Summary
Nazar Khimin is a pragmatic Test Automation Engineer with a decade in software delivery and seven years focused on automation, including leading and mentoring QA teams. He builds resilient, scalable automation frameworks across Java (Core, Spring Boot), API testing (RestAssured, Feign) and Web UI automation with Playwright, Selenide and Selenium, and recently cut UI test execution time by 50% via parallelization. His cross-industry experience spans FinTech and Healthcare IT, and he pairs test strategy and SDLC expertise with hands-on skills in data engineering and ML proof-of-concepts. Nazar has implemented end-to-end data pipelines (DBT, Airflow, DuckDB, AWS Glue, Terraform) and SCD Type 2 processing for very large datasets, reflecting a broader systems perspective beyond QA. He combines team coaching and process improvement with a practical knack for automating and scaling quality practices in complex environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Engineering, Programming Engineering at Lviv Polytechnic National University
Pre-accelerator Vol 5.0, Business/Commerce, General, Pre-accelerator Vol 5.0, Business/Commerce, General at Lviv business-school of UCU (LvBS)
Master's Degree Program in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Master's Degree Program in Software Engineering, Information Technology at EPAM Master's Degree Program in Software Engineering
Ukrainian, Russian, English