Theo Ramirez
theo.ramirez@email.com · 512-555-0191 · Austin, TX
Professional Summary
QA engineer with 6 years improving product quality through manual and automated testing. Skilled at risk-based test planning, bug advocacy, and partnering with engineering to ship reliably.
Experience
QA Engineer · Lone Star Software
Austin, TX • 2021–Present
- Owned regression suites for a B2B SaaS product; cut escaped defects by 35% YoY.
- Built Playwright automation covering 120+ critical flows in CI on every PR.
- Wrote clear bug reports and risk notes that became the team’s QA template.
- Coordinated UAT with 8 enterprise customers ahead of major releases.
QA Analyst · Hill Country Apps
Austin, TX • 2018–2021
- Executed exploratory and scripted tests across web and mobile clients.
- Introduced TestRail for case management; improved coverage visibility for PMs.
- Validated API contracts with Postman collections shared with backend engineers.
QA Intern · Texas Tech Labs
Round Rock, TX • 2017–2018
- Logged 200+ bugs during internship and participated in daily standups.
- Assisted with smoke tests for weekly releases and documented edge cases.
- Learned SQL for data validation on reporting features.
Education
Texas State University
B.S. in Information Technology
San Marcos, TX · May 2018
Projects
CI Flaky-Test Dashboard • 2023
- Built a dashboard tracking flaky Playwright tests; reduced false failures by 40%.
Skills
Manual Testing, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, TestRail, SQL, Jira, Regression Planning, API Testing
Certifications
ISTQB Foundation Level