# Joshua Brewer

> Senior SDET at The New York Times Wirecutter

Location: Provo, Utah, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuabrewer

I am passionate about technology, languages, and the fine arts.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer in Test @ Wirecutter
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Working with DevOps to bring CI/CD and quality best practices to Wirecutter.

### Software Development Engineer in Test II @ Filevine
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
As an SDET imbedded on a front-end architecture team, I greenfielded our approach to component level testing.  I designed a typescript Cypress framework leveraging both Storybook, and Cypress' own native component-testing features.  I implemented testing within our pipeline, accomplishing fast and responsive tests in true CI/CD.  I also maintained a Cypress tooling package to better facilitate testing across the Automation discipline.  I promoted front-end automation best practices across disciplines.

Technologies and tools employed include:
- Cypress
- Svelte
- Typescript
- Javascript
- GitLabCI
- Chromatic
- Storybook
- Selenium
- C#

### Senior Automation Framework Engineer @ InMoment
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
As an Automation Framework Engineer I help build and expand our in-house QA and automation testing tools.  We maintain both the framework the automation is written with, as well as the infrastructure the automation executes from.  We also create the website and tools that house our manual QA tests and executions.  We create in-house solutions to help facilite better manual and automated testing efforts.

Technologies I've applied:
- C#
- Angular
- Typescript
- SQL
- Selenium
- git

### Software Automation Engineer II (SDET II) @ InMoment
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
My work at InMoment was very much a continuation of my work at MaritzCX. With MaritzCX and InMoment coming together, so too did our automation and platforms. I applied my knowledge of QA and automation best-practices to help bring robust automation to InMoment's new XI platform.  With some MCX products migrating to the new XI platform, and I helped migrate the existing automation to also run against the XI platform.

### Software Automation Engineer (SDET) @ InMoment
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
As an SDET at MaritzCX (eventually aquired my InMoment) I applied myself to better both our platform's quality and the continuous integration (CI) pipeline. I worked closely alongside QA Analysts and Platform Devs as an imbedded team member to collaborate on automation and quality solutions.

Some of my roles and accomplishments include:
- I contributed, ran, and maintained a high number of reliable UI and API automated tests.
- I spun up new automation projects for new and in-development platform products.
- I trained and coached Platform Devs on how to assist in automation test authoring.
- I reviewed and logged bugs against a high number of daily run automation.
- I contributed in refining automation's role in accomplishing CI.
- I coordinated with QA Analysts on how to write "automation-friendly" tests.
- I helped pioneer our automation approach for API integration testing.
- I contributed to and expanded our in-house Selenium based C# automation framework.
- I authored countless maintable and readable page object models.
- I helped facilitate and run automation for ad-hoc and scheduled patch deployment and server maintenance.
- I participated in multiple tech-debt recovery initiatives and helped harden our legacy automation.
- I participated in scrum and agile ceremonies.
- I completed a SANS Pen-Testing training and helped out security team with Platform Security Penetration Testing.
- I was recognized as a CX Champion (employee of the year) for Engineering in 2019.
- I logged a lot of bugs! 

Technologies and tools we employed:
- C#
- Selenium
- XPath and Css selectors
- git
- Jenkins
- Docker and Selenium Swarm
- Postman
- Burp and ZAP

### Korean-Language Sales Support Agent @ Nu Skin Enterprises
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Provo, Utah, United States
As a call center agent my responsibilities included: ordering, shipment tracing, customer experience, and basic case-management.


## Education
### Art History and Curatorial Studies in Computer Science Minor
Brigham Young University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Timpview High School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brewer-joshua

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Last updated: 2026-03-22