# Justin Conway > Software Engineer Specializing in Test Automation Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/justinconway Software Development Engineer in Test with over ten years experience improving software quality throughout the development cycle. Began my career as a manual QA engineer, and then learned to program in Java and moved into an SDET role. Expanded into Python and JavaScript allowing me to create multiple testing tools enabling QA engineers to test projects in less time. Now, a key part of the software development life cycle, adding my expertise to all phases of software delivery. Working with product teams to ensure features are planned right, to the design phase and working with Engineers to ensure the design has quality in mind, to testing and delivery to customers in production. Strong analytical skills with the ability to reduce gaps in QA processes. Proven history of using test automation to increase frequency, quality, and confidence in software deployments. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Software Quality Engineer @ BECU Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Development Engineer @ Vareto Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Enabled our engineering team to double release frequency by creating and maintaining Cypress UI automation framework for regression testing. Expanded automated test coverage across crucial product areas in order to reduce manual testing time and effort. Worked with members of QA and Development teams to expand API automation test coverage in using Python.This allowed the team to quickly spot any potential issues from each deployment. Created QA and test automation documentation resources for Engineering team members. Expanded Engineers’ knowledge and understanding of test structure to enable them to contribute tests as part of their development process. Maintained a set of over 500 Regression test cases in TestRail used to certify each software release version. ### Sr SDET @ Salesloft Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Collaborated with a team of SDETs to build an automation framework from scratch. Created a proof of concept framework using Cypress in Javascript, evaluated pros and cons of the framework, and implemented Cypress with the SDET team. Collaborated with members of QA and Development teams to discover crucial areas of the software. Took these key product areas and added automated test coverage to reduce manual testing efforts. Created documentation resources for SDET team members to ensure high quality coding standards. Creating reliable and reusable test code that enabled the team to expand automation coverage. ### Sr. SDET I @ Smartsheet Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Built QA Center dashboard with tools and resources for Engineering Org to run automated tests, view run results, triage test failures, and analyze test results using React, Javascript, and MongoDB. Wrote microservices in Python for QA Dashboard back-end. Created API endpoints to query data stored in MongoDB and return test result data. Maintained and updated comprehensive test automation framework using Java, Selenium, and TestNG. Automation framework enabled QA and Development Engineers to run tests by product areas, full regressions, and release certification tests. Updated and improved legacy test tools. Migrated existing test tools from Python version 2 to version 3. Updated test tools to continue to work with updates and changing workflows within the product. ### SDET II @ Smartsheet Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Collaborated with members of QA, Development, and Product teams to add new automated tests, allowing rapid delivery of new features. Created, maintained, and improved automated tests and framework for front-end UI, API, and backend services. Implemented reusable code for frequently used workflows within automated tests to simplify test creation and maintenance. Created and maintained documentation resources for new team members. Enabled our growing team to quickly onboard and understand the automation framework in order to quickly make contributions. Created tools to create accounts and add test data to reduce setup time for QA Engineers with manual testing scenarios. ### SDET @ Smartsheet Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Bellevue Automated and Manual Testing of Smartsheet project management application. Manually tested new features and large scale projects, updated and created test cases, then automated key user scenarios and regression cases. Collaborating with members of QA and Development Team. Worked with Engineers to identify areas to improve long term stability of UI automated tests by adding unique identifying attributes to elements within the application. Created, maintained, and implemented automated test cases as product areas evolved as the product matured. Trouble-shooting bugs and customer reported issues to find reliable steps to reproduce the issues and allow engineers to quickly find and implement code fixes. ### QA Engineer @ Smartsheet Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Bellevue, QA Manual Testing of a cloud based project management application. Manually tested bug fixes, product enhancements, and deployment certification. Collaborated with members of QA and Development Team to create test plans, create and update existing test cases, and select test cases to use in release certification test runs. Verified product behaviors for mobile web, tablet, native mobile application and restful API testing. ### Jr. QA Tester @ Imprev Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Manual Testing in Agile SDLC. Primarily focused on deployment certification testing of Real Estate advertising software application in a web-based GUI. Wrote and carried out Test Cases for all facets of the product. Troubleshooting issues and finding reliable steps to reproduce the behaviors. Collaborated with QA and Engineering counterparts using Jira for defect logging, tracking progress of bug fixes, fix verification, and ad hoc testing to find potential regression bugs. ## Education ### Professional Certificate in Certification in Software Testing University of Washington Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelors of Arts in Political Science University of Washington Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justin-conway-63514417 --- Source: https://flows.cv/justinconway JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/justinconway/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22