# George Ataya

George Ataya is a remote worker on Himalayas, Principal Engineer & Automation Architect at AI-Enabled Job Search Platform, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@georgeataya

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Senior SDET at Machinify who architected a healthcare claims API framework and built more than 10,000 automated tests.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 160k+ USD |
| Job categories | SDET, QA Automation Engineer, Automation Testing, Software Engineer |
| Skills | API Testing, REST API Automation, Database Testing, Testing Automation, Test Automation Framework, CI CD, Playwright, SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, Azure DevOps |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/george-ataya |

## About

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At Machinify, I architected an API automation framework for a healthcare claims platform and built and maintained more than 10,000 automated tests. I also validated annual CMS code updates end to end with SQL and worked with developers on a simpler, secure approach after identifying exposed sensitive healthcare data.

At AIR Worldwide (now Verisk), I led automation for GeoPin™ address-to-coordinate conversion and built reusable, data-driven tests for political boundaries, postal codes and coordinates across 200+ countries. I also led a Scrum QA team of three and created a WPF tool for validating geocodes alongside catastrophe models.

At Symantec, I architected an enterprise automation framework for Symantec Endpoint Protection and led a five-engineer offshore automation team. I'm now building an AI-enabled job search platform, with a Playwright framework I architected and AI-assisted features integrated through OpenAI APIs.
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## Experience

### Principal Engineer & Automation Architect (current)

AI-Enabled Job Search Platform. Jan 2025 - Present

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Developed reusable API testing infrastructure validating REST endpoints, authentication, authorization, request validation, error handling and backend business logic. Built a Playwright framework with Page Object Model, shared fixtures and API-based login, covering UI, API, security and end-to-end scenarios.
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Skills: Playwright, TypeScript, NodeJS, MongoDB, REST-APIs, OpenAI-API, Testing-Automation, AI

### Senior QA Automation Engineer

Machinify. Jan 2022 - Jan 2025

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Architected the enterprise API automation framework for a healthcare claims platform, replacing manual validation with scalable automated testing. Built and maintained more than 10,000 automated tests covering REST APIs, claims processing, Cypress UI automation, and database verification.
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Skills: API-Testing, REST-APIs, SQL, Cypress, Azure-DevOps, Next.js, NodeJS, MongoDB, Healthcare-Claims, Testing-Automation

### Senior SDET & Team Lead

AIR Worldwide (now Verisk). Jan 2016 - Jan 2022

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Served as Geocoding Subject Matter Expert, designing automation that validated political boundaries, administrative divisions, postal codes and coordinates across 200+ countries. Led a Scrum QA team of three, setting automation architecture and standards, running code reviews, and mentoring engineers.
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Skills: Automation, DataDrivenTesting, WPF, Scrum, Team-Leadership, geocoding, QA

### Senior QA Engineer, Automation Architect & Technical Lead

Symantec. Jan 2010 - Jan 2016

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Architected the C#/WPF enterprise automation framework for Symantec Endpoint Protection, replacing fragmented manual testing for worldwide releases. Led a five-engineer offshore automation team, assigning framework work, mentoring, and reviewing implementations.
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Skills: C#, WPF, Automation-Framework, Testing-Automation, Mobile-Automation, Java, Malware-Testing

### Senior Software Engineer

Sign Story. Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

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Migrated a production codebase across Java, Managed C++ and C# within six months. Built server-side content-distribution services for national retail digital signage.
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Skills: Java, C++, C#, Content-Distribution, Digital-Signage

### Senior Customer Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

SeaChange International. Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

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Troubleshot customers' production video-on-demand systems, separating software defects from configuration issues. Delivered an ISO/IEC 14496-5 Interactive TV API in three weeks after it had stalled for eight months.
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Skills: Troubleshooting, Video-on-Demand, ISO-IEC-14496-5, API-Development

### Senior Software Engineer

Brooks Automation. Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

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Designed an adaptive C++ motion-control algorithm that eliminated wafer slippage on $100K+ semiconductor wafers at full throughput.
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Skills: C++, Motion-Control, Semiconductors, Algorithm-Design

### Senior Software Engineer

Analogic Corporation. Jan 1996 - Jan 2005

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Wrote embedded C and C++ for medical imaging, including the C.U.R.E. breast ultrasound platform later FDA-cleared as SoftVue™. Built production validation software with functional, boundary and limit testing under ISO 13485.
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Skills: C, C++, Embedded-Systems, Medical-Imaging, ISO-13485, Validation

## Education

### University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science

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Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science.
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### LinkedIn Learning

Certificate, Web Development

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Completed courses in Playwright, Next.js, and MongoDB.
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## Tech stack

- Selenium
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- Next.js
- Azure DevOps
- Jest
- Cypress
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- C#
- JSON
- C++
- C
- TypeScript
- Docker
- SQL
- Playwright
- Claude

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