Stefan Shepin
I’m Stefan Shepin, an Automation Lead and QA architect with 11+ years of experience building scalable automation across UI, API, mobile, integrations, and performance testing.
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I’m Stefan Shepin, an Automation Lead and QA architect with 11+ years of experience building scalable automation across UI, API, mobile, integrations, and performance testing. I’ve led and mentored QA teams of 3–15 engineers, created frameworks from scratch, and established reusable standards and quality metrics—always with risk-based planning and early testability in delivery.
I enjoy partnering with engineering, product, and DevOps to turn real production-style issues into durable regression coverage. From Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Appium/Detox to CI/CD quality gates using Jenkins and modern containers platforms, I focus on reliability, meaningful coverage, and fast feedback so releases can move confidently.
- 11 years' experience
- Joined September 2026
Languages
- EnglishAdvanced
- RussianFluent
Industry experience
- Financial Services
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
- Other
Work experience· 5 roles
Designed an AI-driven testing platform that generated tests from pull-request changes and tracked coverage, quality metrics, and alerts; reviewed generated output for correctness, determinism, maintainability, and meaningful risk coverage. Built and owned a Playwright API and backend automation framework for a financial application, covering critical user, transaction, authentication, persistence, and security workflows. Built and owned a Detox mobile end-to-end framework from zero, reaching 100% coverage of critical customer journeys and integrating nightly runs, pull-request test selection, and CI/CD quality gates. Partnered across engineering, product, and DevOps to assess risk, triage defects across app/API/data/automation/environment layers, and convert root causes into regression coverage.
Architected scalable Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, API, integration, and performance automation for complex enterprise platforms using reusable libraries, SQL-backed validation, test-data solutions, observability, and CI/CD execution. Led quality standardization across ~29 delivery pods, aligning seven QA leads on risk-based planning, framework architecture, shift-left practices, metrics, code reviews, test management, quality gates, and release governance.
Built robust Playwright and Cypress end-to-end automation with a REST Assured API testing layer, reusable components, backend validation, detailed defect investigation, and CI/CD execution. Managed three QA engineers while staying hands-on; defined test scope and estimates, reviewed test cases and automation code, tracked quality outcomes, supported release and UAT activities, and coached engineers on reliable automation practices.
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