Senior QA Engineer · CapitalOnTap
May 2022 — Present · London, UK
- Lead automation roadmap across microservices, REST APIs, and web applications; defined coverage, quality gates, and standards for reliability at scale.
- Mentored and coached junior and mid-level QA engineers through code reviews, pairing, and workshops, raising overall automation capability within the team.
- Owned CI/CD quality across Azure DevOps, TeamCity, and Octopus; embedded automated checks and release gates to enable fast, reliable deployments.
- Built bespoke tooling (Slack QA assistant, reporting dashboards, test data utilities) to accelerate verification and reduce repetitive manual work.
- Drove root cause analysis (RCA) and preventative actions for recurring issues; published actionable quality metrics to stakeholders to guide decision-making.
- Partnered with Product & Engineering on sprint/release planning and architecture reviews, ensuring testability, observability, and risk-based testing were embedded early.
- Defined new QA strategy, introducing shift-left practices, risk-based prioritisation, and cross-service regression packs to align testing with business priorities.
- Improved framework scalability, enabling parallel execution across multiple services and environments, reducing execution time by 25%.
Impact: Automated ~80% of regression (≈60h saved/release); reduced flaky failures 35%; improved lead time 18%.