Automation Tester Resume Examples

Automation Tester Resume Example

Meet Sanjay, a fictional senior automation tester with 6 years in insurance and financial services who owns a 2,400-test regression suite running in 35 minutes on every pull request, with a 2% flaky test rate.

Sanjay Iyengar

(732) 555-0116 ◇ Edison, NJ

sanjay.iyengar@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/sanjay-iyengar ◇ sanjayiyengar.com

Objective

Automation tester with 6 years building and maintaining UI and API test suites for web applications in insurance and financial services, currently owning a 2,400-test regression suite that runs in 35 minutes on every pull request. Cut manual regression effort 80% by automating 1,900 test cases, holds a 2% flaky test rate on the suite, and catches an average of 14 defects a month before release. Writes tests as production code, with the same reviews, standards, and refactoring, because a test nobody trusts is worse than no test.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Raritan Crown University 2015 – 2019

Coursework in Software Engineering, Data Structures, Web Development, Databases, and Software Testing.

ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer, International Software Testing Qualifications Board 2022

Also holds the ISTQB Foundation Level certification earned in 2020 and completed a Playwright advanced course in 2024.

Skills

Test Automation

UI automation with the page object model, API test automation, data-driven and keyword-driven frameworks, test design from requirements and user stories, regression suite maintenance, flaky test reduction

Programming

Java and TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL for test data and validation, Bash scripting, object-oriented design for frameworks, code review of test code

Process and Quality

Agile and Scrum testing, continuous integration pipeline integration, defect triage and reporting, test coverage analysis, risk-based test prioritisation, exploratory testing

Tools & Platforms

Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestNG and JUnit, REST Assured, Postman, Jenkins and GitHub Actions, Jira and Xray, Git, Docker, Allure reports

Experience

Senior Automation Tester 03/2022 – Present

Raritan Crown Insurance Edison, NJ

Own a 2,400-test UI and API regression suite for a policy administration platform used by 3,000 agents, running in 35 minutes on every pull request.
Automated 1,900 manual test cases over 3 years, cutting manual regression effort 80% and release testing time from 9 days to 2.
Hold a 2% flaky test rate on the suite through retry analysis and locator standards, down from 15% at takeover, and catch an average of 14 defects a month before release.

Automation Tester 07/2019 – 02/2022

Garden State Line Financial Iselin, NJ

Built a Selenium and TestNG framework from scratch for a customer portal and grew it to 800 tests across 2.5 years.
Integrated the suite into Jenkins with parallel execution on 6 nodes, cutting run time from 4 hours to 40 minutes.
Logged about 350 defects a year with a 92% valid rate and wrote reproduction steps that cut developer triage time about 30%.

QA Intern 05/2018 – 08/2018

Garden State Line Financial Iselin, NJ

Executed about 600 manual test cases across 3 releases during a 12-week internship and logged 45 defects.
Automated 60 smoke tests in Selenium that became the first automated suite at the company.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the smoke test suite.

Projects

Regression Suite Migration to Playwright. Migrated 1,400 Selenium UI tests to Playwright over 7 months while keeping the old suite running, rebuilding page objects for 60 screens and adding trace capture on failure, which cut run time from 70 minutes to 35 and cut flaky tests from 15% to 2%.

Pull Request Gate. Wired the regression suite into GitHub Actions as a required check on every pull request across 12 repositories, with a tiered run of 300 smoke tests in 8 minutes followed by the full suite, which caught 160 defects before merge in the first year and cut escaped defects to production 55%.

Test Data Service. Built a small API that creates policies, customers, and claims in known states for tests, replacing 200 hand-maintained data files, which cut test setup failures 90% and let 20 tests run in parallel against a shared environment without collisions.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a test automation meetup group of about 200, presenting about once a year.
Contribute to an open-source Playwright reporting plugin with about 30 merged pull requests since 2023.
Volunteer coding instructor for a weekend programme teaching about 20 middle school students a term.

Leadership

Lead automation for a QA team of 6, owning the framework, standards, and code review of all test code.
Trained 8 manual testers and 4 developers on writing Playwright tests across 2 employers.
Present suite health, coverage, and escaped defect metrics to the engineering manager every sprint.

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API Automation Tester Resume Example

Meet Farida, a fictional API automation tester with 5 years on REST and GraphQL services who owns a 3,100-test suite covering 180 endpoints across 22 microservices for a payments platform, with 0 payment-affecting escaped defects.

