Oleksandr Romanov
Senior Software Engineer in Test
He/him
I am Open to CV Reviews, Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, Podcasting, Review Conference Proposals
14+ years in testing and engineering | Co-host at Testing Minutes podcast | Writing and podcasting about test engineering, performance, AI, blockchain, and distributed systems | Views are my own
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 96%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 88%
Activity
earned:
Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
thanked contributors on:
AI needs guardrails to play by the rules and work better
earned:
How would you define a guardrail?
awarded Shawn Vernier for:
How would you define a guardrail?
awarded Preeti Gupta for:
How would you define a guardrail?
Contributions
Ikigai (生き甲斐, lit. 'a reason for being') is a Japanese concept of an individual's definition of the meaning of their life.Héctor García and Francesc Miralles included a Venn diagram of Ikigai in their book: "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life". This diagram includes four elements: what a person likes, what a person is good at, what the world needs, and what can be rewarded. When these four elements overlap, that person has found their ikigai.
Top 5 things:
The more people use AI, the less they tend to ... think and connect to their work.
AI tools can ... hurt trust within colleagues.
AI tools can ... state factually wrong things even m...
A lively chat about influence without authority, from asking better questions and telling clearer risk stories to navigating stakeholders, careers, and community visibility.
A hot-takes episode where the crew debates AI skepticism, manual testing’s staying power, whether AI agents really speed delivery, and why quality ultimately lives (or dies) with leadership decisions.
Yesterday we had our first AI Chapter catch up to brainstorm how this chapter will work to help community adopt AI and overcome challenges.We spoke about:
what are current challenges in AI era? Is...
We are finally having a dedicated AI Chapter in the #MoTaverse.
AI is changing the way people think, talk, or learn in the world of software as well as software testing.
This chapter is a focused s...
Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
I'm super excited to anounce our 2026 Ambassadors!!
Make sure to follow them on the MoTaverse.
And the 2026 Ambassadors of the MoTaverse are...........
- Ady Stokes
- Ben Dowen
- Cassandr...
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