Dmytro Stekanov
Principal Software Engineer In Test at Freelance
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDmytro Stekanov is a Principal Software Engineer in Test with 11 years of hands-on experience building QA strategies, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Houston, he progressed from manual testing to leading test automation efforts, mentoring engineers, and architecting AWS-based testing solutions using Java, Python, Selenide and modern tooling. He has a track record of creating frameworks from scratch, instituting QA processes (including a novel Scrum ceremony), and contributing meaningful tests and custom conditions to the popular Selenide project. A thoughtful team builder, he pairs technical depth with attention to human dynamics—learning when to push and when to say no—to improve team clarity and delivery. He also runs freelance QA consulting and training, turning POCs into production-ready test suites and helping small teams adopt automation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer science faculty, Master's Degree Computer science faculty at National Aviation University of Ukraine
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
webdriver10
selenium10
testing10
selenide10
test-framework10
selenium-ide10
java10
javas10
test-automation10
css-selectors9
junit8
xpath6
setter6
thrift6
ruby6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
selenide/selenide
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Concise UI Tests with Java!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 27 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dmytro's commits primarily focus on enhancing the test suite for the Selenide library. Their contributions include adding new tests to verify the behavior of specific features, such as the `readonly` attribute and file downloads. They've also addressed bugs in existing tests, particularly those related to edge cases in collections and line separators. Furthermore, the user integrated custom conditions and functionality, such as shadow-dom, and custom click methods, to improve the testing coverage of the library.
javauitest
selenide/selenide-for-selenium-ide
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Selenide code-export plugin for Selenium IDE
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
selenideselenium-ide
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