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QA engineer with 6+ years of manual and automation testing experience across SaaS, web, mobile, and API-driven products. I help teams ship with confidence by finding the issues that matter, building test automation that's actually maintainable, and communicating clearly about what's working and what isn't. Core skills: Playwright and Selenium for E2E automation, Postman and Swagger for API testing, SQL for backend validation, and Jira/TestRail/Xray for test management. I've built automation frameworks from scratch at two companies, including one that cut regression time by 40%, and I currently maintain a public Playwright framework covering E2E, API and visual regression testing with CI/CD in GitHub Actions. Recent and current work: - Built and maintained a Playwright (JavaScript) test suite for a SaaS platform, including Stripe checkout flows, authentication, and visual regression, running in GitHub Actions - 4 years testing an enterprise security/compliance platform (LogPoint), covering release cycles, security patches, API validation and SQL-backed regression testing - Built Selenium and Appium automation for a logistics SaaS platform (FleetPanda), reducing sprint regression time by 40% - Freelance manual and exploratory testing for small SaaS clients, including test documentation and Postman-based API testing I think like a user, prioritise high-impact testing over box-ticking, and I'm comfortable working directly with developers on root cause analysis rather than just filing tickets and moving on. Clear, fluent English communication and reliable delivery on agreed timelines.

An AI agent near your inbox raises one question before any other: what stops it sending something you would not have sent? I build the approval step as workflow structure, so anything that writes or sends renders as a draft and waits for a yes. That is the same instinct I bring to everything else I build. The failure I design against is silence: a workflow that ran clean for a month stops at 2am, and the first anyone hears about it is a customer complaining a week later. So I register an error workflow, route failures to a channel someone actually reads, make writes idempotent so a re-run doesn't create a second copy of the same record, and back off retries instead of hammering an API until it locks you out. What I build: - n8n workflows and API integrations: webhooks, CRM writes, scheduled jobs, and the error lane that tells you when one stops. - AI agents and LLM steps inside n8n (Claude, OpenAI or Gemini), with structured outputs and a human checkpoint anywhere the agent would otherwise act on its own. - WhatsApp and Telegram automation: quoting, booking and support flows, including permissioned bot commands that leave one audit row per action. - Data pipelines and scraping: Python ETL, Apify and Playwright sourcing, deduplication, scoring, and delivery into Airtable, Sheets or your CRM. When an LLM does the judging, I audit what it decided rather than trusting the score. On my last scoring build I hand-checked a sample of the output and found two rows misgraded, one citing evidence that was not in the source. That check is part of the work, not an extra. I have completed Anthropic's Claude 101 and Claude Code 101 courses and work in Claude Code daily. How it works: send me the problem and you will hear back the same day, usually within a few hours, with either a fixed-price quote or the two questions I need in order to give you one. Builds are scoped deliverables with handover docs, so your team can maintain and change the system after handover. If you do not yet know which process to automate, say that and we will scope it on a call before you commit to anything. Probably not a fit: a one-off script tweak with nothing after it.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE I am a highly capable Engineering professional with14+ years of experience in PLC programming & SCADA development in variant products, project management, sales, and operational management. Project Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the industrial automation industry. Skilled in Control Systems Design, Electrical Wiring, Modbus, and IFM., CAREER GOALS I am looking for a challenging new opportunity to further develop my skills as Electrical, Instrumentation & Control Engineer, PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS * Operational Manager ; Lead a team of engineers - execute and plan projects and design - proficient in costing, supervising installations, and providing hands-on technical leadership * Career Progression ; have consistently progressed to roles with increased accountability and responsibility.

Time is the most valuable resource we have, which is why I want to help as many people as possible make the most of it. I discovered the world of bot creation (RPA) in 2021 and saw enormous potential to achieve this goal. Over my career, I’ve specialized in Microsoft Power Automate, Make.com and Blue Prism, while also gaining experience with UIPath and IBM RPA, always with a clear goal in mind. I lived in New Zealand for a year and a half, where I improved my English and learned a lot, not only about RPA, but also about sales, business, project management, people, and many other things I’ll carry with me throughout life. In 2023, during my time in New Zealand, I created Firbot Academy, an online bot creation academy that empowers business owners and individuals to build their own digital workforce. Today, I dedicate myself to freelancing by creating bots for businesses and continue to produce content to help more people save their time.

I build automated test systems, embedded prototypes, and internal tools. Day job: RF test engineering at Tait Communications. Automated test rigs, firmware validation, internal SQL-backed tooling, and one award-winning RF tuning algorithm using polynomial correlations (Tait 2025 Most Outstanding Product or Solution Development Award). After hours I ship founder-built AI and automation projects: a multi-channel AI receptionist platform (Twilio + Deepgram + OpenAI + Cloud Run), a 225-tool MCP agent server, browser automation pipelines, and ESP32 hardware spikes. National NZDE student project award for an ESP32 Bluetooth safe build. Best fits for me: . Automated test rigs and bench-test tooling (Python, C#, hardware-in-loop) . ESP32 / STM32 firmware spikes (BEng Electronics, NZDE national award) . Internal tools for engineering and operations workflows (desktop or web, SQL-backed) . Browser automation and applied AI tooling for repetitive workflows . Voice AI prototypes when the spike is short and the stack is named (Twilio + Deepgram + LLM) I move fast on tightly-scoped builds. One-day spikes available. Larger work capped to clean weekly milestones with code handoff at each step.

I am a senior engineer with a decade of experience in mechanical engineering, mechanical design, and automation. I have an MEng in Mechanical Engineering, a PhD in materials engineering and I am a TUV registered functional safety engineer. I am also an IPENZ Chartered Engineer. My particular interests are safety integrated systems and automation of processes and production machinery. I am an expert in programming Siemens PLCs (S7-300 and S7-1200) and the full range of Siemens HMIs. I routinely use TIA V15 and Step 7 5.5 (classic). I have recently completed several SCADA projects using Inductive Automation Ignition v8.0. I have a great deal of experience in field bus protocols such as Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, Profinet and Ethernet I/P. I have also installed many systems which log data from industrial equipment to mySQL and MSSQL databases. I have designed, installed and commissioned bespoke machinery ranging from Hydrogen production, to metal cutting, chemical processes and HVAC. I have experience of working on projects in North America, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Germany. I look forward to working with new clients.