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"Lead framework stabilization work, reducing flaky coverage and keeping suites maintainable as product surface area grows.", "Drive quality strategy with product and engineering stakeholders, defining what ships and what blocks, backed by automation evidence.", "Pair targeted manual and exploratory testing with automation for iterative releases to maximise web quality of products and solutions." ] }, { "name": "SUSE", "position": "Senior QA Engineer", "url": "https://www.suse.com", "startDate": "2021-01", "endDate": "2022-01", "summary": "Senior automation engineer responsible for functional and UI coverage of enterprise web solutions, plus framework maintenance and regression execution.", "highlights": [ "Built and maintained functional and UI continuous web automation suites for enterprise web solutions.", "Executed QA regression test cases at every release lifecycle stage, owning pass/fail evidence for release readiness.", "Sustained and stabilised test frameworks through product 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