Professional Summary
Senior QA leader with 9+ years building AI-powered automation, release gates, and compliance-ready quality systems across fintech, streaming, and enterprise SaaS. Reduced manual testing 70%, raised API coverage from 65% to 92%, cut root-cause analysis time 40%, and built an agentic QA platform with Claude, OpenAI Codex, and Playwright to speed test creation and strengthen release decisions.
Selected highlights: 70% less manual testing; API coverage improved from 65% to 92%; 60% faster test development; AI QA orchestration; PCI DSS, SOC 2, and OWASP validation; CI/CD and DevSecOps leadership.
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer in Test, Payment Orchestration QA
Daxko | June 2026 - Present
- Test Daxko Payment Cloud (DPC), the orchestration layer connecting Daxko's platforms (including MMS) to 8+ payment processors for a single integrated payments experience.
- Validate auth, refunds, tokenization, and hard/soft decline handling across debit, credit, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and in-person terminal payments.
- Run API and performance testing with Postman and K6 against services on AWS and Rancher-managed Kubernetes, backed by MySQL and Redis.
- Generate and maintain Playwright test coverage using Claude Code and Cursor, with CI pipelines in GitLab.
Founder & QA Tech Lead, Agentic AI QA Platform
Aperca LLC (Self-Employed) | June 2025 - May 2026
- Built an agentic AI QA platform that turns requirements into executable tests, defects, and release signals with minimal manual handoff.
- Used Claude for requirement reasoning and failure analysis, and OpenAI Codex for Playwright test generation and refactoring.
- Designed a swappable agents, workflows, and skills architecture so models and execution targets changed without platform rewrites.
- Automated JIRA defect creation with structured outputs and GitHub Actions pipelines for CI-ready quality enforcement.
- Added Playwright MCP to cut test authoring time 60% through context-aware AI generation.
- Founded Aperca LLC and shipped products to 10,000+ downloads with a 4.8-star average rating.
Senior QA Engineer, AI-Augmented Automation and Security
Dispel (concurrent with Aperca LLC) | June 2025 - November 2025
- Built a K6, Docker, and Grafana/InfluxDB framework for load, stress, and spike testing across secure product lines.
- Expanded Robot Framework and Playwright regression depth while reducing defect escape rate 35%.
- Integrated OWASP ZAP and deterministic PostgreSQL test data into CI/CD for compliance-grade security validation.
- Used Playwright MCP, Claude, and GitHub Copilot to cut test development time 60%.
- Added AI-assisted code review and codebase analysis to catch regression-causing changes before merge.
- Used multi-context Playwright testing to simulate concurrent users in the same flow, validating real-time access control and session isolation.
- Built Dispel Observability Hub to centralize uptime, SLA routing, and executive incident reporting.
Technical Lead (QA), Fraud, PCI, and Payment Systems
Cognizant, Client: AT&T / DirecTV | December 2023 - June 2025
- Owned fraud, payments, and PCI QA for AT&T DirecTV billing flows with direct financial and compliance exposure.
- Used GenAI to map edge cases across refunds, chargebacks, webhooks, and fraud paths, raising API coverage from 65% to 92%.
- Cut root-cause analysis time 40% with AI-assisted stack-trace parsing and targeted regression generation.
- Ran AI-backed code reviews to catch security gaps, PCI issues, and fraud risks before release.
- Implemented CI quality gates that blocked merges when critical payment path coverage dropped below threshold — catching a fraud-validation bypass before staging and establishing it as the team standard.
- Delivered zero production defects across all major payment launches while leading defect trends, knowledge management, and Agile execution.
Test Manager, Streaming QA and Automation
DXC Technology, Client: AT&T / DirecTV | May 2022 - October 2023
- Led QA strategy for TVOD and MDU launches that required faster release cycles without production fallout.
- Cut manual regression effort 70% by automating UI and API coverage for streaming releases.
- Added Dockerized parallel execution and CI quality gates to shorten feedback loops and speed sign-off.
- Owned risk-based planning, triage, release decisions, and stakeholder reporting across multiple launch tracks.
Automation Engineer, Financial and Data Validation
insightsoftware | November 2021 - May 2022
- Built automated suites for financial Excel plugins validating ETL accuracy — source-to-target row counts, transformation logic, formula correctness, and null/default handling.
- Dockerized test environments to reduce setup drift and make regression runs repeatable.
Software Engineer in Test, Security and Performance QA
Accruent (Fortive, NYSE: FTV) | November 2018 - February 2021
- Architected CI-ready security and performance suites for enterprise SaaS and stronger release confidence.
- Built onboarding automation that reduced setup errors and kept regression coverage moving.