Sergei Nikiforov
Automation QA Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSergei Nikiforov is an Automation QA Engineer based in Austin with nine years in software quality assurance and over five years focused on web and mobile automation. He builds and maintains test frameworks using Java, Selenium, Appium, and Playwright, and pairs API testing with REST Assured and Postman for robust backend validation and load checks. At Premium Soft Labs he led end-to-end QA efforts—creating test plans, writing automated scripts, and integrating TestRail for traceability—and now applies that experience to media-scale products at Disney. Known for bridging manual and automated strategies, Sergei emphasizes cross-browser and cross-device reliability while collaborating closely with product teams to define acceptance criteria and mitigate risk early. A practical engineer with an engineering background from Saint-Petersburg, he brings a pragmatic focus on scalability and observability to complex testing challenges.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING at Saint-Petersburg Industrial College, Russian Federation
Russian, English
Github Skills (3)
selenium-java8
selenium-webdriver6
webdriver3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vianat/Health-e-Arizona-plus
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
test task
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 6 days
jest
vianat/job4j
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:89 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
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