Alexa Smith
Senior SDET at Hargreaves Lansdown
East Lindsey, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexa Smith is a Senior SDET and Test Practice Lead with 10 years’ experience driving quality across customer-facing web and complex enterprise simulation systems. She builds scalable BDD-led automation frameworks (Behave, Playwright, Cypress) and has a proven track record of raising test coverage and delivery confidence, notably through a BigQuery/Looker quality dashboard that increased visibility by ~30%. Alexa combines front-end, back-end, accessibility, performance and security testing into unified strategies, and has led company-wide test practices, guilds and mentoring programs to embed quality culture. Her background in design and early career roles in UAT and product support give her a pragmatic user-focused perspective that informs test strategy and stakeholder collaboration. Currently based in East Lindsey, England, she brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering, data-driven reporting and people leadership to complex, mission-critical software.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A Level Art and Design, A Level Art and Design at Beaumont School, Herts, UKTesting, Testing at ISTQBWeb Authoring, Web Authoring at City St George’s, University of LondonBachelor of Arts in Graphic Design London Design and Applied Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design London Design and Applied Arts at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design
Github Skills (12)
finder8
traffic7
react7
calculator7
tax6
python6
search-engine5
javascript4
cucumber1
admin1
bdd1
testing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlexaVB/personal_projects
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
pythonrailsrubyrspecbehave
AlexaVB/manchester_traffic_offences_pleas
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
manchestertraffic
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