About
Who am I?
Hi there! My name is Oleksandr Romanov. I am Software Engineer in Test / Software Engineer from Dnipro, Ukraine.
With over 14+ years of experience in testing and test automation, I have honed my skills in building and leading test automation processes. My work has spanned across various industries, including banking apps, payment services, CMS systems, and mobile games.
Now, I am responsible for building and testing complex blockchain and blockchain-based applications.
For detailed work experience - refer to my CV
I love to share my knowledge in many forms:
- I do public talks on testing
- I am a co-host of “Testing Minutes” podcast and occasional host at “This Week in Quality” by Ministry of Testing
- I write articles: XRay, Ministry of Testing
- I collect useful materials on blockchain testing
- I do mentoring, consulting and technical interview services
| Talk | Event | Year |
|---|---|---|
| How to find time and focus to learn everything everywhere all at once | Tech Talks at Sage, Online | 2026 |
| Software Testing Careers: The Roadmap | Ministry of Testing, Tunis, Online | 2025 |
| Як обрати школу тестування | QADay, Ukraine, Online | 2025 |
| Кар’єрний шлях спеціаліста з тестування | National Technical University of Ukraine, Online | 2023 |
| How to test a blockchain? | Colombo Quality Week, Sri Lanka | 2023 |
| Що значить тестувати блокчейн | QA Party Hard, Ukraine | 2023 |
| What does it mean to test a blockchain? | SoftServe QM Week, Online | 2022 |
| High Tech-Low Test or Problems of Modern Testing | Ministry of Testing Abu Dhabi, Online | 2022 |
| Practical Contract Testing with Spring Cloud Contract | Ministry of Testing Abu Dhabi, Online | 2020 |
| Practical Contract Testing With Spring Cloud Contract | TAQELAH Singapore, Online | 2020 |
| Ups and downs of contract testing in real life | Selenium Camp, Ukraine | 2020 |
| Practical Contract Testing with Spring Cloud Contract | TestCon Europe, Lithuania | 2019 |
| Turning automation education upside-down | QA Fest, Ukraine | 2019 |
| Testing challenges at microservices world | Test Fest, Poland | 2019 |
| Integration testing for microservices with Spring Boot | Selenium Camp, Ukraine | 2018 |
| Hidden complexities in microservices testing | ITEM conference, Ukraine | 2018 |
| Automating microservices: what, where and when | IT Weekend, Ukraine | 2018 |
| Testing for Java Developers | IT Weekend, Ukraine | 2017 |
| The One where Cucumber meets Scala | IT Weekend, Ukraine | 2017 |
Test engineering, distributed systems, blockchain, cryptography, learning, developer productivity, technical education and mentoring
- Programming languages: Rust, Python, Bash, Java;
- Performance testing: k6, JMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB
- Test Automation: pytest, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, JUnit, Scalatest, Selenium Grid, Selenoid;
- CICD: GitHub CI, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite;
- Frameworks: Substrate, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Contract, Cucumber, Serenity, Gauge;
- Dev Tools: Claude Code, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, MariaDB, Aerospike, Grafana, Kibana; Docker, AWS (S3, EC2);