Nikita Gavrish

Software engineer since 2010
CS Masters 2012
Based in Sophia Antipolis, Côte d'Azur, France.

Introduction video transcript summary:

Intro
Industries
Areas of expertise
Experience
Roles and processes
Career coaching

SDET &
BACKEND

For frontend we hire AI and consultants

It's easy to waste tons of money on QA Automation and SDET. Every industry and every project requires unique approach. Although some repeating patterns and industry best practices can definitely help. Me and my team helped than 15 happy customers since 2010.

MLOPS &
BIG DATA

For contend we hire AI and consultants

In my portfolio I have 3 projects in the field. Even though MLOps and Big Data QA is rather specialised area, which is becoming more and more common especially with wide integration of AI-tools and frameworks.

Tech Stack

List of tools and technologies I have minimum 3 long years of commercial experience with

Programming languages and 1 platform

Claude Code Pro + VS Code works best for me
Python, SQL, Java, Kotlin, Go, Swift, Groovy, JavaScript, Simulink
Backend

Django, Flask, Ktor, Python, Kotin, Go, Java SprintBoot, Groovy, Apache Hive, HQL, Amazon Athena, PL/SQL, Prophet
SDET

JUnit 4, Junit 5, Serenity, PyTest, KoTest, GoTest, CasperJS, Kaspresso, Appium, Selenium, Playwright, XCUITest, Robot Framework, Behave, Cucumber, Serenity, REST Assured, Locust
CI and Pipelines

Jenkins, TeamCity, GitlabCI, CruiseControl, MS Azure, Spinnaker, CircleCI, Airflow, DataBricks

Customers Summary

Description of product, team, tech stack and role on each project.

Chiron consulting, Nice,
01.2025 - currently

Providing consulting IT services in Europe
FinTech

SDET for AML/Antifraud
Tech: Golang, gRPC, REST, AWS, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Allure Test Ops
Functional backend and load testing

Forecasting

Ad forecasting service
Tech: Python, Behave, Selenium, Gitlab, Docker, AWS Cognito, MySQL, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Spinnaker
Backend and UI testing and test automation, Dataengineering, MLOps
ML-heavy functionality

SDET PLAYRIX, remote,
12.2023 - 11.2025

Test automation, leading team of 4
Tech: Python, PyTest, Playwrite, Gitlab, Docker, AWS Cognito, PostgreSQL, Appium, SQL
Teamcity
Custom Unity-like game API automation

Java SDET, Silverbird, remote,
10.2022 - 01.2024

FinTech startup
Tech: Java, Serenity, RESTAssured, GitlabCI
UI and API tests automation
Mocks and emulators development

SDET, Congenica, remote
11.2022 - 02.2024

MedTech Machine Learning and Pattern recognition technology
Cross-functional team, and part of QA tribe
Tech: Python, PyTest, Groovy, Jenkins, Selenium, REST, snake files, make files, FASTQ files, genomic data
UI and API tests automation
Pipeline tests automation
MLOps work

SDET/QA Lead, Medsi, remote
12.2020 - 10.2022

Private medical clinics
Test automation, leading team of 10
Tech: Python, PyTest, Selenium, Gitlab, Docker, AWS Cognito, PostgreSQL, REST, Appium, SQL

Kotlin backend QA, Olimpbet, remote
02.2021 - 06.2022

Betting, developing custom sportsbook
Cross-functional team of 5 developers
Test framework development, creating automated tests, delivering mocks and simulators of data-providers
Tech: Kotlin, KoTest, Gitlab, Docker, AWS Cognito, PostgreSQL, BaseX, REST, gRPC, RabbitMQ

Go backend QA, Qlean, remote
03.2021 - 10.2022

Uber for cleaners, payments processing team
Cross-functional team of 3 developers
Integration tests development
Tech: Go, gRPC, Docker

Big Data QA, DINS telecom, remote,
11.2020 - 03.2021

Telecom provider, big data team
Dedicated QA team for test engineers
Integration and e2e tests development, pipeline tests
Tech: Python, PyTest, TestIT, Jenkins, Hadoop, Hive

Java SDET, AppliedTech, remote
10.2021 - 03.2022

Security solutions provider
Corss-functional team
E2E tests development, pipeline tests
Tech: Python, PyTest

JavaScript E2E QA, TSEscorts, remote
11.2020 - 01.2021

Adult dating service
Corss-functional team
E2E tests development
Tech: Selenium, Javascript

Principal SDET, Dell Technologies, Saint-Petersburg
06.2019 - 11.2020

Software defined storage
E2E tests automation and manual test execution
Tech: Python, Jenkins, ESXi, REST

QA/Python SDET, Arrival Software, Saint-Petersburg
09.2016 - 06.2019

- Software development for electric connected vehicles.
- Leading team of 5 integration QA engineers
- Tech: Java, JUnit, Python, PyTest, Jenkins, Gitlab Pipelines, Selenium, Appium, Git, CAN, Simulink, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST

Automation expert, Ontarget LABS, Saint-Petersburg
12.2013 - 09.2016

- Learning Content Management System development and Adverts management system for Google and Bing
- QA automation expert in 2 teams: XYLEME Studio consultancy team + Netsertive consultancy team
- Stack: Grails, Groovy, CasperJS, Javascript, Angular 2.0, Python, Jenkins, Bamboo CI, MySQL, MongoDB, Vagrant, JMeter

Backend QA, NYTimes, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
06.2013 - 12.2013

QA Engineer in subscription service

- Tech: Python, requests

QA lead, Topface, Saint-Petersburg
05.2012 - 05.2013

E2E QA lead in dating service.
Leading team of 4 engineers + client support specialist
Tech: Python, Selenium, Jenkins, CouchDB

Java Software Engineer, DataArt
12.2009 - 05.2012

Ocado LTD, PL/SQL and Java developer
● Took part in building new Data Warehouse for bug UK-based online store OCADO.
● Developing PL/SQL scripts and procedures
● Improving, unit-testing of Java-Camel framework
● Developing web-based reporting tools for Data Warehouse team internal usage (Spring-based Java web-application on Tomcat with UI on jQuery)
● Developing automated integration tests on both PL/SQL and Java.

OPNET Inc, Automation lead, Project manager
We used custom Selenium Framework on Python do develop automation tests. That framework was developed by our local team.
● Automating existing test plans using custom Python-Selenium framework
● Integrating our framework with Jenkins CI
● Developing new test plans
● Working with bug-tracking system
● Communicating with native English-speaking clients via Skype
● Providing desktop-sharing presentations and demos of our automated test cases