Nikita Ponomarenko

I’m a Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET with 5+ years of experience in test automation, specializing in building automation frameworks from scratch and driving quality across microservice architectures. I’ve focused on end-to-end UI and API coverage, with a track record of reducing manual testing time by 30%+.

Most recently at Р7, I architected and developed an end-to-end UI automation testing framework using Python, Playwright, and Pytest. I automated 600+ UI test scenarios for Smoke and Regression suites, integrated execution into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and improved stability through framework refactoring.

Before that, I acted as the sole Founding QA Engineer at StaffLab, establishing QA processes, strategies, and metrics across three digital products. I built scalable UI automation with TypeScript and Playwright, implemented API test automation with Postman integrated into GitLab CI for 5 microservices, and supported performance/load testing with Apache JMeter—collaborating closely with CEO/CTO and mentoring teammates.