitioners for the WDC (Wargaming Distribution Center) Unified Game Launcher. Covered installer and updater flows, P2P distribution, release testing, and multilingual UX, while coordinating releases across Belarus, Australia, the US, and Europe.
Senior QA Engineer at
Persha Studia (Wargaming.net)
2011
-
2012
Tested client, server, and client-server interactions for World of Warplanes as the QA organisation scaled from 10 to more than 40 people. Also supported Python scripting, UML modelling, onboarding, and mentoring.
QA Junior at
QArea
2010
-
2011
Performed functional testing for CMS-based web and mobile products using Bugzilla, Redmine, and TestRail.
Education
Specialist's Diploma (Master's-equivalent), Engineer of Radio and Television Systems — Radio Engineering at
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (KhNURE)
2011
-
2015
Bachelor's Degree — Radio Engineering at
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (KhNURE)
2011
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2014