Alexey Melikhov

Contacts

 📞 +382 69 86 34 86 (WhatsApp / Viber / Telegram)
 ✉ melihov87@bk.ru

🧪 About me

QA Engineer with experience in both manual and automated web application testing.

Specialized in Python and automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Pytest, and Allure.

Confidently handle all stages of the testing process: documentation (test plans, test cases, bug reports), functional, regression, API, performance, and security testing, as well as test automation.

Focused on product quality and continuous process improvement.

🛠 Skills

✔ Testing tools: Selenium, Playwright, Pytest, Allure, Android Studio, DevTools

✔ Manual testing: Functional, Non-functional, UI/UX, Regression testing

✔ Working with API: Postman

✔ Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL

✔ Programming languages: Python

✔ Parsing tools: BeautifulSoup, PyMuPDF

✔ Development tools: Django, Flask, Django REST Framework (DRF), Git

✔ Web development: HTML and CSS

✔ DevTools: Chrome DevTools, Postman, Charles

✔ Documentation: Checklists, test cases, bug reports

💼 Work experience

DOO DUBKI939 — AQA Engineer, Python Developer
Podgorica, Montenegro
December 2024 – Present

city-like.com - Information portal (Django & DRF): unit and integration tests for models and APIs, CI/CD setup, regression testing, and preparation of test documentation.

ru-icar.ru - Auto blog with biometric features: UX/UI and security testing (SQL/XSS), automation of key user scenarios (Pytest + Selenium).

monitor-site.ru -Monitoring system: API and load testing, fault tolerance verification, and metric-based reporting.

   Online doctor appointment system: end-to-end and UI/UX testing, automation of critical user scenarios.

   Achievements: automated regression testing reduced the release cycle by 70%, increased QA transparency and product stability.

JUNE 2022 – DECEMBER 2024
 QA Automation Engineer | Small Product IT Company, Russia

• Automated UI and API tests using Python (Selenium, Playwright, Pytest, Allure).
• Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub Actions).
• Designed and optimized the test automation framework, improving test stability and execution speed.
• Performed functional, regression, integration, and load testing of a B2B SaaS product for logistics and warehouse management.
• Worked with PostgreSQL, created complex SQL queries, parsed and processed documents using BeautifulSoup and PyMuPDF.
• Mentored junior manual QA engineers and reviewed test documentation.

Achievements:

• Covered approximately 65% of critical scenarios with automated tests, reducing manual regression by 70%.
  Integrated tests into CI/CD pipelines, reducing build verification time to 30–40 minutes.

Identified and helped fix critical vulnerabilities.

MARCH 2020 – MAY 2022
 Junior QA Engineer | Web Studio (closed), Russia

• Performed manual testing of web applications and landing pages, including regression testing.
• Prepared test cases, checklists, and bug reports (Jira, TestRail).
• Conducted API testing (Postman) and verified integrations.
• Collaborated with developers and UX designers.

Reduced the number of critical bugs by 30% through improved test coverage.

Freelance — QA Engineer

✅ Manual testing of web applications (UI, API)
✅ Regression testing
✅ Creating and maintaining test documentation (test cases, checklists)
✅ Developing automated tests in Python (Selenium, Playwright, Pytest)
✅ Working with PostgreSQL and MySQL databases – writing SQL queries
✅ Integrating test reports with Allure, CI pipelines (GitLab, GitHub)
✅ Parsing PDF documents (using PyMuPDF)
✅ Web scraping and parsing (BeautifulSoup, requests)

🔍 Tested Projects (links available on GitHub):

✳️ Automated testing:

detmir.ru -> Go to the project

aviasales.ru -> Go to the project

city-like.com -> Go to the project

qa-ml.ru -> Go to the project

wildberries.ru

zara.com/me

ozon.ru

letu.ru

✳️ Manual testing of E-commerce projects:

temaso.me -> Go to the project

ohpirogi.ru -> Go to the project

lady-maria.ru -> Go to the project

cavina.ru -> Go to the project

tehnoplanet.me -> Go to the project

impostrade.ru -> Go to the project

3snet -> Go to the project

SFERA Mobile Applications -> Go to the project

✳️ Database testing:

MySQL Database testing flowers -> Go to the project

🎓 Education

📚 SkyPro, Yandex Practicum, Stepik – Python, Software Testing Fundamentals

🌱 Additional Information

🟢 Passionate about exploratory testing and constantly learning new QA tools and approaches.
🟢 Improved critical bug detection efficiency by 20% through implementation of new testing methods.
🟢 Reduced false positives in automated tests, increasing test coverage stability.