Ivan

Ivan Shmidt
SDET / QA Automation Engineer
Email: [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | Phone: [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | Telegram: @deadworldi | Kharkiv, Ukraine

SUMMARY SDET / QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years in software quality assurance: 6+ years in test
automation and 1 year of manual testing. Experienced in Web, Mobile, API and performance
testing, building test automation frameworks from scratch, and leading QA activities in a cross-
functional team. Contributed to ~15 outsourced projects across e-commerce, healthcare,
business process automation and subscription management domains.

CORE COMPETENCIES • Designing, building and maintaining test automation frameworks (Web UI, Mobile UI, REST
API).
• Performance and load testing with k6.
• Test strategy, planning, estimation, risk identification and mitigation planning.
• QA leadership: coordinating testing activities, reporting quality status to the team and
stakeholders.
• Test reporting: Allure, custom reports and report viewers.
• Development of internal tools and data parsers to support testing.
• Testing across all stages of the software development life cycle, including security testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming Languages: C# (.NET, LINQ), TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Groovy
UI Automation: Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Appium
Test Frameworks: NUnit, MSTest, pytest
API Testing: RestSharp, requests, Postman, Fiddler, Charles
Performance Testing: k6
Reporting: Allure (incl. custom reports and viewers)
Web: HTML, XML, JSON, CSS Selectors, XPath, JsonPath, jQuery
Databases: MS SQL, MySQL
CI/CD & Version Control: Jenkins, GitLab, Git
Tools: Visual Studio, PyCharm, Android Studio, Xcode, SQL Server Management Studio,
VMware Workstation, Chrome DevTools
Issue Tracking: Jira, Bugzilla, GitLab

EXPERIENCE 2025 – Present
E-commerce platform (online store) with a web storefront, product catalog and order flow. A
small cross-functional team, where QA owns the full quality process: functional, regression, API
and performance testing.
Team: 9 persons (3 backend, 2 frontend, 2 QA, 1 SEO specialist)
Role: SDET / QA Automation Engineer / Test Lead
Responsibilities:
• Leading QA activities: test strategy, planning, estimation and prioritization of testing tasks.
• Coordinating the work of the QA team and reporting quality status to the team.
• Designing and developing the core test automation framework in C# with Playwright.
• Developing k6 scripts for performance and load testing.
• Building data parsers in TypeScript and Python to support testing.
• Setting up Allure reporting; creating custom reports and custom viewers for Allure results.
Technologies: C#, .NET, Playwright, k6, TypeScript, Python, Allure
2024
Web-based system for managing subscriptions to various services and connected devices.
Users can activate, modify and track subscriptions. The system has multiple API integrations
and high security requirements.
Team: 20+ persons
Role: Automation QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Security testing of the application.

• Writing and maintaining automated test scripts in Groovy.
• Execution and support of automated tests.
2022 – 2023
Platform for placing, scheduling and paying for orders, with customizable dashboards,
accounting and reporting features. Available on Mobile and Web.
Team: 25+ persons
Role: Mobile Automation QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Building and supporting the mobile automation framework.
• Creating test scenarios for automation.
• Implementing automated test scripts.
• Execution and support of automated tests; sharing test results.
2021 – 2022
Business process automation platform with flexible role and permission management, a form
builder, and configurable rules and processes. Features a large number of UI components and a
complex front-end.
Team: 25+ persons
Role: Automation QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Creating test scenarios for automation.
• Implementing automated test scripts.
• Execution and support of automated tests; sharing test results.
2019 – 2020
Medical learning application for students and doctors with educational videos and quizzes,
available on mobile, desktop and tablet. Microservice architecture with API, UI and integration
test layers.
Team: 10+ persons
Role: Automation QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Building and supporting the automation framework.
• Creating test scenarios for automation.
• Implementing automated test scripts.
• Execution and support of automated tests; sharing test results.
2019
Pharmacy management system for institutional and long-term care: prescription dispensing for
residents of care facilities, drug information, medical records, reporting and audit support.
Team: 25+ persons
Role: Automation QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Creating test scenarios for automation.
• Implementing automated test scripts.
• Execution and support of automated tests; sharing test results.
Earlier: 1 year of manual testing in a company specializing in outsourced product development.

EDUCATION Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Master's Degree, Micro- and Nano-System Technology

LANGUAGES English – Intermediate (daily communication with off-shore and on-shore teams).