Farida Yusupova

(773) 555-0171 ◇ Chicago, IL

farida.yusupova@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/farida-yusupova ◇ faridayusupova.com

Objective

API automation tester with 5 years testing REST and GraphQL services for a payments platform processing 40 million transactions a month, currently owning a 3,100-test API suite covering 180 endpoints across 22 microservices. Runs the suite in 12 minutes on every build, holds 94% endpoint coverage with contract tests on every service boundary, and caught 210 defects in the last year with 0 payment-affecting defects escaping to production. Tests the contract, the data, and the failure paths, because the happy path is the one developers already tried.

Education

B.S. in Information Technology, Lakeshore Crown University 2016 – 2020

Coursework in Web Services, Databases, Software Quality Assurance, Networking, and Programming in Java and Python.

Postman Certified API Testing Specialist and ISTQB Foundation Level, Postman and International Software Testing Qualifications Board 2021 – 2023

Also completed a contract testing course with Pact in 2023 and a performance testing course with k6 in 2024.

Skills

API Testing

REST and GraphQL test automation, contract testing, schema validation, authentication and authorisation testing, negative and boundary testing, idempotency and concurrency testing, message queue and event testing

Programming and Data

Python and Java, SQL for data validation, JSON and OpenAPI specifications, test data generation, mocking and service virtualisation, Bash scripting

Process and Quality

Shift-left testing with developers, continuous integration gating, coverage analysis by endpoint, defect triage, basic performance testing, test documentation

Tools & Platforms

Postman and Newman, REST Assured, pytest with requests, Pact, WireMock, k6, GitLab CI, Jira, Git, Docker, Kafka

Experience

Senior API Automation Tester 01/2023 – Present

Lakeshore Crown Payments Chicago, IL

Own a 3,100-test API suite covering 180 endpoints across 22 microservices for a payments platform processing 40 million transactions a month.
Hold 94% endpoint coverage with contract tests on every service boundary and run the suite in 12 minutes on every build across 20 daily deployments.
Caught 210 defects in the last year, including 30 authorisation and data integrity issues, with 0 payment-affecting defects escaping to production.

API Test Engineer 06/2020 – 12/2022

Wabash Line Software Chicago, IL

Built a pytest and requests framework for a logistics API of 90 endpoints and grew it to 1,400 tests across 2.5 years.
Replaced 400 manual Postman checks with automated runs in GitLab CI, cutting API regression time from 3 days to 20 minutes.
Introduced schema validation against OpenAPI specifications that caught 45 breaking changes before release in the first year.

QA Intern 05/2019 – 08/2019

Wabash Line Software Chicago, IL

Wrote 250 Postman tests for 30 endpoints during a 12-week internship and documented the API test approach.
Found 22 defects including 4 authentication issues that were fixed before the next release.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the Postman suite.

Projects

Contract Testing Rollout. Introduced consumer-driven contract testing with Pact across 22 microservices over 9 months, pairing with 8 development teams to write 140 contracts and wiring verification into the pipeline, which caught 60 breaking changes before deployment and cut integration environment failures 65%.

Payment Failure Path Suite. Built a 600-test suite covering declined cards, timeouts, duplicate submissions, partial refunds, and currency edge cases using WireMock to simulate 6 processor responses, which found 18 defects in retry and idempotency handling and has kept payment-affecting escaped defects at 0 for 2 years.

Event Testing Framework. Extended the API suite to consume Kafka events and assert on downstream state for 14 event types, with 300 tests and a helper library adopted by 3 teams, which cut event-related production incidents from about 2 a month to 0.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Organiser of a monthly API testing meetup of about 80 members, hosting 10 sessions a year.
Maintain a public collection of 40 API testing patterns with about 500 stars on GitHub.
Volunteer translator for a refugee support nonprofit, about 4 hours a week.

Leadership

Lead API testing across 8 development teams and own the contract testing standard for 22 services.
Trained 14 developers and 5 testers on contract and API test authoring across 2 employers.
Present API coverage and escaped defect metrics to the head of engineering monthly.

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Automation Test Engineer Resume Example

Meet Dara, a fictional automation test engineer with 7 years building test frameworks who owns a shared framework used by 9 product teams and 5,600 tests across web, iOS, and Android, with the full suite running in 25 minutes.

