akravtsov

Senior Mobile Qa Automation Engineer

Senior Mobile QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years in software quality assurance and 6 years focused on native iOS and Android applications. Hands-on experience building automation coverage from the ground up with Swift/XCTest and Kotlin/Kaspresso, supporting more than 1,000 mobile test scenarios across large-scale consumer products. Proven impact on release speed, regression efficiency, automation leadership, code quality, and mentoring.


Experience: 8 years

Yearly salary: $54,000

Hourly rate: $35

Nationality: 🌏 Remote

Residency: 🌏 Remote


Experience

Senior QA Engineer - Mobile Automation
VK
2022 - 2025
Automated native iOS testing for the VK and VK Music applications using Swift and XCTest. Authored and maintained approximately 350 iOS automated tests, helping grow the suite from zero to 500 covered scenarios. Coordinated a four-engineer iOS automation team and reduced manual release regression from 3 days to 1 day. Reviewed automation code, investigated failed tests, and supported smoke validation of release candidates across iOS and Android. Onboarded and mentored two QA engineers, teaching Swift/XCTest and guiding their transition into iOS automation. Partnered with developers, analysts, designers, and adjacent product teams to validate new functionality end to end.
Senior Mobile QA Engineer / Mobile QA Automation Engineer
Movavi
2021 - 2022
Built and maintained approximately 350 native mobile automated tests across iOS and Android using Swift/XCTest and Kotlin/Kaspresso. Integrated automated suites into CI with merge-request checks and scheduled test runs, enabling earlier feedback on changes. Performed functional, regression, integration, smoke, and UI testing while reviewing automation code for both platforms.
Senior QA Engineer - Mobile
Center of Financial Technologies
2020 - 2021
Tested and automated native Android and iOS applications for financial products, including Svyaznoy Plus, Card Beeline, Ozon Card, and Money Transfers. Developed mobile UI automation in Kotlin/Kaspresso and Swift/XCTest and reviewed automated test code. Worked with analysts, mobile and backend engineers on feature validation, test documentation, and production-support requests. Acted as release master for Android application releases to Google Play.
QA Engineer
Center of Financial Technologies
2018 - 2020
Tested the reporting subsystem of the CFT-Bank platform across functional, regression, integration, smoke, and UI scopes. Automated mandatory regulatory-report calculations in PL/Plus and used SQL/PL/SQL for data validation and investigation. Collaborated with analysts, developers, and adjacent teams and maintained test documentation for new functionality.
QA Intern
Center of Financial Technologies
2017 - 2017
Completed QA training and tested Android, iOS, and web products, including introductory automation and performance testing.

Skills

javascript
kotlin
python
quality-assurance
swift
typescript
english
russian