Senior Quality Engineer Kimbal Technologies
Led quality engineering for Manufacturing Execution System modules that automate electricity smart-meter production lines. Managed two Agile QA teams comprising 12 engineers, improving sprint predictability by 40% while maintaining release quality.
Defined QA strategy, test plans, release quality gates, and automation practices that reduced escaped production defects by 35%. Designed and maintained a reusable Playwright framework that increased automation coverage to over 90% and reduced regression execution from three days to under six hours.
Implemented API validation with Postman and SQL backend verification, integrated smoke and regression suites into GitHub Actions pipelines, and performed Apache JMeter performance testing. Mentored QA engineers and used Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude to accelerate automation development and framework enhancements.