Dara Fennimore

(512) 555-0183 ◇ Austin, TX

dara.fennimore@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/dara-fennimore ◇ darafennimore.com

Objective

Automation test engineer with 7 years building test frameworks and infrastructure for web and mobile products, currently the framework owner for a software company with 9 product teams and 5,600 automated tests across web, iOS, and Android. Built a shared framework adopted by all 9 teams that cut the time to write a new test 50%, cut the full suite run from 3 hours to 25 minutes through parallelisation and test selection, and brought the flaky test rate from 12% to 1.5%. Builds the tooling that lets testers and developers write good tests quickly, then measures whether they do.

Education

B.S. in Software Engineering, Colorado River Crown University 2014 – 2018

Coursework in Software Architecture, Testing and Verification, Mobile Development, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems.

ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer and AWS Certified Developer Associate, International Software Testing Qualifications Board and Amazon Web Services 2021 – 2023

Also completed a Kubernetes fundamentals course in 2022 and a mobile test automation course with Appium in 2020.

Skills

Framework Engineering

Test framework design and architecture, page and screen object libraries, test selection and impact analysis, parallel and distributed execution, test reporting and dashboards, flaky test detection and quarantine

Programming

TypeScript and Python, Kotlin and Swift basics for mobile hooks, SQL, Bash, infrastructure as code, library and package design, code review and static analysis of test code

Platforms and Infrastructure

Web, iOS, and Android automation, device farms and emulators, containerised test execution, continuous integration pipeline design, test environment provisioning, observability of test runs

Tools & Platforms

Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, Detox, Jest and pytest, GitHub Actions, Docker and Kubernetes, BrowserStack, Grafana, Terraform, Jira

Experience

Senior Automation Test Engineer 05/2021 – Present

Colorado River Crown Software Austin, TX

Own the shared test framework used by 9 product teams and 5,600 automated tests across web, iOS, and Android for a software company with 400 engineers.
Cut the full suite run from 3 hours to 25 minutes through parallel execution on 40 containers and change-based test selection, and cut the flaky rate from 12% to 1.5%.
Built a framework and template set that cut the time to write a new test 50% and raised automated coverage of user stories from 55% to 88% in 2 years.

Automation Test Engineer 07/2018 – 04/2021

Hill Country Line Apps Austin, TX

Built the mobile automation framework with Appium for iOS and Android apps with 2 million users and grew it to 1,100 tests across 3 years.
Set up a device farm pipeline running on 30 real devices per build, catching 70 device-specific defects in the first year.
Cut mobile release testing from 6 days to 1 by automating 900 manual test cases with a team of 3.

Software Engineering Intern 05/2017 – 08/2017

Hill Country Line Apps Austin, TX

Built a test result dashboard during a 12-week internship that tracked 40 pipelines and cut time to find failures about 60%.
Wrote 80 end-to-end web tests for a checkout flow with a 95% pass rate at handover.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the dashboard.

Projects

Unified Test Framework. Designed a TypeScript framework with shared page and screen objects, fixtures, and a plugin model for web, iOS, and Android, migrated 9 teams and 4,000 tests onto it over 14 months, which cut the time to write a new test 50% and let 120 developers write tests without a QA handoff.

Change-Based Test Selection. Built a service mapping tests to source files through coverage data and running only affected tests on pull requests, with the full suite nightly, which cut average pull request test time from 3 hours to 11 minutes while keeping escaped defect rates flat across 18 months.

Flaky Test Quarantine. Built a detector that reruns failures, scores tests on 30-day pass history, and auto-quarantines tests below 95% with a Jira ticket to the owning team, which cut the flaky rate from 12% to 1.5% and cut developer time lost to false failures by about 200 hours a month.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Speaker at 3 regional testing conferences on framework design and flaky test reduction.
Maintain an open-source Playwright fixtures library with about 1,200 stars on GitHub.
Volunteer mentor for a coding bootcamp, coaching about 6 career changers a year into QA roles.

Leadership

Lead a test infrastructure team of 4 engineers and chair a monthly automation guild of 30 testers and developers.
Trained 120 developers on the framework through 20 workshops and a 40-page guide.
Present suite performance, coverage, and flaky metrics to the vice president of engineering quarterly.

