Yauheni Papovich

QA AUTOMATION TECH LEAD · LEAD SDET · WARSAW, POLAND

Building scalable quality engineering platforms for high-load product teams.

8+ years across live streaming, iGaming, and healthcare. I own test architecture, KMM frameworks, shift-left CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted QA workflows for teams that need fast releases without losing confidence.

  • Platform owner for 12 feature teams across 4 product lines
  • ~5,850+ autotests across WEB Playwright, iOS XCTest, and backend E2E
  • Hands-on leadership in Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, Python, and Swift

Business Impact

85%

Fewer flaky streaming tests via Spring Boot mock/stub platform

98%

WEB regression stability after cross-browser Playwright re-platforming

5850+

Autotests across WEB, iOS, backend E2E, Android, and API layers

25%

QA time saved on documentation and triage with RAG and Allure MCP agents

Experience Snapshot

Tango · Quality Tech Lead / Lead SDET

May 2021 - Present

Owned QA automation roadmap and platform for 12 feature teams; architected KMM shared modules and ~5,850+ autotests; moved WEB regression to Playwright with ~98%+ stability and 3h to 50min runtime.

SoftSwiss · Tech Lead, SDET

Dec 2020 - Apr 2021

Led a 4-person SDET team, built Java + JDI Web UI automation from scratch, contributed to open-source JDI, and established GitLab CI/CD standards with Selenoid and ReportPortal.

EPAM Systems · Senior SDET / Test Automation Engineer

Jul 2018 - Nov 2020

Designed Java + Selenium healthcare WEB frameworks, owned reusable Jenkins Groovy CI/reporting pipelines, led mobile automation, and mentored EPAM QA Automation Lab cohorts.

a1qa · QA Automation Engineer

Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

Established Java + Selenium + Cucumber automation for retail and Python REST/SOAP/SQL automation for billing projects.

Core Technology Stack

Kotlin Java TypeScript Python Swift Playwright KMM XCTest Selenium WebDriver REST Assured JUnit 5 Spring Boot Docker Kubernetes GCP Jenkins GitLab CI Allure TestOps Grafana Coralogix MCP RAG Kafka gRPC SQL Jira

Open To Tech Lead AQA / Lead SDET Opportunities

If you need a lead who can combine architecture, delivery speed, measurable quality, and team growth, let's discuss how to scale automation without slowing product releases.