Ethan Feldman
Engineering Test Lead at Northwestern Mutual
Winter Haven, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Feldman is an engineering test lead with over 18 years in software quality, specializing in test automation, CI/CD, and scalable test infrastructure across enterprise and media products. He has built and maintained thousands of Webdriver.io/Selenium tests, integrated nightly and post-deploy pipelines with Sauce Labs and Jenkins, and reduced manual testing through pragmatic automation patterns like retries, parallelization, and PDF diffing tools. Known for mentoring teams and managing cross-functional release processes, he also administrators feature-flag systems and led bug-bash initiatives to improve release confidence. His front-end contributions to the widely used JW Player and hands-on fixes for tricky browser edge cases underline a rare blend of test leadership and production-level coding. Based in Winter Haven, FL, he pairs practical engineering with process invention—often scripting Slack hooks and internal tools—to keep fast-moving teams shipping reliably.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors New Media Interactive Development, Bachelors New Media Interactive Development at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
html9
css9
playlists6
php6
jwplayer6
m3u6
jquery6
mp46
html5-video6
image6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jwplayer/jwplayer
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
JW Player is the world's most popular embeddable media player.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the JW Player. They fixed bugs related to full-screen functionality, particularly addressing issues in older Internet Explorer versions. Furthermore, they implemented solutions for seeking functionality, and improved the controlbar's behavior, specifically addressing issues in IE11 within iframes. The contributions also included fixing styling issues in Firefox and enhancing mobile responsiveness.
html5-videoandroidmedia-playervideo-playermse
emaxsaun/ruby-twitter-client
Apr 2020 - May 2023
Twitter client clone using Ruby on Rails.
Contributions:20 PRs, 20 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsrubytwitter-clienttwitter
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