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Pavel Kirkovsky

@pavelkirkovsky

QA automation lead building AI-enhanced, CI/CD-integrated test frameworks.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I seek remote-first, outcome-driven roles where I can architect CI/CD-integrated, AI-assisted test automation, lead teams, and scale quality across products with async collaboration and measurable impact.

I am a QA automation specialist and SDET with deep hands-on experience building modern test frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, Appium and AI-enhanced workflows, focused on reducing regression time and deployment defects.

I have led QA teams and architected scalable CI/CD-integrated test suites across e-commerce, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, IoT and cloud platforms, delivering measurable improvements such as 60% increased regression coverage and 40% fewer data pipeline defects.

I implement LLM-assisted testing, no-code/low-code automation, and performance testing at scale while embedding security and accessibility standards into automated workflows to enable continuous testing and improve release readiness.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

QA Lead / SDET

Consultant

Jun 2025 - Present (5 months)

Building production-ready test automation frameworks with Playwright, Cypress, and Appium and implementing AI-enhanced testing workflows to accelerate test generation and reduce regression time. Integrate suites into client CI/CD pipelines and author QA playbooks to standardize quality practices.

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Data Pipeline Quality Engineer

CareOregon

Mar 2024 - Jun 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Automated ETL/ELT testing across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Snowflake, reducing data pipeline defects by 40% and building Playwright coverage for QNXT workflows to eliminate 20+ manual testing hours/week. Led on-premises AI initiative for SQL validation.

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Lead SDET

EDIUpdater / MoveHQ

Mar 2023 - Jul 2023 (4 months)

Led SDET team to build E2E automation with Cypress and Playwright, increasing regression coverage by 60% and reducing release delays by 40% while architecting CI/CD pipelines with Okta integration and delivering FedRAMP-compliant features.

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SDET (Contract)

Sharp Laboratories

May 2016 - Mar 2017 (10 months)

Developed automated suites for desktop apps, API, video streaming, and sensor validation; built Wireshark dissectors and performed deep network analysis to reduce autonomous vehicle downtime from one week to two hours.

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Senior QA Engineer (Contract)

Elemental Technologies

Sep 2015 - Feb 2016 (5 months)

Extended automation coverage for multi-device video streaming platforms and optimized device provisioning and cluster testing workflows to improve reliability across diverse device configurations.

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Lead QA Engineer

eBay

May 2012 - Feb 2015 (2 years 9 months)

Directed QA for the RedLaser Android app (23M+ downloads), implemented hardware test harnesses and geo-aware barcode scanning frameworks to accelerate mobile regression testing and support next-gen commerce features.

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SDET (Contract)

Intel

Jan 2011 - Mar 2012 (1 year 2 months)

Authored developer documentation for Intel HAXM and developed automated test suites for the Android emulator adopted by 1M+ developers, extending the CTS framework for hardware-accelerated testing.

Education

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