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Darko Puhalo

@dpuhalo

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Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in Playwright/WebdriverIO test automation and CI/CD-driven quality delivery.

Slovenia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a QA/automation role where I can own test strategy end-to-end—building Playwright/WebdriverIO automation, integrating it into CI/CD, improving UAT/regression, and mentoring engineers to ship reliable products.

I’m a QA Automation Engineer who has led automation efforts as the sole QA in a team of 8, in addition to supporting and directly managing three QA engineers across three teams.

I optimize QA processes and UAT delivery cycles, setting up regression testing pipelines using a client provided CI platform. I also design and manage test cases in TestRail and automate them with Playwright using TypeScript.

With 7+ years of experience across embedded and web domains, I’ve owned the migration from WebDriver to Playwright and integrated automation solutions with AWS and CI/CD platforms. I coordinate and mentor junior team members, and I bring a strong testing foundation from roles that included system and integration testing, HIL setup maintenance, and requirement/test management with DOORS, TestRail and X-Ray tools. I’m comfortable working with Agile workflows and delivering quality through end-to-end testing practices.