David Karl
Senior Automation Test Analyst
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Karl is a Senior Automation Test Analyst with 11 years of professional experience and seven years specialising in commercial and open-source test automation within Agile teams. He provides technical leadership across CI/CD, test frameworks and release management, and has built automated suites for web, native mobile, API and data warehouse projects using tools from Selenium and Appium to Cypress and Puppeteer. His career spans major New Zealand organisations including FMG, BNZ, Westpac and Xero, where he’s often been brought in to stabilise or establish automation frameworks for high‑impact programmes. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript and C#, he pairs coding fluency with practical BDD and DevOps practices to deliver dependable releases. A former secondary-school teacher turned tester, he brings uncommon communication and mentoring skills that help bridge product, development and QA teams. He’s known for stepping into novel or high-stakes replacements (e.g., Temenos Transact at BNZ or Land Online modernisation) and delivering timely, quality outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Social Sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCES, Bachelor of Social Sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCES at University of Waikato
Github Skills (74)
e2e-testing10
testing10
e2e10
browser10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
firefox10
api10
test-automation10
angular-testing-library10
testing-library10
test-suite10
cypress10
svelte-testing-library10
test-runner10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UncleGus/dracula
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:116 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
UncleGus/OneLifeData7
Mar 2018 - May 2019
data files for the game One Hour One Life
Contributions:3 PRs, 147 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
data-filesdatalife
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