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Software Developer Engineer in Test

BECU

Associate Manager, Test Engineering

Kestra Financial

● Managed and mentored a team of Test Engineers across Austin and India, providing guidance on test planning, execution, and automation best practices.

● Partnered directly with the Head of Data Engineering to establish the first comprehensive QA strategy for the Data Engineering organization.

● Authored master test plans for critical data processes across SSIS jobs, Databricks workflows, and Azure Data Factory pipelines, creating standardized QA processes where none previously existed.

● Championed test automation by designing and implementing a custom TypeScript Playwright framework to support Sitecore websites across Kestra Holdings’ 6 companies.

● Built form validation automation to ensure seamless data flow from Sitecore forms to Salesforce, improving accuracy and reducing manual QA overhead.

● Focused heavily on mentorship and upskilling, equipping the QA team with the technical and domain knowledge needed to support a neglected and undocumented data ecosystem.

QA Automation Engineer

Kestra Financial

● Rotated across multiple teams (Backend Engineering, Data Engineering, and QA Automation) to provide end-to-end quality assurance for Kestra’s Next Gen Platform.

● Designed and built a custom Python validation tool that automated testing for a bulk data upload process, reducing regression testing time from 3 hours to 5 minutes.

● Integrated the tool with an Azure DevOps Build Pipeline, allowing for seamless execution and real-time data validation across Azure containers and CosmosDB.

● Collaborated with the Data Engineering team to test the migration of a critical SSIS job that processes Rep and Branch data from FINRA, using Python and PySpark to validate data integrity across ETL layers.

● Architected and led the migration from C# Selenium to a modern TypeScript Playwright UI automation framework, improving test reliability and enabling seamless testing of Shadow DOM elements in Salesforce.

● Mentored and led a team of QA Automation Engineers, defining automation strategy, writing Jira tickets, conducting code reviews, and assigning tasks to support ongoing feature development.

Software Engineer Intern

Kestra Financial

● Developed 14 end-to-end UI automation tests using Selenium (C#), contributing over 2000 lines of code across new tests, test fixes, and improvements.

● Collaborated with the QA Automation team to build and optimize a suite of 300+ tests supporting Kestra’s Next Gen Platform for financial advisors.

● Assisted the QA lead in designing and implementing 3 Azure DevOps Pipelines to partition tests into Smoke, Regression, and End-to-End suites.

● Improved test reliability by identifying and resolving flaky tests within the automation framework.

● Gained first professional experience working in an Agile environment, contributing to sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives.

Bachelors of Science

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Software Engineering