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Renalds Trakims

@renaldstrakims

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Senior SDET driving scalable backend automation, DevOps-integrated quality, and improved developer experience.

Latvia

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can architect scalable test frameworks, integrate QA into DevOps pipelines, mentor teams, and drive observability and shift-left practices to improve reliability and delivery.

I am a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with 7+ years focusing on backend API architecture and DevOps-integrated quality systems. I design and implement scalable automation frameworks (Java 17, RestAssured) and lead efforts to reduce technical debt and cycle time.

I've managed large regression suites (3000+ tests), championed Shift-Left practices, and introduced observability strategies that cut root-cause analysis time by about 50%. I deliver reliability improvements for high-volume payment systems and reduced escaped defects by 40% through expanded API coverage and quality gates.

I integrate CI/CD and containerized pipelines, build performance and contract testing solutions, and mentor teams on automation best practices. I focus on developer experience, fault-tolerant reporting, and pragmatic test architecture to enable continuous delivery and measurable operational improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior SDET

Current

Trevolution Group

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years)

Architected a thread-safe REST API automation framework (Java 17, RestAssured) and refactored a 3000+ test regression suite, reducing cycle time by 70% and cutting technical debt. Drove QA strategy for a 10+ engineer fintech ecosystem, reduced escaped defects by 40%, and implemented observability and CI/CD practices that halved root-cause analysis time.

Rest Assured Docker Gitlab CI Observability Java CI CD CI CD Pipelines Logging Log Analysis ELK Stack

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 Apache Kafka SQL Test Automation Grafana Data Validation Contract Testing

QA Automation Engineer

Taylor & Francis

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years)

Scaled Selenium/Java automation across nine content platforms, built regression suites for eight products reducing maintenance overhead by 60%, and created a REST API framework with Cucumber-JVM and RestAssured to enable automated API regression testing.

Selenium Java Rest Assured API Testing Mentoring

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 Test Automation Java Selenium Collaboration Test Strategy

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.