# Starr Lucky

Starr Lucky is a remote worker on Himalayas, QA Lead at TradingView, based in Georgia.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@starrlucky

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QA Lead at TradingView who built a unified release pipeline across 6 backend services and automated exploratory testing.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Georgia |
| Authorized to work in | Georgia |
| Salary expectations | 48k+ EUR |
| Job categories | QA Automation Engineer, QA Automation Engineer, SDET |
| Skills | Testing Automation, API Testing, Backend Testing, CI CD, Quality Gates, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Test Strategy, Exploratory testing, Functional Testing, Team Leadership, Python, Go, BASH, JavaScript |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/starrlucky |
| GitHub | https://github.com/StarrLucky |

## About

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At TradingView, I turned manual QA routines into code. I built a unified GitLab CI release pipeline across 6 backend services and an AI-powered framework that automated exploratory testing that previously took hours of manual work per release.

I grew from Junior QA Product Engineer to QA Lead, defining backend QA strategy and implementing CI/CD quality gates. I scaled Allure coverage from zero to 1069 test cases, including 573 automated tests, and built load-testing frameworks with k6 and JMeter.

As QA Lead, I led a team of 5 engineers and set up an on-call rotation with a handbook and playbooks. I stay hands-on, including closing 146 Jira issues and authoring 232 in 2026.
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## Experience

### QA Lead (current)

[TradingView](https://himalayas.app/companies/tradingview). Sep 2025 - Present

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Led a team of 5 QA engineers, set up QA on-call rotation, and designed a unified GitLab CI release pipeline across 6 backend services. Built an AI-powered testing framework and modernized CI test automation with Playwright and k6.
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Skills: Testing-Automation, SDET, Backend-API-Testing, CI-CD-Quality-Gates, Load-And-Performance-Testing, Pytest, Playwright, Selenium, Python, Go, BASH, JavaScript, Gitlab-CI, Docker, Kubernetes, JMeter, Grafana, Zabbix, PostgreSQL, Allure, Postman, Team-Leadership

### Senior QA Automation Engineer

[TradingView](https://himalayas.app/companies/tradingview). Apr 2024 - Sep 2025

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Defined backend QA strategy and implemented CI/CD quality gates for 6 services. Built load/performance testing frameworks and scaled Allure coverage from 0 to 1069 test cases.
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Skills: Testing-Automation, CI-CD, Jenkins, JMeter, Docker, Makefiles, Allure, API-Testing, Confluence, Interviewing

### QA Product Engineer

[TradingView](https://himalayas.app/companies/tradingview). Dec 2022 - Apr 2024

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Improved internal regression-testing utility and made pre-deploy regression mandatory. Wrote auto-tests in Python and Pytest, and built internal admin-panel features in JavaScript and Go.
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Skills: Go, BASH, Groovy, Gitlab, Python, Pytest, JavaScript, DevOps, Regex, Jira

### Junior QA Product Engineer

[TradingView](https://himalayas.app/companies/tradingview). Mar 2021 - Dec 2022

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Tested and closed 165 issues and reported 109 bugs across backend services. Supported Pine Script users on Stack Overflow and handled tier-2 community support.
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Skills: Manual-Testing, API-Testing, Postman, Regression-Testing, Feature-Testing, Pinescript, Stack-Overflow, Community-Support

## Education

### Don State Technical University

Radio Engineer, Radio Engineering

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Graduated with a degree in Radio Engineering in 2014.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Selenium
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- PostgreSQL
- Slack
- Jira
- JavaScript
- Python
- Go
- Grafana
- Zabbix
- Confluence
- pytest
- Docker
- Groovy
- Playwright
- Bash
- k6

To contact Starr, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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