Building quality from zero in Forex, fintech & regulated trading platforms.

20+ years in software quality engineering · 5+ years leading QA teams · Cyprus · Remote-first

name:     Boka Rafaeli
role:     QA Team Lead / SDET / Automation Architect
focus:    Test automation architecture · release quality · QA leadership
domains:  Forex / CFD · Fintech · Trading platforms (MT4 / MT5)
building: AI-assisted test-failure analysis & root-cause detection
speaks:   English · Russian · Hebrew · Azerbaijani
open_to:  Remote QA Lead / SDET Lead roles

• Build QA departments and company-wide automation strategy from scratch — recruiting, mentoring, defining quality standards and release gates
• Design automation architecture across web, mobile, API and trading platforms (MT4 / MT5)
• Own release quality end-to-end: strategy → hiring → sign-off → production monitoring
• Deep Forex/CFD domain knowledge: order execution, price feeds, back-office, CRM, payments, and multi-jurisdiction compliance (FCA, CySEC, ASIC)

• Reduced regression cycles by 40%+ by designing parallel-execution automation architecture
• Scaled an E2E suite to 600+ parallel tests, cutting runtime from ~1 hour to under 15 minutes (-75%)
• Built k6 + Grafana performance infrastructure validating real-time trading load and API latency
• Introduced AI-assisted failure analysis — automated root-cause detection and failure-pattern highlighting
• Established QA from zero to a 6-engineer department across a multi-regulated brokerage ecosystem

• playwright-e2e-framework — POM architecture, parallel execution, test-data isolation, Allure reporting, GitHub Actions CI
• api-testing-framework — REST validation + contract tests, CI-integrated health checks with Slack notifications
• k6-performance-suite — load/stress scenarios with Grafana dashboards (Dockerized)