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Automation Test Lead Resume Example

Meet Lakshmi, a fictional automation test lead with 9 years in software quality who leads 8 automation engineers across 4 product squads and raised automated regression coverage from 40% to 90% in 3 years.

Lakshmi Desai

(408) 555-0145 ◇ San Jose, CA

lakshmi.desai@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/lakshmi-desai ◇ lakshmidesai.com

Objective

Automation test lead with 9 years in software quality, leading a team of 8 automation engineers across 4 product squads for an enterprise software company with 12 releases a year. Raised automated regression coverage from 40% to 90% in 3 years, cut release certification time from 3 weeks to 4 days, and cut escaped defects to production 60% while the team shipped 3 times as often. Leads by setting the standards, reviewing the code, and taking the hardest test problems personally, so the team learns from the work rather than the slide deck.

Education

B.E. in Computer Engineering, Santa Clara Crown University 2012 – 2016

Coursework in Software Engineering, Algorithms, Databases, Computer Networks, and Software Quality.

ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager and Certified ScrumMaster, International Software Testing Qualifications Board and Scrum Alliance 2019 – 2021

Also holds the ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer certification earned in 2018 and completed a technical leadership programme in 2023.

Skills

Automation Leadership

Automation strategy and roadmap, framework standards and code review, coverage and quality metrics, test pyramid design, release certification process, flaky test governance, tool evaluation

Technical Skills

Java and TypeScript, UI and API automation, contract and integration testing, performance test basics, continuous integration pipeline design, SQL, cloud test environments

Team and Process

Team leadership and hiring, mentoring and career development, sprint planning for embedded testers, cross-team coordination, defect triage leadership, stakeholder reporting

Tools & Platforms

Selenium and Playwright, REST Assured, Cypress, JMeter, Jenkins and GitHub Actions, TestRail, Jira, SonarQube, Docker, AWS, Grafana

Experience

Automation Test Lead 02/2022 – Present

Santa Clara Crown Enterprise Software San Jose, CA

Lead a team of 8 automation engineers embedded in 4 product squads for an enterprise platform with 900 customers and 12 releases a year.
Raised automated regression coverage from 40% to 90% in 3 years across 7,000 tests and cut release certification time from 3 weeks to 4 days.
Cut escaped defects to production 60% while release frequency tripled, and hold a 1% flaky test rate through a quarantine and ownership policy.

Senior Automation Engineer 06/2018 – 01/2022

Silicon Valley Line Analytics Sunnyvale, CA

Built the API and UI automation framework for an analytics platform and grew it to 2,800 tests across 3.5 years with a team of 3.
Cut regression run time from 5 hours to 30 minutes through parallel execution and test tiering across 3 pipelines.
Mentored 4 manual testers into automation roles, each writing 200 tests within 6 months.

QA Engineer 07/2016 – 05/2018

Silicon Valley Line Analytics Sunnyvale, CA

Tested 2 product areas across 8 releases, logging about 300 defects a year with a 94% valid rate.
Automated 350 smoke and regression tests in Selenium in the first 22 months, the first automation at the company.
Promoted to senior automation engineer after 22 months based on the automation work.

Projects

Coverage Programme. Ran a 3-year programme mapping 1,800 user stories to automated tests, prioritising by customer usage data and defect history, and assigning coverage targets to each squad, which raised automated regression coverage from 40% to 90% and cut manual regression from 900 person-hours a release to 120.

Release Certification Redesign. Replaced a 3-week manual certification with a 4-day process built on tiered automated suites, an automated release readiness report, and a 2-hour exploratory session per squad, which supported the move from 4 releases a year to 12 with escaped defects down 60%.

Flaky Test Governance. Introduced a policy where any test below 97% pass rate over 14 days is quarantined, assigned to the owning squad, and fixed or deleted within 1 sprint, with a dashboard tracking 7,000 tests, which cut the flaky rate from 9% to 1% and restored developer trust in the pull request gate.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Speaker at 4 testing conferences on automation strategy and coverage measurement.
Volunteer mentor with a women in technology group, coaching about 5 early-career testers a year.
Practise classical dance and perform in 2 community productions a year.

Leadership

Lead a team of 8 automation engineers with hiring, performance reviews, and career development, with 3 promotions in 3 years.
Own the automation strategy and standards for 4 product squads and review all framework changes.
Present coverage, escaped defect, and certification metrics to the vice president of engineering monthly.

