QA Engineer

Debrena “Bre” McEwen

Senior Software Quality Engineer Test Automation, Strategy & Technical Leadership

North Carolina (Eastern Time) • Remote • *************@*****.*** • 510-***-**** • linkedin.com/in/debrenamcewen

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior quality engineer with 8+ years testing enterprise-scale software and a strong bias toward automation-first quality. I define test strategy, design and maintain automated suites, and integrate them into CI/CD, while staying hands-on with the hard problems: reproducing complex failures and root-causing them across application, database, and environment layers with SQL and log analysis. I own quality for both a high-traffic web application and a native mobile app, work from an evidence-first, audit-ready discipline (a 94% resolution rate across 4,302 issues filed), and provide technical leadership that raises the bar for the whole engineering organization. Comfortable in fast-paced Agile teams, and eager to bring reliable, scalable quality practices to regulated, high-stakes software.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Test Automation & Frameworks: Playwright end-to-end automation, CI/CD test integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), headless and cross-browser execution, parallel test runs, AI-assisted test generation

Test Strategy & Design: Test strategy and scoping, QA test plans, coverage modeling, severity and risk frameworks, requirement and specification review, test design from use cases and UI / system designs

Troubleshooting & Data: SQL (MySQL), application and server log analysis, Sentry error monitoring, browser devtools and network inspection, root-cause analysis

Cloud & DevOps: AWS (SSM), Jenkins, Docker, GitHub Actions, Git / GitHub, DevOps-integrated test workflows

Platforms & Types: Web (Vue) and native mobile (React Native); REST APIs; functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and cross-device compatibility testing; accessibility (WCAG)

Leadership & Process: Technical leadership and mentoring, Agile / Scrum, full SDLC, standards authoring, Jira and Confluence, evidence-based and audit-ready QA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Madison Reed — QA EngineerDec 2019 – Present

Remote (HQ San Francisco, CA) • Senior quality owner for madison-reed.com and the Madison Reed mobile app

•Serve as senior test designer and hands-on quality owner for a server-rendered Vue 3 e-commerce website and a React Native mobile app: define test strategy, scope test efforts, and review product requirements and engineering specifications during Agile sprint planning.

•Designed and built the team's automated testing solution from zero: a 268-file Playwright suite organized by environment, tier, and customer type, running in CI (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) against production-like, AWS-hosted environments with video evidence on every run.

•Develop and maintain QA test plans and repeatable automated tests from functional requirements, use cases, UI designs (Figma), and system designs; authored 2,533 formal test cases, executions, and plans.

•Established test methodology and automation standards across 32 governing documents with machine-readable schemas, plus the contribution path and DevOps integration that let developers build automated suites in parallel with feature development; accountable for coverage and correctness across engineering.

•Troubleshoot complex test failures across application, database, and environment layers, using SQL queries against MySQL, Sentry monitoring, and web and application server log analysis to trace failures to the responsible endpoint or pull request.

•Own mobile app quality (React Native) alongside web, improving automation coverage, test reliability, and release confidence across both platforms.

•Provide technical leadership across the engineering organization: mentor developers writing their own tests, audit and promote that work, author the automation training deck and Confluence documentation, and present quality systems to the internal AI group.

•Built and supervise an AI-assisted QA automation system (Claude Code, custom skills, specialist agents, and a custom QA operations application) that roughly doubled quality throughput to about 144 issues per month, with a searchable diagnosis library so a solved failure is documented once.

•Filed 4,302 tracked issues over six years with a 94% resolution rate on 1,580 bugs, working from an evidence-first, audit-ready discipline that reproduces and documents every defect before filing.

Artsy Geek — QA Analyst / Digital Project ManagerSep 2018 – Nov 2019

Oakland, CA

•Planned and executed QA for all web development projects, driving full bug lifecycles across UX and engineering teams and keeping releases on milestone and timeline in an Agile workflow.

•Owned test coverage and release readiness as the delivery point of contact, translating requirements into scoped, tested work.

Full-Stack JavaScript Developer & QA (Foundational)2015 – 2018

The Learner's Guild, CodeWalker Institute, STLR, Rootid

•Built Node.js / JavaScript applications and performed CMS and web QA, establishing a working foundation in databases and SQL, HTTP and REST APIs, and reading production code and logs that underpins current root-cause troubleshooting.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

QA Automation • Automation School2019

Full-Stack JavaScript Bootcamp • The Learner's Guild2016 – 2018

UX / UI Design • Bloc2017

Front-End Development • The Stride Center2015

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