# Dmitry Arkhipenko

> Senior SDET & Quality Engineer | Playwright | Python/TypeScript | AI | CI/CD | Architecture | 8+ YOE

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dmitryarkhipenko

Senior SDET with 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, building scalable test frameworks and integrating AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and maintain quality at scale.

I collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, mentor engineers, and take ownership of quality from early design through release.

Technical Expertise:
• Programming → Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Shell, SQL, GraphQL
• Test Automation → Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver
• Continuous Integration → GitHub Actions, GitLab, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure
• AI Services → Claude Code, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI API
• Frameworks → Pytest, Pandas, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Locust, K6
• Tools → Allure, Datadog, Postman, Kibana
• Test Management → Jira, Confluence, Xray, Zephyr, TestRail

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) @ Accumulus Technologies
Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States
● Built and scaled a TypeScript-based Playwright framework, reducing test execution time by 4 hours and dropping flaky test rate from 30% to 3% by replacing redundant UI steps with API calls
● Integrated Azure OpenAI to automate merge request reviews, saving 3-5 hours of manual review time per week
● Developed and scheduled GitLab pipelines in partnership with developers, ensuring stable automated test runs across all environments and nightly K6 performance checks
● Automated Jira and Confluence lookups via an OpenAI-powered Slack bot, giving the team instant access to project information without leaving their workflow
● Used complex SQL queries to validate backend data integrity across distributed services, catching data
inconsistencies before they reached production
● Implemented Allure reporting with error aggregation and Slack notifications, enabling faster identification and resolution of test failures across releases

### Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) @ Alation
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States
● Built a Python and Pytest test framework from scratch for API microservices, achieving full endpoint coverage and establishing a reliable foundation for ongoing regression testing
● Automated deployment pipelines for internal applications using GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes, eliminating a previously manual and time-consuming process
● Improved existing Cypress UI automated tests, reducing regression run time by 2 hours and increasing long-term maintainability
● Automated environment setup for feature testing, saving 20 minutes per instance and enabling QA teams to validate features faster
● Developed a centralized platform for QA test results, giving management visibility into quality metrics across all teams via a unified API

### Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) @ Docusign
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
● Designed test plans and strategies for new projects, establishing QA processes and improving test coverage
● Optimized and upgraded Cypress UI test scripts, reducing flakiness from 10% to 5%
● Migrated all test executions to Jenkins, centralizing the testing workflow and eliminating manual test execution
● Optimized and consolidated SQL queries to reduce redundancy and speed up data retrieval
● Facilitated active collaboration between manual QA and development teams for seamless communication, leading to improved efficiency and faster issue resolution

### Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) @ Fiserv
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
● Built a Python and Selenium WebDriver test framework from scratch for a web-based application, establishing automated UI and API test coverage
● Developed internal tools using Flask and FastAPI to automate manual configuration tasks
● Contributed to building an SDK for API test automation and developed data-driven tests to improve coverage
● Configured and launched a CI system using Jenkins to automatically trigger API and UI tests after successful builds and report results to Jira
● Reduced UI test execution time by replacing manual test prerequisites with API calls
● Created scripts to automate repetitive QA processes, improving overall team productivity

### Quality Assurance Engineer @ Clickatell
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Redwood City, California, United States
● Improved quality assurance processes across the company by standardizing test case creation and maintaining up-to-date QA documentation
● Developed SQL scripts to automatically collect and feed data into a visualization tool, reducing manual reporting effort
● Built API and UI automated tests using Python and Selenium WebDriver, improving test coverage and
accelerating releases
● Collaborated closely with developers to reproduce and resolve defects, ensuring issues were fixed before
reaching production


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering and Informatics
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01