Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer — Apex Web Solutions

Seattle, WA | August 2023 – Present

• Authored 250+ automated integration test cases using Python and Selenium WebDriver, increasing total test coverage from 60% to 92% across 3 core SaaS platforms.
• Constructed CI/CD test automation pipelines using Jenkins, reducing build verification testing execution times by 42% and shortening deployment cycles by 3 days.
• Partnered with 8 developers to resolve defect blockers, decreasing post-release software defects by 30% and reclaiming 15 hours of engineering work per sprint.
• Designed and executed 80+ performance tests using Apache JMeter, identifying memory leaks and improving application load times by 25% under heavy traffic.

QA Analyst — Vertex Cloud Technologies

Tacoma, WA | June 2021 – July 2023

• Conducted manual and automated API testing for 40+ enterprise endpoints using Postman and Newman, verifying data integrity and reducing response errors by 22%.
• Documented and tracked 350+ software bugs in Jira, coordinating with product managers to verify hotfixes and decreasing average bug resolution times by 18%.
• Created 15 reusable test data sets and environment configuration checklists, reducing overall test preparation times by 25% for a team of 6 engineers.
• Performed regression testing for 10 major software releases, detecting 50+ critical regression defects before production deployment and saving $45,000.

Test Automation, Manual Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Postman, Jenkins, PyTest, JMeter, Git, SQL, Python, API Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Defect Tracking, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD, Agile, Scrum

API Test Automation Framework Redesign

Role: Lead QA Engineer

Tools: Python, PyTest, Requests, Jenkins, Git

Rebuilt the internal API automation framework from scratch, reducing test run execution time by 45% and detecting 12 critical integration issues.

E-commerce Performance Load Testing

Role: Performance Test Engineer

Tools: JMeter, AWS, Grafana, Jira

Simulated 10,000 concurrent users to identify database thread pool bottlenecks, increasing overall platform stability by 30% during high-traffic events.

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) (2021)
• Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
• Professional Memberships: Association for Software Testing (AST)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice