About

Artur Spirin is a seasoned test automation engineer, researcher, open source contributor, and YouTuber with 8.87 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as a Full Stack Automation Architect at BrightEdge, where he is driving CI/CD and test automation efforts and tools for all teams in the platform, which is serving 60% of Fortune 100 companies. Artur is responsible for building enterprise test automation frameworks from scratch that run tests faster and with consistency, resulting in quick turn-around and the ability to deploy frequently with a higher degree of confidence and less hassle. Artur has a passion for what he does and is thankful that he is able to do it. He has made significant contributions to BrightEdge, including stabilizing staging environments, open-sourcing and migrating existing frameworks from Unittest to Test Junkie, and moving the entire QA automation stack to work on GKE, utilizing Docker and producer/consumer model to run tests, allowing for unlimited scaling horizontally and vertically. He has also introduced a hybrid mode in the test automation framework to utilize local Citrix VMs instead of Google Kubernetes Engine for long-running suites to save on Google Compute Engine costs. With these efforts, Artur has increased deployment cadence and quality for micro-services such as BrightEdge Instant. Artur has previously worked as a Software Development Engineer In Test at BrightEdge, where he took the QA team 5-7 years forward in 6 months with the deployment of a new centralized test automation service that now supports the platform serving 60% of Fortune 100 companies. He has also worked as a Software QA Engineer at AnchorFree, where he significantly improved the automation scene in the company, reducing application crashes and helping to unblock clients in the UAE. Artur has a degree in Computer Science from Portnov Computer School. He has expertise in test, Senior Software Engineer, SDET, QA, Microservices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Research Scientist, Software Engineer, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, GCP, Django, Android, and MySQL. Artur is a highly skilled professional with a passion for building enterprise test automation frameworks that run tests faster and with consistency.