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Hi, I’m Ben!

Ben Armour

Software QA Engineer

I bring reliability to every release so teams can ship with confidence.

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How I Work

Repeatable process. Verifiable results.

01

CI Pipeline Integration

Automated test runs on every PR with published reports and clear pass/fail gates.

02

Flake Control

Retries, quarantines, and root-cause investigation to keep suites reliable.

03

Release Validation

UAT exit criteria and release readiness summaries that stakeholders trust.

04

Environment Parity

Production-like lab setups with hardware and software matrices that mirror real conditions.

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Defect Lifecycle Ownership

From log capture and repro isolation through Jira tracking to verified fix in production.

Automated CI terminal showing test and deployment scenarios

ben@qa-runner:~$ pnpm exec jest --selectProjects api-contracts --verbose

PASS tests/contracts/auth.spec.ts

auth endpoints

✓ POST /auth/login returns 200 with valid credentials (84 ms)

✓ POST /auth/login returns 401 with bad password (32 ms)

✓ POST /auth/refresh rotates token pair (41 ms)

PASS tests/contracts/payments.spec.ts

payment endpoints

✓ POST /payments/charge matches OpenAPI schema (127 ms)

✓ GET /payments/:id returns 404 for unknown id (18 ms)

✓ POST /payments/refund returns 201 with receipt (93 ms)

PASS tests/contracts/inventory.spec.ts

inventory endpoints

✓ GET /inventory returns paginated list (62 ms)

✓ PATCH /inventory/:sku updates stock count (45 ms)

✓ DELETE /inventory/:sku returns 204 no content (29 ms)

✓ GET /inventory?status=low filters correctly (37 ms)

Test Suites: 3 passed, 3 total

Tests: 10 passed, 10 total

Snapshots: 0 total

Time: 1.847 s

Ran all test suites.

ben@qa-runner:~$

Areas of Expertise

Coverage across the whole stack.

Test Automation

Cypress · Playwright · Jest

Defect Lifecycle

Jira · GitHub

Test Reporting

Tableau · Confluence

CI/CD Pipelines

GitHub Actions · Git

Environments & Infrastructure

Docker · Linux

API Testing

Postman · REST APIs

Performance Testing

Lighthouse

Accessibility Testing

axe-core · WCAG

Data Validation

SQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB

Testimonials

From teams I've shipped with.

Josh Kremer

Josh Kremer

Business Administrator, School of IT — University of Cincinnati

Ben consistently produces superior quality work, on time, and within budgetary targets. He invariably understands exactly what a project is all about from the outset, and how to get it done quickly and effectively. He is an example of the type of employee every employer wants.

Available for new opportunities

Let's work together.

Looking for a QA engineer who owns quality end-to-end? I'm open to on-site, hybrid, and remote roles, and willing to relocate within the US or abroad.