Senior SDET / Quality Engineer with 12+ years of experience in software quality, test automation, backend/API testing, performance testing, and QA process improvement.

I work on quality engineering for modern web, backend, fintech, digital treasury, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and DeFi products. My focus is not just finding bugs, but building reliable test systems, improving release confidence, and helping engineering teams ship better software.

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• Build UI, API, backend, and performance test automation frameworks from scratch
• Design maintainable test strategies for product teams
• Create automation around real business workflows, not only happy-path test cases
• Work across manual testing, automation testing, exploratory testing, regression testing, and release validation
• Support QA process maturity, test planning, defect analysis, and team-level quality ownership
• Lead and coordinate QA activities across multi-member teams
• Understand fintech, crypto, blockchain, DeFi, e-commerce, and digital treasury product domains

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• Backend and API test architecture
• Quality engineering for fintech and digital asset platforms
• Performance testing and load-testing strategy
• Test automation maintainability and CI-friendly execution
• Building backend systems and personal automation tools
• AI-assisted engineering workflows and productivity systems

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Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL

Selenium, RestAssured, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, Maven

Gatling, JMeter, Kafka performance testing concepts, Grafana

Spring Boot, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, Docker Compose, Flyway, REST APIs

Git, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, ClickUp, Excel, Word

• JMeter certified by BlazeMeter
• Gatling certified by Gatling Academy

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A self-hosted personal operations backend built with Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Flyway, Docker Compose, and Telegram integration.

This project reflects my interest in backend systems, structured data capture, scheduled workflows, API design, modular architecture, and AI-assisted personal systems.

Repository: https://github.com/mishalalex/stabilityos

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A Cypress-based UI and API automation framework using JavaScript, Mochawesome reporting, and GitHub Actions.

Repository: https://github.com/mishalalex/cypress-e2e-framework

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A Java, Maven, TestNG, and RestAssured-based API automation framework with reporting support.

Repository: https://github.com/mishalalex/api_automation_framework_using_restassured_demo

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Performance testing demo frameworks using Gatling for e-commerce, API, and Kafka-oriented testing scenarios.

Repositories:

• https://github.com/mishalalex/gatling_framework_website_demo
• https://github.com/mishalalex/gatling_framework_api_demo
• https://github.com/mishalalex/kafka-test

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A Python and BeautifulSoup-based project that scrapes articles from a news site and creates a searchable keyword-based article lookup system.

Repository: https://github.com/mishalalex/ProjectWebScrapper

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A Playwright-based end-to-end automation framework built with TypeScript.

Repository: https://github.com/mishalalex/playwright-e2e-framework

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Small Node.js applications focused on CLI behavior, file-system operations, CSV parsing, and API-driven UI experiments.

Examples:

• NASA Planet Analyser
• File System App
• YouTube Video Lister
• Markdown Previewer
• Kanban Board

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FinTech, e-commerce, digital treasury management, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, DeFi, web applications, APIs, and backend systems.

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I am positioning myself as a quality engineer who can operate beyond traditional QA boundaries: automation architecture, backend testing, performance engineering, test strategy, and engineering productivity.

My goal is to help teams build systems that are easier to test, safer to release, and more reliable in production.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishal-alexander-07b6ba154/

Blog: https://mishalalex.hashnode.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/mishalalex

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