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Senior SDET / Quality Engineer (Staff Scope) - AI Test Automation | Playwright | TypeScript
Riga, Latvia
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BSc, Information TechnologyAbout me
Senior SDET / Quality Engineer (Staff scope) - agentic, AI-augmented test automation with human-gated guardrails · Playwright · TypeScript · API and contract testing · CI/CD
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Senior SDET / Quality Engineer (Staff scope) - 9+ years across EU and UK fintech and payments. I make quality a system: standards, frameworks, and CI gates. I care most about the line between what automation may do on its own and what a human must decide.
Architect of Mendwright, an AI-augmented self-healing test framework built around a hard safety boundary: AI may repair locator drift, but may never change an assertion or product behaviour to make a test pass. Real regressions are refused and escalated, not silently healed, because the most valuable thing a test does is fail when the product breaks.
Sole quality owner of a money-critical voucher/ledger platform (20+ endpoints, 7 legal entities, 5 currencies). Overturned a flawed company-wide locator standard with a documented evidence case and now author the Playwright, CI, and observability standards. Wrote the log-correlation standard adopted across 3+ payment-domain services (~50% faster failure triage). Cut a core CI test pipeline from ~12 minutes to under 2.
Test automation: Playwright (TypeScript), REST Assured (Java 17), TestNG, API contract testing (JSON-schema validation, OpenAPI), self-healing test automation
AI in QA: LLM agents in CI (Claude Code), agent guardrail and permission design, human-gated autonomous workflows, AI failure triage
CI/CD and infrastructure: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker and containerized test infrastructure, Kubernetes (Argo CD) deployment and pod-health monitoring, pipeline optimization, parallel execution, layer-caching build optimization
Observability and tracing: Allure reporting (Allure Docker Service, S3 archiving), Sentry, ELK (Elasticsearch/Kibana), distributed tracing and log correlation
Quality governance: CI quality gates, test strategy, shift-left quality governance, standards authorship, flake policy and reduction
Data and platforms: SQL (MySQL/MariaDB), AWS Athena, Apache Kafka, GraphQL, K6 performance testing
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2026
Languages
EnglishFluentLatvianNative speaker
Project history
Introduced full shift-left quality on a live product including unit, integration, contract and schema tests. Designed and built the company's modern Playwright/TypeScript framework and test standards. Sole quality owner of a money-critical voucher/ledger platform (20+ endpoints, 7 legal entities, 5 currencies). Overturned a flawed org-wide locator standard and authored Playwright, CI, and observability/triage standards. Re-engineered CI/CD to cut a core test pipeline from ~12 minutes to under 2. Quality lead on the company's payment gateway. Sole quality owner of a greenfield, AI-prototyped fintech product. Mentored 5+ engineers across QA and development.
Built and operated solo, outside of employment. Mendwright is a self-healing Playwright/TypeScript test automation framework using GitHub Actions, AI agents (Claude), Docker, and Allure. On a CI suite failure, read-only AI triage classifies every failing test and only locator drift is healed via a locator-only fix, verified by re-running the full UI suite against a freshly seeded Dockerized app, then opened as a draft PR by a CI bot that cannot merge or push to protected branches.
Validated real-time financial data integrity for a crypto and blockchain platform using GraphQL, AWS Athena, Apache Kafka, and Grafana. Automated GraphQL contract checks to guard data correctness across streaming pipelines.