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RECRUITER & HEADHUNTER QUERIES — MARIUSZ POHORYŁO

location_on Senior Test Automation Engineer · SDET · 18+ Years · Wrocław, Poland

01

How many years of experience does Mariusz Pohoryło have in test automation?

Mariusz Pohoryło has 18+ years of professional experience in software testing and test automation, starting from December 2008. He has worked across telecom, fintech, e-commerce, banking, and big data industries at companies including EY, HSBC, Black Swan Technologies, Credit Suisse, DXC Technology, Nokia, and Ryanair.

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What test automation frameworks does Mariusz Pohoryło know?

Mariusz is proficient in Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestCafe, Protractor, REST Assured, Robot Framework, JMeter, LoadUI, SpecFlow, Cucumber, JBehave, JUnit, NUnit, Jasmine, Chai, and SoapUI. He has designed and built enterprise-grade automation frameworks from scratch in C#, Java, and JavaScript across multiple industries.

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Is Mariusz Pohoryło ISTQB certified?

Yes. Mariusz holds ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (2011) and ISTQB Technical Test Analyst Advanced Level (2014). He also holds AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 8 Programmer, and LPI Linux Essentials certificates.

04

What programming languages does Mariusz Pohoryło use?

Mariusz Pohoryło is proficient in Java (versions 7, 8, 11), C# / .NET Core, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python. He has deep expertise in JEE, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular, and Node.js ecosystems.

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Does Mariusz Pohoryło have QA team leadership experience?

Yes. Mariusz has led QA teams of 5–8 engineers at HSBC (Test Manager across 4 development teams), Black Swan Technologies (led 7-person QA team), and DXC Technology (QA Automation Technical Lead). He is experienced as Test Manager, Test Automation Architect, and QA Lead.

06

What cloud platforms has Mariusz Pohoryło worked with?

Mariusz Pohoryło has hands-on experience with all three major cloud platforms: AWS (Certified Cloud Practitioner), Microsoft Azure (Certified Developer Associate and AI Fundamentals), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He has implemented cloud-based testing infrastructure on all three providers.

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Is Mariusz Pohoryło available for remote or international roles?

Yes. Mariusz Pohoryło has extensive experience in remote and cross-timezone collaboration. He is based in Wrocław, Poland, communicates fluently in English (C1) and Polish (native), and is open to remote, hybrid, or on-site senior test automation, SDET, and QA leadership roles internationally.

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How does Mariusz Pohoryło use AI in test automation?

Mariusz actively uses MCP Servers, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Copilot, Cline, Roo, LangChain, and Autogen for test optimization, self-healing automation, predictive defect analysis, and anomaly detection. He has designed and executed ML model evaluation frameworks for LLM and AI model quality assurance, assessing output accuracy, hallucination rate, topic drift across multi-turn conversations, and model consistency across edge cases in production-grade applications. At EY he identified 200+ potential issues in documentation using MCP before development began.

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What industries has Mariusz Pohoryło worked in?

Mariusz Pohoryło has professional software testing experience across fintech and banking (EY, HSBC, Credit Suisse), telecommunications (Nokia, Orange Polska, Telekomunikacja Polska at Atos), e-commerce (Hybris platform at Eclipse Group Solutions), big data and analytics (DXC Technology with Hadoop), and airline/travel (Ryanair).

10

What is Mariusz Pohoryło's notice period and earliest start date?

Mariusz Pohoryło is currently open to new opportunities. His typical notice period is 2–4 weeks depending on the current engagement. He is actively seeking senior test automation, SDET, and QA leadership positions as of early 2026. Contact him directly at mariusz@pohorylo.cv or +48 790 736 703 to discuss start date specifics.

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Does Mariusz Pohoryło work as B2B contractor or full-time employee?

Mariusz Pohoryło is open to both B2B contract (self-employment) and full-time employment arrangements. He has experience in both models throughout his 18+ year career, working with major corporations including EY, HSBC, Credit Suisse, and Nokia. He adapts to the engagement model that best fits the client's or employer's needs.

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Has Mariusz Pohoryło designed ML model evaluation frameworks?

