Andrei Botalov
Lead QA Engineer at SCALIS
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAndrei Botalov is a Lead QA Engineer with 13–14 years of hands-on experience in test automation, end-to-end UI and API testing across Ruby and Python ecosystems. He designs robust E2E suites with tools like Cucumber, RSpec, Pytest, Playwright, Watir and Selenium, and has implemented CI pipelines and load tests to ensure reliability at scale. Comfortable with white-box testing and code-level analysis, he routinely translates ambiguous requirements into concrete quality criteria and bridges stakeholders and engineers. Andrei has contributed documentation and tests to the well-known Capybara project, improving window management APIs and failure messages, reflecting a focus on practical open-source impact. He mentors junior engineers and uses operational metrics (Grafana) to reduce team support load, showing a blend of technical depth and process-minded leadership. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, he pairs an academic background in applied mathematics with a pragmatic approach to shipping high-quality software.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Belarusian State University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
jmeter10
selenium10
testing10
rspec10
test-framework10
capybara10
documentation10
webkit9
webdriver9
selenium-webdriver9
java9
ruby9
amazon-web-services9
http9
amazon-ec29
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
teamcapybara/capybara
Dec 2012 - Jan 2017
Acceptance test framework for web applications
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Capybara testing framework. Their commits involved removing outdated information, documenting new features, and adding tests. These changes encompass several files, including `lib/capybara.rb`, `lib/capybara/selenium/driver.rb`, and various spec files, indicating a focus on keeping the documentation accurate and comprehensive.
web-applicationsminitesttestingtest-frameworkframework
abotalov/waiting_rspec_matchers
Jun 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 5 years 1 month
waitrailsrubyrspecmatchers
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