Position: QA Automation Engineer
Category: QA Automation
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 2.5


My friend and I had a successful e-commerce startup since 2016. During that time, I learned the foundations of manual QA and applied them in real-life business scenarios.

We won the hearts of 40,000 clients and became one of the top 5 companies in Ukraine, while also building the largest ESL community on Ukrainian Facebook. However, we faced challenging times when COVID emerged.

In 2020 and 2021, I traveled to Alaska to earn some cash. Describing the work as challenging would be an understatement. I had to work 16-18 hours a day for two months. This period of my life taught me valuable lessons. I realized that great goals cannot be achieved without teamwork, resilience, and dedication.

Upon returning to Ukraine, I invested a portion of my earnings into pursuing my long-standing dream. I successfully secured internships and training courses with two major companies in Ukraine for Java backend development.

Those were fantastic times. Even before I completed my internship, DataArt offered me a position as a Java automation engineer, which I gladly accepted. I have always believed that hands-on commercial experience is the most valuable asset an engineer can possess.

That's how I became a QA Automation Engineer. We worked on an incredibly rigorous yet exciting startup project, surrounded by great colleagues. Within the following months, my expertise, empathy, and dedication helped me advance to middle and senior positions.

Now, I aspire to continue growing and become advanced in mentoring young engineers while exploring new horizons in QA Automation.