Summary
Chris Eccleston is a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and scaling test automation across web, mobile, and API platforms. He specializes in building robust frameworks using Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Selenium, Appium, WebdriverIO and Cypress, and has a track record of dramatically reducing test time and flakiness while increasing coverage. At Marriott and Caesars he led large SDET teams, modernized Selenium Grid infrastructure, and created cross-platform mobile frameworks that made device/browser coverage far more efficient. As a Solution Architect at Sauce Labs he advised customers on test architecture, cutting execution time up to 80% and flakiness by 95%, and has taught hundreds of engineers best practices. Known for pragmatic leadership and mentoring, he pairs deep technical craft with operational improvements that produce measurable release velocity gains. Based in Mount Airy, MD, he combines enterprise experience with a knack for building reproducible, easy-to-use tooling that teams praise for lowering their day-to-day friction.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Richmond
Mount Hebron High School
English