# Nik Omel

> Software Engineer @ Splunk > (a Cisco company)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikomel

As a Frontend Engineer, I specialize in using React.js alongside styled components and proprietary design systems to craft visually stunning and seamlessly functioning user interfaces (UIs).

My expertise also extends to Quality Assurance (QA) automation, where I implement automated testing processes to ensure that every aspect of the UI performs as expected. This involves setting up automated tests that run automatically, catching any potential issues early on and guaranteeing a high-quality end product.

By blending my proficiency in frontend development with a strong foundation in QA testing, I strive to deliver UIs that not only meet but exceed user expectations. My ultimate aim is to create UIs that not only look fantastic but also provide a flawless user experience, and my combined skill set allows me to achieve precisely that.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - Front End @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Contributed to the development of a federated search feature for the Splunk Observability Suite, seamlessly connecting different parts of the application under one global search functionality.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into actionable UI designs.
- Utilize test frameworks like Jest and Cypress for React, and Jasmine for Angular, to ensure robust testing coverage and maintain code reliability.
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving feedback to improve code quality and maintainability.

### Senior Software Engineer in Test @ Splunk
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Building UI automation using Cypress.
- Responsible for creating the quarterly roadmap for the QA team.
- Implemented parallel test execution, resulting in 3x reduction in test execution time.

### Software Engineer in Test @ Allstate
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Worked at Avail Car-sharing:
- Created web tests for a React app using Cypress
- Built and contributed to a Model-based framework on Java (TestNG+ Maven)
- Created API tests using the Model-based framework.
- Integrated tests on CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins DSL
- Involved in the test plan creation process
- Led the release engineering process for multiple software projects, ensuring smooth and timely releases.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including developers, quality assurance, and operations to define release plans, schedules, and milestones.

### Software Engineer in Test @ EdCast
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Built from scratch API test suit (contained 411 end-points), created a test strategy
- Authored test scenarios and automated them, reducing turnaround time for testing releases from 48 hours to 30 minutes
- Created test plans, monitoring features coverage using TestRail
- Wrote new automated scripts in Java using Carina framework (based on TestNg, Maven)
- Reviewed automation team pull requests using GitHub
- Analyzed application activity using NewRelic, Google Analytics
- Shared performance test strategy at the Confluence
- Created scripts for performance testing using Gatling (based on Scala)
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including developers, quality assurance, and operations to define release plans, schedules, and milestones.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nik-omel

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Source: https://flows.cv/nikomel
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Last updated: 2026-03-22