Summary
Viktor Chmel is a seasoned DevOps and QA automation engineer with 13 years in IT, currently working as a Middle DevOps Engineer at SoftServe and mentoring QA automation courses he created. He combines deep hands-on experience across cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD, test frameworks (JUnit5, RestAssured, Selenide/Selenoid) and infrastructure automation (Terraform), having built multiple frameworks and migrated critical systems like Icinga2 HA and corporate GitLab to GitHub. Viktor has led testing for banking and telecom clients, created API and UI frameworks from scratch, and passed AWS certifications while supporting large-scale production environments. A natural teacher and mentor, he runs training programs from Unix scripting to Java-based QA and has repeatedly scaled team capabilities through documentation and tooling. Notably, his background in network and security engineering (Check Point, VPNs) gives him rare cross-domain fluency that helps solve complex, non-standard problems. Based in Kyiv, he thrives on automation, knowledge sharing, and turning legacy processes into reliable, auditable pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certified specialist, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Certified specialist, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Networking Academy, https://netacad.knu.ua
Christian Counseling, Christian Counseling at Realis, Реаліс
Certified Instructor, Adult Teaching via trainings, Certified Instructor, Adult Teaching via trainings at mainacad.com
Physics & Mathematics Lyceum at Kherson National Technical University
Java SE, QA Standard, QA Selenium., Java SE, QA Standard, QA Selenium. at BIONIC University
DevOps engineering, DevOps engineering at FoxmindEd
Load testing essentials, http://qaexperts.pro/#schedule, Load testing essentials, http://qaexperts.pro/#schedule at QAExperts.PRO
Master's degree, Radiophysics, Computer Science, Master's degree, Radiophysics, Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, Ukrainian