Rufat Malikov

Professional Summary

QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, scaling, and stabilizing end-to-end test automation across web, iOS and Android mobile, REST APIs, and AWS-native data pipelines. Strong record of owning release-gate quality on Kanban release teams — flaky-test remediation, pre- and post-release validation, and go/no-go release decisions backed by Datadog observability. Hands-on with Java, Python (pytest), and C# (Selenium, Playwright); deep AWS experience across Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, S3, DynamoDB, and EventBridge; infrastructure provisioning in Terraform; SQL validation across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. Actively applying Anthropic Claude, Claude Code, and MCP-based agentic AI tooling to accelerate test authoring, test-data generation, and defect-pattern analysis.

Technical Skills

Professional Experience

• Built the automated testing framework for Python ETL validation — source-to-target reconciliation, transformation accuracy, record-count checks, null/default handling, and schema compliance — using pytest and requests against AWS S3, CodeBuild artifacts, and downstream data stores.
• Led test strategy and execution for data pipeline releases; coordinated onshore/offshore QA teams and drove release go/no-go decisions backed by Datadog dashboards (APM, logs, metrics).
• Validated AWS-native data infrastructure end-to-end: Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and S3.
• Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure using Terraform — Lambda, Step Functions, S3, and supporting resources.
• Performed deep SQL-based backend validation across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server — transformation logic, aggregations, joins, referential integrity, and Flyway/PgTAP-driven schema migrations.
• Validated Kafka event-streaming reliability — consumer behavior, retry/failure scenarios, and end-to-end consistency.
• Built Selenium (C#) and Playwright (C#) UI automation and integrated it into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, Harness, XL Deploy).
• Paired with data engineers on PySpark transformation logic in AWS Glue, validating DataFrame outputs during the SSIS-to-Python migration.
• Adopted Anthropic Claude and Claude Code for QA workflows — accelerating test-case authoring, generating realistic ETL test data, and drafting boilerplate automation; experimented with MCP-based agentic tooling for log analysis and defect-pattern detection.

• Triaged and revised the daily bug queue, prioritizing release-blocking defects and those surfacing in the automated regression suite.
• Diagnosed and fixed flaky tests across the Java / Spring Boot automation suite (Page Object Model, BDD-driven) — improving regression-gate stability and release sign-off confidence.
• Owned pre- and post-release QA validation; reported release status and defect trends to engineering and product stakeholders.
• Maintained and extended SQL-based backend validation alongside UI automation.

• Designed and maintained Selenium WebDriver (Java) web automation; ran cross-browser and parallel suites via TestNG and Selenium Grid.
• Built iOS native automation in XCUITest and Android automation via Appium, integrating mobile tests into Xcode CI pipelines.
• Stood up BDD- and data-driven frameworks using Cucumber, TestNG, and Maven; integrated into Jenkins CI with Blue Ocean and Docker-based execution.
• Built REST API test coverage using Postman and RestAssured; added backend SQL validation across critical data flows.
• Performed performance testing with JMeter, plus AWS cloud-based test execution for scale.

• Authored test plans and test cases from functional requirements and user stories.
• Executed functional, regression, black-box, and compatibility testing across web applications.
• Built initial Selenium WebDriver (Java) automation with TestNG; performed SQL-based backend verification.
• Managed defect lifecycle in JIRA; participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies.

Education

Master’s Degree — Lenkoran State University
Bachelor’s Degree — State University of Languages, Baku

Certifications

Anthropic — Claude AI / Agentic AI certifications (multiple)