Professional Experience

Thrivent Financial

Feb 2023 - Present

Spearheaded the development of a complex financial application using React.js, HTML + CSS, enhancing user experience and interface functionality; Led Plaid API Integration
Integrated existing applications with GraphQL and AWS to facilitate data retrieval, submission, and storage for users
Implemented parallelization techniques to optimize test run time and created a CI/CD pipeline with Github Actions to run the full end-to-end test suite on a nightly basis
Revamped smoke and E2E regression test suites, reducing E2E run time by 50% and achieving 90% code-coverage using Jest

April 2022 - Jan 2023

Expanded frontend + backend automation infrastructure utilizing Cypress( Javascript & Typescript), Pytest, Kotlin
Implemented various automated API + E2E feature tests, refined FE/BE repo to optimize efficiency, reduced manual regression testing by 60%, improved accuracy of our CI/CD pipelines, created test plans for new platform features
Utilize Postman to test webhooks, APIs & integrations; expanded testrail suite for payment/signup/login flows

Feb 2021 - April 2022

Designed Selenium and Cypress JS tests for the core web application, integrating them into Gitlab and Jenkins (CI/CD pipeline), reducing manual testing by over 10 hours per iteration
Conducted comprehensive REST API testing at various endpoints using Postman, Insomnia, and Robot Framework
Identified and resolved bugs and defects in the backend intent API services, further enhancing the intent recognition and natural language interpretation systems of AI-powered virtual assistants within client infrastructure