Arielle Israel
Arielle Israel

Senior Quality Engineer

Actively looking · Member since 14 Sep 2026
Location
Austin, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior Quality Engineer and quality engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience building automation-first testing strategies for web, mobile, API, frontend, and backend products.

I specialize in creating scalable test automation frameworks using JavaScript and TypeScript, with hands-on experience in Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, and API testing. My work has expanded test coverage, reduced manual testing, improved release confidence, and identified critical defects before production.

I have led SDETs and QA engineers across distributed teams in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. I enjoy mentoring engineers, developing technical growth plans, facilitating training, and fostering a culture of shared responsibility for quality.

I partner closely with software engineers, product managers, UX designers, researchers, and engineering leaders to define test plans, quality gates, release processes, and continuous-improvement initiatives. I am experienced in cross-functional testing events, Agile ceremonies, roadmap planning, and QA technical-debt prioritization.

I have implemented CI/CD-oriented testing workflows with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Sauce Labs, and ephemeral environments. I focus on improving reliability, reducing flaky tests, troubleshooting failures through root-cause analysis, and delivering measurable quality outcomes.

I was recognized with Built In's 2021 Moxie Award as one of the top 50 women in tech. I bring a data-driven, customer-oriented approach to quality engineering and am committed to helping teams ship dependable, high-quality software.

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Career history

Lead Software Development Engineer, Test Lucidworks

Developed automated frontend and backend tests in JavaScript using Cypress for complex product features. Delivered 79 automated tests, including 32 end-to-end and 47 unit tests, within two weeks to strengthen coverage for a legacy product's major user flows, search, sharing, empty states, and sign-out behavior.

Expanded test coverage by 50% through weekly feature validation, comprehensive test planning, and proactive defect reporting. Led SDETs and QA engineers, configured Jenkins jobs for release-candidate testing environments, investigated automation failures, and implemented framework improvements to reduce flakiness and release bottlenecks.

Quality Engineering Manager Parsable

Established a cross-functional testing approach across web and mobile applications, identifying more than 100 frontend and backend defects before major infrastructure and feature releases. Led SDETs and QA engineers across the US, Canada, and Mexico while driving automation-first practices for mobile, web, and API testing.

Implemented GitHub Actions nightly test workflows integrating Appium and Sauce Labs, reducing manual testing effort by approximately 20 hours per month. Evaluated Cypress and Appium, selected JavaScript and TypeScript for automation work, prioritized QA technical debt, reduced flaky tests by 50%, and helped increase automation and test coverage by 60%.

Quality Engineering Manager Sonos

Led an SDET team in establishing the first Playwright automation framework for a new React Native application. Created JavaScript automated tests and conducted code reviews to improve framework reliability and increase pre-release defect detection.

Documented engineering-process gaps and quality gates in Confluence, created roadmaps and milestones aligned with OKRs, and collaborated with UX, research, and development partners to expand coverage for 10 critical features. Mentored five QA engineers through technical and professional development goals.

Quality Engineering Manager; Quality Engineering Lead; Senior Quality Engineer The Zebra

Built and scaled the QA organization, improving team performance by 50% within six months. Mentored quality engineers, expanded API automation from 10 to 106 tests and functional automation from 2 to 40 tests, streamlined onboarding, and delivered training that increased unit and integration-test creation by 20% across engineering teams.

Led 21 cross-functional testing events, established testing processes for partner integrations, and helped accelerate delivery through ephemeral GitLab branches and CI/CD-oriented deployment practices. Developed JavaScript automated API and application tests with Selenium, validated Snowflake data on AWS, produced automation metrics, and collaborated in Agile ceremonies to improve release quality and testing coverage.

Education

Learning history

Baylor University

Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics

Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics.

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