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Aleksei Melnik

Aleksei Melnik — QA Automation Engineer iOS & macOS Developer

I automate testing, investigate product behavior and build apps for everyday life.

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Sacramento, California

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Experience, in brief

From hands-on testing to helping a team deliver.

5+Years in software QA
4+Years in test automation
5Products supported through releases

QA experience spans Fairtech and LANIT. Product scope refers to Fairtech.

Selected work

From testing to building.

Personal projects and a QA case from my professional work.

Personal appAvailable on the App Store

Doubtful

2026–present

A little space for what matters.

A quieter task app for iPhone and iPad. Keep up to three tasks in focus, and give everything else its own place.

  • Three boards. Room to change your mind.

    Drag cards between Solving, Postponing and Uncontrolled.

  • Small steps, on your terms.

    Finish the required steps to complete a task. Optional steps stay optional.

  • Pick up on another device.

    Keep the same boards on iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync.

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Doubtful on iPad, showing the Solving, Postponing and Uncontrolled boards side by side.Doubtful on iPhone, with three active task cards and required and optional steps.
Doubtful interface · iPhone & iPadSelect a screen to take a closer look.

Doubtful

From idea to release

I developed my own app in Swift and released it on the App Store.

Product testing

I applied my QA experience throughout — from defining requirements and user workflows to functional and regression testing and usability assessment. I explored edge cases, reproduced and documented bugs in the simulator and on physical devices.

Fixes and automated tests

I defined tasks to fix bugs and refined the app in Xcode with AI assistance. I tracked task completion, verified the fixes and expanded the unit and UI test suites.

  • Swift
  • Xcode
  • Unit tests
  • UI tests

QA in production

From Selenium to Playwright.

SeleniumPlaywright

Fairtech QA Automation Engineer · 2021–2025

The work

Maintain end-to-end regression coverage during the migration from Selenium to Playwright.

My contribution

Developed end-to-end tests with Python and Selenium. Migrated and refactored existing checks for Playwright. Maintained regression runs and release validation across five fintech products.

manual test cases created
1,000+
regression scenarios automated
100s
products supported through releases
5

Scope of my work at Fairtech, March 2021–August 2025: test design, automation and release validation.

Personal website

This website.

2026–present

A portfolio in English and Russian, designed to work across phones, tablets and desktops.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • GitHub Actions

My contribution

I shape the content and interface, build with React, TypeScript and Vite, and maintain automated checks and publishing through GitHub Actions.

  1. Build

    A shared interface with dedicated English and Russian pages.

  2. Check

    Type checks, linting, a production build and SEO tests run before publishing.

  3. Publish

    Check the deployed pages and assets; restore the previous release if these checks fail.

Professional experience

Built on real-world delivery.

Automation, performance testing and the work that takes a feature through to release.

Fairtech

QA Automation Engineer

Mar 2021 – Aug 2025

Fintech · Moscow · Hybrid

  • Built and maintained end-to-end regression tests in Python; adapted and refactored Selenium tests during the migration to Playwright.
  • Created 1,000+ manual test cases, maintained a wider regression suite and automated hundreds of scenarios covering nearly all critical end-to-end workflows.
  • Supported five fintech products from planning to production, testing UI, API, backend and database layers and validating releases.
  • Reproduced complex customer issues and investigated root causes in third-line support.
  • Coordinated a team of six QA engineers during planned absences of the QA lead.
PythonPlaywrightSeleniumGitLab CI/CDSQL

LANIT

Performance Testing Engineer

May 2020 – Feb 2021

Moscow · On-site

  • Built Apache JMeter load tests, investigated performance bottlenecks and reported findings with recommendations.
Apache JMeterGrafanaInfluxDBDockerSQL

RemFon

Founder & Technical Specialist

Nov 2009 – Mar 2020

Moscow · On-site

  • Founded and operated a mobile device diagnostics and repair business, combining hands-on technical work with day-to-day operations.
  • Worked on the company website with PHP, HTML and MySQL, managed content and SEO, and coordinated developers, designers, writers and contractors.
PHPHTMLMySQL
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About me

Quality at every layer.

Before software, I repaired phones and tablets. A successful repair meant checking the whole device. That habit still shapes how I work.

I have 5+ years in software QA, including 4+ in automation, alongside manual and performance testing. I also build apps for Apple platforms and experiment with Arduino and ESP32 — always checking how the parts work together.

Authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

EducationOTUS · Python QA Engineer / Automation QAFeb – Sep 2022

Russian — Native · English — Professional working proficiency

Tools in practice

A toolkit for the whole product.

Test automation

Maintainable end-to-end tests and regression runs integrated into delivery.

PythonPlaywrightSeleniumGitLab CI/CDGit

Product testing

Check complete workflows, investigate edge cases and turn requirements into test coverage.

PostmanSQLAPIUIExploratory testing

Performance & environments

Load tests, bottleneck analysis and reproducible environments for investigation.

Apache JMeterGrafanaInfluxDBDockerLinux

Apple development

Personal apps shaped by everyday needs, with AI-assisted implementation and QA throughout.

SwiftXcodeiOSmacOSDebuggingAI tools

Let’s connect

Let’s build something reliable.

Have a QA role, an app idea or a product that needs a closer look? Send me a message.

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Based in
Sacramento, CA
Availability
Open to on-site, hybrid and remote opportunities.