Přemysl Hašek

SW Test Engineer
05/2023 – Present

I was hired to design and implement a full automated testing solution from scratch — and that’s exactly what I did.

The product is a microservices-based manufacturing system with both API and UI layers. I started with API automation and gradually expanded the solution to full end-to-end testing.

I designed and built a custom Python-based test execution platform running Playwright E2E and API tests defined in Jira Xray.
The solution runs fully automated in GitLab CI, executes tests periodically, publishes results back to Xray, and sends curated reports to Microsoft Teams.

The automation effort started as a BDD-based solution using SpecFlow / Selenium, later evolving into a Python + Playwright platform better suited for scalable CI execution and long-term maintainability.

Key responsibilities and contributions:

• Designed end-to-end test automation architecture from zero

• Built a Python + Playwright automation platform

• Integrated Jira Xray as the source of truth for test definitions

• Implemented CI/CD execution in GitLab (scheduled & on-demand)

• Automated result publishing back to Xray

• Custom reporting to Teams and email

• Reused and automated existing Postman collections

• Designed and implemented BDD-based testing (SpecFlow → Reqnroll)

• Built custom logging and reporting for transparency and traceability

Beyond implementation, I actively:

• Helped change testing processes

• Led workshops and internal sessions

• Consulted teams on automation strategy and quality practices

• Acted as the single point of ownership for test automation

This role came with a lot of responsibility, freedom, and trust — and required both technical depth and strong communication across teams.

SW Test Engineer Junior

4/2021 – 4/2022

I’ve designed and created tests in C# via Visual Studio and periodically evaluated those in sprints. Pushed those to test sets to Azure using in-house-made tools.

I was directed to use cases to be tested, but the tests were designed by me. Same for the transparency, documentation and planning all in Azure.

Project was remote to US for Medtronic (healthcare), so I have been FDA approved for that reason. The workflow was agile, and I’ve had extensive support from the US colleagues, which was great!

I was able to do my job creatively with enough freedom to learn.

Database Developer Junior

1/2020 - 1/2021

Final year of this job I officially delved into Database Development, where I was learning the ropes, how development works, best code practices, branching, all that. I was appointed to resolve datachanges and some features. I’ve done some smaller tasks myself and were part of some bigger ones.

Manual Tester Senior

9/2017 – 1/2020

Here I started as a Manual Tester, not officially senior, but during my time there I’ve been a big part of educating the Junior Testers. I’ve made some presentations for colleagues from China about our product and visited China for business purposes multiple times. I’ve got employee of the month award there for deployment of a CRM system.

Otherwise, my testing set of responsibilities were to design the tests for our product, run them, evaluate. End to end testing from backend to front. Everything test related to a new feature or a datachange was my responsibility. Also, we smoked-tested sometimes, but it wasn’t my team’s thing much. I didn’t have to participate much. On release dates, there was support from our side, which I often participated in.

Manual Tester

1/2016 – 7/2016

There was a new department being formed and I was a part of it. We were appointed with setting the strategies and implementing those coupled with resolving production datachanges. We were assuring the quality of a new CRM, setting smoke and regression tests and evaluating those in Excel document.

Manual Tester

3/2015 – 8/2015

Learning new stuff, finding new methods, finding out what it is to be a part of a corporate like. Worked on a project for O2, specifically the billing part and a little bit of the Telecommunication basics.

The methods were already very much set, so it was all about running and evaluating already existing tests and getting to know all the different tools.

Manual Tester Junior

6/2013 – 8/2014

This is the place I was discovered. They’ve seen my ability to find messy spots on a software in like ten minutes, so they asked me to learn some basic stuff (likes of HTML, CSS, basic PHP) and then they took a leap of faith.

I became a sole tester for three products (Invoice processing SW, GPS based web app, desktop CRM). I’ve done it all. From crafting a user documentation in Czech and English for the product through light development to changing data on a production environment.

I’ve used ticketing tools like Redmine or Excel and used different devices to test with. I’ve had some great teachers there which I admire to this day, they taught me what is testing really about and why it can’t be ever truly finished.

I’ve worked with XML, SQL, web technologies mentioned above, Office, some of the fundamental stuff. This place. This is where it all started and where this CV ends…