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Automation Test Manager Resume Example

Meet Wallace, a fictional automation test manager with 12 years in software quality who manages 26 engineers across 3 teams and cut the testing cost of a release from about $180K to $30K while moving to daily releases.

Wallace Kimura

(206) 555-0159 ◇ Seattle, WA

wallace.kimura@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/wallace-kimura ◇ wallacekimura.com

Objective

Automation test manager with 12 years in software quality, managing a test automation organisation of 26 engineers across 3 teams for a cloud software company with 2,000 engineers and daily releases. Built the automation function from 6 people to 26, took automated coverage of critical paths from 50% to 96%, and cut the cost of a release from about $180K in testing effort to $30K while release frequency went from monthly to daily. Manages automation as an engineering product with a roadmap, a budget, and customers, not as a service desk for testers.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Puget Crown University 2009 – 2013

Coursework in Software Engineering, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Databases, and Compilers.

M.S. in Software Engineering, Cascade Line University 2016 – 2018

Part-time programme focused on Software Quality, Engineering Management, and Distributed Systems, completed while working full time.

Skills

Automation Management

Automation strategy and multi-year roadmap, organisation design, budget and tooling investment, quality metrics and dashboards, release quality governance, vendor and tool selection, test infrastructure ownership

Technical Depth

Framework architecture review, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, test selection and parallelisation, contract and integration testing, performance and reliability testing, cloud test environments

People and Process

Hiring and team building, manager coaching, career frameworks, cross-organisation influence, executive reporting, agile at scale, incident and escaped defect review

Tools & Platforms

Playwright, Selenium, Appium, k6, Pact, GitHub Actions and Buildkite, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, Jira, Workday, Excel and Looker

Experience

Automation Test Manager 01/2020 – Present

Puget Crown Cloud Software Seattle, WA

Manage a test automation organisation of 26 engineers across 3 teams with a $5.2M budget for a cloud software company with 2,000 engineers and daily releases.
Grew the function from 6 people to 26 in 4 years and took automated coverage of critical paths from 50% to 96% across 18,000 tests.
Cut the testing cost of a release from about $180K to $30K while release frequency went from monthly to daily and escaped critical defects fell 70%.

Automation Test Lead 04/2016 – 12/2019

Rainier Line Technologies Bellevue, WA

Led a team of 7 automation engineers supporting 5 product teams and 4,500 tests across web and API.
Cut regression certification from 10 days to 2 by rebuilding the framework and pipeline, supporting a move to weekly releases.
Hired 5 engineers and promoted 3, with 0 regretted attrition across 3.5 years.

Software Engineer in Test 07/2013 – 03/2016

Rainier Line Technologies Bellevue, WA

Built the API automation framework and 1,200 tests for a platform of 30 services in 2.5 years.
Cut API regression time from 2 days of manual work to 15 minutes automated on every build.
Promoted to automation test lead after 33 months based on the framework work.

Projects

Automation Organisation Build. Grew the automation function from 6 engineers to 26 across 3 teams over 4 years with a hiring plan, a 5-level career framework, and 2 first-time managers coached into role, which delivered 96% critical path coverage and kept attrition under 8% a year.

Daily Release Enablement. Led the quality side of the move from monthly to daily releases, replacing a 2-week certification with tiered automated gates, change-based test selection, and a production canary check, which cut testing cost per release from about $180K to $30K and cut escaped critical defects 70%.

Test Infrastructure Platform. Sponsored and scoped a Kubernetes-based test execution platform running 18,000 tests across 200 containers with a shared results service, funded with a $1.4M business case, which cut full suite time from 4 hours to 20 minutes and saved about $600K a year in vendor device farm and environment costs.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Advisory board member for a university software engineering programme, meeting 4 times a year.
Speaker at 5 industry conferences on automation strategy and quality organisation design.
Coach a youth soccer team of 14 players through a 20-game season each year.

Leadership

Manage 26 engineers through 3 team leads, owning a $5.2M budget and the automation roadmap.
Coached 2 first-time managers into role and promoted 9 engineers across 4 years.
Present release quality, coverage, and cost metrics to the chief technology officer monthly and to the board twice a year.

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Software QA Manager Resume Example

Meet Ifeoma, a fictional software QA manager with 11 years in quality assurance who manages a 19-person department for a healthcare software company and cut escaped defects to customers 65% in 3 years with 0 audit findings.

