QA Engineer Resume Template
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Olivia Young
Senior QA Engineer, ISTQB · Test Automation
Dallas, TX · (214) 555-2986 · olivia.young@email.com · linkedin.com/in/oliviayoung
Profile
QA engineer with 11 years testing payments, logistics and mobile software. Built the automation suite of 2,400 tests that runs on every pull request and cut escaped production defects by 60% for a payments platform.
QA Experience
Senior QA Engineer
2021 – Present
Trinity Payments, Dallas, TX
- Lead testing for a card payments platform processing $3B a year across web, mobile and APIs.
- Built a Playwright and REST Assured suite of 2,400 tests that runs on every pull request.
- Cut escaped production defects by 60% and regression time from 5 days to 3 hours.
- Write test plans for PCI DSS scope changes and verify card data masking in logs and reports.
- Coach 5 QA engineers on test design and triage defects with developers in daily standups.
QA Engineer
2018 – 2021
Prairie Logistics Software, Plano, TX
- Automated 900 Selenium WebDriver tests for a transportation management web application.
- Tested REST APIs in Postman and wrote SQL checks to validate shipment and rate data.
- Ran load tests in JMeter that found 3 bottlenecks before a 10,000-user customer launch.
- Logged and tracked 1,200 defects in Jira with clear steps, logs and severity ratings.
QA Tester
2015 – 2018
Tangent Mobile Studio, Addison, TX
- Ran manual test cases for iOS and Android apps across 30 devices before each release.
- Wrote bug reports with screenshots and device logs and verified fixes in regression passes.
Certifications
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)
Testing Skills
Test automation frameworksAPI testingRegression strategyPerformance testingTest planningDefect triageCI/CD test pipelines
Test Tools
Playwright
Selenium WebDriver
Postman
Jira
GitHub Actions
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
2015
The University of Texas at Dallas
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Licenses and certifications
- ISTQB Certified Tester International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Optional, valued by employers
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Skills to list
- Test Case Design
- Automated Testing (Selenium)
- Regression Testing
- Bug Tracking (Jira)
- API Testing (Postman)
- Performance Testing
- Agile/Scrum
- SQL
Software and tools
- GitHub
- Selenium
- Atlassian JIRA
- Microsoft Azure software
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation
- Apache Subversion SVN
- C#
- Git
- Linux
Duties to describe on a qa engineer resume
- Identified, analyzed, and documented problems with program function, output, online screen, or content.
- Documented software defects, using a bug tracking system, and reported defects to software developers.
- Developed testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
- Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures.
- Documented test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.
- Provided feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and functionality.
Titles along the way
- QA Tester
- QA Engineer
- Senior QA Engineer/Test Lead
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