Stefan Popovic

I’ve spent the last 9 years working in Quality Engineering across enterprise SaaS, digital health, media, and agritech. Over time, my focus shifted from writing tests to fixing the systems that make testing necessary in the first place.

I step into messy environments unclear requirements, unstable releases, or siloed teams and introduce the structure required for predictable delivery. I don't operate as an end-of-pipeline gatekeeper. Instead, I partner with Product and Engineering early to define validation strategies, building the infrastructure that enables developers to confidently test their own work.

To scale this approach, I’ve integrated agentic AI workflows into test engineering. The goal isn't to artificially inflate test suites with generated code. It’s to maintain clear traceability from user stories to test execution, multiply automation output without linear headcount growth, and build test architectures clean enough to hand over to development teams.

Core Impact:
• Moving teams from reactive firefighting to predictable, structured release cycles
• Driving upstream quality strategies and developer enablement
• Scaling test automation output and coverage via agentic workflows
• Connecting technical execution directly with delivery speed

Tech-wise, I come from a strong automation background (Playwright, TypeScript, Selenium, CI/CD). However, I approach quality with an engineering mindset frameworks and AI agents are simply tools used to build a system that works.

Focus Areas:
Quality Engineering | Test Architecture | QA Strategy | Agentic Development | Developer Enablement | Release Management | Agile Process Optimization | CI/CD | Playwright | TypeScript | API Testing | SaaS | Scaling Engineering Teams