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Michael S

@michaels2

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QA Engineer focused on release-ready automation, CI/CD quality, and observability-driven debugging.

Serbia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to drive reliable Go/No-Go releases and CI/CD automation, build strong test coverage with observability, and partner closely with Product and Developers to find risks early and improve quality continuously.

I’m a QA Engineer working in product-driven environments with microservices, high-load backends, and active CI/CD culture—serving markets across CIS and Eastern Europe. I own release readiness through “Go/No-Go release decisions” and post-release monitoring to keep products stable.

I build and maintain automated UI regression suites using TypeScript and Playwright, orchestrated in Allure TestOps. I also lead comprehensive test planning—functional, exploratory, regression, integration, and acceptance testing—while partnering with Product Owners and Developers to identify risks early in the SDLC.

Beyond testing, I make quality visible and actionable: I investigate complex issues with logs, metrics, and dashboards (Coralogix, Grafana, Metabase), validate data integrity with SQL across MySQL/ClickHouse, and verify message broker behavior with Kafka and Redis. I’ve also spearheaded migrations and setup of test management systems (Allure TestOps, Zephyr for Jira), improved documentation structure, and onboarded new QA engineers.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Engineer

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BrainRocket

Jun 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)

Led Go/No-Go release decisions and post-release monitoring to ensure product stability. Built and maintained TypeScript/Playwright UI automation and managed CI/CD, feature flags, observability, and test management tooling.

QA Engineer

NSYS Group

Mar 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Performed UI/UX, functional, integration, and exploratory testing for web and mobile applications, and documented bugs and test assets. Conducted API testing and wrote SQL queries while contributing to cross-functional requirements risk clarification.