Detail-oriented QA professional with 5+ years of paid professional testing experience delivering functional, regression, and exploratory testing for global enterprise clients across fintech, casino, healthcare, AI wearables, streaming, and sports betting industries.

Currently open to full-time and contract remote roles as a QA Analyst, Manual QA Tester, or Junior QA Automation Engineer.

• E2E automation using Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium with Page Object Model
• API testing using RestAssured, Postman, GraphQL, and WireMock service virtualization
• Mobile automation testing Android apps with Appium and WebdriverIO
• Performance testing with Grafana K6 — smoke, load, stress, spike, and soak
• Security testing using OWASP principles — SQL injection, XSS, auth, and data exposure
• BDD frameworks using Cucumber and Gherkin readable by non-technical stakeholders
• Accessibility testing scanning for WCAG 2.1 AA violations with axe-core
• Contract testing with Pact for consumer-driven microservice verification
• AI/ML testing validating model accuracy, bias, fairness, and edge cases
• Data pipeline testing validating schema, quality, transformations, and integrity
• Cloud pipelines uploading reports to AWS S3 via GitHub Actions

Contract QA Analyst — Remote | March 2020 – Present

Professional QA tester delivering paid testing cycles for global enterprise clients across diverse industries:

• Casino platform functional and regression testing
• Sports betting platform testing across staging and dev environments
• AI-powered smart glasses testing including live AI features
• Fintech payment platform audits and compliance testing
• TV app upload, installation, and functional testing
• Live streaming app testing across multiple devices and platforms
• Healthcare web and mobile platform testing
• Patient decision module testing across multiple browsers

Tools: Jira, Xray, TestRail, NATS, Confluence, video and screenshot bug evidence Platforms: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Windows, Android, iOS, TV

Formal test case document covering the SecureBank banking application login module.

• TC_001 — Happy Path: Valid login redirects to dashboard
• TC_002 — Invalid email format blocked with inline validation
• TC_003 — Account lockout after 3 consecutive failed attempts
• TC_004 — Remember Me session persistence across browser restarts
• Includes preconditions, test data, steps, expected results, postconditions, and sign-off section

Professional QA status report for the PayFlow payment application sprint 7.

• Overall status, test execution summary, defect summary
• Quality metrics including DRE (89.7%) and defect leakage (10.2%)
• Risk assessment with 4 identified risks
• Release recommendation with criteria and estimated ready date

Full-stack QA framework — E2E + API + Allure + POM + data-driven tests (24 tests) Stack: Playwright, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

Enterprise UI automation with ExtentReports, Log4j, ConfigReader, screenshot on failure, parallel execution (9 tests) Stack: Selenium, Java 17, TestNG, Maven, GitHub Actions

Enterprise API testing with POJO classes, Log4j, ConfigReader, parallel execution (19 tests) Stack: RestAssured, Java 17, TestNG, GitHub Actions

API mocking and service virtualization — stubs, error simulation, delays, request verification (13 tests) Stack: WireMock 3.x, Java 17, RestAssured, TestNG, GitHub Actions

BDD framework with Gherkin scenarios readable by non-technical stakeholders (10 scenarios / 42 steps) Stack: Cucumber.js, Playwright, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

Python test framework covering UI and API testing with parametrize and fixtures (22 tests) Stack: Python, Pytest, Playwright, Requests, GitHub Actions

Security testing using OWASP principles — SQL injection, XSS, authentication, CORS, data exposure (46 tests) Stack: Python, Pytest, Requests, GitHub Actions

AI/ML model testing — accuracy thresholds, bias detection, edge cases, fairness (32 tests) Stack: Python, Pytest, Scikit-learn, Pandas, GitHub Actions

Data pipeline testing — schema validation, quality checks, transformations, integrity (59 tests) Stack: Python, Pytest, Pandas, NumPy, GitHub Actions

GraphQL API testing against SpaceX public API (12 tests) Stack: Playwright, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

Consumer contract testing for User and Order microservices Stack: Pact JS, TypeScript, Jest, GitHub Actions

MySQL data integrity suite with GitHub Actions MySQL service container (38 tests) Stack: MySQL, JDBC, Java, TestNG, GitHub Actions

Mobile automation testing Wikipedia Android app on emulator Stack: Appium v3, WebdriverIO v9, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

Performance testing — smoke, load, stress, spike, and soak scenarios (500 VUs) Stack: Grafana K6, GitHub Actions

Accessibility testing scanning for WCAG 2.1 AA violations across real websites Stack: Playwright, TypeScript, axe-core, GitHub Actions

WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility scanning with axe-core across multiple real websites Stack: axe-core, Selenium, Java 17, TestNG, GitHub Actions

Cypress E2E automation with time travel debugging Stack: Cypress, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

Containerized Playwright tests running inside Docker Stack: Docker, Playwright, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

Playwright tests with automatic S3 report upload via GitHub Actions Stack: Playwright, AWS S3, GitHub Actions

Visual regression testing with screenshot comparison Stack: Playwright, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

MongoDB NoSQL database testing — CRUD, schema validation, referential integrity, aggregation pipelines, bulk operations against Atlas (43 tests) Stack: Python, PyMongo, Pytest, MongoDB Atlas, GitHub Actions

QA analytics dashboard — DRE, defect leakage, flaky test detection, pass rate trends, 7 automated charts (45 tests) Stack: Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, NumPy, GitHub Actions

Cross browser testing across Chrome, Firefox, WebKit, and mobile browsers Stack: Playwright, TypeScript, GitHub Actions

NBA-style sports analytics — player efficiency ratings, salary vs performance, team wins, SQL queries, 7 charts (43 tests) Stack: Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SQLite, GitHub Actions

Financial fraud detection — velocity abuse, geographic anomalies, structuring detection, composite risk scoring (43 tests) Stack: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, SQLite, GitHub Actions

Healthcare analytics — HIPAA compliance, readmission risk, medication errors, patient outcomes, department performance (43 tests) Stack: Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, SQLite, GitHub Actions

Enterprise performance testing with Apache JMeter — smoke, load, stress, spike, and endurance test plans Stack: Apache JMeter, Java 17, GitHub Actions

Retail operations and sales analytics — EDA, data cleaning, SQL queries, Power BI dashboard, business insights Stack: Python, Pandas, SQL, Matplotlib, Power BI

• Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert
• Introduction to Prompt Engineering — Simplilearn (March 2026)
• Introduction to Software Testing — Simplilearn (March 2026)
• Best Practices for Cross-Functional Communication — CodeSignal (March 2026)
• Software Testing Foundations: Test Techniques & Strategy — LinkedIn Learning
• Foundations of Software Testing and Automation — LinkedIn Learning
• Succeeding in Software Testing — LinkedIn Learning
• Web Development Fundamentals — IBM
• Practice It: Python Data Structures — LinkedIn Learning

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/darrius-jones-28226b350
• GitHub: github.com/Djones-qa
• Open to QA Analyst, Manual QA Tester, QA Automation Engineer, and Data Analyst roles — remote preferred