Slaven Slugic
Principal SDET
Bellevue,WA
Summary
With 17+ years of experience in software engineering and testing, I possess extensive knowledge across diverse domains and technologies. My expertise lies in developing test automation frameworks and tools, as well as automating and scaling cloud infrastructure. I excel in ensuring product quality, reliability, compliance, and security standards. My passion for delivering innovative solutions to complex problems generates value for customers and stakeholders. Collaborating with cross-functional teams is a source of continuous learning in this ever-evolving field.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
Work History
Principal SDET
Mosaic.tech
05.2022 - 05.2025
- UI and API Automation Framework Development
- Performance Testing and optimization
- Deployment pipeline speed improvement by 3x
- Improved product release cycle from monthly to almost daily
- AWS Infrastructure improvements for test and product scalability
- Contributed to successful product launches with meticulous pre-release testing efforts.
- Championed a culture of quality within the organization through ongoing collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Elevated team productivity by mentoring junior SDET team members on best practices and industry standards.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
- Technologies (Python, JavaScript, AWS, MongoDB, Atlassian, Terraform)
- Testing Frameworks: PlayWright, PyTest, Locust
Principal SDET
Smartsheet
03.2014 - 02.2022
- Scale our existing test automation and improve deployment process
- Collaborating closely with other engineering teams to provide tools and services
- Working closely with teams outside of my org (Compliance, Procurement, Business Intelligence etc..)
- Coaching and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development
- Actively involved in the design, implementation, and application of technologies that will ensure reliability, scalability, high availability and operability
- Impact: Infrastructure that allowed us to have fully automated release process CI/CD
- Build Test Automation framework from scratch using Java/Selenium and test infra in AWS that was used by entire company for quality validation
- No manual testing was required
- Build the infra and tools that allowed us to move from monthly releases to weekly releases
- Optimized test coverage for better product performance and reliability.
- AWS: EKS, ECS, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route53 VPC etc..
- Languages/Scripts: Java, Python, Terraform, JavaScript
- Other: Docker, Kubernetes
Sr. Software Engineer/Automation
Expedia Group
10.2011 - 04.2014
- Automation Framework architecture, design and development
- Technologies currently used: Apache Solr for Search, Jenkins, TeamCity for Continuous Delivery, Chef for Automated Deployments, Selenium WebDriver for Web Automation
- Languages currently used: C#, Java, Scala, Ruby, Python
Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
07.2009 - 02.2010
- Worked on internal tools, frameworks and infrastructure
- Written UI components in Flex and Flash for Disney Page
Software Development Engineer 2 - Microsoft Office
Microsoft
08.2006 - 07.2009
- Worked on Office products
- Written code for Excel and Word
- Designated and implemented various internal tools
Education
Bachelor Of Science - Computer Science
Western Washington University
01.2002 - 01.2006
Skills
Java, Python, C#, JavaScript
Amazon Web Services , Microsoft Azure
Selenium, PlayWright, Cypress, PyTest, Locust, JMeter
GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket
CI/CD Jenkins, GitLab, Harness
Automate and Manual Testing
Software development tools: JIRA, confluence, TestRail
Software development life cycle
Team Leadership and development
Compliance SOC2
Awards
- Expedia Gold Star Award, Expedia, 03/01/13, Gold Star Award for excellent performance
- Expedia Business Impact Award, Expedia, 06/01/13
Accomplishments
Expedia Expedia Gold Star Award
Expedia Business Impact Award
Timeline
Principal SDET
Mosaic.tech
05.2022 - 05.2025
Principal SDET
Smartsheet
03.2014 - 02.2022
Sr. Software Engineer/Automation
Expedia Group
10.2011 - 04.2014
Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
07.2009 - 02.2010
Software Development Engineer 2 - Microsoft Office
Microsoft
08.2006 - 07.2009
Bachelor Of Science - Computer Science
Western Washington University
01.2002 - 01.2006