Summary
Abi Lutas is a Principal Test Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience marrying software development and quality assurance through shift-left practices and automation. She has led and grown teams, implemented TypeScript-based automation (Selenium, Cucumber, Postman) and worked across mobile and web testing with both SQL and NoSQL backends. Her career spans technical roles from simulation development in C# to QA management, showing a rare blend of product-focused engineering and people leadership. Based in South Tyneside, she values collaboration, autonomy and work-life balance and has applied those principles both in industry and running a community-focused early-years business. Notably, Abi transitions comfortably between manual exploratory testing and building scalable automated frameworks, making quality a shared responsibility across the delivery team.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing and IT, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing and IT at The Open University
Hebburn Comprehensive School