Boris Kirov
Lead Engineering Manager (.Net & JavaScript) at Developer Express, Inc.
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
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Top SchoolBoris Kirov is a Lead Engineering Manager with a decade of hands-on experience building and leading .NET and JavaScript teams, currently based in Paphos, Cyprus. He has progressed through technical and product roles at Developer Express and other firms, balancing hands-on engineering, test automation, and product ownership to drive delivery and quality. Boris has deep JavaScript expertise and a practical background in LAMP/.NET stacks, having moved from early PHP roles to senior engineering and leadership positions. He contributes to open-source test automation (notably improving error reporting and test parsing in the widely used TestCafe project), reflecting a focus on developer experience and reliable CI feedback. Known for translating complex testing and reporting needs into cleaner frameworks and templates, he blends technical craftsmanship with management to scale teams and systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist’s degree, Computer Science, Specialist’s degree, Computer Science at Leo Tolstoy TSPU
Русский, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
mstest10
testing10
test-framework10
testkit10
teste10
testcafe10
ui-testing10
test-automation10
e2e-test9
e2e-testing9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
mouse-events6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DevExpress/testcafe
Aug 2015 - Apr 2022
A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 36 commits, 92 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Boris primarily contributed to the test automation framework, focusing on creating and improving test error messages and the associated formatting and display. They modified existing test files, implemented new templates, and integrated components into the reporting system to ensure accurate and user-friendly error output. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to word wrapping and improved the framework's ability to parse and report on test structure.
web-testingtesting-toolsend-to-end-testingtest-automationbrowser
AlexanderMoskovkin/gulp-qunit-harness
Jun 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 4 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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