# David Tran > Software Development Engineer in Test Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidtran1 Senior SDET with 10+ years of experience building automation frameworks, improving CI/CD pipelines, and supporting testing across APIs, UI, and distributed systems. I work primarily with Python and TypeScript, and have used Playwright, Selenium, k6, and AWS services to help teams increase test coverage and reduce manual effort. I’ve contributed to projects that improve deployment reliability, automate critical workflows, and explore AI/LLM-assisted testing. I enjoy collaborating with teams, documenting processes, and helping others make testing more efficient and reliable. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Development Engineer In Test @ RapidSOS Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 Built tests and framework enhancements for a python API-based testing framework, a k6-based performance testing framework, and a Playwright (TypeScript) framework to provide pre-merge and post-merge testing for emergency location services. Also maintained other tools such as Postman to provide a medium to make API requests for sanity testing. In addition, provided knowledge shares and demonstrations on using the tools to ensure others can seamlessly use these available tools as part of their development workflow. ### Senior SDET @ Frame.io Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States Built a new Cypress-based (NodeJS) browser automation framework, using Axios to enable API level account data generation. This test application has been dockerized and deployed via CircleCI, providing daily test runs and reports. ### Software Engineer In Test @ JW Player Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 Now using node.js WebDriverIO framework capable of running several runners in parallel based on ec2 spot instances and providing quick feedback as well as coverage for developers and product managers. Worked on a Ruby-based Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber framework to automate testing efforts on a dashboard that allows users to build and customize various players, upload and host videos, and track a set of videos viewership. ### Associate QA Engineer @ About.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York, New York Rebuilding the previous automation framework, with help from fellow developers, to follow more OOP princples and improve the ability to add tests with the framework. Thus allowing developers to automate test cases as well as use the framework as a testing tool. Working with Java-based Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber-JVM framework to test the front-end pages of the many and various About.com sites. Employ other tools and technologies such as JavaScript, JMeter, and shell scripting to assist the testing front. ### QA Engineer @ Rainmaker Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Working with Selenium IDE and a C#-based Selenium WebDriver to provide much needed automation for an eLearning platform. ### QA Engineer (software) @ Rainmaker Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Working with a C#-based Selenium WebDriver to automate the testing process on an eCommerce platform that supported an admin dashboard and a customer-facing site. Providing much automation around the checkout processes, reporting, business rules, and account creation. Using other tools to provide necessary performance load testing such as BrowserMob/Neustar, JMeter, and Visual Studio Web Performance and Load Testing. ## Education ### B.S. in Biological Sciences University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-tran-19052928 - GitHub: https://github.com/davtran/automation --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidtran1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidtran1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31