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Nelson Hernandez

@nelsonhernandez

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Senior QA automation engineer specializing in Java Selenium, API testing, and CI/CD quality pipelines.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own end-to-end test automation—from strategy to CI/CD—while mentoring teams and improving frameworks (POM/BDD), ensuring reliable web, API, and mobile quality in agile environments.

I’m a Senior QA Automation Engineer with around 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, covering the full Software Test Life Cycle across Agile and Waterfall. I build automation frameworks and test plans that translate acceptance criteria into reliable suites—leveraging Selenium WebDriver, TestNG/JUnit, and hybrid POM + BDD approaches with Cucumber/Gherkin.

I drive quality through defect management in JIRA, cross-browser validation, and CI/CD automation with Jenkins and Azure DevOps pipelines and artifacts. I also strengthen coverage with RESTful API testing (Rest Assured, Postman), database validation using SQL on Oracle, and mobile/web testing using Appium—always focused on maintainable scripts, strong reporting, and mentoring teams to raise engineering standards.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Automation Engineer II

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TaxAct

Feb 2023 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Developed a Selenium + Java automation framework using Page Object Model (POM) and Cucumber BDD to automate client-side validations for a loan originating process application. Implemented CI/CD automation with Jenkins, executed cross-browser UI tests, and performed REST API testing using Rest Assured and manual validation in Postman.

Java Selenium Webdriver TestNG Jenkins Jira Rest Assured Postman AWS (Selenium Grid)

Senior QA Engineer

American Red Cross

Jan 2019 - Feb 2023 (4 years 1 month)

Automated test scenarios with Selenium RC (Java/JUnit) and built reusable automation frameworks integrated with Maven and Jenkins. Tested web services and integrations using SOAPUI (SOAP/XML/WSDL), executed comprehensive regression and compatibility testing, and validated backend data using SQL queries.

Java Junit SoapUI Maven Jenkins SQL Spring Boot Hibernate Apache Kafka

QA Automation Engineer

Capital One

Aug 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 4 months)

Created automated UI test scripts with Selenium (Java) and JUnit, and integrated test execution into Jenkins after deployments. Built a keyword-driven Selenium RC framework that reduced script development time by 50%, and validated database integrity using SQL queries.