Alicia L. Umstead
Test Automation Engineer, Online retail
Portland, OR · (520) 555 0156 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/alicialumstead
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Eight years in software testing, six of them writing automation
INDUSTRIES
Online retail, insurance technology, consumer software
SPECIALTIES
Browser automation, test architecture, flaky test reduction, release gating
SYSTEMS
Playwright, Selenium, TypeScript, Python, GitHub Actions, Jira, BrowserStack
CREDENTIALS
Certified Tester Foundation Level, American Software Testing Qualifications Board
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in computer science, Oregon State University
Executive Summary
Test automation engineer with eight years building suites that developers actually trust. Works in TypeScript and Python with Playwright, and spends as much effort removing flaky tests as writing new ones. Owns the checkout and payment coverage for an online retail platform serving four million shoppers.
Signature Achievements
- Cut the browser suite runtime from fifty two minutes to nine by parallelizing and removing duplicate coverage.
- Reduced flaky failures from eighteen percent of runs to under two percent across a year of steady work.
- Automated three hundred forty checkout and payment cases that had been run by hand every release.
- Caught a pricing defect in the pipeline that would have mispriced roughly nine thousand orders.
- Moved the team from monthly releases to twice weekly by making the suite a trusted release gate.
- Taught six developers to write their own Playwright tests, spreading ownership beyond the test team.
Professional Experience
Test Automation Engineer
Willamette Commerce Software, Portland, OR 2021 to present
Owns automated coverage for checkout, payment, and account areas of a retail platform used by four million shoppers.
- Design and maintain the Playwright suite in TypeScript, including page objects and shared fixtures.
- Run the suite as a release gate in GitHub Actions and triage every failure before the team sees noise.
- Investigate flaky tests to the root cause rather than adding a retry and moving on.
- Review developer written tests and coach on what belongs in a unit test against a browser test.
- Report coverage and defect escape numbers to the engineering manager each sprint.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Rose City Insurance Technology, Beaverton, OR 2018 to 2021
Manual and early automated testing for a policy quoting product used by nine hundred agents.
- Wrote and ran test plans for quoting and policy issue releases every three weeks.
- Built the first Selenium suite for the quoting flow, covering the forty most used paths.
- Logged defects in Jira with steps and evidence clear enough that developers rarely asked twice.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Tester Foundation Level, American Software Testing Qualifications Board
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2018
Core Skills
Playwright · Selenium · TypeScript · Python · GitHub Actions · Jira · BrowserStack · Test architecture · Git · Defect analysis