Summary
Maksim Nikiforov is a QA Engineer with 9 years’ experience ensuring quality across complex domains including app stores, cloud telephony, contact centers and conversational AI platforms. He blends deep manual testing expertise (functional, regression, exploratory) with growing test automation skills using TypeScript and Playwright, plus prior Cypress experience. Maksim has led QA process design, test strategy and onboarding in international cross-functional teams, shrinking dev-test cycles and driving acceptance testing in production. His background in nuclear I&C systems gives him unusual strength in rigorous requirements analysis, systems modeling and defect localization under high-stakes conditions. Based in Barcelona, he is focused on becoming a full-stack QA engineer capable of owning quality from requirements through regression automation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate School, Statistics, Graduate School, Statistics at North Carolina State University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Foothill College
Bachelor of Science, Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science, Astrophysics at University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Science, Software Engineering, Master of Science, Software Engineering at California State University, Fullerton
English, Russian