Vetted Test Automation Professionals

“Fractional CFO/operations advisor specializing in early-stage and scaling service businesses, combining Profit First-informed cash management with lean operating systems. Known for 360-degree operational audits and translating complex finance/ops into simple dashboards, scorecards, and process maps; delivered predictable cash flow and scalable structure within ~90 days for a fast-growing startup.”

“Edtech/education-focused engineer who took an accessibility-critical LLM/vision feature from concept to production: built an OpenCV-gated whiteboard capture pipeline feeding Gemini Vision for handwriting-to-LaTeX, improving math transcription 80% while cutting inference costs 60%. Also built RAG observability and retrieval fixes that stabilized inconsistent answers, and partnered directly with sales to reshape demos and open a new K-12 revenue pipeline aligned to California Digital Divide grant requirements.”

“QA tester with hands-on experience supporting Duolingo’s large-scale, high-stakes releases across iOS, Android, and web. Owns test planning, manual + mobile automation testing, regression, and release verification, with a strong focus on real-world edge cases (low-end devices, poor connectivity, localization/RTL) and rigorous bug triage using JIRA and external user reports.”

“QA automation engineer with experience at Amazon Game Studios owning an end-to-end automated scale testing suite that simulates high-concurrency gameplay and captures performance telemetry. Improved coverage by bypassing hours of gameplay via programmatic state setup, enabling repeatable 4000-player dungeon-entry tests that exposed a messaging-queue bottleneck fixed before release. Also built maintainable Selenium/pytest UI automation with CI gating, reporting, and flake-reduction patterns.”

“Modes/progression designer on EA College Football (Dynasty and Road to Glory) who has owned multiple shipped progression systems, including recruiting and Road to Glory progression (meters, in-game reward triggers, and a "coach trust" meta-progression). Focused on modular system design and tuning/balancing for player-facing challenges and rewards, with strong QA-driven iteration and Blueprint-based prototyping practices.”

“Robotics-focused candidate with multiple university robotics projects (MTE 380, MTE 544) and ROS 2 (Humble/Galactic) experience spanning perception, navigation, and simulation. Built a vision-based line-following and retrieval robot using HSV filtering and homography, and debugged real-time PID overshoot issues via timestamping/rate-limiting. Comfortable with distributed ROS 2 architectures (Python perception + C++ control), DDS/QoS, Gazebo testing, and Dockerized deployment.”

“Customer-facing technical professional experienced in productionizing complex systems (including LLM/agentic workflows) and high-volume cloud data pipelines. Built and hardened a near-real-time data extraction/caching solution that significantly reduced latency and became a reusable pattern for other enterprise use cases; also runs developer demos/workshops with hands-on test environments and has driven 30–50% latency improvements.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on controls and motion planning for autonomous flight systems using ROS 2 (rclcpp), Gazebo/RViz, and BehaviorTree.CPP. Has hands-on real-time control experience (1ms loop rate) and has improved system performance by tracing latency issues and refactoring vision components (singleton camera init). Also built low-latency Ethernet/TCP comms on top of the IgH Ethernet stack and uses digital-twin simulation (Gazebo, MuJoCo; beginner Isaac Sim) to validate algorithms.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Built and deployed custom AI chatbots at LivePerson, translating customer service pain points (e.g., MTTR reduction and fragmented information) into production RAG-based solutions with stakeholder-facing metrics dashboards. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using Elastic logs, leading POCs, and integrating customer APIs to automate workflows as part of sales-driven solutioning.”

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

“QA professional with Apple experience supporting the macOS Sonoma release, owning daily monitoring of submissions, crashes, regressions, and release verification across multiple OS/device builds. Notably isolated a memory-related issue in the Safari suite that caused an 18-hour build backlog and 156+ test crashes, leading to a Python-script fix that restored build times to ~1 hour and helped keep the release on schedule.”

“QA automation engineer with end-to-end ownership of a regression suite for a warehouse loan management platform (.NET/Angular), using Selenium (Java/Cucumber/POM) and Cypress. Improved suite stability and expanded risk-based coverage (DB/API/SQL, RBAC approval workflows), catching critical financial defects like EMI calculation errors and cutting regression effort by ~50% while gating releases via GitLab CI/CD with actionable Slack reporting.”

“QA/automation engineer with experience at Riot Games’ player platform, owning E2E automation for mission-critical authentication/account flows using Playwright/JavaScript plus API automation. Built CI merge gates and nightly verification with Slack reporting, and repeatedly caught backend-driven session/authorization regressions before production. Known for stabilizing flaky UI tests via selector strategy and network intercepts, and for influencing design early with testability hooks and telemetry.”

“Built and deployed profitprops.io, a sports betting player-props prediction product using ML/AI. Implemented backend APIs with FastAPI/Express.js and Supabase, trained models on AWS GPU (P3) using Docker + RAPIDS, and set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions while working around cost constraints and data-collection hurdles (EC2 proxy rotation/rate limits).”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a Python/Flask task-management API with JWT/RBAC, modular service/repository architecture, and PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimizations (indexes, lazy loading, bulk ops, pooling). Also implemented multi-tenant data isolation strategies and built an OpenAI-powered document summarization workflow using chunking, async processing, Redis background workers, and caching to improve throughput.”

“Data engineer/platform builder with experience across PwC and Liberty Mutual delivering high-volume, production-grade pipelines and real-time data services. Has owned end-to-end streaming + batch architectures on AWS and Azure, including web scraping systems, with quantified reliability gains (99.9% availability, 90%+ error reduction, 30% latency reduction) and strong observability/CI-CD practices.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Senior frontend engineer with experience leading high-impact React/TypeScript products at HelloFresh and CAA, including an A/B-tested onboarding flow shipped across multiple international brands. Modernized a legacy .NET frontend to Next.js using SSR and performance techniques (caching/memoization/lazy loading) and implemented robust testing/monitoring (Cypress, Honeycomb, GA) in fast-paced, production-deploy environments.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“QA tester with hands-on experience across web, mobile, and API testing, including requirements gathering, test planning/case creation, and executing system/regression/UAT. While new to console game testing and platform certification checklists (TRC/XR/LOT), they emphasize strong testing fundamentals, API automation experience, and using AI tools to ramp up quickly.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

“Full-stack TypeScript engineer who built and operated a production order/inventory platform (React + NestJS/Node + PostgreSQL) with Redis and RabbitMQ for performance and background workflows. Emphasizes correctness in production via idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, and observability, and has also delivered external-facing REST APIs (Swagger, versioning, JWT/RBAC) plus resilient checkout browser automations using Playwright/Puppeteer.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”