Julie Coleman

About Julie Coleman

I\'m a results-driven, detail-oriented senior automation engineer with a multidisciplinary background. I have experience implementing front & back end test frameworks in multiple programming languages utilizing CI/CD tools and cloud services for cross-functional teams. I aim to enhance the maintainability of the system under test by analyzing the artifacts of our test tooling to suggest improvements in the codebase. At the same time, I\'ve combined my background of customer service, UI/UX, and marketing to prioritize customer-centric thinking, usability, and accessibility. I value continuous learning and enjoy working with diverse and collaborative teams. I thrive at work when given challenging stretch goals, having continuous feedback, and working in an environment that embraces emerging technologies and evolving best practices.🤝 For over a decade, I\'ve helped facilitate local STEM engagement by curating communities of practice. I volunteer for nonprofits and dedicate time to community engagement through local meetup, event, and conference organization both in and out of the tech space.‍ With a non-traditional background, I’ve built a career defined by adaptability and resilience. I became a full time leasing agent for a property management company at the age of 16. I then spent many years navigating multiple concurrent day, evening and weekend jobs alongside finishing my GED, getting multiple college degrees, and finally teaching myself programming as a post-grad working adult and now working in the leasing agent space for software. Outside of my tech experience listed here on LinkedIn, I\'ve worked in the service, restaurant, fitness, and sales industry both full time and as second and third jobs. These experiences taught me how to manage time and resources efficiently in dynamic and fast paced environments, client relationship building, communication, goal setting, showmanship and presentation skills. This path has shaped me into a versatile professional with strong interpersonal skills, humility, empathy, and perseverance. Current Stack: React, NextJS, Typescript, Playwright, Cypress.io, Github Actions, as well as.NET, C# View my Github at https://github.com/julielaursen Citizenships: US, Switzerland

Experience

1. Senior Sdet Ii

   Updater

   Apr 2024 — Present

   Responsible for maintenance of repositories such as versioning, package scripts, documentation, upgrades, refactoring, and optimizations in Typescript/Next/Node-Responsible for CI/CD improvements through Github Actions on Node/TS and.NET/C# repos. Reduced unit test workflow duration from ~16m to ~3.5m, improving developer experience- Analyzed and optimized code quality, reducing complexity and improving maintainability scores to an A on CodeClimate\'s grading system- Increased jest coverage on all repos from under 40% to 80% unit test coverage by increasing jest tests from 2k to ~ 6k. Removed hundreds of individual static mocks and replaced them with up to date generated mocks using graphql-codegen, adding to the test architecture readability and developer experience- Implemented PACT contract testing of Rest and GraphQL endpoints from scratch on frontend and backend repositories to catch version mismatches and issues not caught by unit testing alone- Implemented playwright suite for regression testing- Execute manual testing including utilizing playwright_mcp and Claude AI to generate test flows in parallel and create reports for review

Education

• Austin Community College

  individual classes in C++ & Java Programming, UX/UI, Health Information Technology, Design and Visual Communications, Computer Science

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  B.S., Information Systems Technology, focus on Networking/System Administration

• St.Edward's University

  Individual comp sci classes

  2019 — 2020

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

• SANS Technology Institute

  Women's Immersion Academy

  2020 — 2020