Nick Kalmykov
Senior QA Automation QA Lead
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolNick Kalmykov is a Senior QA Automation and QA Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable test automation and SDET practices across startups and scale-ups. Currently leading QA efforts at Tow4Tech and StartupSoft while also contributing as an SDET at Realnode, he blends leadership with day-to-day engineering to ship robust, production-ready test frameworks. His background includes driving QA at GlobalLogic and Scalr, where he focused on accelerating release cycles and improving test coverage for complex web and cloud systems. Trained with an MSc in Automotive Engineering Technology from Oxford Brookes, he brings a systems-oriented mindset and attention to engineering rigor uncommon in traditional QA roles. Known for translating ambiguous requirements into automated, maintainable test suites, he emphasizes measurable quality improvements and team mentorship. Based in Valencia, Spain, he thrives in fast-paced environments that demand both technical depth and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, Master of Science - MS, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician at Oxford Brookes University
Russian, Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (16)
behavior-driven-development7
testing5
gherkin5
python5
api5
alibabacloud4
cucumber4
bdd4
java4
apache3
azure3
libcloud3
ruby3
cookbook2
scalr2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Scalr/sample-chef-repo
Nov 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
cookbookschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchefsupermarket
Theramas/public-chef-test
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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