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BOHDAN IPATOV
Senior QA Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine · [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
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SUMMARY

Senior QA Engineer with seven years testing an enterprise AI-governance / MLOps platform deployed across five
public clouds for 50+ enterprise clients. Progressed from manual testing to Python API/UI automation,
upgrade/backup/restore testing, then to covering the Head of QA role from 2022 - planning, triage and release sign-
off. Introduced a risk-based regression strategy that cut per-environment execution from four days to one with no
loss of coverage and no P1/P2 escapes.
CORE SKILLS

Automation: Python, pytest, Playwright, requests, Pydantic, Faker, Allure, ruff. Previously Selenium.
Leadership: Acting Head of QA; test strategy and planning; technical interviewing; training new QA engineers on
product, framework and process.
Testing: REST API, UI / end-to-end, regression, risk-based test selection, exploratory, upgrade, backup & restore,
release testing and sign-off, Agile/Scrum, log analysis, Grafana.
Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, OpenStack; Linux, Docker. Auth integrations through Keycloak with Azure AD and
AWS Cognito.
CI/CD & tracking: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Git, TestRail, Jira, Allure reporting.
AI-assisted QA: Requirements and feature-request analysis; agent-driven platform exploration with Claude and the
Playwright MCP. Test design and verification stay human-owned.
EXPERIENCE

2021.AI - Copenhagen, Denmark (fully remote) 2019 - 2026
Danish vendor of GRACE, an enterprise AI-governance / MLOps platform, deployed on five public clouds for 50+ enterprise
and public-sector clients.
Senior QA Engineer 2022 - 2026
 Acting Head of QA (recurring cover). Covered the role during every leave period from 2022 onwards - QA
planning, priorities, bug triage and release sign-off. The longest single stretch ran close to a month over a holiday
period, including five full release sign-offs.
 Cut per-environment regression from a four-day full P1/P2 pass to about one day, by re-running only the areas
that genuinely differ between clouds (resource provisioning, storage).
 Owned upgrade, backup and restore testing across releases. Wrote the data-seeding utility that cut ~1.5h of man-
ual setup per run: it populates and validates a full data set on demand. Integrated into the GitLab CI/CD pipeline.
 Trained five QA engineers from scratch: the platform, the in-house automation framework, the test strategy and
the case library. Also interviewed QA candidates for the team.
 Configured and tested auth integrations in Keycloak against Azure AD and AWS Cognito across test environments.
QA Automation & Manual Engineer 2020 - 2022
 Built end-to-end API and UI coverage for new platform functionality in the in-house Python / Selenium
framework.
 Paired automated regression with targeted manual and exploratory passes across every module.
QA Engineer (Manual) 2019 - 2020
 Ran functional, regression and exploratory testing; wrote and maintained test cases; reported and tracked
defects.
 Built the deep product and multi-environment knowledge that the automation and leadership work later rested
on.
PERSONAL PROJECT

AutoTest Framework - repo · live Allure report URL
 Layered API + UI automation framework in Python with a GitHub Actions pipeline that publishes a live Allure
report to GitHub Pages and runs a nightly smoke suite.
 A shared HTTP client centralises timeout, logging and retries, and tells a transient failure apart from the error a
negative test is supposed to produce - so a retry can never quietly paper over the behaviour under test.
 API and UI layers sit behind matching facades with an entity pattern, so the same test data drives both paths:
seed over the API and verify through the browser, or the other way round.
 Python 3.11, pytest, Playwright, requests, Pydantic, Faker, Allure, ruff, GitHub Actions.
EDUCATION

MSc and BSc in International Economics - Kyiv National Economic University, 2012–2019
LANGUAGES

Ukrainian - native · English - full work proficiency
REFERENCE

Volodymyr Mandziuk, direct manager 2019–2026, available upon request