Yevhen Laichenkov is a hands-on Software Development Engineer in Test with eight years of experience building and leading test automation efforts across fintech, telecom, and healthcare domains. He designs test infrastructure from scratch, migrates legacy suites to modern JS/TypeScript tools, and has led teams through automation of development, test, and release pipelines. Deep expertise in WebDriver, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress and accessibility testing is complemented by practical experience with cloud testing, Selenoid/BrowserStack, Docker and CI systems. He mentors and hires engineers, runs training programs for manual QAs, and has improved core open-source tooling—contributing fixes and type support to the popular CodeceptJS project. Based in Charlotte, NC, he pairs strong cross-functional communication with a developer-first approach to testing, often shipping internal Node.js tooling that accelerates engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems and Networks, Computer Systems and Networks at Zaporizhzhya Aviation College
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Zaporizhzhia Institute of Economics and Information Technologies
Supercharged End 2 End Testing Framework for NodeJS
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Yevhen primarily focused on fixing and improving the testing framework's functionality, specifically for the Playwright and WebDriver helpers. They addressed typing issues, ensuring proper type definitions, and made modifications to improve locator handling and the functionality of methods like `grabValueFromAll` and `executeScript`. The contributions included adding the ability to load ts config files to improve configuration handling and added type definitions for fillField methods.
🦥 Custom playwright matchers to test the state of the API response
Contributions:2 reviews, 214 commits, 361 PRs in 9 months
apiassertionstestingmatcherse2e
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