Summary
Edward Surov is a QA Cluster Lead and seasoned PHP developer with over 20 years of coding experience and a decade focused on transforming QA practices and building testing organizations from scratch. He has led and scaled QA teams at TheSoul Publishing and AVITO, introducing robust processes, CI pipelines, and tools that turned chaotic projects into maintainable systems. Hands-on in refactoring legacy PHP systems, he pairs deep practical coding skills with applied discrete math—using compiler theory, FSMs, and graph algorithms—to solve testing and reliability problems in elegant, automated ways. Notable contributions include a fiber-based resilient WebDriver client, a JSON-diff visualization adapted from X-Diff, and PHP integrations for Allure that improved test stability and diagnostics. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he blends engineering leadership with tool-building craftsmanship to reduce incidents and accelerate feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer