I'm Oles Tsaruk, a Lead SDET and Test Automation Architect with 5+ years of building production-grade automation for remote-first engineering teams. I architect AI-powered QA orchestration platforms, craft human-in-the-loop quality gates to curb AI hallucinations, and drive cross-team adoption of reliable automation across UI, API, and data layers. I lead a 6-engineer team (onshore/offshore), mentor engineers, and steer architecture roadmaps, migrating frameworks, and delivering rapid feedback to enable continuous release readiness.

Oles Tsaruk

I'm Oles Tsaruk, a Lead SDET and Test Automation Architect with 5+ years of building production-grade automation for remote-first engineering teams. I architect AI-powered QA orchestration platforms, craft human-in-the-loop quality gates to curb AI hallucinations, and drive cross-team adoption of reliable automation across UI, API, and data layers. I lead a 6-engineer team (onshore/offshore), mentor engineers, and steer architecture roadmaps, migrating frameworks, and delivering rapid feedback to enable continuous release readiness.

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I’m Oles Tsaruk, a Lead SDET and Test Automation Architect with 5+ years of building production-grade automation for remote-first engineering teams. I architect AI-powered QA orchestration platforms, craft human-in-the-loop quality gates to curb AI hallucinations, and drive cross-team adoption of reliable automation across UI, API, and data layers.

I lead a 6-engineer team (onshore/offshore), mentor engineers, and steer architecture roadmaps, migrating frameworks, and delivering rapid feedback to enable continuous release readiness.

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Language

Ukrainian
Fluent
Polish
Advanced
Russian
Fluent
English
Fluent

Work Experience

QA Automation Engineer at Colibri Group
April 1, 2025 - Present
Refactored and optimized an existing Cypress automation framework, implemented Page Object Model for maintainable and scalable testing, developed dynamic reusable commands, integrated Microsoft SQL and pgAdmin queries for end-to-end data validation, enhanced API testing strategy for REST endpoints, and applied prompt engineering to enable AI-driven test generation and failure analysis. Optimized CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, RunDeck, and Docker. Led weekly Automation QA syncs with a team of 5 engineers and aligned with Bitbucket for source control and Zephyr Squad for test management, increasing automation coverage to 85% and reducing regression risk.
QA Automation Engineer at Playball
March 1, 2022 - March 1, 2025
Designed, developed, and maintained scalable test automation frameworks using Cypress, Playwright, and JavaScript for UI, API, and performance testing; integrated Postman, BrowserStack, and JMeter; streamlined CI/CD pipelines with Node.js, GitHub Actions, AWS, and Azure; reduced manual testing efforts by 50% and increased coverage by 60%; engineered reusable test suites and modular components to improve front-end and back-end integration reliability.
Software QA Engineer at Prominvestbank
November 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
Collaborated in Agile/Scrum teams using Jira for test case management, defect tracking, and sprint planning; performed functional, system, and API testing with Postman for banking workflows; conducted cross-browser and mobile device testing with BrowserStack to ensure UI/UX consistency; supported performance testing with JMeter and used SQL queries for data validation and back-end verification of financial transactions.
Senior QA Automation Engineer at Colibri Group
April 1, 2025 - Present
Refactored and stabilized a Cypress automation framework, implementing custom commands, Page Object Model, shared utilities, and abstraction layers to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Enabled end-to-end data integrity by validating UI, API, and DB through SQL Server and PostgreSQL queries. Expanded REST API automation with request chaining, schema validation, and edge-case testing. Led Cypress to Playwright migration, architecting a TypeScript-based framework with fixtures, POM, environment mapping, and parallel execution. Automated Playwright test suites via Playwright MCP Server and Codegen, leveraging AI-assisted test generation, assertion optimization, and failure diagnostics. Integrated Cypress and Playwright into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Rundeck, and Docker for consistent cross-environment execution and gated releases. Increased automation coverage to 75% and reduced manual regression effort by 90% in an Agile/Scrum team of 5 engineers.
Lead SDET / Senior QA Automation Engineer at Colibri Group
April 1, 2025 - Present
Architected QA Intelligence Platform — an AI-powered QA orchestration platform built on a custom TypeScript MCP server, integrating Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Zephyr APIs. Implemented human-in-the-loop quality gates to mitigate AI reliability and hallucination risk at the architectural level. Led automation for a cross-functional team of 6 (4 offshore + 2 US). Migrated a 110-test Cypress Smoke suite to Playwright in 3 weeks, redesigned the framework with TypeScript, fixtures, Page Object Model, environment mapping, and parallel execution. Drove Smoke coverage to 95%, API to 90%, and Regression to 70%, cutting the full regression cycle from 5 person-days to 90 minutes. Integrated Zephyr Squad API with Playwright and MCP for real-time test status; implemented end-to-end validation across UI/API/DB; built CI/CD with Jenkins, Rundeck, and Docker. Partnered with QA/Engineering managers to prioritize automation and shape the roadmap; represented QA in company-wide AI strategy discuss

Education

Certificate at BrainStation
March 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022
Certificate at Codemify
August 1, 2021 - November 1, 2021
Master of Business Administration and Management at WSB University, Wroclaw, Poland
October 1, 2014 - June 1, 2015
Master of Laws in International Financial Law at State Tax University, Irpin, Ukraine
September 1, 2007 - June 1, 2012
Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management at WSB University
October 1, 2014 - June 1, 2015
Master’s degree in International Financial Law at State Tax University
September 1, 2007 - June 1, 2012
Master of Business Administration and Management at WSB University, Wroclaw
October 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Master’s Degree, International Financial Law at State Tax University, Irpin, Ukraine
September 1, 2007 - June 30, 2012
Master of Business Administration and Management at WSB University, Wroclaw, Poland
October 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Master’s Degree, International Financial Law at State Tax University, Irpin, Ukraine
September 1, 2007 - June 30, 2012

Qualifications

Data Analytics & Python Programming
March 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022
QA Automation Engineer
August 1, 2021 - November 1, 2021
Data Analytics & Python Programming
March 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022
QA Automation Engineer
August 1, 2021 - November 1, 2021
Claude Code and Model Context Protocol
April 1, 2026 - May 17, 2026
CS50’s Introduction to AI with Python
January 1, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Machine Learning Crash Course
January 1, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Prompt Engineering
October 1, 2025 - May 17, 2026
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
September 1, 2025 - May 17, 2026
Data Analytics Professional Certificate
January 1, 2024 - May 17, 2026
Data Analytics & Python Programming
May 1, 2022 - May 17, 2026
QA Automation Engineer
November 1, 2021 - May 17, 2026
Claude Code and Model Context Protocol
April 1, 2026 - May 17, 2026
CS50’s Introduction to AI with Python
January 1, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Machine Learning Crash Course
January 1, 2026 - May 17, 2026
Prompt Engineering
October 1, 2025 - May 17, 2026
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
September 1, 2025 - May 17, 2026
Data Analytics Professional Certificate
January 1, 2024 - May 17, 2026
Data Analytics & Python Programming
May 1, 2022 - May 17, 2026
QA Automation Engineer
November 1, 2021 - May 17, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Professional Services, Government, Media & Entertainment