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Emil Akhadov

@emilakhadov

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Full Stack QA Engineer with 10 years in test automation, CI/CD integration, and quality leadership.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role where I can lead test automation efforts, build CI/CD-integrated frameworks, mentor teams, and improve product quality in an Agile environment.

I am a Full Stack QA Engineer with 10 years building test automation frameworks and establishing QA processes for complex web applications. I specialize in JavaScript/TypeScript automation using Cypress, Playwright, and WebdriverIO and have integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

As a founding or sole QA on multiple SCRUM teams, I created testing infrastructure from scratch, mentored junior testers, and collaborated closely with developers and stakeholders to reduce production bugs and improve delivery. Key achievements include reducing regression runs from hours to minutes, creating QA dashboards that cut post-release bugs by 40%, and preventing critical bugs from reaching production.

I focus on test automation architecture, API testing, metrics and reporting, test data management, and quality documentation, and I experiment with LLMs and AI agents to boost efficiency. I bring a practical, detail-oriented leadership style with strong communication and a preference for clear documentation and measurable results.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Quality Assurance Engineer

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Human Data Sciences

Feb 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Founding QA engineer who built a Cypress/JavaScript/Cucumber automation framework, reducing regression testing from 3.5 hours to 15 minutes and preventing 23 critical bugs from reaching production; created QA dashboards and documentation that cut onboarding from 2 weeks to 3 days.

Cypress JavaScript GitHub Actions CI CD API Testing Azure DevOps

Quality Assurance Engineer

Trafalgar Girls

Apr 2023 - Jan 2024 (9 months)

Built a Cypress automation framework achieving 80% coverage and reduced regression testing time by 40%; implemented a Supabase seeded database to eliminate manual test data creation, saving ~2 hours per developer per sprint.

Cypress Supabase JavaScript Regression Testing Automation Framework SQL

Software Developer in Test

Interfirst

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023 (1 year)

Covered 100% of Express.js REST API endpoints with Mocha/Chai/SuperTest in TypeScript and refactored Cypress tests to use dynamic test data, reducing test data creation from 30 minutes to ~30 seconds; integrated cleanup suite into Azure Pipelines.

Mocha Chai Supertest TypeScript Cypress Azure Pipelines API Testing CI CD

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Alamy

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented MochaAwesome reporting for Cypress tests in TypeScript, established ESLint/Prettier and code review processes that reduced test bugs by 40% and merge conflicts by 25%, and defined acceptance criteria via versioned Figma mockups to reduce rework 20%.

Cypress TypeScript ESLint Prettier Code Review Figma Test Reporting CI CD

QA Automation Tester

Skyeng

Nov 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 1 month)

Supervised QA automation team to build a WebdriverIO/JavaScript framework reaching 70% test coverage in 4 months and introduced in-development UI testing to reduce UI defects by 50%.

WebdriverIO JavaScript UI Testing Chrome DevTools Test Coverage

Software Testing Engineer

DataGroup

Feb 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 8 months)

Developed bug feedback questionnaires that reduced investigation time by 55% and improved cross-team efficiency through detailed Confluence changelogs while onboarding new team members.

Jira TestRail Confluence QA Processes Agile Scrum

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Programming Academy Insilico Valley (PΣV)

Bootcamp Certificate, Quality Assurance Automation

2017 - 2017

Completed an intensive Quality Assurance Automation bootcamp focused on JavaScript/TypeScript test automation tools and CI/CD practices.

Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University

Master of Science, Computer Systems and Networks

2014 - 2016

Completed a Master’s degree in Computer Systems and Networks with a thesis on an automated method for generating a semantic core for website SEO.

Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

2010 - 2014

Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering covering algorithms, data structures, databases, web fundamentals, and programming in C++ and Python.