Summary
Eric Schlange is a QA Automation Engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience and a 16-year software engineering background spanning full-stack development, systems management, and quality assurance. He has architected and implemented automation-first QA systems, built Spring-based applications to persist and visualize end-to-end test results, and designed test execution pipelines that integrate with CI/CD workflows. Eric has a track record of mentoring teams, creating engineering knowledge bases, and delivering measurable business impact—once contributing a 30% revenue uplift through product improvements. Comfortable in both enterprise and research settings, he’s delivered solutions for brands from Pizza Hut Digital to Northwestern University and has deep experience with Java/Spring stacks. Based in Downers Grove, IL, he combines pragmatic engineering discipline with a focus on traceable, easy-to-use QA tooling that reduces technical debt and accelerates release confidence.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Software Architecture, MS, Software Architecture at DePaul University
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at North Central College