Vetted API Testing Professionals

Ashutosh Khatavkar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level SDET/Software Engineer specializing in test automation and CI/CD

Syracuse, NY3y exp

“AAA game QA professional from Ubisoft (For Honor) with deep live-service multiplayer experience. Known for owning network/competitive integrity risks and building a custom network simulation tool to reliably reproduce desync issues, accelerating debugging and saving 100+ hours. Strong end-to-end QA process skills spanning test planning, triage, regression, and release verification using JIRA/TestRail.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time data ingestion/processing/reporting API built with FastAPI, Redis, and Celery, including performance tuning via query/index optimization, caching, and async workers. Strong Kubernetes + CI/CD + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, plus hands-on monitoring/logging (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK) and a Kafka/Spark real-time streaming project from their master’s program.”

“QA professional from fintech/SAP security and complex identity systems who has owned end-to-end testing across the SDLC, including being the sole QA on a high-risk payment platform carrier migration. Demonstrated strength in integration testing, data integrity validation, and diagnosing calculation/automation defects using controlled test data and scripted date emulation; experienced with JIRA/TestRail and Selenium-based regression coverage.”

“Built across cloud infrastructure, AI-powered product workflows, and backend data reliability in environments including Northeastern, Knead, and Grafx. Particularly compelling for roles needing someone who can both ship AWS-based systems end-to-end and debug messy production issues involving caching, APIs, and data pipelines.”

“Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).”

Viacheslav Bulba

Screened

Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in UI/API test automation and CI/CD

Las Vegas, Nevada15y exp

“QA professional with 15+ years testing a variety of applications (not games), experienced partnering with developers/designers/product owners across the feature lifecycle. Brings a disciplined, methodology-driven approach to test design, regression coverage, and high-quality defect reporting using tools like Jira, TestRail, qTest, and HPQC; targeting ~100K base (flexible based on total package).”

“Frontend engineer experienced delivering React + TypeScript dashboards end-to-end, including real-time updates via WebSockets and scalable component architecture. Has improved inherited codebases by building shared component libraries and performance optimizations (lazy loading/memoization), reporting ~20% faster feature delivery, and ships major features with QA rigor and feature-flagged rollouts driven by analytics and user feedback.”

“Frontend engineer with co-op experience at Nokia and prior work at Nimble, delivering React/TypeScript single-page onboarding flows and internal web apps. Builds from Figma to production React, emphasizes modular architecture and consistent UI via Material UI, and applies Jest-based unit/integration testing plus lazy loading to improve reliability and performance in both new and existing codebases.”

“QA automation engineer with 7+ years across finance/healthcare/utility/services, specializing in Selenium + Cucumber and building automation frameworks. Has tested machine-learning-powered claims prediction features and uncovered complex timing/concurrency failures in subscription payments by simulating delayed webhooks and parallel execution, then driving production fixes end-to-end using disciplined Jira workflows.”

“Built an LLM-powered agent within the Nora AI analytics platform to automate e-commerce product performance analysis and generate actionable recommendations (pricing/inventory), designed with production-grade reliability patterns and observability. Emphasizes predictable, schema-validated tool/function-calling pipelines with robust fallbacks, idempotency, and guardrails for messy operational data.”

Raden Ananta

Screened

Senior QA Engineer specializing in test automation and FinTech

Jakarta, Indonesia10y exp

“QA tester with consulting experience focused on payment systems, including scenario testing and automation using QF-Test. Has a business-impact mindset (prioritizes revenue-critical end-to-end flows) and has surfaced high-severity defects that required source code changes; not yet experienced with console game testing or platform certification requirements.”

Aniruddha Chakravarty

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure, observability, and full-stack systems

Remote2y exp

“Built and productionized a predictive maintenance system (predictEngineLife) estimating Remaining Useful Life for PW4000 turbofan engines from large-scale, noisy telemetry—emphasizing modular pipeline design, deterministic preprocessing, and strong observability/guardrails. Also has hands-on experience diagnosing multi-agent LLM customer-support workflows (schema/state issues, fallback paths, regression tests) and has led developer workshops (GDG Pune) while partnering with sales teams on technical discovery and POCs.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience building SQL-driven reporting tables and end-to-end KPI dashboards in Power BI and Excel. They emphasize stakeholder alignment, metric clarity, and data trust, including defining retention metrics, documenting dashboards, and creating centralized reporting that reduced manual work and improved decision-making.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience embedding AI into software delivery workflows, including Claude-powered PR review, testing, debugging, and multi-agent coding pipelines. They pair AI automation with strong systems thinking around microservices, fault tolerance, multi-AZ design, caching, and security controls like WAF and rate limiting, and also experiment independently with RAG and multi-agent search projects.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built zero-to-one internal products around LLMs, RAG, and NLP pipelines, including a conversational data interface and a production AI agent system. Stands out for combining frontend UX for non-technical users with backend/cloud architecture and measurable impact, including a reported 60% reduction in data retrieval time.”

“QA automation engineer with strong Cypress/JavaScript experience in healthcare claims and eligibility systems, owning end-to-end regression suites that combine UI, API, and SQL/database validations. Known for catching subtle pricing/benefit calculation defects (copay/deductible/accumulator issues) before release, stabilizing flaky CI tests via API synchronization, and shaping requirements early to improve testability and reduce downstream rework.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Geico) focused on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale. Has hands-on experience building secure GitHub Actions CI/CD for EKS, provisioning core AWS infrastructure with Terraform/CDK, and leading end-to-end incident response with post-incident automation to prevent recurrence; no direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“TSE with hands-on experience troubleshooting customer-reported data issues across APIs and SQL, coordinating with engineering on hotfixes, and translating risk to non-technical stakeholders. Has supported application security workflows using Veracode by generating reports, driving remediation via Jira, and tracking exposure metrics; also assisted customers with SSO setup (client ID/secret).”

Ron Lei

Screened

Junior QA Automation Engineer specializing in Playwright E2E and API testing

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“QA automation-focused engineer who hardens production CI/CD by integrating and stabilizing end-to-end automated tests (tackling async UI flakiness, resilient assertions/selectors, and controlled test data). Demonstrates strong cross-layer troubleshooting by correlating logs and system metrics to resolve intermittent service reachability, then adding monitoring/alerts and documentation. Also partners directly with operators to improve real-world workflows by enhancing validation logic and error messaging.”