# Richard Lee > Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/richardlee • Over a decade of software testing experience in cloud products, mobile apps and open-source software. Builds frontend and API test automation, CI/CD workflows to run during various parts in the software development process. • Experienced in Agile software development process and Jira software administration. Adaptable to different release cadences and development frameworks (Kanban/Sprints). Drives process modifications to balance frequent code pushes with high quality software. • Skilled in application performance monitoring to read server health and diagnose performance issues. Fluent in tools such as New Relic and AWS console. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Test Engineer @ Mendaera, Inc. Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software QA Engineer @ Rockwell Automation Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States • Assured product quality of the Factory Talk Edge Manager product, and Edge Applications by verifying functionality, creating test plans and enumerating test cases. • Automated front end testing using Cucumber and Selenium Webdriver with Typescript and dashboards on Azure. • Created containerized apps and Type-1 VMs, persistent storage volumes, and cloud init scripts to run virtualized company products. • Built and maintained QA hardware lab for use by the company. Set up Allen Bradley industrial PCs, controllers and networks to allow testing and troubleshooting. • Authored product documentation for internal and public consumption. Generated documentation in Jama for ISO-9001 regulatory compliance. ### Software Engineer In Test @ TRON Foundation Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Established and owned the release process of DLive Protocol and go-btfs products. Created Jenkins jobs to build executables for both products. • Built Continuous Integration jobs for go-btfs to assure a stable codebase. Created Docker containers to allow running microservices locally that perform tests with dockerized Postgres and Redis. • Automated deployment of DLive Protocol infrastructure and configuration with the goal to allow deployment by anyone on the team including non developers. • Built DLive Protocol performance test framework using Github Workflows which reports latency between nodes running in different parts of the world. • Added analytics reporting to gain insights into user behavior and performance. • Mentored QA engineers on building test automation and code reviews. ### Lead Software QA Engineer @ Stanza.co Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area * Built automated testing framework from scratch that is used to run API and front-end Selenium based tests. The framework is being used and expanded by QA and software engineers. * Developed CI/CD workflows using CircleCI and EBS post deployment scripts to trigger needed test automation at various steps of the development process. * Created Amazon Lambda functions to facilitate reporting of test results in Slack via hubot. * Performed application monitoring for bi-weekly deployments. ### Senior QA Engineer @ Fitbit Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco,CA Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Fitbit, Site Engineering, San Francisco • Instrumental in the release of the Sleep Stages micro service. Verified feature set, monitored instance health, diagnosed end to end any issues found by users. • Performed release coordination for daily fitbit.com site deployments as a backup Release Coordinator. • Wrote API endpoints and automated tests that are run as part of CI testing. • Wrote Selenium tests to verify functionality of fitbit.com features. • Manually tested Fitbit app and firmware updates for activity trackers on Android and iOS devices. ### Sr QA Engineer @ New Relic, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA • Successfully tested the Python, PHP and dotNet application server monitoring product from initial conception to release. • Built test applications to verify product functionality and bug fixes using Python frameworks including Django, Flask and Pyramid. • Helped create and maintain internal tool to measure performance overhead and long running stability of product. • Built and configured various Linux environments on Amazon EC2, VSphere and Docker for use by multiple teams. • Created tests using Cucumber and unit test frameworks and configured Jenkins to run in an automated fashion. • Answered customer support tickets and reproduced customer problems as the support hero. ### Sr Support Engineer, Wily Introscope @ Computer Associates Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | South SF, CA • Provide first level support by assisting enterprise level customers over the phone and through the support website. • Diagnose problems on customer’s complex environments including investigating custom web applications and front and backend systems. • Facilitate communication between customer and second level sustaining team. • Reproduce and document bugs to assist sustaining team in finding solutions. • Advocate for the customer during internal triage meetings. ### QA Engineer @ Wily Technology Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 | Brisbane, CA • Designed test cases and performed functionality testing, application server compatibility testing and bug triage. • Configured test environments to test functionality and reproduce customer issues, including clustered application servers, multi-nested proxies and multiple data sources. • Supported the sales team by investigating and resolving customer deployment issues. • Composed end of cycle test reports for new features. ### QA Engineer @ StarMine Corporation Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | SF, CA • Developed and established company-wide quality assurance procedures and testing processes for software releases to top financial investment firms. • Performed testing for financial modeling client/server application that scores stock market analysts on predicted earnings accuracy. • Conducted full functionality testing, browser and OS compatibility testing, and data verification on company’s three websites. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science California State University, Northridge ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richard-lee-280473 --- Source: https://flows.cv/richardlee JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/richardlee/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01