QA Engineer Resume Example

# Alex Kumar
**QA Engineer** | Remote | alex.kumar@email.com | (555) 789-0123

[linkedin.com/in/alexkumar](https://linkedin.com/in/alexkumar) | [github.com/alexkumar](https://github.com/alexkumar)

## Summary

QA engineer with 4 years of experience in test automation and quality assurance for web and mobile applications. Expert in Cypress, Playwright, and API testing. Passionate about shift-left testing, CI/CD integration, and building quality into the development process.

## Experience

### Senior QA Engineer
**Vercel** | Remote | Mar 2023 - Present

- Built end-to-end test automation framework (Playwright + Cypress) covering 85% of critical user journeys
- Integrated test suite into CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions), blocking deployments on test failures
- Reduced production bugs by 65% through shift-left testing strategy and developer-facing test tooling
- Created API test suite (150+ tests) for REST and GraphQL endpoints using Postman and custom Python scripts
- Established quality metrics dashboard tracking bug escape rate, test coverage, and time-to-fix

### QA Engineer
**Twitch** | San Francisco, CA | Jun 2021 - Feb 2023

- Automated 200+ regression test cases using Cypress, reducing manual testing effort by 70%
- Performed load testing using k6 and Locust, identifying 8 performance bottlenecks before launch
- Conducted accessibility testing across 15 features, filing and tracking 40+ WCAG violations
- Collaborated with 4 development teams during sprint planning to define testability requirements

### Junior QA Analyst
**Intuit** | Mountain View, CA | Aug 2019 - May 2021

- Executed manual test cases for TurboTax web application during 2 tax seasons (10M+ users)
- Wrote and maintained 500+ test cases in TestRail for regression and smoke testing
- Transitioned from manual to automation testing, learning Selenium and Cypress on the job

## Skills

**Automation:** Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, REST Assured
**Performance:** k6, Locust, Artillery, JMeter
**CI/CD:** GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI
**Languages:** TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java
**Tools:** TestRail, Jira, Allure, BrowserStack, LaunchDarkly

## Certifications

- ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level — 2020
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — 2022

## Education

### B.S. Computer Science
**San Jose State University** | 2015 - 2019