Yauheni Papovich

ABOUT

QA Automation Tech Lead with hands-on architecture ownership.

I lead quality engineering for high-load product teams, combining automation architecture, release strategy, mentoring, and production-like feedback loops. My strongest areas are test platforms, CI/CD quality gates, mock/stub infrastructure, observability, and AI-assisted QA.

Experience Highlights

Tango - Quality Tech Lead / Lead SDET

May 2021 - Present

Platform owner for 12 feature teams across 4 product lines. Architected KMM shared modules and ~5,850+ autotests; improved WEB stability to ~98%+ and reduced full regression from 3h to 50min.

SoftSwiss - Tech Lead, SDET

Dec 2020 - Apr 2021

Led a 4-person automation team, built Java + JDI Web UI framework from scratch, introduced GitLab CI/CD standards, and contributed to open-source JDI.

EPAM Systems - Senior SDET / Test Automation Engineer

Jul 2018 - Nov 2020

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

a1qa - QA Automation Engineer

Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

Built Java UI and Python API automation foundations for retail and billing projects with Selenium, Cucumber, Pytest, REST/SOAP, and SQL.

Leadership

12

Feature teams supported by shared automation platform and standards

6

Direct-report SDETs led and mentored in product delivery

40+

Technical interviews for QA and SDET hiring decisions

11

Successful hires supported through interview process

Education And Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

BNTU

Engineering background with a practical focus on systems thinking and structured problem solving.

Recent Certifications

LinkedIn Learning and Anthropic

CI/CD and Azure DevOps; Introduction to Model Context Protocol (MCP); Introduction to agent skills.