// Senior / Staff SDET

Mykyta Chursin

Staff-level engineer with 10+ years owning quality across the full stack - web automation for Bolt CheckoutOS, mobile automation for Bolt Superapp, and active contributions to iOS/Android (Kotlin/KMP) and NestJS backend code. Comfortable reading and shipping production code in any layer of the stack, accelerated by deep LLM-augmented workflows.

10+ Years Playwright Kotlin / KMP Full-Stack Quality LLM-augmented Remote • EU
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checkout.spec.ts 
// Bolt · CheckoutOS · Production
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test'

test.describe('Payment flow', () => {
  test('completes card checkout',
    async ({ page }) => {
      await page.goto('/checkout')
      await page.pay({ method: 'card' })
      await expect(page).toHave
        URL('/success')
  })
})

// Flakiness: -60% since migration
✓ 847 passed  (2m 14s)
// 01

Skills & Tools

Technologies I've used extensively across a 10+ year career in SDET roles.

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Work Experience

10+ years embedding quality across the full SDLC - from startup to enterprise.

Nov 2019 - Present Current

Senior SDET

Bolt - Remote

  • Web automation owner for CheckoutOS - Playwright-based E2E suite covering the full payment funnel; migrated from Selenium, cutting flakiness by ~60%.
  • Mobile automation owner for Bolt Superapp - built iOS/Android framework aligned with Kotlin Multiplatform architecture using Appium.
  • Ships Kotlin fixes directly to the iOS/Android codebase when test gaps reveal product bugs - not just a tester, an active contributor.
  • Edits NestJS backend services to instrument endpoints, add test hooks, and unblock automation scenarios.
  • Worked across React and Vue frontends to understand UI contracts and write reliable selectors.
  • Implemented CI/CD quality gates via GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Jenkins for gated releases.
  • Introduced k6 performance testing for critical payment paths, establishing baseline SLAs.
PlaywrightTypeScriptKotlin / KMP AppiumNestJSReactk6GitHub Actions
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019

Test Automation Engineer → Senior SDET

Valtech - Remote

  • Led test automation for L'Oréal digital platforms across multiple brands - web, mobile, and API layers.
  • Designed frameworks in C# and JavaScript, increasing test coverage by ~30% and cutting execution time by ~40%.
  • Built distributed performance and stress testing infrastructure supporting multi-region load scenarios.
  • Architected CI/CD pipelines enabling reliable, gated delivery across multi-team engagements.
SeleniumWebdriverIOC#JavaScriptJenkinsPerformance
Aug 2014 - Jan 2017

Test Automation Engineer / SDET

Brightgrove / Aginity

  • Automated testing for a desktop Big Data analytics platform (Windows / macOS).
  • Introduced regression and integration testing from scratch, reducing delivery time by ~40%.
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for automated release workflows.
C#Desktop AutomationCI/CDBig Data
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

Test Engineer / QA

DB Best Technologies

  • Manual, exploratory, and API testing for mobile and backend systems.
  • Implemented API test coverage that addressed the majority of functional validation needs.
API TestingMobile TestingManual QA
Ongoing Top Rated Plus

SDET Consultant

Freelance / Upwork

  • Technical advisor for 20+ projects on automation strategy and CI/CD design.
  • Designed end-to-end frameworks and distributed execution setups for web, mobile, and desktop clients.
ConsultingArchitectureMulti-platform
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Tech Evolution

How the stack changed over 10+ years.

2013
Foundations
Manual QAWeb Testing Mobile TestingSQL Basic Automation
→
2015
Desktop & UI
MS UI AutomationC# JavaSelenium
→
2017
Scaling Up
WebdriverIOJavaScript JenkinsAppium Performance
→
2019
Bolt Era
PlaywrightTypeScript GitHub Actionsk6
→
Now
Claude / MCP Era
ClaudeMCP LLM workflows CopilotCodex MobileBackend Full-stack quality
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Open Source

Giving back to the testing community.

Allure C#

Allure NUnit

.NET test reporting integration - Allure Framework adapter for NUnit, enabling rich test reports in C# projects.

github.com/unickq →
WebdriverIO TypeScript

WebdriverIO Contributor

9 merged PRs to WebdriverIO (9.8k ★) - new features, bug fixes, and reporter improvements spanning 2020 - 2025.

github.com/webdriverio →
📱 TypeScript

wdio-adb-video-reporter

WebdriverIO reporter that records Android device screens via ADB during test runs - makes debugging mobile failures visual.

github.com/unickq →
Community

Stack Overflow

Active contributor to the testing and automation community on Stack Overflow.

stackoverflow.com/users/4170608 →
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Education & Certifications

🎓

Master's Degree, Computer Science

National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"

2010 - 2016

ISTQB

ISTQB® Certified Tester, Foundation Level

Credential ID: 14-CTFL-39573-ES

Issued January 2014

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Get In Touch

Open to Senior SDET, Staff SDET, QA Lead, and Test Architect opportunities. Remote (EU timezone).

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/unickq
GitHub github.com/unickq
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