Hands-on QA Automation Manager leading seven contractors across three regions. I build cross-platform validation systems and AI-assisted test workflows used daily by the team, combining engineering and distributed-team coaching with practical AI enablement through reusable instructions, workshops and guides.
Experience
Paramount
June 2021 — present
QA Automation Manager · January 2024 — present Acting Manager · January 2022 — December 2023 Analytics QA Engineer · June 2021 — January 2022
Leadership
Lead seven automation contractors across three regions through roadmaps, code reviews, coaching, sprint planning and workload coordination.
Managed two full-time engineers through June 2025, including formal performance feedback and career development.
Led delivery through the transition from US-based full-time staff to offshore contractors; adapted coaching and detailed written communication around at most two hours of daily overlap for coordination meetings.
Selected contributions across Paramount tenure
Independently built a Java data-validation framework with Selenium and Appium; automated 400+ web data tests, with validation across Roku, Android, and web.
Established a required Jenkins build gate used by multiple teams several times daily.
Created and maintain a dedicated AI data-automation subagent used daily by every engineer on the automation team. Authored skill and agent instructions to turn test-library cases into automated tests, run them, apply fixes and report results.
Added failure-diagnosis, repair and retest workflows, with human review to confirm real issues before escalation.
Created a customizable workflow template connecting ticketing, test-case management and chat, with reusable skills for Cursor, Claude and GitHub Copilot.
Supported AI adoption through workshops, guides and templates; centralized the test repository and enabled asynchronous collaboration.
Activision Blizzard · Senior Test Analyst
February 2020 — June 2021
As the team’s sole QA engineer, owned Battle.net Identity QA across account creation, login, settings, recovery, OAuth and authentication APIs; coordinated testing across identity products.
Expanded and optimized an existing developer-built sign-up framework into QA-owned automation, tripling test-case and scenario coverage and reducing overall runtime by 75% through parallel execution.
Created telemetry-driven email notifications.
TEKsystems / Amazon Game Studios · Software Test Engineer
November 2018 — February 2020 · TEKsystems assignment
Supported New World automation through test planning, execution, reporting, and reviews.
Worked with C# frameworks, Python, MySQL, DynamoDB, and black-box / white-box testing.
CyberCoders · Software QA Engineer
June 2015 — November 2018
Tested recruiting software using Java/Selenium automation and JBehave.
Built C# support tools.
Skills in practice
Leadership
Technical roadmaps, test planning, coaching, code review, sprint and workload planning