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Tim Lin

Software Development Engineer in Test

๐Ÿ“ New York, NY

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Detail-oriented SDET with deep technical focus on complex data validation and high-stakes financial system integrity. Expert in architecting cross-subsystem validation engines and modular data generators for regulated environments and large-scale enterprise migrations. Skilled in manual and automated validation across diverse API ecosystems, legacy databases, and modern multi-cloud infrastructures.

Skills

Postman9/10
CodeceptJS8/10
Cucumber/Gherkin8/10
Selenium WebDriver8/10
Playwright8/10
Python (8/10)TypeScript (7/10)BrowserStack (7/10)GitHub Actions (7/10)JavaScript (7/10)Jenkins CI/CD (7/10)Pytest (7/10)Scrapy (7/10)SoapUI (7/10)SQL (7/10)AWS (6/10)Docker (6/10)Datadog (6/10)Ruby (6/10)Cypress (4/10)

Work Experience

Freelance Software Engineer

Freelance Projects

Sept 2023 โ€” Present

Engineered a voice-enabled AI bot integrating Vapi and OpenAI GPT to process complex user inquiries over the phone. Architected an automated data scraping pipeline using Scrapy to aggregate real-time market data from platforms like KBB and Zillow, outputting results to Google Sheets.

Software Engineer In Test

Planet Howl

Nov 2021 โ€” Aug 2023

Diagnosed critical production anomalies via OS and browser segmentation, uncovering an iOS Safari tracking defect resolved prior to a major marketing campaign. Designed end-to-end testing strategies based on customer usage data to mitigate deployment risks during high-traffic Black Friday and Cyber Monday events.

QA Automation Engineer

MyVest

Nov 2019 โ€” Oct 2021

Architected dynamic Postman API collections to generate investment mock data, cutting client account setup duration by 95% across multiple test environments. Executed end-to-end UI automation using CodeceptJS and Page Object Model, monitoring CI pipelines in Jenkins throughout the agile lifecycle.

Automation Engineer

Nationwide

Jun 2017 โ€” Nov 2019

Developed a scalable automated validation framework analyzing business requirements across multiple subsystems, performing bit-by-bit comparisons against enterprise data ecosystems. Facilitated onshore/offshore team collaboration executing Gherkin-based scenarios via Cucumber to ensure regulatory compliance across 30+ state jurisdictions.

Education

CUNY - College of Staten Island

BS ยท Computer Science and Mathematics

2011 โ€“ 2016