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Yaraslau Budkou
Open to opportunitiesSenior QA Automation Engineer / SDET
United States
About
SDET / QA Automation Engineer / Test Automation Engineer. Remote, full-time.
Senior SDET with 6+ years of experience building automation solutions for backend, API, and distributed systems. Builds scalable test frameworks for API and UI testing, auxiliary services, and automation infrastructure integrated into CI/CD pipelines, including performance-testing frameworks that measure latency under realistic traffic. Strong focus on backend automation and backend testing for high-load systems, alongside functional testing across the full stack.
Experience
Senior Automation QA Engineer | Backend
Expanded automated backend coverage for a multi-exchange trading platform (order execution, risk management, real-time event streams). Investigated backend failures via log analysis and reported defects with clear reproduction steps. Reduced flaky tests, added post-deploy smoke suite and production monitoring. Built a performance-testing framework with reporting to measure latency under traffic.
Senior SDET
Full-time May–Dec 2025; part-time Jan–Aug 2026. Built a custom test automation framework from scratch for regression and smoke testing. Built custom Claude Code skills and sub-agents for test generation, framework maintenance, and CI/CD. Designed QA processes for coverage, defect tracking, and release readiness; ran performance tests to find bottlenecks and validate scalability.
Testing AutomationCI CDPerformance TestingCode ReviewCollaboration
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Developed API and UI testing frameworks in Python and TypeScript using Selenium, Appium, and Playwright. Implemented cross-browser and cross-device testing with BrowserStack. Configured GitLab CI to run automated tests in CI/CD pipelines. Reviewed test scripts and worked with developers and product teams to close coverage gaps and strengthen testing strategies.
Python
Education
Belarusian National Technical University
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Belarusian National Technical University.