Chris Simpkins
Software Engineer In Test at Vault Platform
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Simpkins is a Software Engineer In Test based in London with eight years’ experience building and scaling UI automation and quality processes across health, travel, and enterprise SaaS products. He has repeatedly led the design and integration of front-end test suites (TestCafe, Nightwatch.js, Mocha) into CI pipelines such as Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI and Concourse, and has practical experience with cross-browser/mobile stability, BrowserStack, Docker and Azure. At Ada Health he combined regulatory rigor with developer coaching to introduce quality practices into a team shipping medical products, while at Vault Platform he continues to drive test strategy for a security-minded product. Comfortable fixing front-end React bugs as well as architecting automated pipelines, he bridges QA and engineering to reduce duplication and increase release confidence. Colleagues rely on him for clear documentation, test reporting (TestRail) and mentoring—he has even run ethical hacking workshops to raise team testing skill.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 2:1 at Loughborough University
English
Github Skills (23)
selenium-webdriver10
nightwatch9
api8
nodejs8
selenium-server8
testing8
selenium8
webdriver7
javascript7
fingerprint7
w3c6
powershell-module6
firefox6
webscraping6
finder6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chris-simpkins/flight-finder
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Cheap flight finder using Skyscanner API
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 4 months
flightapicheapskyscanner-apifinder
chris-simpkins/testcafe-reporter-testrail-integration
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:11 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
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