Budi Sugianto

Raleigh, NC· hi@budisugianto.com

Passionate and highly skilled SDET with over 12 years of experience in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Agile environments. Proven track record in designing automation test frameworks, continuous integration pipelines, and developing comprehensive test strategies, plans, and reports for large, complex projects.

Effective team leader with more than 3 years of experience managing teams, known for a strong work ethic and the ability to coach and mentor junior team members.

Founder of dtechover Youtube Channel, where I share, tutor, and mentor on test automation tools and QA best practices in the Indonesian language and community.

My motto is "Never stop learning or you will be left behind"

If you interested to work together with me, please do not hesitate to contact me or check my resume

Professional Experiences

Lead SDET

ReviewTrackers
  • Led SDET and QA team's bi-weekly meetings using Agile to plan and define the next test strategies and test initiatives.
  • Successfully migrated CI architecture into the new horizontally scaled parallel pipeline in order to improve the velocity and stability of the CI test build.
  • Successfully implemented the new process and workflow around the flaky tests to prevent the integration test to become the SDLC bottleneck.
  • Launched and introduced the synthetic test with the performance matrix for both internal and client-facing web apps include with message alerts for live monitoring.
May 2022 - Present

Sr. QA Engineer II - Team Lead

Teachable
  • Led QA weekly guild meetings to gather reports and status with the purpose to support and help the QA team.
  • Mentor junior QA engineers and help them to develop their professional and technical skills.
  • Successfully implemented the visual regression test to improve the stability of the apps, which improved the deployment process and time.
  • Optimized and migrated the testing framework into the Page Object Modeling approach to improve the quality and cleanliness of the test code.
  • Established the QA process both manual and automation tests uniquely on each team pod based on their needs.
  • Built the cross-browser regression and smoke test post-deployment to ensure the integrity of the main application, marketing site, staff apps, and databases.
  • Expanded and improved the test coverage for internal tools and web applications.
  • Maintained and improved the overall CI build stability and performance.
November 2018 - April 2022

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Flocabulary
  • Successfully improved the CI speed, stability, performance, and build time using the new testing framework.
  • Implemented the new end-to-end test for regression post-deployment to increase the overall test coverage.
  • Established a new QA process and mindset for the engineering team, while there was no process in place.
April - October 2018

Sr. SDET

Publicis Media
  • Built, designed, and maintained the CI server for the internal testing tools, which help to increase the frequency of the daily deployment.
  • Designed and performed the load and stress testing completed with the scheduled CI job and gathered evidence and reports to help determine the software architect's improvement.
  • Designed the test life cycle process for reliable product release and was responsible for on-demand regression and smoke tests.
  • Built automation testing UI framework both for internal portal and customer-facing web applications.
  • Built supporting tools for internal use to help debug and test a media script, which helps to reduce human error data entry.
  • >
March 2016 - April 2018

Software QA Engineer

Magnetic Media
  • Built and designed the new internal portal UI testing framework including database validation and verification.
  • Built and designed the new restful API and SOA-based testing frameworks of the entire architecture and platform.
  • Successfully introduced and implemented the CI/CD process, to improve the daily deployment process.
  • Performed the regression and smoke tests for each individual release candidate of the web application before release to prevent any defects and/or bugs in the production.
  • Maintained and managed the deployment and release process build of the main web application - UI.
July 2014 - March 2016

Test Automation Engineer

Thrillist
  • Designed and built the new restful API testing framework of the Microservices tech stack to help the engineering team deliver better code and product.
  • Redesigned and improved the existing testing framework into the modern and Page Object Modelling approach, so it can be easily maintained.
  • Maintained and organized the scheduled smoke test on the CI server.
October 2013 - June 2014

For more other detail

Education

DeVry Collage of New York

Bachelor of Profesional Studies
Computer Information System - Web Development Track

GPA: 3.84

March 2010 - July 2013

Startup Institute

Web Development Bootcamp Program

August - October 2013

Skills

Testing Methodologies
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Test Driven Developmetn & Behaviour Driven Development
  • Cross Browser Testing, Mobile Testing & Debugging
  • Performance & Load Testing

Programming Languages
  • Ruby & Ruby on Rails
  • Python & Django
  • JavaScript & Node.js
  • Java & Kotlin (Still on learning mode)

Testing Tools
  • Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Appium, Protractor, Cypress, & Katalon
  • Load Test: Gatling & JMeter
  • BrowserStack & SauceLabs
  • Visual Regression: Percy
  • Rspec, Capybara, PyUnit & ETC

Other Tools
  • Jenkins, CircleCI, & GitHub-Actions
  • AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, & Heroku
  • Git, GitHub & BitBucket
  • Jira & Clubhouse

Interests

Other than being Software Engineer in Test, I mostly spend my time with my wife, beautiful daughter and newly born son. As a husband and as a father, family is the most important part of my life.

Self-taught Guitarist and Musician, BBQ Lover and Outdoor Maniac.

I also enjoying my time with my local church, I was the Director of Praise and Worship team with responsibility for the whole team both worship-leaders, musicians and singers.

Awards & Certifications

  • Web Development Certification - Startup Institute
  • Winter 2010 Dean List - DeVry College of New York
  • Winter 2011 Dean List - DeVry College of New York
  • Sprin 2012 Dean List - DeVry College of New York
  • Summer 2012 Dean List - DeVry College of New York
  • Spring 2013 Dean List - DeVry College of New York