Bryce Taylor
Automation Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Bryce Taylor is an automation-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining test infrastructure for widely used educational products, currently contracting for the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT and developing prototypes at Joylabz. He has led QA for the Scratch engineering team, designing Selenium, Jest, and Cypress integration tests that help keep scratch.mit.edu reliable for over one hundred million young users annually. At MIT Media Lab he expands that work into mobile app automation, CI/CD orchestration, and release automation for iOS and Android. Bryce pairs hands-on test development and bug triage with product-minded work—running playtests, interpreting kid-driven feedback, and improving accessibility. His background teaching kids to code with Scratch, Processing, and Unity informs a user-centered approach to quality that balances technical rigor with educational needs. Colleagues rely on him for practical automation choices, flaky-test debugging, and turning test failures into actionable fixes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electronic Media and Film, B.S., Electronic Media and Film at Towson University
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
cypress10
selenium-ide10
selenium10
test-automation10
integration-testing10
ui-testing9
webdriverio9
gui-testing9
jestjs8
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-www
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Standalone web client for Scratch
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 459 commits, 167 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bryce's commits primarily focused on establishing and expanding integration tests for the Scratch-www project. They created Cypress tests to verify the functionality of footer and navbar links, ensuring proper redirection and UI behavior. The user also updated and refined existing Selenium-based integration tests and refactored them into a modern structure. They added tests for various functionalities, including comments, project loading, and studio management.
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scratchfoundation/scratch-gui
May 2018 - May 2022
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 81 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bryce primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the Scratch-GUI project through the development and execution of integration tests. Their contributions involved adding new tests for handling various edge cases, such as loading projects with missing or corrupt SVG and BMP assets. They also modified existing tests, including increasing timeouts and removing unnecessary steps, while also making adjustments to ensure elements are visible within integration tests. The user addressed test failures by modifying test code and updating dependencies.
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