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Elliot Yates

Quality Assurance Analyst

Technical QA professional with experience owning end-to-end testing efforts within agile software teams — designing test strategies, building Cypress automation, and collaborating across engineering and business to ship reliable software.

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4+ Years Experience
Cypress Primary Framework
Postman API Testing
North Carolina Currently Based
Washington D.C. / Virginia / Maryland Open to Relocation

Skills

TEST AUTOMATION

Cypress Selenium Cucumber Ghost Inspector

MANUAL TESTING

System Regression Smoke Integration Exploratory

API TESTING

Postman

DATABASE

SQL Test Data Staging

QA PRACTICES

Agile User Stories Acceptance Criteria Test Planning Defect Tracking

TOOLS & PLATFORMS

Azure DevOps Git / GitHub VS Code Browserstack Rally Jenkins

LANGUAGES

Python Java C++ JavaScript HTML CSS

Experience

Quality Assurance Analyst

2023 — Present

PHE Inc.

Contract-to-Hire via HAYS  ·  6 Month Contract

  • Develop Cypress automated test suites in JavaScript, sequenced by priority based on team productivity impact.
  • Partner with business, marketing, developer, and system teams to translate user stories into functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and detailed test plans.
  • Design, maintain, and execute a full regression suite across Desktop, mobile (iOS, iPadOS, Android), and macOS environments.
  • Write SQL queries to generate live test data sets meeting specific testing requirements.
  • Validate API updates across environments using Postman.
  • Review developer pull requests in Java and C# to assess impacted systems and flag unintended side effects prior to release.

Quality Assurance Engineer

2021 — 2022

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Client: AIG Insurance

  • Developed automated tests using Selenium and Cucumber in Java to support regression and smoke testing.
  • Updated component versions in GitHub and executed Jenkins jobs to deploy builds to test environments.
  • Executed, verified, and logged test cases across browsers as various user types.

Projects

Cypress E2E Suite

IN PROGRESS

End-to-end test suite built in Cypress against SauceDemo, covering critical user flows with GitHub Actions CI integration.

Cypress JavaScript GitHub Actions
GitHub — coming soon

Certifications

ISTQB – CTFL (Certified Tester Foundation Level)

ISTQB — International Software Testing Qualifications Board
IN PROGRESS

Education

University of Alabama

2017 — 2020

B.S. Computer Science — Tuscaloosa, AL

  • Presidential Scholarship
  • Engineering Leadership Scholarship

DISTINCTIONS

  • North Carolina Governor's School
  • Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America