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Senior/Lead QA engineer who turns AI-driven automation into faster releases, lower risk, and clearer go/no-go decisions.
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I build AI-powered quality systems that replace manual bottlenecks with scalable automation, stronger release gates, and decision-ready reporting.
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<time class="timeline-date" datetime="2026-06">Jun 2026 – Present</time>
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<p>Test the <strong>Daxko Payment Cloud (DPC)</strong>, the orchestration layer connecting Daxko's platforms to 8+ payment processors with a single integrated payments experience.</p>
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<h3>Founder & QA Tech Lead</h3>
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<time class="timeline-date" datetime="2025-06">Jun 2025 – May 2026</time>
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<p>Built an <strong>agentic AI QA platform</strong> that turns requirements into executable tests, defects, and release signals with minimal manual handoff.</p>
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<li>Converted JSON and JIRA requirements into AI-generated Playwright coverage and auto-filed defects through a TypeScript CLI.</li>
<li>Used Claude for requirement reasoning and failure analysis, and OpenAI Codex for test generation and refactoring.</li>
<li>Designed a swappable agents/workflows/skills architecture so models and execution targets changed without platform rewrites.</li>
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<p>Scaled performance, security, and regression automation for secure remote-access products where reliability and compliance were non-negotiable.</p>
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<li>Used Playwright MCP, Claude, and Copilot to cut test development time <strong>60%</strong> while expanding regression depth.</li>
<li>Added AI-assisted code review and codebase analysis, reducing regression defect escapes <strong>35%</strong> before merge.</li>
<li>Integrated OWASP ZAP and deterministic PostgreSQL test data into CI/CD for compliance-grade security validation.</li>
<li>Used multi-context Playwright testing to simulate concurrent users in the same flow, validating real-time access control and session isolation.</li>
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<span class="tag tag-success">60% Test Dev Reduction</span>
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<p>Owned fraud, payments, and PCI QA for AT&T DirecTV billing flows where release mistakes carried direct financial and compliance risk.</p>
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<li>Ran AI-backed code reviews on payment flows to catch security gaps, PCI issues, and fraud risks before release.</li>
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<p>Led QA strategy for DirecTV streaming launches that needed faster release cycles without production fallout.</p>
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<p>Automated validation for financial Excel plugins, protecting formula accuracy, data integrity, and repeatable releases.</p>
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<p class="project-subtitle">Enterprise mobile testing framework for functional, API, visual, security, and accessibility validation in CI/CD</p>
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<p>Integrates Appium, WebdriverIO, Postman, Percy, MobSF, Axe, and BrowserStack to mirror comprehensive quality engineering practices. Enables teams to automate and validate every layer of mobile app quality in a single pipeline.</p>
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<p>Demonstrates the full framework architecture used in production QA roles — Page Object Model, reusable test fixtures, storageState-based auth (login once, reuse across tests), and multi-context parallel execution across smoke, regression, accessibility, visual, and API suites.</p>
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<h4>Qatra QA Platform</h4>
<p>Unified manual, automation, and reporting for QA teams. Ingests results from 30+ frameworks, supports BDD, mobile, API, visual, accessibility, performance, and security testing. Agent-ready, keyboard-native, and integrates with Jira, GitHub, Slack, and more.</p>