Ivan Pochtar
Android Engineer at Bumble
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Pochtar is an Android engineer based in London with over eight years of hands-on experience evolving from manual QA into mobile engineering and test automation. He has deep practical knowledge of Android internals, permissions and location management, and a strong background in building and maintaining reliable test suites—work that includes contributions to the well-known calabash-android project to enable uiautomator/uiautomator2 support. At Bumble he transitioned from manual testing to writing, fixing and reviewing tests, collaborating closely with developers to implement test-pyramid strategies and reduce regression risk. Comfortable in Ruby and familiar with Java, adb scripting and CI workflows, he frequently automates repetitive tasks to speed delivery and improve test reliability. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he once reported a permissions bug that was acknowledged by Google, reflecting both curiosity and a willingness to dig into platform-level issues.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Baltic State Technical University "VOENMEH" named after D.F. Ustinov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (3)
android10
test-automation10
ruby10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
calabash/calabash-android
May 2021 - May 2021
Automated Functional testing for Android using cucumber
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Ivan focused on enhancing the Calabash-Android testing framework. Their commits primarily involved enabling and configuring uiautomator for test execution. They made modifications to the core operations and version files. Additionally, they updated the test server and introduced uiautomator2 swipe functionality.
test-automationfunctional-testingtestingandroidkotlin
Julioevm/tiny-scraper
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
A simple python retro game scraper though to be used on Ambernic RGXX based systems.
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 8 months
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