QA Engineer Resume Example (2026) — ATS-Friendly

QA Engineer Resume Example

Automation coverage and defect prevention metrics

QA engineer resumes should show how you prevented defects before production — automation coverage, escaped defect rates, cycle time in CI. This example balances manual and automated testing skills with release metrics recruiters and ATS filters expect for quality roles.

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QA engineer
test automation
Selenium
Cypress
CI/CD
regression testing
JIRA
API testing
Agile
quality assurance

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Kevin Tran

kevin.tran@email.com · +1 (404) 555-0187 · Atlanta, GA · https://linkedin.com/in/kevintran · https://github.com/kevintran

Professional summary

QA engineer with 5 years preventing defects before production through automation and disciplined release testing. I build Cypress and API suites that shorten CI cycles and cut escaped defects — keeping Agile teams shipping with confidence.

Skills

Testing

Test automation, Cypress, Selenium, API testing, Regression testing

Process

CI/CD, JIRA, Agile, Quality assurance, Postman

Professional experience

QA Engineer II
Vertex Software — Atlanta, GA
Mar 2021 – Present
- Raised automated regression coverage from 45% to 82%, cutting escaped defects by 55%.
- Built a Cypress smoke suite that reduced release validation time from 4 hours to 35 minutes.
- Partnered with devs on shift-left testing, lowering production hotfixes by 40% year over year.
QA Analyst
Pinnacle Health Tech — Remote
Jun 2019 – Feb 2021
- Authored 200+ test cases for a patient portal used by 120K monthly active users.
- Automated API contract tests that caught 30 integration breaks before staging deploys.
- Triaged and reproduced 500+ JIRA tickets with clear steps, improving dev fix turnaround.