# Anton Bolotin

> Lead QA Engineer | Test Automation (Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Selenium, Playwright, CI/CD) | Fintech, Blockchain, Web3, AI | Web, API & Mobile Manual Testing | ISTQB Certified | 8+ YOE

Location: Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Profile: https://flows.cv/antonbolotin

QA Lead | 8+ Years of Experience in QA Processes, Automation and Software Testing

Experienced in building effective QA processes and automation frameworks for complex fintech and blockchain solutions. Proficient in developing universal frameworks in TypeScript, Java, and Python, boosting productivity and speeding up release cycles. Skilled in Agile practices as a Scrum Master and team lead.

Certified ISTQB Professional | International Speaker
Participated as a speaker at TestCon, Hands on Testing, and PNSQC conferences. Lecturer and one of the author of the "Testing" course at BBE.

Key Skills and Achievements:
- Leadership and Mentoring: Experienced in recruiting and mentoring QA engineers, internships, qa workshops that improve team skills and project performance. Under my mentorship, more than 15 people have found new jobs, been promoted, or boosted their skills.
- Automation framework development: Created and implemented a framework based on Playwright and TypeScript used in several projects, which accelerated the testing process by 90%.
- Performance and Security Testing: Experienced in load testing using Gatling, JMeter and K6 as well as security testing.

Core Tools & Technologies:

Test Automation: Playwright, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Pytest
Programming Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python
Performance Testing: Gatling, JMeter, K6
API Testing: Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI, Swagger
CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS, Azure DevOps
Security Testing: Burp Suite, SQL Injection, XSS
Quality Management & Test Planning: TestRail, Zephyr, QASE, Allure TestOps, Test IT
Project & Team Management: JIRA, Confluence, Notion
Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, Continuous Testing

## Work Experience
### Full Stack QA Engineer @ FinchTrade
Jan 2025 – Present | Switzerland

### Lead Quality Assurance Specialist @ ソラミツ SORAMITSU
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Baar, Zug, Switzerland
SORAMITSU — fintech blockchain projects and dApps based on Substrate and Polkadot.

Participated as Lead Quality Assurance Specialist in the following projects:
- Klaytn DEX
- Fraud Intelligence Blockchain
- ADAR
- World Bank

Achievements:
- Developed from scratch a universal automation testing framework based on JavaScript and Playwright for API, WEB and Mobile testing. 
- This framework is used on several company blockchain projects and reduced the average test time in several times from hours to minutes. 
- Lead the quality assurance and testing process from scratch on a projects and drove it to production. 
- Experience in preparing and conducting public testnet with community involvement.
- Performed load testing using Gatling
- Conducted a QA internship where I trained 2 interns in manual testing of blockchain projects, testing api via postman, working with test documentation, and working with automation tests in framework based on TypeScript and Playwright

### SDET @ Kaspersky
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Moscow, Russia
Kaspersky - worldwide cybersecurity and anti-virus provider

- Developed and supported UI and API automation tests in C#
- Wrote and supported test documentation
- Tested new features and executed regression testing
- Made improvements to testing processes. Zero Bug Policy
- Load testing with k6

Achievements:
- Successfully tested releases of 3 products in the Threat Intelligence ecosystem
- Reduced the number of active defects by 70% by using a zero bug policy
- Increased the transparency of testing through iteration reports and dashboards

### QA Lead @ Sberbank
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Moscow, Russia
-Managing teams from 4 to 7 QA and Dev engineers
- Developing Test Automation Framework with Java\JUnit\Selenium\Allure
- Developing and supporting automation tests (Java\Python+ Selenium WebDriver)
- Implementing load testing on the project (Jmeter+Telegraf+InfluxDB+Grafana)
- Organizing quality assurance and software testing processes from scratch. Functional, integration and regression testing
- Testing workshops
- Working as a Scrum Master on a project. Agile

Achievements:
- Reduced the time for regression testing from 2 days to 2 hours by automating 80% of test cases 
- Improved team efficiency by trainings in load testing and test automation

### Quality Assurance Test Engineer @ IBS AppLine
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Moscow, Russia
* Functional, integration and regression testing
* Working with test documentation

### Software Test Engineer @ Performance Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Moscow, Russia
* Functional, integration and regression testing
* Working with test documentation
* Writing training manuals


## Education
### Engineer's degree in Radio electronic systems and complexes
Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anton-bolotin

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Last updated: 2026-04-05