Toptal is a marketplace for senior software development engineers in test (SDETs). Top companies and start-ups choose Toptal freelance SDETs for their mission-critical software projects.
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Owen Lopez
SDET
Owen has his roots in quality assurance for products with over 80 million daily active users, with expertise on Facebook and mobile with automation, develop...ment, and content integration for over half a decade with Zynga. He provided automated local testing infrastructure and deployment pipelines at Madison Reed as well.
Ashok Tulachan
SDET
Ashok is a senior full-stack, AWS-certified software developer and QA automation lead with diversified experience in financial, banking, insurance, healthca...re, and government IT projects. He has a Master's degree in Computer Information Systems and has expertise working with organizations of all sizes.
Chris Gunawardena
SDET
Chris is a developer/solutions architect with over 12 years of experience working for Accenture, Cricket Australia, RMIT University, and Sportsbet. He is a... full-stack developer capable of DevOps and automated testing as well as creating cutting-edge web applications.
Christopher J. Stobie
SDET
Chris is a seasoned principal DevOps engineer with several years of experience building and managing applications. Formerly the director of DevOps/SRE at an... AI company, Veritone, in Costa Mesa, CA, and a solutions architect at AWS. Chris has led numerous large-scale cloud architecture designs and implementations including building a real-time serverless AI platform on AWS.
Milorad Popović
SDET
Milorad has over ten years of experience on IT projects involving Microsoft, Cisco, virtual systems, networking, VoIP, and other technologies. He is very se...lf-motivated and professional QA leader and is always willing to introduce improvements into the work process. He is a strong team player, able to give support and guidance to other staff members. Milorad works well in a variety of environments.
Christina Lin
SDET
Christina is a senior QA engineer with expertise in test automation, test management, and manual testing for web and mobile applications. She has created te...st automation frameworks from the ground up using Selenium WebDriver in several projects as well as automating API testing using REST-assured and Postman. With experience in both private and public sectors, Christina has worked with large, medium-size, and small startup companies.
Bernd Reinemann
SDET
Bernd has over two decades of experience as an IT consultant working in QA management, project management, software testing, software architecture, and syst...em engineering in SW integration tasks. He has a solid grasp of how systems work, especially Linux, Windows, client servers, databases, and SQL. Bernd specializes in telecommunications such as CRM, billing, and mobile services. He's also a polyglot—speaking English, German, and Spanish.
Ljiljana Mitrovic
SDET
Ljiljana has a bachelor's degree in informational systems of science and technology. For the past few years, she has been working as a QA engineer for Scrum... teams on writing, executing, and maintaining smoke, functional, performance automation, and manual tests for various complex products.
Nick Chikovani
SDET
Along with more than six years of experience working as a developer and team lead for various startups, Nick brings his passion for robust, scalable and cle...an code design for every project. His specialties include real-time systems, RESTful web services, web automation, business intelligence, scalability and open-source software. Nick is eager to take on new challenges and is fast to adapt to new development environments.
Jonathan Peterson
SDET
Jon has over twenty years of professional development experience. For the last ten years or so, he's been concentrating on server-side Java, working remotel...y with small companies, over the full stack. He's a co-founder of a successful software-as-a-service company, IndieMade, and has managed tech teams large and small. He has a BA in computer science from Cornell University and an MSCS from the University of Massachusetts.
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Depending on availability and how fast you can progress, you could start your no-risk trial with a SDET within 48 hours of signing up. Most of our engagements start within 2 weeks of discussing your project with us.
All of our talent are seasoned experts who ramp up quickly, readily contribute as core team members, and work with you to minimize onboarding time.
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