Pavel Lobashov
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolPavel Lobashov is a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Ruby-based test automation and web service QA, currently driving automation efforts at NVIDIA. He led QA automation at Ascensio for over a decade, designing frameworks, Ruby gems, and CI-friendly Docker workflows while working deeply with OOXML formats and build infrastructure. Pavel contributes to prominent open-source projects—ranging from ONLYOFFICE’s Document Server JavaScript SDK and core build scripts to rubyzip and rmagick—bringing hands-on fixes, tests, and build optimizations. His background blends test engineering, DevOps, and backend work, enabling him to reduce build times and improve cross-platform compatibility. Notably, he combines practical automation leadership with active open-source maintenance, demonstrating both broad codebase familiarity and attention to low-level build/tooling problems.
13 years of coding experience
Specialist degree, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Specialist degree, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at Нижегородский Государственный Университет им. Н.И. Лобачевского (ННГУ)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (29)
rubocop10
javascript10
scripting10
testing10
enforcement10
bash10
cicd10
ruby10
qunit10
build-automation10
coding-style10
unit-testing9
rmagick9
imagemagick9
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
rmagick/rmagick
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Ruby bindings for ImageMagick
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Automation Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:131 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on fixing code style issues identified by RuboCop, a Ruby code analysis tool. These fixes addressed various code style violations, including parentheses, string literals, redundant returns, and conditional assignments, across multiple Ruby files. The changes also involved updating and correcting code snippets within example and test files, aligning with consistent coding standards.
image-serverruby-bindingsrmagickrubyimage-processing
rubyzip/rubyzip
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Official Rubyzip repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:114 commits, 3 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the `rubyzip/rubyzip` repository by adding features and tests. They implemented a new option to handle invalid date/time entries within zip files and wrote tests to verify its behavior. Furthermore, the user addressed code style issues identified by RuboCop, improving code quality and maintainability.
encryptionrubyrubyzipzip-extraction
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