Alexandra Borovova is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building accessible, high-performance frontends and contributing to large open-source projects. She combines deep React/TypeScript expertise and design-system experience from startups and enterprise teams with hands-on test automation work for prominent browser and tooling projects like Mozilla, Puppeteer and the Web Platform Tests. At Mozilla she has extended WebDriver BiDi and network-event testing, showing a rare mix of frontend craftsmanship and protocol-level QA automation. A pragmatic problem-solver, she enjoys creating fast, flexible interfaces and has a track record of shipping from design systems to complex mapping and satellite-data web apps.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer security, Specialist, Computer security at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:89 reviews, 29 commits, 317 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexandra's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying tests within the `web-platform-tests/wpt` repository. Their contributions involve creating new tests for various features, including browsing context navigation, script evaluation, and network interactions, such as beforeunload and beforeRequestSent event interactions. The user's work is focused on ensuring the reliability and correctness of web platform specifications by implementing and refining web driver specification (wdspec) tests using a Python based testing framework.
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:71 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexandra primarily contributed to the addition of tests for network events related to data URLs within the `mozilla/gecko-dev` repository, focusing on the Web Driver BiDi project. Their work involved creating new test cases across multiple files to cover scenarios involving network events such as `response_completed`, `response_started`, and `before_request_sent` for HTML and image data URLs. Furthermore, the user made changes to the shared network classes, implementing support for data URLs. The changes also extended to integrating the added test cases into the testing framework for BiDi functionality.
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