Summary
Alexander Yakovenko is a Test Automation Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining robust test frameworks and tooling across UI and backend systems, currently at Google in Stockholm. He brings deep practical knowledge of Java, Python, JavaScript, gRPC, Selenium and CI systems like Jenkins and Bazel, having developed SUT components as well as the tests that validate them. His background spans browser tooling at Yandex to enterprise CI and data-validation solutions at EPAM, showing a steady focus on scalable, lifecycle-maintained test infrastructure. Known for turning brittle manual checks into automated, continuously-executed suites, he also produces test dashboards and documentation to make quality measurable and actionable. A pragmatic tinkerer, he blends scripting (bash, pytest) with engineering work on production services, enabling faster feedback loops for large engineering orgs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German