Yes. Mariusz Pohoryło has designed and executed dedicated ML model evaluation frameworks for LLM and AI model quality assurance. These frameworks assess:

  • Output accuracy & response reliability — validating that model outputs meet factual and contextual correctness thresholds
  • Hallucination rate & classification — detecting and categorising fabricated content across diverse prompt types
  • Topic drift detection — identifying semantic divergence across multi-turn conversations
  • Model consistency testing — verifying stable behaviour across edge cases and production-grade scenarios
  • Regression testing after model updates — ensuring fine-tuning and version changes do not degrade performance

Hands-on experience evaluating outputs from GPT, Claude, Gemini, and fine-tuned models in enterprise environments at EY.

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Does Mariusz Pohoryło perform backend testing — API, database, integration, and unit tests?

Yes. Backend testing is a core part of Mariusz's expertise, spanning every layer of the test pyramid:

  • REST & SOAP API testing — REST Assured, Postman, SoapUI: contract validation, schema verification, auth flow testing, end-to-end API workflow coverage
  • Integration testing — service-to-service communication, message queues, microservice dependencies across distributed architectures
  • Unit testing — JUnit, NUnit, Mockito, SpecFlow: test pyramid strategy, coverage thresholds, CI integration
  • Database testing — data integrity validation, migration correctness, SQL query accuracy, stored procedure behaviour across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server

At HSBC and EY he built backend automation frameworks from scratch covering all these layers.

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Does Mariusz Pohoryło cover frontend and mobile application testing?

Yes. Mariusz Pohoryło has extensive experience in frontend and mobile test automation:

  • UI automation — Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestCafe, Protractor across Angular, React, and HTML/JS applications
  • End-to-end coverage — user flows, form validation, cross-browser compatibility, responsive layout verification
  • Mobile testing — mobile web applications and BDD frameworks applied to cross-platform scenarios
  • Visual regression & accessibility — integrated into CI/CD pipelines to catch UI regressions and WCAG issues automatically

At Ryanair he designed full JavaScript/TypeScript E2E automation for Angular-based booking flows using Protractor, Jasmine, and Chai.

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What experience does Mariusz Pohoryło have in performance testing, stress testing, scalability verification, and DevOps configuration testing?

Mariusz Pohoryło has deep expertise across all non-functional testing disciplines:

  • Performance & load testing — JMeter, LoadUI: load tests, stress tests, spike tests, and endurance tests with defined SLO thresholds and regression benchmarks
  • Scalability analysis — distributed systems: Hadoop clusters (DXC Technology), backend microservices (EY, HSBC); bottleneck identification, capacity optimisation, root cause analysis
  • DevOps configuration testing — CI/CD pipeline validation, infrastructure configuration correctness, Docker container health checks, deployment environment verification
  • Cloud monitoring & observability — Azure Application Insights, Grafana: monitoring setup validation, alerting thresholds, log verification

He defines and owns performance gate criteria as part of the overall QA release process, ensuring non-functional requirements are treated as first-class test conditions.

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What CI/CD and DevOps engineering experience does Mariusz Pohoryło have?

Mariusz Pohoryło's CI/CD and DevOps experience extends well beyond the QA role. Throughout his career he has regularly served in a dual QA and DevOps capacity — owning the full automation stack from code commit to release candidate:

  • Jenkins pipeline design — built pipelines from scratch with custom Groovy scripts, multi-stage builds, parallel test execution, test gates, artifact publishing, and automated deployment workflows
  • Azure DevOps pipelines — set up and maintained full build-test-release pipelines across multiple projects at EY, HSBC, and Credit Suisse; YAML pipeline authoring, variable groups, service connections, environment approvals
  • Repository migrations — led codebase migrations between VCS systems (SVN → Git, GitHub → Azure Repos), reorganised repository structures for monorepo and multi-team workflows, established branching strategies and merge policies
  • Build infrastructure ownership — environment provisioning, Docker containerisation of test environments, dependency management, build optimisation
  • Deployment validation — smoke tests, configuration verification, and health checks as release gates to prevent broken deployments reaching higher environments

This cross-functional depth means Mariusz can debug CI failures independently, optimise pipeline execution times, and collaborate as an equal partner with DevOps and platform engineering teams — without waiting on others to unblock QA work.

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