Summary

Experience

Senior Playwright Engineer|Tech Innovators Inc.

San Francisco, CAAug 2021Present

• Led the migration of legacy Selenium tests to Playwright, achieving a 40% reduction in test execution time and a 25% decrease in flaky tests across the core product suite.
• Designed and implemented a scalable Playwright test automation framework from scratch using TypeScript, reducing new test script development time by 30%.
• Integrated Playwright tests with GitLab CI, enabling continuous testing and increasing release frequency by 20% while maintaining high quality standards.
• Mentored and onboarded 3 junior engineers on Playwright best practices, improving team's overall automation efficiency by 15%.

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)|Visionary Solutions Corp.

San Francisco, CAJun 2017Jul 2021

• Developed and maintained over 500 end-to-end automated tests using Playwright and Cypress for a critical SaaS platform, achieving 90%+ code coverage for key user flows.
• Reduced post-release critical bugs by 35% through proactive test suite expansion and early defect detection in CI/CD environments.
• Automated cross-browser compatibility testing, ensuring consistent user experience across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge for 1M+ monthly active users.
• Collaborated with development teams to incorporate testability requirements early in the SDLC, improving overall product quality and reducing technical debt by 10%.

Projects

E-commerce End-to-End Test Suite

Jan 2023Apr 2023

• Developed a comprehensive Playwright test suite for a mock e-commerce site, covering user registration, product search, cart management, and checkout.
• Implemented data-driven testing using CSV files to efficiently test multiple user scenarios and product configurations.
• Integrated tests with GitHub Actions for continuous integration, demonstrating immediate feedback on code changes.

API Health Checker with Playwright

Sep 2022Nov 2022

• Created a Playwright-based tool to monitor the health and responsiveness of several public APIs by simulating user interactions and validating responses.
• Used Playwright's network interception capabilities to ensure API calls returned expected statuses and data structures.
• Configured automated reporting to send daily status updates on API availability and performance.

Browser Compatibility Automation Toolkit

Mar 2024Present

• Designed an open-source Playwright toolkit to simplify cross-browser compatibility testing across different rendering engines (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit).
• Developed custom reporters to highlight browser-specific rendering differences and functional regressions.
• Currently adding advanced visual regression testing features to detect subtle UI discrepancies automatically.

Education

University of California, Berkeley|Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Berkeley, CASep 2013May 2017

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.8/4.0, demonstrating strong academic performance.
• Developed a full-stack web-based project management tool as a capstone project, earning top departmental honors.

Skills

Test Automation

PlaywrightCypressSelenium WebDriverJestMochaChaiBrowserStack

Programming Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaHTMLCSS

CI/CD & Cloud

GitLab CIJenkinsDockerKubernetesAWSAzure DevOps

Tools & Methodologies

GitJiraConfluenceAgileScrumPerformance TestingAPI Testing (Postman)