JASON LIN
Queens Village,New York
Summary
Experienced SDET manager with over 15 years of experience building automation software/tools and leading onsite/offshore teams to build automation regression test suite for web apps, API and mobile apps. Also, a certified scrum master who understands how automation and QA are applied within scrum processes and agile development.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineer Manager in Test
GoPuff
Philadelphia, PA
08.2021 - Current
- Managed 26 SDET & Quality Engineers and provided regular feedback in 1-1 and annual reviews.
- Provided regular feedback to senior leadership on individual performance and observation.
- Mentored and encouraged employees to strive for excellence while fostering professional growth.
- Tracked, prioritized and organized defects with Jira, working with development team to facilitate timely corrections.
- Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
- Improved and documented QE processes with team members' feedback like QE interview guideline, day off policy, QE Culture and onboarding 90 days template.
- Evaluated existing tooling and researched new tools to improve efficiency, capability, scalability of testing.
Test Engineering Manager
JW Player
New York, NY
07.2020 - 06.2021
- Identified areas needing improvement to review with senior leadership and developed plans for improvement
- Established and built strong working relationships with engineering managers and product managers through biweekly 1:1s
- Communicated strategies and results with stakeholders
- Secured and allocated resources and developed relationships necessary to manage planning and operations in the testing cycle
- Built trust, established expectations, provided accountability with direct reports through giving honest and caring feedback in weekly 1:1s
- Helped direct reports to identify the areas of growth in their career by semi-annual reviews and building SMART goals
- Reviewed WebdriverIO/Cucumber automation framework and prioritized backlog to build annual and quarterly goals
- Built and documented 90 day onboarding plan for new SDETs
SDET Manager
Namely Inc.
, New York
05.2019 - 05.2020
- Transformed engineering teams to develop without manual QA by transitioning each team to adopt e2e testing as part of development. 50+ e2e tests were already written in one single quarter
- Effectively trained 50+ engineers to learn new e2e framework by conducting onsite or remote mob programming in 8 small sessions. More than half of engineers are contributing to the testing repo after one quarter
- Collaborated with engineering managers to work with individual teams to identify and build smoke tests, new e2e test cases in new projects and production outages
- Coached each engineering team to develop support rotation to identify defects and maintain their test suites
- Built e2e framework using WebdriverIO/Cucumber with easy to follow readme and allowed each team to run their team suite in Jenkins server on a daily basis
- Provided e2e testing best practices and guideline for teams to follow
- Mentored SDET through weekly 1:1s and guided them to build career/performance goals based on career tree
- Managed onsite and offsite resources and SDET projects by OKRs, quarterly goals and project Gantt Chart
Lead Automation Engineer
Aetion Inc.
, New York
02.2018 - 05.2019
- Led automation team and created automation roadmap to convert manual test cases to automated E2E regression test suite within 12 months and halved regression testing time
- Setup automation best practices and documented automation onboarding guide
- Trained QA engineers through mob programming and provided code reviews
- Became a certified Scrum master for automation team to lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives. Created slide desk, presented sprint demo for automation team, and generated QA/automation matrix for sprint demo and management
- Created static data population script to be able to test automation regression early in dev phase (identify more bugs during development rather QA regression) and create automation scrubber script to clean up automation data in qa env
- Created performance script to track job execution time from DB at each release
- Collaborated with system and development to troubleshoot resource and memory leaks
- Built Java Cucumber/Selenium automation framework and executed in parallel daily in Jenkins
- POC to test download file (txt, csv, html, zip) and image diff into automation framework
- Added unit tests to automation framework to test integrity of framework during library upgrade
- Hackathon using Storybook.js to build interactive UI component testing env (image/dom diff)
Lead Automation Engineer
ADP
, New York
03.2014 - 12.2018
QA Engineer
Whosay Inc
, New York
01.2013 - 02.2014
QA Engineer
Liquidnet Holding Inc
, New York
11.2011 - 09.2012
Sr. QA Engineer
GFI Group Inc
, New York
12.2010 - 10.2011
Sr. Automation Engineer
Intralinks Inc
, New York
06.2004 - 12.2010
Software Developer
Tang Group Inc
, New York
07.2002 - 10.2003
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Brooklyn, NY 07.2000 - 01.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Brooklyn, NY 09.1996 - 06.1999
Skills
JavaScript 5/6 (nodejs)
Certification
Certified ScrumMaster CSM
Timeline
Software Engineer Manager in Test
GoPuff
08.2021 - Current
Test Engineering Manager
JW Player
07.2020 - 06.2021
SDET Manager
Namely Inc.
05.2019 - 05.2020
Certified ScrumMaster CSM
01-2019
Lead Automation Engineer
Aetion Inc.
02.2018 - 05.2019
Lead Automation Engineer
ADP
03.2014 - 12.2018
QA Engineer
Whosay Inc
01.2013 - 02.2014
QA Engineer
Liquidnet Holding Inc
11.2011 - 09.2012
Sr. QA Engineer
GFI Group Inc
12.2010 - 10.2011
Sr. Automation Engineer
Intralinks Inc
06.2004 - 12.2010
Software Developer
Tang Group Inc
07.2002 - 10.2003
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
07.2000 - 01.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
09.1996 - 06.1999
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