Biography

Team Lead | Developer in Test at Automate The Planet, Lecturer at Telerik Academy Alpha QA. For the past 10 years, he worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer in Telerik (later acquired by Progress software). He started his career in the field from ground zero- from taking part in the Telerik Academy to becoming a Principal QA Engineer/Ninja that is at the heart of any innovation or automation initiative. During his tenure, he has developed and integrated several custom frameworks and tools used throughout the company. To name a few – a custom Load and Performance Testing Framework; System Testing Framework; Web Service Testing Framework; Visual Verification Framework; and many other productivity tools that assured the highest quality of all web and business assets of the company. In the last few years in Automate the Planet, he started spending more time consulting different companies and helping them accomplish their Test Automation journey to Quality.

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Surviving UI Automation Armageddon with BELLATRIX

Have you heard of those heavy and complex Design Patterns for Tests Automation? Maybe you did and you thought: Why would I overcomplicate my Test Automaton solution to follow all of these? Nikolay was also thinking this some time ago until the reason behind all of these has hit his team like a burning stone coming from the sky: 5000+ automated UI tests were about to go in the waste, because of a huge project for a complete redesign of the Product under test from ASP.NET MVC to Single Page Application using ReactJs.

In this session, Nikolay will show not only how their tests survived, but how they became the most valuable asset, contributing to the potential success of this project.

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