Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

Dastan Nurlan

QA Engineer
Bishkek

Summary

Experienced Full-Stack QA Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in manual and automated testing of high-load, distributed systems. Skilled in frontend, backend, mobile, and API testing with strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, test architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Passionate about improving product quality through robust test coverage and scalable automation frameworks.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

QA Engineer

Hostaway
04.2023 - Current
  • Contributed to successful product launches through meticulous end-to-end testing of applications.
  • Collaborated with developers to identify and resolve software issues, leading to higher product reliability.
  • Optimized test coverage by maintaining a well-organized, up-to-date library of test cases corresponding to application requirements changes over time.
  • Accelerated issue resolution times by effectively prioritizing defects based on severity and impact on the end-user experience.
  • Built and maintained test suites for the Booking Engine and Guest Portal across frontend and backend.
  • Automated regression and smoke tests for core flows (booking, payments, translations, settings) using Playwright, Selenide & REST Assured
  • Validated integration with Stripe,Airbnb Authorize.net, and external partners
  • Conducted performance and load testing of APIs and data-heavy modules
  • Worked closely with developers to test feature flags, experimental toggles, and release processes
  • Tested dashboard features and ensured localization & multilingual coverage

QA Automation Engineer

Salmon
04.2021 - 03.2023
  • Developed automation framework for testing core banking APIs and mobile flows
  • Wrote and executed functional and integration tests using Java, TestNG, and REST Assured
  • Performed end-to-end mobile testing (iOS/Android) using Appium and emulator farm setups
  • Created custom logging and reporting using Allure and Slack notifications
  • Worked with product managers to refine acceptance criteria and improve test planning

QA Engineer

TrackFleet Solutions
01.2020 - 03.2021

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science - Information Technology

Asia Pacific University
Kuala Lumpur
04.2001 -

Skills

    Manual testing

    Test planning

    Functional testing

    Regression testing

    Mobile testing

    Test case design

    Smoke testing

    Load testing

    API testing

    Java

    Selenide

    Playwright

    JavaScript/TypeScript

    SQL

    REST Assured

    Maven/Gradle

    Yarn/npm

    Gitlab CI/CD / Jenkins / Docker /GIthub Actions

    Postman/Swagger

    Allure Report/ Testrail/ Jira

    Sentry / New Relic / Elasticsearch / Grafana

    PostrgreSQL/Dbeaver/DataGrip

    BrowserStack/Sauce Labs

Timeline

QA Engineer

Hostaway
04.2023 - Current

QA Automation Engineer

Salmon
04.2021 - 03.2023

QA Engineer

TrackFleet Solutions
01.2020 - 03.2021

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science - Information Technology

Asia Pacific University
04.2001 -
Dastan NurlanQA Engineer