QA Engineer Resume Example

“Detail-oriented QA engineer with 5 years of experience in test automation, quality strategy, and continuous testing for web and mobile applications. Skilled in building scalable test frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, and Appium, with a strong focus on shift-left testing and CI integration.”

• Built the test automation framework from scratch using Playwright and TypeScript. Covers 92% of critical user journeys
• Automated 1,200+ test cases and hooked them into the CI/CD pipeline. Regression cycles went from 5 days to 4 hours
• Found and documented 340+ bugs during pre-release testing. Prevented what the team estimated was $500K in customer-facing issues
• Set up API contract testing with Pact between our frontend and 3 backend services. Caught 45 breaking changes before staging
• Responsible for performance testing using JMeter. Found bottlenecks that, once fixed, gave us 3x the concurrent user capacity
• Wrote test plans and test cases for every sprint. Worked directly with developers to clarify acceptance criteria before coding started
• Maintained a Selenium grid with 20 browser instances for parallel test execution across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
• Ran manual exploratory testing sessions before major releases. Caught edge cases that automated tests consistently missed
• Trained 4 developers on writing better unit tests. Test coverage across the team went from 55% to 80% in one quarter

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