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Damian P.

Münster, Germany

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About Me

Damian is a Senior QA & Test Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience in JavaScript-based test automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing. He designs robust test strategies, building scalable automation frameworks and optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Damian is passionate about test reliability, reducing manual efforts and ensuring high-quality software delivery. With hands-on experience in Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Postman, Jest, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, REST Assured, and K6, he implements test strategies and frameworks for small and medium-sized software projects.

DevOps

CI/CD Pipelines

QA & Testing

Test Automation Testing Quality Assurance (QA) Software QA QA Testing QA Automation Selenium

Other

WebDriver Continuous Integration (CI) Automation Java Groovy

Work history

Freelance

QA Engineer

2020 - Present (5 years)

Remote

Developing and maintaining test automation frameworks using WebdriverIO, Geb (WebDriver + Groovy).
Automating end-to-end tests for web apps and REST API testing using Postman, REST Assured, Supertest.
Designing and executing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

Mobile Testing Test Automation API Testing K6 Performance Testing WebdriverIO Typescript JavaScript GroovyGitHub Actions GEB PostmanREST Assured SuperTestCI/CD Pipelines Jenkins

Boxever

Quality Engineer

2016 - 2018 (2 years)

Dublin, Ireland

Built end-to-end test suites with Java, WebDriver, and Cucumber.
Integrated automated tests with Jenkins pipelines, accelerating deployments.
Automated REST API testing using REST Assured and Java, improving API reliability.

Java Cucumber API TestingSelenium WebDriver Jenkins AWS Test Automation E2E TestingWebDriver Automated TestingREST Assured Jenkins Pipeline

Hostelworld

Test Automation Engineer

2015 - 2016 (1 year)

Dublin, Ireland

Developed a REST API testing framework with Retrofit, TestNG, and Hibernate.
Migrated acceptance tests from JMeter.
Worked closely with developers to ensure high-quality releases.

RestAssured Java API Testing Database testing MySQL JSON Hibernate Retrofit TestNG Hibernate JMeter Acceptance TestingREST Assured

EPAM Systems

Software Test Automation Engineer

2015 - 2015

Poland

Automated web and mobile application tests with WebDriver.
Automated desktop app tests using FEST Swing and AssertJ.
Interpreted and converted manual test cases into automated smoke and regression suites.
Reported issues found during testing using Jira.

Test Automation Engineer QA AutomationSelenium WebDriver Software QA SeleniumTestRail Quality Assurance JIRAAgile QA JavaWebDriver Java SwingAssertJ Smoke Testing Regression testing

Showcase

Back-end API Testing

Comprehensive testing for robust and reliable back-end APIs. Automated functional tests for API endpoints using Jest and Supertest. Worked on Postman collections with pre-request scripts for manual and automated testing and ran performance testing with K6 to ensure scalability and reliability. Integrated into CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions for automated execution.