Senior QA Test Automation & DevOps Engineer

“Senior Software Developer in Test/Automation Engineer”

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 15+ years of professional experience in quality assurance, test automation, and DevOps. Expert in browser-based test automation using Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium with strong proficiency in C# and JavaScript. Demonstrated success in complex multi-system integration testing across interconnected applications and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for enterprise software releases. Extensive experience with financial transaction validation, payment processing testing, and ensuring data accuracy for audit compliance. Proven track record of developing comprehensive Agile test plans, documenting detailed test scenarios, and automating significant portions of test suites. Highly skilled at independently managing end-to-end testing lifecycles while coordinating with multiple development teams. Strong communicator with experience mentoring QA teams and collaborating across organizational levels.

Key Strengths

API Testing: Postman, REST API, Swager

Mentoring QA employees

HTML, CSS, React, Angular, JavaScript, C#

Automation Testing: Cypress, Selenium, Playwright

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

DevOps Processes: Azure, TeamCity, Bamboo, Octopus

Jira process setup

Agile Development

Stability and consistency in work and personality

Appium for mobile testing

Git, Jira, GitHub

JMeter, Blazer meter Load Test

Unix

Unit test

Core Co mpetencies:

Professional Profile:

Catapult, Utah 2025 to Current

Software engineer intern as pullstack

Service businesses – past control, home services, field operations

Developing websites use Python and React

KLAS Research, Utah 2021 to 2025

Sr. Software Developer in Test/Automaton/DevOps Engineer:

Noted Accomplishment: Develop software test strategies, DevOps Processes, Cypress Automation, Setup the agile process.

•Built CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps for automated test execution and reporting

•Led end-to-end test automation for healthcare industry software using Cypress and C#

•Experience in Scripting / programming language (Angular, C#)

•Test Integration Framework setup on Azure using the YAML file.

•Developed API test suites using C# for system integration validation

•Collaborated with multiple development teams to coordinate testing across integrated systems

•Test integration framework setup.

•Conducted load and performance testing using JMeter to ensure system scalability

Endurance, Utah 2017 to 2021

Software Developer/Automaton/DevOps Engineer:

Noted Accomplishment: Develop software test strategies, DevOps Processes, Cypress Automation, coding web signup flow, Optimizely A/B test Platform.

•Experience in Scripting/ programming language (C#, Python, JavaScript, CSS, React, Peal)

•Using Cypress automation to develop web signup flow, Visual regression test, and API.

Built and deployed Docker containers to improve developer workflow, increasing scalability and optimizing speed.

•Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Bamboo Deploy

•Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2.

Rock Solid Internet Systems, Utah 2015 to 2017

Software Q/A Team Lead and Supervisor:

Noted Accomplishment: Develop software test strategies, practices, and Q/A teams for micro-service architectures, real-time or massively distributed systems, and big data. Established track record of success in leadership in the organization.

●Define the strategy for quality within the Engineering organization and lead the team to achieve that vision.

●Ensure the business is successful in delivering high-quality, performant software to our enterprise clients.

●Work together with Engineering Teams and Product Management to drive the right behaviors on quality into our processes from the beginning.

●Ensure quality Engineering craftsmanship and best practices throughout the organization.

●Grow and mentor other QA engineers in the Philippines.

●Started using Automation Tools for Webship web page in addition to the Cypress IO/JavaScript Automation Tools (Selenium, Cypress IO, and JSON posting through Postman).

●Designed and implemented automated testing tools and programs addressing areas including database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, hotfix testing, error/bug retests, and usability.

●PHP DB unit test for code verification

●API Testing: Postman, REST API

DHI Computing, Provo Utah 2011 to 2015

Senior SQA Engineer:

Noted Accomplishment: Develop knowledge of software engineering practices, craftsmanship, metrics, quality and testing procedures, process creation and enablement

●Serve as a key member of the software development team as the lead QA tester on development.

●Create and execute automated software test plans, cases, and scripts to uncover, identify, and document software problems and their causes.

●Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development process, which brought QA testing in on the front end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality, and programmer productivity.

●Conducted formal and informal product design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, and potential issues. Leveraged developer background to communicate effectively with the software design team, quickly gaining their respect and becoming a valued, “go-to “team member on challenging test cases.

Symantec, Lindon Utah 2005 to 2011

Senior SQA Engineer:

Noted Accomplishment: Develop and implement automated testing and processes and leadership skills encompassing quality and business perspectives.

●Work with management to resolve issues and report on the quality of system maintenance activity and new releases.

●Create/execute/maintain automation scripts

●Works directly with software developers, test engineers, product owners, business analysts, project leaders

●Develop automated test suites for the website using Selenium.

●Planning test projects and participation in design and functional specification reviews

Education Attainment:

●B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering with Math minor, Brigham Young University

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