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Sara Pearce

@sarapearce

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Senior QA engineer specializing in test automation and team leadership.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek remote roles leading or contributing to automation initiatives, where I can scale test coverage, improve release velocity, mentor engineers, and collaborate on CI/CD and quality strategy.

I am a senior QA engineer and automation lead with a proven track record of scaling test suites, improving release velocity, and leading small QA teams. I drive automation growth—multiplying test coverage and accelerating releases—while collaborating with engineering and senior leadership to balance priorities, stability, and team development.

My background spans hands-on automation in Playwright and Cypress, CI/CD and container workflows, API, accessibility and security testing, and earlier full‑stack development experience. I bring a continuous-improvement mindset, clear communication, and a history of delivering measurable results such as 4x test-suite growth and dramatic reductions in manual release testing time.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr. QA Engineer - Automation

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Nurocor

Oct 2023 - Present (2 years)

Lead a team of 5 QA engineers to expand Playwright test coverage 4x in 12 months, review ~200 PRs in 2024 and maintain multiple CI test reports to improve release stability.

Playwright Test Automation CI CD PR Team Leadership Test Reporting Release Management

QA Automation Engineer

SoWork

Mar 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year 7 months)

Increased engineering release velocity 4x within 3 months by building 50 Cypress automated tests and 28 manual scripts, enabling 100+ independent releases and reducing manual testing time 90%.

Cypress Test Automation CI CD Manual Testing Release Management Scripting Continuous Integration

QA Engineer

Bloomfire

Jun 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Grew Cypress automation suite 3x, implemented an automation roadmap and stakeholder reporting, and led testing across the SDLC to support feature delivery and CI improvements.

Cypress Test Automation SDLC Roadmapping Exploratory testing Agile Scrum

Lead Developer

Left Turn Only

Mar 2016 - Feb 2019 (2 years 11 months)

Owned end-to-end website development and launches for small agencies and businesses, scaling the team from 1 to 3 and training interns and contractors on best practices.

Scaling Teams Project Management Client Communication PHP JavaScript Training

QA Engineer, Math Specialist

Querium

Apr 2016 - Jun 2017 (1 year 2 months)

Tested an AI virtual math tutor for UX, accuracy and curricular alignment, edited NoSQL JSON content, authored LaTeX/MathML questions and contributed 50+ items to the training database.

LaTeX MathML NoSQL Mathematica

Software Engineer I

Social Solutions

Jun 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 6 months)

Implemented product features and maintenance in PHP and JavaScript as primary developer on 8 features and executed quarterly manual QA for new releases.

PHP JavaScript Manual QA Maintenance Web Development Collaboration