QA Engineer · API & Automation Specialist

Anna
Szczęch.

10+ years delivering quality in complex, distributed systems. Passionate about API testing, test architecture, observability, and shifting quality left — ensuring defects are caught early, not when clients report them.

Anna Szczęch

Open to new challenges

Roles that excite me

QA Engineer Quality Engineer SDET

I thrive at the intersection of quality assurance and test automation. Whether it's building test frameworks, designing automated regression suites, writing CI/CD-integrated tests, or establishing QA processes from scratch — I bring systems thinking, technical depth, and a bias toward action. I'm looking for product companies that take quality seriously — teams where I can collaborate closely with developers and fellow QA engineers, share ideas, and exchange knowledge to build better software together.


Industries I've worked in

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E-commerce

Saleor — headless, GraphQL-first commerce platform. Payments (Adyen, Stripe, Mollie), taxes (Avatax), orders, checkout, shipping.
Frisco — online grocery with home delivery.

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Fintech

Vyze (acquired by Mastercard) — deferred payment platform connecting merchants with lenders.

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IoT / Smart Home

React Native app for iOS & Android smart home control. Sole QA owning the full testing lifecycle.

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GS1 / Product Catalog

Product catalogs and GTIN number verification systems — data integrity and standards compliance.

⚖️

Legal Tech

BigHand — technology solutions for legal professionals. Document workflows, data insights, and tools to increase value and efficiency for law firms.

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Automotive

ERP systems and e-commerce parts catalogs for automotive industry.
BMW motorcycle configurator and test ride booking.

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Transport & Logistics

Web application for TLS industry — driver information system for warehouse halls: loading docks, ramp counts, and loading/unloading requirements.

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Insurance

Agent-facing application for insurance sales. Policy simulations, premium calculations, client data management, and document generation (offers, contracts).


Where I've been

Apr 2025 — Present
Customer Enablement Engineer
Saleor Commerce · Remote
  • End-to-end client onboarding — live walkthroughs, tutorial recordings, and integration architecture design
  • Pre-sales technical approach documents for enterprise clients
  • Led documentation improvement initiative: authored 15+ guides from support signal analysis
  • Primary technical point of contact for day-to-day client questions across API usage, configuration, and third-party integrations
GraphQL Docusaurus Slack Linear
Mar 2022 — Apr 2025
QA Engineer
Saleor Commerce · Remote
Owned quality for an open-source headless commerce platform.
  • Manual and automated testing across UI and GraphQL API
  • Built API regression suites in Pytest, E2E tests in Playwright, load tests in Locust
  • Tested payment and tax integration flows end-to-end. Used Bruno and PactumJS for API testing in payment and tax apps
  • Documented internal testing processes. Created and published Postman collections for API consumers
  • Championed Shift-Left testing, audited CI/CD pipelines, designed QA metrics framework from scratch
  • Set up Datadog observability — dashboards, SLO alerts, runbooks
Pytest Playwright Locust Bruno PactumJS Postman Datadog GitHub Actions PostgreSQL
Apr 2021 — Feb 2022
Quality Assurance Specialist
PGS Software · Remote
QA for BigHand — technology solutions for legal professionals providing data-driven insights to increase value and efficiency.
Tested document workflows, note-taking, speech to text, and case management tools.
Desktop Web Mobile
Aug 2017 — Mar 2021
Software Tester
STX Next · Piła / Gdańsk
QA across multiple projects: smart home IoT (React Native, sole QA), Vyze deferred payments, GS1 product catalogs and GTIN verification, and a TLS logistics app for warehouse/loading dock information.
API testing with Postman, requirements refinement with Product Owners.
Postman JIRA Confluence React Native
2015 — 2017
Software Tester
Integra Software · Bloxy · Witchcraft Studios
Sole QA across three companies. Integra — ERP and e-commerce parts catalogs for automotive. Bloxy — social media messenger app for young users (iOS & Android). Witchcraft Studios — mobile apps including BMW motorcycle configurator, app for river navigation, Frisco online grocery, app for insurance sales.
Built test processes from scratch: test case design, defect reporting, documentation.
iOS Android Web Desktop

Projects

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Saleor Postman Collection

Built originally for my own testing needs, then published to the community. Now used daily by developers worldwide — reduces time-to-first-API-call and accelerates integrations at scale.

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Saleor Documentation — 15+ Guides

Led a documentation initiative targeting highest-priority gaps from real customer questions. Covers orders lifecycle, warehouse & shipping, bulk API operations, webhook troubleshooting, content modeling, and cloud environment management.

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Saleor Core — Test & Quality Contributions

API regression tests, sample database overhaul with richer product attributes and Transaction API coverage, and quality improvements to the core commerce platform.

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Saleor Dashboard — UI Contributions

Contributions to Saleor's GraphQL-powered dashboard application — increasing test coverage, fixing flaky tests, and resolving CI/CD issues.

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🚧 AI + Automation showcase project coming soon — stay tuned!

Learning path

2026
AI Testers — Accelerate automation with AI

aitesters.pl · Playwright + AI + MCP · In progress

2022
Security in Software Testing

niebezpiecznik.pl · OWASP Top 10, Burp Suite Professional

2020
CI/CD in the Cloud — GitLab CI

jaktestowac.pl · Building CI pipelines for automated tests

2017
Web Application Testing

testerzy.pl · HTTP, HTML, CSS, XML, web testing tools

2011 — 2017

BSc Computer Engineering

Rzeszów University of Technology

Specialty: Information Technology in Enterprise

Languages

Polish — native

English — communicative (B2)


Skills & tools

Test Automation

Playwright Pytest PactumJS Locust

API & Data

GraphQL REST Webhooks Postman Bruno

Observability & Monitoring

Datadog Kibana Sentry SLO Alerts

Security Testing

OWASP Top 10 Burp Suite Charles Proxy

CI/CD & Tooling

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Pipeline Audits

Process & Management

Shift-Left Testing QA Metrics Design JIRA Linear ClickUp Azure DevOps

Documentation

Docusaurus Confluence Notion Technical Writing

Test Management

Testmo TestRail MantisBT

Databases

PostgreSQL

When I'm not testing

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Mountains & Outdoors

Hiking towards the Crown of Polish Mountains. Kayaking rivers, cycling, and rollerblading.

Active life in fresh air is non-negotiable.

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Plants & Bamboo Garden

Houseplant collector — sansevieria, philodendron, epipremnum varieties.

Garden with different bamboos. Love the sound of their leaves.

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Italian Cooking

Classic Italian — carbonara, amatriciana, ragù alla bolognese.

Sourdough bread baking.

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Board Games

Settlers of Catan enthusiast. Strategy, trade, and a healthy dose of competitive spirit.