Automation Tester

Senior QA Automation Engineer — Vortex Health Solutions

Denver, CO | May 2023 – Present

• Designed and implemented a hybrid Playwright and TypeScript framework for 3 core SaaS products, increasing test coverage from 40% to 85% and saving 12 developer hours per week.
• Integrated automated smoke and regression suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, reducing feedback loops from 4 hours to 18 minutes and achieving a 99.2% build success rate.
• Developed automated API tests using REST Assured and Java, verifying 120+ integration endpoints and identifying 45+ critical bugs before deployment to production.
• Coordinated with a QA team of 4 engineers to lead regression testing cycles, lowering post-release production defect rates by 32% over a 12-month period.

QA Automation Engineer — AeroData Systems

Boulder, CO | June 2021 – April 2023

• Built a modular Selenium WebDriver framework with Java and TestNG, automating 250+ manual test cases for a high-traffic web platform.
• Established automated visual regression testing using Applitools, reducing manual verification time by 25 hours per sprint for 15 active UI layouts.
• Configured Docker containers to run selenium grid tests in parallel across 5 distinct browser environments, accelerating execution speeds by 55%.
• Maintained and resolved flaky automated tests, improving the test suite reliability index from 78% to 96% and lowering false-positive alerts by 40%.

Test automation, Test framework design, CI/CD integration, API testing, Visual regression testing, Parallel execution, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Java, Python, TypeScript, REST Assured, Postman, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Docker, SQL, Jira, Confluence

Cross-Browser Cloud Testing Migration

Role: Lead Test Automation Engineer

Tools: Playwright, TypeScript, Jenkins, LambdaTest, Git

Migrated legacy on-premise execution to a cloud-based grid, cutting monthly execution costs by 22% and reducing full regression test cycle time by 4 hours.

API Integration Testing Framework

Role: Automation Tester

Tools: Postman, Newman, JavaScript, GitLab CI

Designed a lightweight Newman-based framework for 14 microservices, automating 400+ API validation checks and reducing integration bugs by 28%.

• ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Automation Engineering (CTAL-TAE) (2024)
• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) (2021)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Professional)
• Volunteer Work: Technical mentor for local high school coding club (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice