Gencho Kerkeniakov
Principal QA Automation Engineer
Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Summary
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SeniorGencho Kerkeniakov is a Principal QA Automation Engineer with 8 years’ experience building enterprise-grade test automation platforms and CI/CD pipelines for clients like Siemens, BMW, KPMG and Pfizer. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js testing stacks (WebdriverIO, Cypress, Playwright) and orchestration with Docker, GitLab/Jenkins and Selenoid, while also comfortable with C#/Java/Python. Gencho combines hands-on test automation and infrastructure work with DevOps collaboration—optimizing video artifact sizes, load-balancing Selenium grids, and integrating test results into external APIs and messaging channels. He mentors the next generation as a part-time QA lecturer and frequently kickstarts automation for teams, delivering blueprints, custom Docker/Vagrant images and corporate test strategies. His portfolio includes diverse freelance systems—from IoT and NLP-driven social listening to real-time selenium websockets—reflecting a pragmatic, tool-agnostic approach to reliability and scalability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Stackoverflow
77reputation
8kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (55)
protractor10
webdriverio10
webdriver10
cucumber10
wdio10
devtools10
jasmine10
testing9
selenium9
test-automation-framework9
javascript9
test-framework9
browser9
automation9
appium9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kerkeniakov/Protractor-custom-framework-with-infrastructure-showcase
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
kerkeniakov/kerkeniakov
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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