Ifeoma Balogun

(404) 555-0188 ◇ Atlanta, GA

ifeoma.balogun@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/ifeoma-balogun ◇ ifeomabalogun.com

Objective

Software QA manager with 11 years in quality assurance, managing a QA department of 19 testers and automation engineers for a healthcare software company with 6 products and 250 hospital customers. Cut escaped defects to customers 65% in 3 years, cut the defect backlog from 1,400 to 180, and moved the department from 30% automated coverage to 85% while keeping regulatory test documentation audit-ready with 0 findings across 4 audits. Runs quality as a shared responsibility with engineering and product, with QA owning the evidence that the software works.

Education

B.S. in Information Systems, Peachtree Crown University 2010 – 2014

Coursework in Systems Analysis, Database Design, Software Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Healthcare Informatics.

ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager and Certified Software Quality Engineer, International Software Testing Qualifications Board and American Society for Quality 2017 – 2019

Also completed a healthcare software regulatory compliance course in 2021 and a people management programme in 2022.

Skills

QA Management

QA strategy and department leadership, test planning across multiple products, release readiness and go or no-go decisions, defect management and backlog governance, quality metrics, risk-based testing

Compliance and Documentation

Regulated software testing including HIPAA and FDA design control alignment, traceability matrices, validation documentation, audit preparation, change control, supplier and integration testing

Automation and Process

Automation roadmap and coverage targets, framework oversight, continuous integration integration, agile and Scrum at scale, hiring and mentoring, cross-functional quality programmes

Tools & Platforms

Jira and Xray, TestRail, Playwright, Selenium, Postman, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, SQL Server, Confluence, Power BI, Microsoft Teams

Experience

Software QA Manager 06/2021 – Present

Peachtree Crown Health Software Atlanta, GA

Manage a QA department of 19 testers and automation engineers across 6 products serving 250 hospital customers, with 3 team leads and a $2.6M budget.
Cut escaped defects to customers 65% in 3 years and cut the open defect backlog from 1,400 to 180 through a weekly triage and ageing policy.
Moved automated coverage from 30% to 85% across 9,000 tests and passed 4 customer and regulatory audits with 0 findings on test documentation.

QA Team Lead 03/2017 – 05/2021

Chattahoochee Line Medical Systems Alpharetta, GA

Led a QA team of 7 for a patient scheduling product with 120 customers across 16 releases a year.
Built the traceability matrix process linking 2,200 requirements to tests that passed 3 audits with 0 findings.
Cut release testing time from 12 days to 5 by introducing automation on 1,500 regression cases with a team of 2 automation engineers.

QA Analyst 07/2014 – 02/2017

Chattahoochee Line Medical Systems Alpharetta, GA

Tested 3 modules across 30 releases, executing about 4,000 test cases a year and logging 280 defects a year with a 95% valid rate.
Wrote 900 test cases for a billing integration with 0 escaped defects in the first year of use.
Promoted to QA team lead after 32 months based on the billing integration testing.

Projects

Defect Backlog Reduction. Ran a 9-month programme with a weekly cross-functional triage, an ageing policy closing or scheduling every defect older than 90 days, and a root cause review of the top 20 defect sources, which cut the open backlog from 1,400 to 180 and cut the average defect age from 210 days to 25.

Automation Programme. Set a 3-year automation roadmap with coverage targets per product, hired 5 automation engineers, and converted 4 manual testers through a 6-month training plan, which moved coverage from 30% to 85% across 9,000 tests and cut manual regression effort per release 70%.

Audit-Ready Test Documentation. Built a documentation system in Jira and Xray with automated traceability reports linking 5,000 requirements to tests and results, replacing 40 spreadsheets, which passed 4 audits with 0 findings and cut audit preparation from 3 weeks to 2 days.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a software quality association chapter, presenting about once a year on regulated testing.
Volunteer mentor with a technology careers nonprofit, coaching about 6 early-career testers a year.
Sing in a community gospel choir, performing at about 12 events a year.

Leadership

Manage 19 QA staff through 3 team leads, owning hiring, reviews, and a $2.6M budget, with 6 promotions in 3 years.
Hold the go or no-go decision on about 70 releases a year across 6 products.
Present quality metrics and audit status to the chief technology officer monthly and to the executive team quarterly.

