Yaroslav Lobankov
Lead QA Automation Engineer Head Of QA Function
Russia
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Top SchoolYaroslav Lobankov is a Lead QA Automation Engineer and Head of QA with 13 years of hands-on experience building robust test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and verification tooling across cloud and telecom domains. He has driven QA strategy and teams at companies like Wheely and VK Tech while contributing deeply to OpenStack projects (Rally and Tempest), where he added verification features, rerun capabilities, and expanded API test coverage for Sahara. Yaroslav combines backend development skills with test engineering and DevOps know-how—optimizing CI workflows, migrating Docker-based testing, and hardening database-related tests. His background in mechanics and mathematics underpins a methodical approach to complex systems and performance benchmarking. Colleagues rely on him to translate flaky, large-scale environments into repeatable, automatable test suites that surface real risks before production.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechanics and Mathematics, Master's degree, Mechanics and Mathematics at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
Russian, English
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Github Skills (22)
gnu-make10
docker10
python10
makefile10
dockers10
cicd10
pest10
openstack10
temper10
data-processing10
tarantool10
tempo10
api-testing10
test-automation10
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tarantool/tarantool
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:713 reviews, 405 commits, 380 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yaroslav focused on improving the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, as shown by the changes to the `.travis.mk` and `.gitlab.mk` files. Their contributions involved migrating to Docker Hub for testing images and splitting workflows to optimize build times. Additionally, the user addressed database-related issues by updating test files related to vinyl engine, contributing to database performance and testing.
luarammsgpackdiskclose
openstack/tempest
Apr 2014 - Nov 2016
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:69 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yaroslav primarily contributed to adding and enhancing API tests for OpenStack Sahara, specifically focusing on data processing features. Their work involved creating new API tests for data sources, job binary internals, job binaries, and cluster templates. The user also refactored existing test code, removing unnecessary arguments and blank lines, and adding client-side response checking to improve test reliability. This demonstrates a focus on expanding the testing coverage and ensuring the functionality of the Sahara API.
testingcloud-foundryinfrastructurecloudopendev
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