Career
I graduated from East Carolina University in 2019 (Go Pirates!) with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science. I started my career at nCino, here in Wilmington, NC as an SDET. I first began working with development teams to help them streamline their testing process to help speed up regression for teams. To do that, we used a Selenium framework written in Java. We would collaborate to decide which manual tests had the most value, as well as which tests were good automation candidates (time-consuming, concise, reliable, etc). These tests included UI, API, and integrations testing. I did that for about two years, then I shifted into a role to help develop a framework that both the QA Automation team could use, as well as the development teams. The goal was to increase the amount of automated tests being executed, as well as getting automation more embedded into our SDLC. That framework was designed as an npm package, and written using Playwright, Cucumber + Gherkins, written in Typescript.
After nCino, I began working at FedEx Ground. I joined a team that helped with automating new, and existing web applications that the teams were building. That included re-writing older tests written in Protractor, as well as fleshing out additional testing functionality. I was the sole UI Automation engineer on this team, so I had full autonomy on what decisions were made for the team.