Dawid Florczak
QA Lead / AI Engineer
I build AI-augmented QA flows that let teams ship faster and catch the bugs before users do.
A decade of owning quality
I have spent over a decade in QA. I build test automation frameworks, own release processes, and set up the pipelines that carry them. I have built two QA teams from the first hire and led both, at a software house and at a US insurance product. For the last two years the work has been AI-augmented QA, which means agentic test flows, reusable skills, and tooling wired into CI so developers can test their own code before it reaches review. I now build my own AI pipelines, and I help teams in two ways: a one-off QA audit, or longer hands-on work in their codebase. I also mentor in AI and QA.
- 10+Years as a QA
- 2QA teams built
- 7Industries
Industries
- Insurance
- Fintech
- E-Commerce
- Entertainment
- Social media
- Productivity
- IoT
Where I have done it
QA Lead and AI Engineer, self-employedfoxpixelIndependent · EU and US · Remote07.2026 to Present
Client work
- Test architecture and infrastructure for a US client's photo-hosting platform on web and mobile, built on AI workflows and pipelines for the whole engineering team (Playwright, Maestro, Meticulous, BrowserStack, GitHub Actions, TypeScript).
Own projects and services
- Building my own AI-augmented QA tooling: agentic test flows, reusable skills, and the pipelines that run them.
- QA audits and longer hands-on work with teams on their tests and CI.
- One-to-one mentoring for testers moving into automation.
QA LeadAdvocate TechnologiesInsurance · US · Remote07.2023 to 07.2026
- Architecting AI-augmented QA systems: custom agentic test flows and reusable AI skills enabling QA and devs to self-test code pre-merge, shortening feedback loops.
- Integrating AI tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, MCP) into CI/CD pipelines.
- Developing test processes and strategies.
- Building and maintaining automation frameworks (Cypress / Playwright / Postman).
- Conducting training sessions for the QA team.
- Building and maintaining the QA team.
QA Engineer / Head of QATooplooxSoftware house · US · Wrocław, Remote12.2016 to 06.2023
- Maintaining, developing, and managing test automation frameworks.
- Developing test processes and strategies.
- Supporting other QAs in achieving their goals.
- Resource allocation and managing the recruitment process.
- Release process management.
- Building a QA team.
QA Automation EngineerSii for RyanairSoftware house · EU · Wrocław05.2016 to 12.2016
- Maintaining the Appium test framework for the mobile (Android/Java) Ryanair app.
- Creating new tests and reporting test results.
- Improving the test framework and reporting bugs.
Software TesterCeneoE-commerce · PL · Wrocław2011 to 2016
- Configuring and maintaining test frameworks (Appium, Calabash, Selenium).
- Conducting manual and automated tests of mobile and web applications.
- Developing test cases and maintaining documentation.
Work with me
For teams
QA audit
A full read of how your team tests: coverage, flakiness, pipeline feedback time, and what is quietly costing you releases. You get the findings and the order to fix them in.
A team inheriting a suite, or one whose releases keep slipping
Ongoing consulting
Ongoing work on your test strategy, your automation framework or your CI. I work inside your codebase and your process rather than handing over a document.
A team building or rebuilding quality practice
For individuals
Mentorship built on written lessons and exercises you work through at your own pace, in Polish or English. Every course comes with two one-to-one calls with me, and you can book more whenever you want. An AI review agent reviews every pull request from your exercises, with no limit, so a bad habit gets caught before it sets in.
Opening soon · limited places each month
- Start here
Automation Foundations
14 lessons · about 15 hours of work · Beginner
One-to-one mentorship, at your own pace
The ground floor of test automation: Git, a repository you can actually run, and a working local environment, so the first automated test is not the first obstacle.
- Starting from zero on Windows 11 or macOS 14 and newer: Git, Node, VS Code and your own project on GitHub
- Git day to day: branches, commits, pull requests, and undoing mistakes
- Cloning a repository and getting its suite running locally
- Node, package managers, and why versions are pinned
- Your first test in TypeScript, and reading what the failure actually says
Playwright Foundations
12 lessons · about 15 hours of work · Beginner
One-to-one mentorship, at your own pace
Go from zero to a maintainable end-to-end suite: selectors that survive refactors, stable waits, and a framework your team will keep using.
- Project structure and fixtures that scale
- Killing flakiness at the source
- Running suites in parallel in CI
- Debugging with traces and the Playwright inspector
AI-Augmented QA
13 lessons · about 18 hours of work · Intermediate
One-to-one mentorship, at your own pace
Put AI to work inside your test process: agentic test flows, reusable skills, and pre-merge self-testing that actually shortens feedback loops.
- Designing agentic test flows that hold up in a real codebase
- Building reusable AI skills your whole team can run
- Wiring Claude Code, Cursor and MCP into CI/CD
- Where AI helps in QA, and where it quietly costs you
Skill Matrix
AI engineering
- Custom agentic workflows
- AI skills for QA & dev self-testing
- MCP server integration
- Claude Code
- Cursor
Test automation
- Playwright
- Maestro
- Meticulous
- BrowserStack
- Cypress
- Appium
- RSpec
CI/CD & API
- CircleCI
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Postman
- k6
- REST & GraphQL
Leadership
- Test strategy & process development
- Team management
- Conducting trainings
- Recruitment & resource allocation
Programming
- TypeScript
- Swift
- Java
- Kotlin
- Ruby
- C#
- Rust
Certified
- ISTQB Foundation
- Testing JavaScript by Kent C. Dodds
- DevOps Panda Academy 2.0
- CCNA 1–4