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Illia Akhaladze
Senior Automation QA Engineer

Summary
AQA C# Engineer with almost 10 years of experience working in software
development and quality assurance. Possesses advanced expertise in C#, Selenium,
Playwright, and Azure DevOps. Well-versed in establishing automation frameworks
and improving testing efficiency. Specializes in BDD practices, API testing, and
creating comprehensive reporting systems. Demonstrates a fostering collaboration
within distributed teams and ensuring quality deliverables in Agile environments.
Committed to mentoring team members and driving continuous improvement in
test automation processes.

Technical Skills

Programming
Languages C#

Tools and Selenium, SpecFlow, Insomnia REST Client, Selenium WebDriver,
Technologies Visual Studio, Resharper, Git, LINQ, TeamCity, Jenkins, Playwright,
Azure DevOps

Other BDD, Agile, API Testing

Job History

(December 2025 - till
now) DevSpiration

Project Rev2Cash

Project role Senior Automation Engineer in .NET

Description Finance, taxes, revenue

Tools and Azure, Playwright, SpecFlow, .NET Core, Postman API, REST APIs,
technologies Azure DevOps Services, Jira, Selenium
 ■​ Build frontend automation using Playwright from scratch
■​ Set up processes for automation
Project ■​ Set up CI/CD pipelines.
responsibilities ■​ Leading automation in the team.
■​ Maintenance, improve existing automation solution based
on Selenium

1year 1 month (October
2024 - October 2025) Sii Ukraine

Project SkyKICK migration

Description The automated migrated system to migrate big data of employees
from one source type to another.

Project role Senior Automation Engineer in .NET

Tools and Microsoft Azure, Playwright, SpecFlow, .NET Core, Postman API,
technologies REST APIs, Azure DevOps Services, Docker, Jira, GSP

■​ Build frontend automation using Playwright from scratch
Project ■​ Set up processes for automation
responsibilities ■​ Set up CI/CD pipelines.
■​ Leading automation in the team.

1 year 5 months (June
2023 - October 2024) Ciklum

Project Automated Changes Management - Gambling domain

Description Implement the newest application, to automated processes to
track changes in the industry.

Project role Senior Automation Engineer in .NET

Tools and Microsoft Azure, Playwright, SpecFlow, .NET Core, Postman API,
technologies REST APIs, Azure DevOps Services, Docker, Jira

Project ■​ Build frontend automation using Playwright from scratch
responsibilities ■​ Set up processes for automation
■​ Set up CI/CD pipelines.
■​ Leading automation in the team.
1 year 5 months
(December 2021 - April Sigma Software Group
2023)

Project SkyKick

Description We help IT solution providers build more successful cloud
businesses. The main goals are to develop automation from
scratch, set up processes, and build CI/CD. Maintenance of
existing automation, increased coverage, and integration with
release pipelines.

Project role Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Tools and Selenium WebDriver, APIs, XPath, Microsoft Azure, Scrum, NUnit,
technologies ReSharper, Playwright, Visual Studio, LINQ, ONION, KANBAN,
SpecFlow, Git, .NET Core, .NET, C#, OOP, MS Visual Studio

Project ■​ Build frontend automation using Playwright from scratch
responsibilities ■​ Set up processes for automation
■​ Set up CI/CD pipelines.
■​ Leading automation in the team.

3 years 6 months (July
2019 - December 2021) Ciklum

Project eToro - Financial Domain

Description Trade and invest on a trusted multi-asset platform. Get ideas from
35M users, practice with a demo account, or copy top-performing
traders automatically. From an automation point of view, the main
goal was to create effective automation, including automated
runs, reporting, and building TAF from scratch. Also, we had a lot
of integration between different teams.

Project role Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Tools and Selenium WebDriver, Jira, APIs, XPath, Microsoft Azure, Scrum,
technologies NUnit, ReSharper, Agile, Visual Studio, LINQ, Web Driver, TeamCity,
Selenium, Jenkins, BDD, Git, .NET Core, .NET, xUnit, C#, Selenium
Testing, OOP, MS Visual Studio

Project ■​ Served as an automation engineer responsible for initiating
responsibilities automation efforts from scratch.
■​ Established a reliable automation solution for customers.
■​ Developed comprehensive automation coverage.
■​ Implemented an effective reporting system.
■​ Created a Test Automation Framework (TAF) with key
features such as extensibility and maintainability.

4 years
EPAM System
4 months
Project 1 Financial Domain

Description The project has been related to the IPOs process and includes a
pretty complex approach such as verification notification by
email, and SMTP servers. The main automation activities were to
cover existing automation, cover new features, improve test
automation framework, leading a small AQA team.

Duration 2 years 2 months (June 2017 - July 2019)

Project role Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Tools and Selenium WebDriver, Jira, XPath, Scrum, NUnit, Resharper, Agile,
technologies Visual Studio, LINQ, Team City, UI Testing, BDD, Git, .NET Core,
.NET, xUnit, C#, OOP, MS Visual Studio‍

Project ■​ Focused primarily on technical tasks such as extending
responsibilities frameworks and creating automation from scratch (CI, TAF,
automation, and reporting).
■​ Spent significant time on coaching and mentoring team
members.

Project 2 Financial Domain

Description As part of the experience, I have been part of TAFs team which is
tasked with improving the test automation framework, stabilizing
the existing automation, and adding a reporting system. Also, we
have regular meetings with customers and architecture from the
client side.

Duration 1 year 1 months (June 2016 - June 2017)

Project role Middle Software Test Automation Engineer

Tools and Selenium WebDriver, Jira‍, XPath, Scrum, NUnit, Resharper, Agile,
technologies Visual Studio, LINQ, Team City, SpecFlow, Selenium, BDD, Git,
.NET Core, .NET, xUnit, C#, OOP, MS Visual Studio‍

Project ■​ Created test cases and automated them to ensure
responsibilities efficiency.
■​ Improved the Test Automation Framework (TAF) by adding
new features and optimizing functionality.
■​ Supported infrastructure related to CI/CD pipelines and
reporting.
■​ Provided regular reporting on both team and management
levels.
■​ Developed automation scripts and contributed to CI setup.
■​ Extended and improved the test framework across
projects.
■​ Reviewed test coverage for all projects to ensure
completeness.
■​ Created and executed tests for APIs.
■​ Investigated and debugged issues in automated tests.
 ■​ Collaborated closely with QA, development teams, and
product owners.

Project 3 Financial Domain

Description The main tasks were regarding migrating legacy scripts to BDD,
and building a test automation framework using the newest tech
stack using .net core, and Specflow. The automation scripts should
be also migrated to the TeamCity CI/CD tool, also automation
should cover legacy parts of very old systems and new features.
The daily activities also include all scrum meetings and have been
mandatory.

Duration 1 year 1 month (June 2015 - June 2016)

Project role Junior Software Test Automation Engineer

Tools and Jira, XPath, Scrum, NUnit, Resharper, Agile, Visual Studio, LINQ,
technologies Web Driver, Team City, Selenium, UI Testing, BDD, Git, .NET, C#,
MS Visual Studio‍

Project ■​ Implemented existing scripts and increased automation
responsibilities coverage.
■​ Reviewed processes.
■​ Worked with the test automation framework to run and
update tests and analyze results.
■​ Developed high-quality test cases, both automated and
manual.
■​ Ran test cases, reported results, and tracked down defects.
■​ Collaborated with customers to determine data needs and
optimal test conditions.
■​ Actively participated in team objectives and improvement
initiatives.