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Lawson Shepherd

@lawsonshepherd

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QA Automation Engineer specializing in Playwright, REST APIs, and scalable test frameworks.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can own end-to-end test strategy—building reliable Playwright/REST automation frameworks, strengthening CI diagnostics, and partnering with engineers to improve stability, coverage, and release validation.

I’m a QA Automation Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing Playwright and TypeScript frameworks, leading test strategy, and automating complex web applications. I specialize in REST API testing, with supporting UI coverage and Microsoft SQL Server validation for personal and commercial flood and earthquake workflows.

I owned automation strategy and framework architecture for CATcoverage.com, including migrating approximately 1,200 Selenium test cases to Playwright using reusable API services, fixtures, page objects, centralized configuration, and environment-specific test data. I built REST API automation across price indications, quoting, underwriting, payment, policy issuance, and renewal validation, then added SQL Server assertions to verify workflow data beyond API responses—improving stability and failure investigation with resilient locators, traces, screenshots, structured logs, and HTML reports. I also use Cursor AI and GitHub Copilot to accelerate debugging, refactoring, framework maintenance, and documentation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

QA Automation Engineer

Poulton Associates

Sep 2019 - Jun 2026 (6 years 9 months)

Owned automation strategy and Playwright/TypeScript framework architecture for CATcoverage.com, migrating ~1,200 Selenium test cases to Playwright using reusable API services, fixtures, and page objects. Built REST API automation for flood/earthquake workflows with Microsoft SQL Server assertions, improved stability via traces/screenshots/logs, and prototyped Dockerized parallel/sharded execution

Playwright TypeScript REST API Testing Selenium Webdriver Microsoft SQL Server Test Fixturing GitHub Actions Docker

Data Services Integration Analyst

Willis Towers Watson

Dec 2016 - Aug 2019 (2 years 8 months)

Developed C# and Python tools to automate data-processing and ETL tasks, and built a C# application that automated email tracking to win the 2019 Data Team Hackathon. Wrote SQL Server queries for client data extraction/validation, supported Selenium WebDriver testing, and documented defects in Jira.

C Python ETL Microsoft SQL Server SQL Selenium Webdriver Jira Data Validation Chrome DevTools

Fraud Analyst

eBay

May 2009 - Nov 2016 (7 years 6 months)

Investigated high-risk buyer and seller accounts by analyzing fraud indicators, behavior patterns, and policy violations, and reviewed evidence for suspension appeals and customer claims. Built Python scripts to automate repetitive tracking workflows and delivered internal training on basic software-development concepts and scripting.

Fraud Analysis Python Excel reporting And Policy Violations Data Tracking