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Renalds Trakims

@renaldstrakims

I'm a test architect working at the developer-productivity end of quality - Playwright, CI, AI agents, skills and observability standards.

Latvia

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What I'm looking for

I'm a test architect working at the developer-productivity end of quality - Playwright, CI, AI agents, skills and observability standards. Most of what I actually build is the paved road: templates, pipelines and tooling engineers adopt because it's the fastest way to ship correctly.

I'm a test architect working at the developer-productivity end of quality - I own the CI gates for a money-critical ledger platform, cut a core pipeline from ~12 minutes to under 2, and author my company's Playwright, CI, AI agents, skills and observability standards. Most of what I actually build is the paved road: templates, pipelines and tooling engineers adopt because it's the fastest way to ship correctly.

The part probably worth thirty seconds of your time: I spent five months building a framework that runs AI agents (Claude Code) inside CI to repair failing tests - and, more importantly, to refuse to. It re-runs the entire suite to prove a fix works before proposing it, then opens a draft PR through a bot that structurally cannot merge. When the product has genuinely regressed, it changes nothing and escalates. Public: github.com/renaldstrakims/mendwright

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior SDET (Staff-level scope)

Current

Dynatech (Dyninno Group)

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 7 months)

Designed and built the company's modern Playwright/TypeScript framework and test standards, and prototyped a self-healing capability with guardrailled, locator-only fixes. Sole quality owner of a money-critical voucher/ledger platform, owning test strategy, automation frameworks, and CI quality gates end to end.

QA Automation Engineer

TestDevLab

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Validated real-time financial data integrity for crypto networks using GraphQL, AWS Athena and Kafka, and implemented automated GraphQL contract checks that cut manual verification effort by 40%. Monitored distributed node health with Grafana dashboards.

GraphQL SQL Grafana Data Validation Contract Testing Kafka Testing Automation

QA Automation Engineer

Taylor and Francis

Jan 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 11 months)

Scaled a Selenium/Java automation framework across 9 platforms and built a Cucumber (JVM) BDD + REST Assured API framework from scratch, leading QA strategy for a microservices migration. Mentored offshore engineers and embedded API-level quality coverage into the delivery process.

QA Engineer

Pearson Education

Jan 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 11 months)

Built a Cucumber (JVM/Java) BDD framework that materially reduced manual regression time.

Cucumber Java BDD Testing Automation Regression Testing

QA Engineer

Pearson

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years)

Developed a Cucumber-JVM BDD framework that reduced testing time by 50% and improved cross-functional collaboration between product owners and developers. Supported automation efforts for education platforms.

BDD Java Selenium Collaboration Test Strategy Testing Automation

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology

2011 - 2015

Completed a Bachelor of Information Technology program focused on foundational IT concepts and practical software development skills from 2011 to 2015.