Aaron Mckay
Quality Coach at Xero
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Mckay is a Quality Coach and multidisciplinary QA leader with over a decade of experience blending hands-on testing, automation and quality management across enterprise SaaS and cloud platforms. He has a track record of building regional engineering teams and CI-driven test frameworks—from Ranorex and Selenium to Playwright, K6 and C# API suites that achieve >90% backend coverage—and driving shifts toward exploratory, risk-focused testing. At Xero he introduced synthetic monitoring and threat-modelling workshops to catch issues before customers notice; at nCino he tied automation to PR pipelines for fast developer feedback. Comfortable both leading people and getting into technical detail, he repeatedly turns manual checking into automated safety nets so he and his teams can focus on higher-value exploratory work. Based in Melbourne, he combines strong process coaching with pragmatic engineering choices that reduce time-to-detect and improve production resilience.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business, Information Systems & Marketing, Bachelor of Business, Information Systems & Marketing at Auckland University of TechnologyMacleans College
Github Skills (13)
ui-testing9
solve8
test-automation7
windows-application7
appium7
windows6
puppeteer4
playwright3
testing3
typescript2
javascript2
jest-environment2
e2e-testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
committedtester/PlaywrightPOC
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
A repository for seeing if Playwright will solve some of the issues with Puppeteer. So far it's looking pretty good!
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 5 months
solveplaywrightpuppeteer
committedtester/appium_windows_desktop_framework
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 26 days
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