United States
I’m a Senior QA Automation Engineer / SDET with 7+ years of experience testing web applications, APIs, databases, and release-critical workflows across Agile teams. My work sits between automation, backend validation, and release confidence. I’ve built and maintained Selenium WebDriver Java and Playwright/TypeScript automation, tested REST APIs with Postman and REST Assured, written SQL queries against Oracle/MySQL databases, and supported CI/CD execution through Jenkins and Git. I’m strongest in backend-heavy QA work where quality depends on more than clicking through the UI. I like digging into API responses, database records, test data, edge cases, logs, and defect patterns to understand what is actually happening in the system and whether a release is truly ready. At Best Buy and PNC Bank I've been the engineer teams rely on when a release is on the line — the person who catches what others miss and communicates risk clearly before it becomes an incident. My goal is always the same: catch risk early, communicate it clearly, and help teams ship with more confidence. I've cut regression cycles by 75%, achieved 95% test coverage, and delivered zero critical production defects across 6 consecutive quarters. Outside of tech, I’m also an undefeated professional boxer known as Emperor Schooler. Boxing has shaped how I approach QA: preparation, discipline, accountability, and staying calm under pressure. I bring that same focus into my work — consistent, detailed, and built around solving problems before they reach users. I’m currently open to remote QA Automation / SDET opportunities.
Promoted to Senior QA Automation Engineer within 18 months — one of the fastest promotions on the engineering org — driven by sole ownership of the Playwright framework and 6 consecutive quarters of zero critical production defects across 12+ product releases Architected enterprise-grade Playwright/TypeScript automation framework achieving 95% critical user flow coverage and reducing manual testing effort by 40% Engineered comprehensive API testing strategy using Postman and REST Assured across 50+ microservices, leveraging Swagger/OpenAPI documentation to increase pre-release defect detection by 35% Developed complex Oracle/MySQL SQL validation queries for 100+ data-integrity scenarios per sprint, maintaining zero production data escapes Presented quarterly quality briefings to C-suite leadership — translating defect escape rates and release risk into executive dashboards that drove 4 go/no-go release decisions Copy and paste that directly into your LinkedIn experience editor and the line breaks should carry over. If they don't use Shift + Enter between each bullet manually.
Built an end-to-end Selenium/Java/Cucumber BDD automation framework from scratch, cutting regression execution from 5 days to 8 hours — a 75% efficiency gain Integrated automated test suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, accelerating release cadence by 30% across 6 cross-functional engineering teams Delivered 200+ automated test cases achieving 85% regression coverage across the core banking platform serving 10M+ customers Led QA strategy for 3 critical platform migrations representing $2M+ infrastructure investment, designing and implementing full API testing framework that prevented 40+ critical defects from reaching production Executed Smoke, Functional, and Regression testing cycles sustaining 99.5% production stability over a 3-year tenure Managed defect lifecycle in Jira maintaining 98% SLA closure rate and facilitating daily stand-ups to unblock cross-team dependencies Copy and paste that directly into your PNC Bank experience section on LinkedIn. Same as before — if line breaks don't carry over use Shift + Enter between each one manually.