
K Chery
@kchery
I build and lead quality engineering teams, automation platforms, and AI-safe testing workflows.
What I'm looking for
I've built QA functions from the ground up at Better Car People, AlphaPoint, CAR IQ, and Press Plus/Piano Media. At Better Car People, I grew QA from one support-based engineer to an eight-person distributed team, defined release governance and KPIs, and reduced manual regression from five days to roughly one hour.
I stay hands-on with Python, Pytest, Playwright, CI/CD, data-pipeline validation, and failure investigation. At THECMT.ORG, I built a self-healing selector tool that proposes test fixes while rejecting any patch that weakens assertions, and I use Claude and GPT with review gates so AI accelerates quality work without replacing engineering judgment.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
QA & Test Automation Consultant
THECMT.ORG
Nov 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)
Built a self-healing selector tool with guardrails against weakened tests, and designed and maintained a Playwright and pytest E2E suite with CI integration.
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Better Car People
Feb 2024 - Jan 2026 (1 year 11 months)
Built and led a distributed QA team of eight, established quality governance and KPIs, and championed AI-driven quality engineering across the team.
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
AlphaPoint
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023 (11 months)
Built the QA function from scratch as sole engineer for a real-time crypto arbitrage trading platform, defining testing standards and release readiness criteria.
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Car IQ
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022 (9 months)
Created the company's first QA governance framework and orchestrated collaboration between distributed teams, establishing a structured Jira defect taxonomy.
Senior QA Engineer
Remedy Partners / Signify Health
Sep 2016 - Oct 2021 (5 years 1 month)
Built ETL and data pipeline test frameworks across AWS services, designed SQL reconciliation tests, and integrated JMeter performance scripts into CI/CD pipelines.
Quality Assurance Manager
Press Plus / Piano Media
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016 (1 year 4 months)
Re-engineered a UI automation suite into a Java Selenium Page Object Model framework, built end-to-end QA for a B2C subscription platform, and managed a two-person QA team in Europe.
QA Lead & Engineer
Planet Young
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015 (4 months)
Led testing from design through launch, authored UAT plans, identified 54+ payment-impacting defects, and executed JMeter load testing.
Technical Lead & IT Application Support
Fortress Investment Group
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 11 months)
Provided technical leadership and IT application support.
Analyst, Operations Reporting & Whole Loan Funding
Barclays Capital
Jan 2009 - Dec 2013 (4 years 11 months)
Performed operations reporting and whole loan funding analysis.
Risk Control/Trade Support
Société Générale
Jan 2009 - Dec 2009 (11 months)
Provided risk control and trade support.
Business Analyst
J.P. Morgan Chase
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Performed business analysis duties.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Stony Brook University
Bachelor of Science, Business Management
Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a Finance Specialization and a minor in Computer Science.
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate, Cloud Architecture
2020 - 2020
Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate certification in November 2020.
CompTIA
CompTIA A+ and Network Training, Information Technology
Completed CompTIA A+ and Network training.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Social media
Skills
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