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chimbuchi uwakwe

@chimbuchiuwakwe

SDET with 6+ years building Java/Selenium automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-powered quality engineering solutions.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead CI/CD-integrated test automation in cross-functional teams—building reusable frameworks, reducing manual testing, and using AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and delivery speed.

I am a Software Development Engineer in Test with 6+ years of experience building enterprise Java/Selenium and Playwright automation frameworks, engineering CI/CD pipelines, and delivering quality engineering solutions across federal and private sector environments.

At the Department of Veterans Affairs I built a full automation framework from scratch, engineered an MFA bypass for secured federal systems, designed multi-stage Groovy Jenkinsfile pipelines with automated reporting, and created a no-code test execution system giving the entire team on-demand access to automated testing with zero setup — increasing coverage by 25% and reducing manual effort by 30% per release.

I bring additional depth in DevOps, Linux systems engineering, AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Terraform. As a personal project I am building an AI agentic test pipeline using LangGraph, CrewAI, MCP, and LangSmith that autonomously generates test coverage and routes risk summaries to stakeholders.

I hold a Public Trust Clearance, CompTIA Security+, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, and LPIC-1, and I am pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at WGU. I am passionate about quality engineering, automation architecture, and the intersection of AI and software testing.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

SDET / QA Automation

Current

Department of Veterans Affairs

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 2 months)

Designed and improved automated test coverage with Java/Selenium and Playwright, increasing automation coverage 25% and reducing manual testing effort 30% per release cycle. Built Groovy Jenkins pipelines, a no-code test execution system, and an MFA bypass solution enabling end-to-end runs in secured VA environments; mentored engineers to raise automation maturity.

Java Selenium Webdriver Playwright TestNG Jenkins Groovy CI CD Page Object Model Sauce Labs REST API Testing

DevOps Engineer

Phoenix Contact USA

Apr 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Owned CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket) with Maven builds, SonarQube/JaCoCo quality gates, and Artifactory artifact management, catching 95% of critical defects pre-merge and reducing build overhead 40%. Delivered AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure via Terraform and automated operations with Ansible/Bash, improving environment deployment time 25% and achieving 99.9% uptime with D

Jenkins GitHub Actions Bitbucket Maven SonarQube JaCoCo Artifactory Terraform Kubernetes AWS

Linux Systems Administrator

True Tech Solutions

Oct 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 2 months)

Administered RHEL/CentOS systems and web stack (Apache, Tomcat), managing DNS/NFS/SSH and handling migrations and production patching across Oracle RAC and SAP HANA environments. Wrote Bash/Ansible automation, implemented Jenkins CI/CD with Artifactory and Maven, and applied infrastructure hardening (firewall, LVM, least-privilege access) to reduce recurring manual work.