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DARKO_RIĐIĆ

SENIOR_QA_AUTOMATION_ENGINEER

Darko Riđić

I turn testing into a release accelerator.

Test architecture, CI/CD quality gates and open-source QA tooling, on a 12-year foundation in front-end development.

EXPERIENCE
4+ yrs QA · 12+ yrs front-end
BASED
Mostar, BiH · remote
Hire me full-timeStart a project

Available for new work

TEST_ARCHITECTURE

The stack I think in.

Frameworks that scale, suites that stay green for the right reasons, and a front-end background that tells me why a test is flaky before the logs do.

FRAMEWORKS
Playwright · Cypress
COVERAGE
E2E · visual · API
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Framework design
  • Visual regression
  • API testing
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Release quality gates
  • Test management
  • TypeScript
  • Vue.js & React
  • Claude Code & Cursor
  • Mentoring

IMPACT

From two releases a fortnight to 104 a week.

IMPACT.LOGLIVE

At Relay I put a test gate on every pull request, run against dedicated preview URLs before anything merged. Confidence went up and release day stopped being an event.

  1. $ npx playwright test --shard=1/8
  2. Running 612 tests using 8 workers
  3. ✓ auth › third-party login (Google, Microsoft) — 4.1s
  4. ✓ checkout › multi-tab payment flow — 6.8s
  5. ✓ visual › dashboard baseline — 1.2s
  6. ✓ api › contract /v2/orders — 0.4s
  7. 612 passed (3m 12s)
  8. → quality gate: PASSED · merging to main
  9. → deploy #104 this week
DEPLOYS
104 / week
SUITE
4,500 tests

104
average deployments per week, up from 1–2 releases every two weeks
4,500
Cypress tests rearchitected into a scalable, parallel framework
1
in-house test management platform that replaced a paid tool
4
open-source QA projects published for the testing community

EXPERIENCE

Four roles, one thread: quality people can ship on.

QA engineer at Relay, first QA hire at Scheer PAS, and nine years building large Vue, React and Angular apps at NSoft before that.

LATEST
Relay · 2023–2026
SINCE
2013
  1. QA Engineer · Relay2023–2026
  2. QA Automation Engineer & Lead · Scheer PAS2022
  3. QA Automation Engineer · Freelance project2022
Full experience

OPEN_SOURCE

Tools that let testers skip the setup.

A Cypress boilerplate that became the base of a 4,500-test suite, a reference Playwright framework, auto-published reports and a plugin for sharing state between specs.

PROJECTS
4 public
LICENCE
open source
All projects

TWO_WAYS_TO_WORK_TOGETHER

Hire me for your team, or bring me in for a project.

Full-time, I own test architecture and release quality and teach developers to test their own work. Freelance, I set up or rescue your automation, wire it into CI and hand it over documented.

FULL-TIME
QA lead · architect
FREELANCE
audits · frameworks · CI

  • 01 // FULL-TIME_ROLE

    Full-time role

    Senior QA automation, QA lead or test architect. Remote, or hybrid from Mostar.

    Hire me full-time

  • 02 // FREELANCE_PROJECT

    Freelance project

    Audits, frameworks from zero, CI quality gates and Cypress → Playwright migrations.

    Start a project

CONTACT

Let's make your releases boring.

Tell me about the role or the project. I reply within one working day.

REPLY
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TIMEZONE
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Let's talkridicdarko@gmail.comDownload CV (PDF)