About This Episode:

Manual testing never died. IoT is the proof.

In this episode, Joe Colantonio talks with Oleksii Cherkashyn, a QA team lead, automation engineer, and IoT testing specialist who built a complete test architecture from scratch across hardware, firmware, mobile, web, and API.

IoT breaks the usual automation playbook. You are not testing a shopping cart. You are connecting a real microcontroller, flashing a sketch, validating that a physical command produced the right change in a dashboard widget, and then doing the same thing again through the REST API and the mobile app. No marketplace framework covers that, so Oleksii built his own.

You’ll learn:

If you work in test automation and you want a look at the layer of testing that AI is not coming for, this one is for you.

Listen up, and check out the links below for everything mentioned in this episode.

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About Oleksii Cherkashyn

Oleksii Cherkashyn

Oleksii Cherkashyn is the Quality Assurance Team Lead at Blynk Technologies Inc., an IoT platform that lets businesses build, connect, and manage their devices. A Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) by background, he designs and builds test automation from scratch across web and mobile applications, APIs, and hardware, with particular emphasis on the testing challenges of IoT platforms and connected devices.

An IEEE Senior Member and Professional Member of the ACM, he combines hands-on industry practice with active research. He is the author of five peer-reviewed papers on test automation, covering web and mobile automation as well as the application of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in automated testing.

As an ACM Certified Reviewer, Oleksii reviews for the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) and for numerous international IEEE and other conferences, having evaluated more than 100 research papers to date.

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