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ZELIHA EMILIYANOVA

@zelihaemiliyanova

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Senior SDET and AI-driven Quality Engineer transforming QA with automation.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior QA roles where I can architect automation, drive AI-enabled testing, mentor teams, and integrate strict CI/CD quality gates to accelerate reliable delivery in collaborative Agile environments.

I am a Senior SDET and AI-augmented Quality Engineer with deep expertise in designing scalable automation architectures across Java, Python and C#. I lead migrations from manual suites to hybrid BDD/TDD frameworks, embed AI agents for semantic data validation, and strengthen CI/CD pipelines and quality gates to reduce regressions and accelerate releases.

I have delivered end-to-end automation across UI, API and backend layers for enterprise platforms, mentored teams to adopt modern test patterns (Playwright, Cypress, SpecFlow), and implemented AI-driven testing practices using GitHub Copilot and Azure AI to improve coverage, resilience and delivery speed.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior SDET & QA Automation Lead

Current

Cleverbit Software

Jan 2025 - Present (10 months)

Lead SDET for Unily's front-end modernization program, architecting a full-stack test strategy and AI-driven data validation that improved regression speed and reduced critical defect leakage by 25%.

Playwright Python Docker Azure DevOps Jest

Senior SDET (Contractor)

WiseHouseTech Ltd

Sep 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 4 months)

Delivered cross-layer automation and increased test coverage by 10% in three months by designing a Selenium-Cucumber BDD framework and integrating REST Assured and JDBC for backend validation.

Java C++Selenium Playwright Rest Assured Jenkins Git

QA Automation Engineer

Oreon Software Development

Jan 2017 - Aug 2019 (2 years 7 months)

Implemented Selenium BDD frameworks and CI/CD integration, increasing test automation rate by 10% and cutting deployment testing time by 75% via automated acceptance tests.

Selenium Webdriver Maven Cucumber Rest Assured JDBC Jenkins Git

Senior SDET & QA Automation Lead

Cleverbit Software

QA Automation Lead for a large-scale ERP logistics platform, architected a hybrid TypeScript BDD framework and CI/CD integrations that reduced regression feedback time via parallel cloud execution.