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Software Tester Resume Example

Meet Pavel, a fictional software tester with 4 years of manual and exploratory testing on retail and e-commerce applications who finds an average of 22 defects per release and has written 300 Cypress tests in the last year.

Pavel Horak

(614) 555-0110 ◇ Columbus, OH

pavel.horak@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/pavel-horak ◇ pavelhorak.com

Objective

Software tester with 4 years of manual and exploratory testing on web and mobile applications for retail and e-commerce clients, currently testing a storefront platform used by 60 retailers with 14 releases a year. Executes about 5,000 test cases a year with a 96% defect valid rate, finds an average of 22 defects per release through exploratory sessions on top of scripted coverage, and has started automating high-value checks with 300 Cypress tests written in the last year. Tests like a customer with a deadline and documents like an engineer, so every defect is reproducible on the first try.

Education

B.S. in Information Technology, Scioto Crown University 2017 – 2021

Coursework in Software Testing, Web Development, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, and Systems Analysis.

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level and Agile Tester Extension, International Software Testing Qualifications Board 2022 – 2023

Also completed a Cypress fundamentals course in 2024 and an accessibility testing course in 2023.

Skills

Testing

Manual and exploratory testing, test case design from user stories, regression and smoke testing, cross-browser and mobile device testing, accessibility testing, usability feedback, acceptance testing with clients

Defects and Documentation

Defect reporting with reproduction steps and evidence, severity and priority assessment, triage participation, test plans and summary reports, traceability to requirements, release notes review

Technical Skills

SQL for data checks, browser developer tools and network inspection, API testing with Postman, basic JavaScript, Cypress test authoring, Git basics, continuous integration results review

Tools & Platforms

Jira and Zephyr, TestRail, Cypress, Postman, BrowserStack, Chrome DevTools, axe accessibility tools, Confluence, Slack, Figma

Experience

Software Tester 04/2023 – Present

Scioto Crown Commerce Columbus, OH

Test a storefront platform used by 60 retailers across 14 releases a year, executing about 5,000 test cases a year as part of a QA team of 5.
Find an average of 22 defects per release through exploratory sessions on checkout, promotions, and inventory flows, with a 96% defect valid rate.
Wrote 300 Cypress tests covering checkout and account flows in the last year, cutting the manual smoke test from 3 hours to 20 minutes.

QA Tester 07/2021 – 03/2023

Olentangy Line Digital Agency Columbus, OH

Tested 25 client websites and 4 mobile apps over 20 months, executing about 3,500 test cases a year across 40 browser and device combinations.
Logged about 420 defects a year with a 94% valid rate and cut duplicate reports 50% by introducing a defect template.
Ran accessibility checks on 25 sites, finding 180 issues and helping 12 sites reach WCAG 2.1 AA conformance.

QA Intern 01/2021 – 05/2021

Olentangy Line Digital Agency Columbus, OH

Executed about 900 test cases across 6 client sites during a 5-month internship and logged 70 defects.
Built a cross-browser test checklist of 45 items that was adopted as the agency standard.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 5-month internship based on the checklist.

Projects

Checkout Exploratory Testing Charter. Designed a set of 30 exploratory charters covering payment methods, coupon stacking, tax edge cases, and inventory conflicts, run in 90-minute sessions before each release, which found 60 defects in the first 6 months including 4 that would have blocked orders for retailers.

Cypress Smoke Suite. Wrote 300 Cypress tests for checkout, account, and search flows over 12 months while continuing manual testing, integrated into the pipeline on every deployment to staging, which cut the manual smoke test from 3 hours to 20 minutes and caught 35 regressions before release.

Defect Report Template. Built a defect template with required fields for environment, steps, expected and actual results, and evidence, plus a 1-page guide for 5 testers at a previous employer, which cut duplicate reports 50% and cut the developer reopen rate from 18% to 6%.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a software testing meetup group of about 120, attending 8 sessions a year.
Volunteer tester for 2 open-source projects, filing about 40 issues a year.
Play chess in a city league, about 25 rated games and 2 weekend tournaments a year.

Leadership

Lead exploratory testing sessions for a QA team of 5 before each of 14 releases a year.
Trained 3 junior testers and 2 interns on defect reporting and exploratory charters.
Represent QA in the weekly triage meeting with 4 developers and the product manager.

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