Oleksandr Romanov
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test at Input Output (IOHK)
Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
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Top SchoolOleksandr Romanov is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with over a decade of hands-on experience building reliable test automation and CI/CD solutions for enterprise and blockchain systems. He has driven testability and quality improvements at companies like Playtika and IOHK, taking coverage from zero to production-grade levels while introducing contract testing, microservices testability hooks, and release automation. Comfortable across Python, Rust-adjacent tooling, Docker/Kubernetes, and test frameworks, he also refactored and extended an OSS Spring Boot testcontainers project to support dedicated containers and LocalStack for richer integration testing. As a consultant and podcast co-host, he blends technical interviewing, mentoring, and public-facing advocacy for better testing practices. Based in Dnipro, Ukraine, he pairs formal training in security and project management with a pragmatic focus on speeding delivery and increasing confidence in complex distributed systems. An often-overlooked strength is his consistent work to make testing infrastructure itself more maintainable and reusable, not just the test suites.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master Security of computer and communication systems, Master Security of computer and communication systems at Dnipro University of TechnologyMaster Project Management, Master Project Management at Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Warszawie
Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
docker10
mariadb10
amazon-elasticsearch10
dockers10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
spring-boot10
elasticsearch10
test-container10
influxdb10
elasticsearch-api10
aws9
automated-tests6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PlaytikaOSS/testcontainers-spring-boot
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Container auto-configurations for Spring Boot based integration tests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 18 days
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily focused on refactoring the repository to utilize upstream container types for various services. This involved migrating from generic containers to dedicated containers for Elasticsearch, MariaDB, and InfluxDB, streamlining the integration tests. Additionally, the user added configuration for Localstack, enabling integration testing with AWS services. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving container management and expanding the repository's testing capabilities.
google-pubsubkeycloakvaultminiointegration-tests
alexromanov/awesome-blockchain-testing
Jul 2021 - May 2022
Curated list of blog posts, videos and resources on testing blockchains and blockchain-based applications
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
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