Glen Birnie
Principal Tester at BBC Studios
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGlen Birnie is a Principal Tester based in London with 11 years of focused experience across QA, automated testing, platform engineering and systems administration. He brings deep hands-on expertise in browser and mobile automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress, Selenium, Appium), cloud-hosted test environments (AWS, Docker), and end-to-end analytics/advertising validation for high-traffic media sites. Glen has a strong platform background from earlier senior engineering roles—designing CI/CD, caching and web-serving infrastructures—and routinely blends developer-in-test skills with ops-minded automation. Comfortable in both Kanban and Scrum teams, he excels at rapid turnarounds for complex, multi-device test matrices and third-party integrations like Adobe and Google AdManager. A pragmatic technologist with an MSc in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems, he pairs decades of legacy systems experience with modern test toolchains to keep large-scale digital products reliable.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems, MSc Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems at University of EssexBSc (Honours) Computer Science, BSc (Honours) Computer Science at University of Strathclyde
Github Skills (8)
single-page9
isomorphic-javascript8
single-page-application8
react7
typescript6
nextjs6
javascript6
single-source6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
birnig/MinkExtension
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 4 branches, 4 tags in 1 year 7 months
phpbehatmink
bbc/gnl-wraith-tests
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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