Summary

Engineering-focused SDET with 7+ years of experience designing scalable test architecture, building maintainable test automation frameworks from scratch, and driving quality gates across distributed cloud microservices. Deep technical background in Java, TypeScript, Python, Playwright, and containerized test execution environments. Proven track record of accelerating test pipeline execution times by 75%, expanding end-to-end automated coverage to 94%, and establishing shift-left quality practices that eliminated 90% of release-blocking regression defects.

Work experience

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Mar 2022 - Present

CloudScale Systems•Austin, TX

Programming & Scripting: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), Python, Go, SQL, Bash
UI & E2E Automation: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, WebdriverIO, Puppeteer
API & Contract Testing: RestAssured, Karate, Pact (Contract Testing), Postman/Newman, Apollo GraphQL, gRPCurl
Performance & Chaos Testing: k6, Gatling, JMeter, Locust, Chaos Mesh
Architecture & Frameworks: TestNG, JUnit 5, PyTest, Cucumber (BDD), Page Object Model (POM), Screenplay Pattern
CI/CD, Cloud & Infrastructure: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (EC2, S3), BrowserStack, Selenium Grid
Quality Metrics & Tooling: SonarQube, Allure Reports, TestRail, Jira, Datadog, Jaeger Tracing, Git

Software Engineer in Test

Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

Apex Interactive Solutions•Houston, TX

Developed maintainable UI and integration tests using JavaScript, Cypress, and Mocha for an e-commerce platform processing 100K+ daily orders.
Authored automated SQL validation scripts to audit order processing pipelines, verifying transactional idempotency and inventory reconciliation accuracy.
Logged, tracked, and verified 250+ software defects in Jira, collaborating directly with developers to analyze root causes and inspect browser/server crash logs.

Skills

rogramming & Scripting

UI & E2E Automation

API & Contract Testing

Performance & Chaos Testing

Architecture & Frameworks

CI/CD, Cloud & Infrastructure

Quality Metrics & Tooling

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

— University of Texas at Dallas

Jan 2013 - Dec 2017

Projects

Automated Visual Regression Engine

Jan 2023

Creator / SDET

Designed a visual regression testing service taking automated screenshots of critical UI flows across viewport breakpoints, comparing pixel differences against approved baselines.
Prevented 50+ CSS layout and theme regression bugs from reaching production releases.

Summary

Work experience

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Software Engineer in Test

Skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Projects

Automated Visual Regression Engine

Certifications

ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level – Technical Test Analyst (CTAL-TTA)

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)