Ben Krack

Engineering Velocity

Sr SDET

Driving initiatives to reduce defect leakage, change failure rate, and test flakiness, utilizing Playwright and in-house performance and API test tooling.

Impact: Reduced change failure rate and streamlined quality gates for faster delivery.

• Playwright
• In-house Tooling
• API Testing
• Performance Testing
• CI/CD

CMS Migration Strategy & Automation

Sr SDET

Created and executed the overall test automation strategy for a complex CMS migration. Responsibilities included building scalable automation frameworks, integrating with CI/CD, and conducting in-depth performance testing.

Innovation: Created an AI test generation process to automate the test case backlog and onboarded the team onto it.

• WebDriverIO
• Playwright
• Checkly
• JMeter
• TypeScript
• AI Test Gen

Compliance

Tech Lead

Led a team of 6 SDETs to thoroughly test a critical application designed for traceable compliance with global regulations.

Leadership: Led 6 SDETs to deliver critical compliance infrastructure for global regulations.

• Selenium
• Axe
• Java
• Python
• Dart
• CI/CD
• Test Strategy
• UI Testing
• Performance Testing
• Accessibility

Legal

SDET

Embedded across various development teams to drive testing efforts critical for achieving company-wide legal objectives.

Scale: Designed scalable automation infrastructure supporting diverse user bases across multiple teams.

• Selenium
• Java
• CI/CD
• UI Testing
• API Testing
• Accessibility
• Localization

Task Management

SDET

Delivered end-to-end UI and performance test automation, integrating with the CI/CD pipeline, and oversaw manual regression testing for a company-wide support application with complex integrations like Google Chat.

Integration: Delivered complex E2E automation for a company-wide application integrated with Google Chat.

• Selenium
• TypeScript
• CI/CD
• UI Testing
• Performance Testing
• Test Strategy

Health and wellness

SDET

Led a behavioral-driven development effort using end-to-end UI testing for a global streaming company's responsive web application.

Methodology: Spearheaded BDD adoption and mentored the team for a global streaming platform.

• Robot Framework
• Python
• Jenkins
• Sauce Labs
• Testrail
• BDD
• UI Testing
• API Testing

Philanthropy

SDET

Validated the functionality of a Salesforce application built for the world's largest nonprofit organization using automated UI and API testing.

Impact: Validated critical workflows for the world's largest nonprofit organization.

• Selenium
• Rest Assured
• Java
• Salesforce
• UI Testing
• API Testing

Investment banking

SDET

Tested investment management tools that enabled better management of assets for an international investment banking company.

Quality: Enhanced asset management reliability through comprehensive UI and Database testing.

• Selenium
• C#
• MySQL
• UI Testing
• API Testing
• Database Testing

Marketing and advertisement

SDET

An automotive marketing and advertisement company wanted an advertisement creation web app built to simplify and expand its advertisement capabilities.

Expansion: Enabled advertisement capability expansion through targeted UI automation.

• MSTest
• C#
• UI Testing

Quarters for Kids

• Served as a board member for Quarters for Kids
• Organized and filed for 501(c)3 nonprofit status
• Created and maintained website and social media profile, including content generation

AOK Friends

• Served as board secretary and treasurer for AOK Friends
• Organized homeless outreach group to achieve 501(c)(3) nonprofit status
• Handled financial processes
• Provided food and necessities to people experiencing homelessness

Volunteer Leadership

• Led a volunteer committee to impact local and national nonprofit organizations
• Coordinated teams across US and Canada to raise over $100,000 for hunger relief
• Led team to create volunteer events at multiple local nonprofit organizations
• Reviewed requests and allocated funds for local and national 501(c)3 nonprofits